Mar 8, 2024 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research, SketchUp
Gel electrophoresis is a lab method used to separate mixtures of DNA, RNA, or proteins according to molecular size, and it is used in both teaching and scholarship here at UR. Dr. Omar Quintero needed help designing electrophoresis combs (and their associated holder)...
Sep 30, 2022 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research, SketchUp
Kugelrohr is German for “sphere tube,” and it’s used in chemistry for vacuum distillation, often necessary for chemical synthesis. Professors Dominey and Goldman research lab designed the portion of a kugelrohr that would allow isolating the chemical compounds that...
Oct 18, 2018 | Design, Printing, SketchUp
Here is a time lapse video from the Ultimaker’s internal camera for the print of a custom stage for a microscope with Professor Christine Helms in the Physics Department. Professor Helms created the initial design in COMSOL Multiphysics while some tweaks were...
Oct 21, 2014 | @UR, Design, Printing, SketchUp
As part of the century celebration on campus, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology; Digital Scholarship Lab; and Boatwright Library collaborated on the printing of a 2 foot by 3 foot terrain map of campus as it looked in 1914 with 7 major buildings on...
May 20, 2014 | Design, In the News, SketchUp
As mentioned previously, SketchUp 2014 has a new scheme for installing plugins. Trimble SketchUp now hosts a repository for SketchUp plugins that one can access and install directly from SketchUp Make or Pro. There is an Extension Warehouse that can be called by...
Sep 29, 2013 | @UR, Design, Printing, SketchUp
The following tutorial contains the remaining steps for creating a cube designed for 3D printing in which the cube consists of 3 interlocking components each made of smaller cubes (click here for the 1st part of the tutorial)....
