Author Archives: Marie Planchard
CFD Tutorial: Inlet Flow, Air over a Wing, and more SolidWorks Flow Tutorials – Part I
Today I explored the SolidWorks Flow Simulation folders, a CFD (computational fluid dynamics) goldmine inside the SolidWorks Education Edition that I didn’t know existed, so I thought I would share our flow tutorials, curriculum, and my goldmine with you. There is
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: NAFEMS Steady State Temperature Distribution of a Plate in SolidWorks
SolidWorks contains tutorials based on the NAFEMS benchmarks. These benchmarks demonstrate the accuracy of SolidWorks Simulation software for the analysis modules of linear statics, thermal, geometric and material, non linearity and linear dynamics. NAFEMS benchmarks are used throughout many FEA examples
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: Bending of A Cantilever Beam in SolidWorks
?SolidWorks Education Edition contains hundreds of FEA Tutorials right inside the software. I decided to talk about classic examples I did for my students in Engineering Mechanics – Statics and Engineering Physics. SolidWorks has Verification examples.and NA FEMs examples. These
... ContinuedSolidWorks Foam Airplane Tutorial
Download Plane Body My intern Greg Margolis from University of Massachusetts Amherst and a few of his engineering friends were testing aerodynamics of this foam plane before a meeting. Greg helped me turn this action into a SolidWorks tutorial
... ContinuedRobocon 2011 an international game of MIT Hack History
It's Robocon 2011 and this year the international event takes place at MIT. If you are a fan of the MIT hack history, you will love this event. Years ago, I remember watching the 11pm local Boston news report on
... ContinuedSolidWorks Student has a Dream
My colleague, Larry Moore introduced me to the wonderful final senior projects Industrial Design students create at the University of Cincinnati. One student, JudahSher, happened to take his final project to the next level and created his own company. The
... ContinuedSolidWorks Express July Newsletter – Boundary Surface with a Spoon, Tapering Springs
The July issue of the SolidWorks Express Newsletter is filled with lots of tips to help educators and students enhance their SolidWorks skills. This month's issue features a great video on using the boundary surface feature to create a 3D
... ContinuedSolidWorks for the ID – Industrial Design Student
Industrial Design Students create beautiful products in SolidWorks. They use Features such as Sweep, Loft, Freeform, Flex combined to design beautiful shapes. For former posts, I have placed tutorials and models under the Art category. Today, students told me that
... ContinuedSolidWorks Air Boat Model, FEA Results, Video and Presentation
Brad Smith, student at Baker College, created this Air Boat model for Professor Robert Cadwell's class and I am fortunate to share his final project with you. The zip file contains the models, finite element analysis results on a engine
... ContinuedSolidWorks Certification exams pass 40,000
The SolidWorks Certification exam program has passed 40,000 certified SolidWorks users. The first exam in this series of exams is the Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) exam. Now in its 4th revision, the CSWA provides students the proof to employers of
... ContinuedAUVSI RoboSub Competition with SolidWorks
I do love robots and when robots go underwater to compete, amazing things happen. Congratulations to all the teams from around the world that participated in the 2011 AUVSI RoboSub competition in San Diego last week. This year's winner is École
... ContinuedDandelion Flower in SolidWorks
With summertime in full bloom, enjoy this latest model from student Eliza. The three videos show the steps in SolidWorks – no sound. Marie Download Lesson_4_-_Dandelion_(Part_1) Download Lesson_4_-_Dandelion_(Part_2) Download Lesson_4_-_Dandelion_(Part_3) Model:Download Source Video Part 1 Video Part 2 Video
... ContinuedSolidWorks LEGO Trike – Again
I understand that Assem 1 was missing in the original post. Now the model is complete.Marie Educator Jack van den Broek presented at SolidWorks World 2011 and told me that he has not met a student too young for
... ContinuedASEE – Annual Conference – The flight home
So as the team packs up from the ASEE 2011 Vancouver, I have to thank my colleague, Charles for arranging all the logistics of the displays, artwork, workshops, presentations, employees and students from multiple continents and subsidiaries of DS .
... ContinuedASEE Annual Conference – Student Events
One of the best parts I love about the ASEE Annual Conference is seeing student accomplishments. This week in Vancouver, SolidWorks sponsored the University of British Columbia Formula SAE team to come to the event and show of their car
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