OpenChip wiki

Design a microfluidic chip in the browser, check it against your printer, and print it this afternoon.

Your first chip What OpenChip is (and isn't)

New here

Your first chip takes twenty minutes and ends in an STL. What OpenChip is (and isn’t) is the honest scope statement.

Doing a thing

Drawing channels, ports and fittings, dimension markers, and exporting.

Why does the fluid do that

Laminar flow, pressure drop, mixing without turbulence — and where the estimates stop.

About to print

3D printing microfluidic chips is the whole process on one page, from choosing a printer to a primed chip. Draining uncured resin is the failure that ruins most first chips. A first test-print protocol is the hour that prevents it.

Looking something up

Every design check, the file format, keyboard shortcuts, fluid properties.

Two things worth knowing early

Nothing in OpenChip blocks you — every warning is advisory, always. And the flow figures are analytical estimates, not CFD. Both statements are load-bearing; both have a page.