Colorado teenager Easton LaChappelle 3D prints the next generation of prosthetic limbs
A coworker recently sent me a story about Easton LaChapelle. Easton is a 17-year-old student from Colorado (in the western US) who has been doing some incredible work designing advanced prosthetics. Without telling the whole story, Easton met a young
... ContinuedSolidWorks 2014 Sneak Peek: Consistent Patterning Tools
SolidWorks 2014 will be officially unveiled on September 9, and while you’re waiting for the big reveal, we’re going to give you a few peeks at some of the new features. Assemblies now offer the same patterning capabilities available at
... ContinuedIf you want to build the Iron Man suit, you can do that: engineering student immortalizes himself at Georgia Tech freshman convocation
With the new school year starting, I got to thinking about the reasons people choose to go into engineering. Is it to create the future design of the NASA space suit, become the next George Stephenson, or even just follow
... ContinuedThe era of mass customization is here. Is your company ready?
Mass customization – where customers can modify a product’s appearance, features or content to their specification – has been the “next big thing” for a very long time. Even as far back as the 1970s, futurist Alan Toffler predicted the
... ContinuedIncrease efficiency and eliminate rework by testing with SolidWorks Simulation
Sometimes you need to see something drawn out before you visualize it. Here are some issues you may have encountered in your production process: Have you ever designed a product, sent it over for production to test it out and
... ContinuedSolidWorks 2014 Sneak Peek: Reference Plane Normal Condition
SolidWorks 2014 will be officially unveiled on September 9, and while you’re waiting for the big reveal, we’re going to give you a few peeks at some of the new features. When creating or editing planes in SolidWorks, you will
... ContinuedTwo tools you might not know about (and might find useful) in SolidWorks
SolidWorks comes installed with many useful tools that some users never learn about. I will highlight two of those tools and show how they can be useful for a large corporation or a one man shop. The first of these
... ContinuedSolidWorks 2014 Sneak Peek: Sketch Picture Scale Tool
SolidWorks 2014 will be officially unveiled on September 9, and while you’re waiting for the big reveal, we’re going to give you a few peeks at some of the new features. Many products start as concept sketches, either hand-drawn or
... ContinuedSolidWorks 2014 Sneak Peek: Path Length Dimension
SolidWorks 2014 will be officially unveiled on September 9, and while you’re waiting for the big reveal, we’re going to give you a few peeks at some of the new features. The Path Length Dimension is an entirely new dimension
... ContinuedDon’t Panic, it’s most likely NOT “not responding”
Whenever the topic of ‘Software Instability’ comes up, it’s only fair to add the proper perspective for all of those involved. After all, software is written by humans and humans are fallible, therefore, software is fallible. Anyone who knows even
... ContinuedWhat do YOU want to see on the SolidWorks Composer YouTube Channel?
So just two short months ago, we launched the SolidWorks Composer YouTube channel with the goal in mind of posting videos to help our users create their Composer deliverables. Now, we have just passed the 400 subscriber mark, with 40
... ContinuedSolidWorks Simulation: How to Get the Angle of Displacement
A common question we often get regarding post processing of a SolidWorks Simulation study is: Does SolidWorks Simulation have a way of displaying displacement plots as angles of displacement in the case of a torsional load? SolidWorks currently does not
... ContinuedIntroducing eDrawings for Android
Last year we released eDrawings for iOS. Thousands of people have downloaded the app have been getting a lot of use out of it, but there’s one request we heard from many of you–make it available for Android as well.
... ContinuedGRIT Helps the Disabled in Developing Countries Gain Mobility
Over 20 million people in developing countries need a wheelchair to access education and employment. However, standard wheelchairs are difficult to use on rough terrain and usually break on the uneven roads. Originally one of the top four finalists for
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