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Instructions and hints for creating your ownDIY Blueprint to share with the Tekla LabscommunityBeta release V0.1
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Sections
Product Overview
The product overview is designed to orient readers to the purpose of the design. For morecomplicated pieces of equipment (e.g. SPR microscope) this section will help the reader understand the usefulness and principle of action of a device. The goal of the product overviewis to help your fellow scientists and engineers quickly decide if a piece of equipment will beuseful to them. This section includes pictures of the finished design.
Required Skills and Tools
In this section the skills and tools needed for the project are summarized in tables. This letsour readers understand what they’ll need for the project without having to carefully read theinstructions in depth.
Specifications
The specifications of a design supply the qualitative and quantitative requirements for thedesign. Specifications give readers information about how the piece of equipment will perform,before building it themselves. These specifications will be verified with tests in the “Validationand Testing” section (see below).
List of Materials
A list of all the parts needed to build the equipment. “Part Name” establishes a consistentterm used to refer to any part throughout the whole document. “Part Description” allows for notes about each part, especially when defining the specifications that each part must fulfill.“Module” refers to the module (see “Modules” section below) where each part will be usedwithin the instructions. “PartID” is a standard system of tracking parts that Tekla Labs will use inour future database to provide a library of information about any part (this section can be leftblank by those creating the documents). “Quantity” is how many of each part is used in thedocument, or can occasionally be used to provide a specification on size, especially if a part is
 
Instructions and hints for creating your ownDIY Blueprint to share with the Tekla LabscommunityBeta release V0.1
cut out of a larger piece of stock. “Cost” is the author’s recorded cost (or best estimate) for eachpart.This section should ideally contain pictures identifying each key part. If possible, identifying thepart as it they are found within the finished equipment or finished module.
Details of Materials
This section gives the author the chance to comment on the selection of any specific part.This means that the author can provide a note to any part so that a future user can understandthe important information about a part. Examples of questions this section can answer are:
 
-Why was this part chosen?-What other parts could substitute for the chosen part? (A cheaper, more expensive, morespecific, more available, simpler, equivalent, or more complicated part)-What are the critical specifications for this part?-Where can I find this part or something like it?
Modules
The instructions for each piece of equipment are divided into sub-sections, called “Modules.”The modules should be able to serve as self-sufficient instructions capable of beinginterchanged between instructions for other kinds of equipment with minimal changes. For example, a “motor assembly” module from a magnetic stir bar may also be used to create themotor assembly for a media rotator. Examples of modules are:
 
-Module 1: Motor Assembly
 
-Module 2: Motor Controller 
 
-Module 3: Housing
 
Modules should consist of as many pictures as possible. The pictures will provide close-updetail that words may be insufficient to describe, and they will allow readers to follow along withthe construction of a piece of equipment.
 
Final Assembly
This section explains the assembly of the individual modules into the final piece of equipment.Pictures are again highly encouraged.
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