Author Archives: Marie Planchard
SolidWorks in Education featured at SolidWorks World 2012
Day 3 at SolidWorks World has always been student day. We bring in high school students from the surrounding community. This year we also highlighted the success of educators that work with us to bring innovative tools to their students. Ireland has
... ContinuedRocket Man Explodes with Innovation at SolidWorks World 2012
When I first saw a rocket at SolidWorks World, I thought how did that fit in the elevator? How did we get a rocket past security? Would 5600 engineers and designers sneak into the Partner Pavillion at night and try
... ContinuedAldebaran NAO Robot Introduces SolidWorks World 2012
SolidWorks customers design amazing products. So when the General Session of SolidWorks World 2012 opened, it was great to see an innovative humanoid robot, designed by Aldebaran Robotics of Paris, France. Aldebaran’s NAO robot opened the show by introducing CEO
... ContinuedSolidWorks World Day 1
SolidWorks World 2012 woke over 5000 users this morning to a rock – hip-hop dancing robot video. The NAO robot, designed by SolidWorks customer, Aldebaran Robotics, instructed Bertrand Sicot, president and CEO of DS SolidWorks Corp. There are now over
... ContinuedSolidWorks Education at SolidWorks World 2012
SolidWorks World 2012 starts Sunday in beautiful San Diego where engineers and designers gather together to celebrate design and innovation. There are so many SolidWorks educators and students coming to SolidWorks World that I thought I would summarize the SolidWorks
... ContinuedFrench Students Excel in STEM Education with Support from SolidWorks VAR CadWare
Before Science, Technology, Education and Math (STEM) became a well used acronym in US education, French students learned to use SolidWorks as a visualization tool in order to understand concepts in simple machines, laws of physics, mathematics, and how things work. In middle
... ContinuedSolidWorks Mentor Races with STEM Education Tutorial and the Ten80 Challenge
When Jeremy Losaw, NASCAR Racing Engineer and SolidWorks Mentor for the Ten80 STEM Racing Challenge sent me this video, I could not help but ask to share it with all of you. Jeremy also sent me the part model
... ContinuedFire Sprinkler with Flow Simulation with SolidWorks – Revised
For this post, I decided to take the fire sprinkler that I posted on December 18th and run a flow simulation with it. In order to do this I first had to suppress the glass tube that would hold the
... ContinuedSolidWorks Brazilian Blog Hosts Contest for Students and Teachers
SolidWorks Brazilian Blog https://solid3d.blogspot.com/ celebrates its 1 year anniversary with a great promotion for Brazilian students and teachers. With over 1 million views, solid3d.blogspot.com is the creation of SENAI educator José Cardoso Junior. Follow the link Promotion: https://solid3d.blogspot.com/2012/01/promocao-1-ano-de-blog.html These are the prizes: 1st Place: 1 license of
... ContinuedSolidWorks Expands the Science Fair to Amazing Products
Students use SolidWorks to visualize great ideas for Science Fairs and Technology Fairs. But former high school science fair winner, Ben Gullak has taken his winning project into amazing products to start his own company, BPG-Werks in just a few years. The
... ContinuedWeldment Tutorial in Balsa Wood for Bridge and Structures
To create a Balsa Wood bridge or other wood structures, use a SolidWorks Library Feature, a SolidWorks 3D Sketch and SolidWorks Weldments, Here are the steps, video and model files to create a Balsa Wood Structure: 1. Create a cross
... ContinuedRobot CAD Tutorial in SolidWorks
Need a CAD tutorial to learn how to create a Robot model in SolidWorks? It's competive robot season again and time to get prepared by understanding how to create and assemble parts in SolidWorks. 1. Start with best practices review our
... ContinuedIndia Engineering Students Win Big at BWIR Design Ace Competition
Engineering students from southern India were challanged with BWIR(Barry Weymiller International Resources) Design Ace Competition. The exciting finals took place last week in Chennai, India and I was fortunate to be a judge. Why? because I got to see first
... ContinuedGreen Initiatives in Engineering featured in Good Magazine
How green are the products we teach young engineers to design? Paper or plastic or your own bag? A question you get in the grocery store. I am fortunate that my colleague Asheen is not only the sustainability product
... ContinuedCAD/CAM to New Heights with EdgeFactor’s Gnarly Metal
CAD/CAM – two acronyms that define Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing. Sometimes they live in separate worlds. When you want to teach students the same excitement I feel every time I walk into a machine shop, then the new
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