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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Share to the Public Gallery
Publicly sharing your incredible model in Apps For Kids is easy! In today’s video, we will learn how to share your project with other users in the community. The Apps For Kids admin may choose your project for the Featured
... ContinuedFIRST Tech Challenge – Kick off the 2019-2020 season with SOLIDWORKS
The 2019-2020 season, FIRST® RISESMpowered by Star Wars: Force for Change, is setting out to inspire citizens of the galaxy. Throughout history, great civilizations have risen, then fallen. Now it’s our turn to rise—building and bolstering our own planetary metropolis. The
... ContinuedBuild the Future of Medical Care with SOLIDWORKS xDesign
We’re halfway through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge, where SAE teams are hard at work designing the rescue vehicles of the future. Research is an important part of building these new machines, and we’ve got some inspiration for our design teams!
... ContinuedFiring Up a Futuristic Firetruck
We’re halfway through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge, where SAE teams are hard at work designing the rescue vehicles of the future. Research is an important part of building these new machines, and we’ve got some inspiration for our design teams!
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge- India WINNERS!
We are proud to announce the winners of the first SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for India! 1600+ students and 249 teams had 41 days to work on their Futuristic Public Transport designs. The submissions we received were amazing! The response from
... ContinuedRandom Designs with Stefan Ulrich
Stefan Ulrich is the award winning artist behind RandomDesign, a prop shop that specializes in functional designs. He created the show-stopping X-Wing model featured at SOLIDWORKS World 2019, after only using SOLIDWORKS Education Edition for six months. And he’s excited to explore more modeling and making possibilities.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: 4 Bar Linkage
Now that we’ve seen how all the components of Mech It work, it’s time to put them all together! Today we’ll learn how to make a 4 bar linkage, a great starting point for amazing creations!
... ContinuedFull STEAM Ahead with Danielle Boyer: STEAM Connections
Danielle Boyer is a STEAM advocate and SOLIDWORKS user. Learn more about her student journey in part one. When we last spoke for her SOLIDWORKS Women in Engineering feature, Danielle Boyer told me about her FIRST Robotics Competition team’s special
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for INDIA
Announcing the SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for INDIA! This is the first design challenge using SOLIDWORK xDesign for all students across India. Student teams will have the opportunity to design and collaborate to win a Mega Sponsorship Award. The top three
... ContinuedCheers to Creativity and #ShaperilWithSOLIDWORKS!
It’s the last day of April, which means it’s time to round up all the amazing #ShaperilWithSOLIDWORKS creations! All month long, we asked SOLIDWORKS users to share their SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS xDesign, and SOLIDWORKS xShape models with
... Continued“Art Can Make Engineering Beautiful”: Ela Kurowska Brings Art to Life with Light Forms, Part Three
Ela Kurowska is a Canadian scientist-turned-artist who utilizes scientific principles to create Light Forms, a photography art project exploring the abstract origins of life using the photoelastic effect. Read her story from the beginning and learn more about the process
... Continued#ShaperilwithSOLIDWORKS Round Up!
It’s the middle of April, and #ShaperilwithSOLIDWORKS is in full swing (just like spring)! The models below were created in SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS Visualize, SOLIDWORKS xDesign, and the free, kid-friendly SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids–there are so many designs for springtime! Check out
... ContinuedArt Experiments: Ela Kurowska Brings Art to Life with Light Forms, Part Two
Ela Kurowska is a Canadian scientist-turned-artist who utilizes scientific principles to create Light Forms, a photo-based art project exploring the abstract origins of life using the photoelastic effect. Read part one of her story here. Art Experiments What do you
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Pin Shapes and Add Motors
One of the best parts of making Mech It designs in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids is animating them using motors. Today we’re going to learn how to add pins and motors to our mechanisms! Check out our blog throughout the
... ContinuedDiscovering Art and Science: Ela Kurowska Brings Art to Life with Light Forms, Part One
In the age of digital design, how rare and thrilling is it to look at a photograph and have no idea what you are seeing? To be unable to decipher what methods and materials were used to create an image?
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