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Newton’s Cradle with SolidWorks Motion
For this post I made a Newton’s Cradle. It was a fairly easy build. The frame was just a couple sweep features. The spheres were made using the revolve feature and then another sweep feature was utilized to create
... 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
... ContinuedW16 Engine: Block and Cylinder Heads
In this post about the W16 engine I will show the calculation of the camshaft phase angles and then detail the mating of the components in the cylinder heads with the rest of the engine.
Another animation that better allows to see the full movement of the engine can be found here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci7m0j5iCAQ).
See detailed explanations in the extended entry at the end of the post.
At the request of a reader I will upload the complete assembly but hide the parts that I have not presented yet. Download Engine.
Thank you for reading about this build and stay tuned for the next post which will detail the build of the intake manifold through top-down design strategy.
George Bucsan
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Aerospace Engineering, 2014
... 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
... ContinuedKinematics Tutorial: Finding Linkage Cognates with SolidWorks
Lately, I have been thoroughly enjoying learning about linkages, their motion, and their synthesis. Anyone who has tried to find the cognates of a four-bar linkage may have noticed that the process is time-consuming and a bit tedious. SolidWorks to
... ContinuedSolidWorks Turtle with Flow Simulation
For this post I decided to model a turtle. I sort of modeled it after a sea turtle. I used the boundary feature to create the shell, and then used a series of chamfers and fillets to smooth
... ContinuedTips for the Engineering Student – and SolidWorks too
I decided to put some tips together to help engineering students this week – not just with SolidWorks but also with engineering subjects. Choosing the engineering fields can be challenging as an engineering student. My intern Greg created his own web
... ContinuedW16 Engine: Inside the Cylinder Head
In this post about the W16 engine I will detail the build of the main internal parts of the Cylinder Head: the rocker fingers, the valves and the camshaft.
See detailed explanations in the extended entry at the end of the post.
Download the camshaft assembly, the valves and the rocker finger assembly.
Thank you for reading about this build and stay tuned for the next post which will detail the calculation of the camshaft phase angles and the mating of the components that go inside the cylinder heads.
George Bucsan
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Aerospace Engineering, 2014
... ContinuedSolidWorks Curriculum for Educators on the SolidWorks Customer Portal
SolidWorks provides curriculum, tutorials and projects for educators on our SolidWorks Customer Portal. This video shows how you obtain your SolidWorks serial number, create an account and access the Customer Portal right inside of the SolidWorks Education Edition. The projects
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: CO2 Dragster from Team CudaCountry
SolidWorks Tutorials by master teacher, Pat Haley astound me again with his lastest SolidWorks Tutorial featuring a CO2 dragster. Take a look at the updated CO2 Dragster Car Tutorials at Cudacountry https://www.cudacountry.net/html/sw_co2car.html New in the SolidWorks 2011 tutorials: Mate References
... ContinuedLinking Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Around SolidWorks
The University of Western Ontario, under the direction of Paul Kurowski, has built an undergraduate design curriculum around SolidWorks. A number of non-design courses are also linked to that design stream. Graduating students leave UWO with working knowledge of CAD and Simulation and with
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: NAFEMS Benchmark Hemisphere Under External Pressure
NAFEMS Benchmarks, Hemisphere Under External Pressure in SolidWorks, allows you to explore creating a hemisphere in SolidWorks and analyzing the model using SolidWorks Simulation – all in the same interface. NAFEMS Benchmarks in SolidWorks contain a variety of exercises in Linear Static,
... ContinuedPipe Valve with SolidWorks Flow Xpress
For this post I decided to make a pipe valve. One of the reasons for doing this was because I wanted to use FloExpress through the pipe. You can see the results in the video above or
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