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Latest revision as of 13:18, 2 June 2008
Tutorial on Micado
Micado is a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tool for designing and controlling programmable microfluidics developed by Nada Amin at the CSAIL (MIT) for her MEng thesis. Micado features:
- standard and customizable design rules
- automatic routing between control valves and punches
- automatic generation of control instructions and GUI
Here you will find an agile tutorial on basic and advanced functions of this software. You can download micado from:
We will assume that you installed AUTOCAD® Electrical 2008 and Micado following this guide
Simple Routing Guide
First of all you need to start AUTOCAD® 2008 using the link in the Micado directory. Assuming that the installation directory is C:\Programmi\micado\micado, you should see a set of icons like the one in this figure