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SolidWorks Tutorial: Sustainability Material Choice and Sustainable Redesign
The SolidWorks Sustainability – An Introduction to Material Choice and Sustainability Redesign is a compact introduction to the engineering design process that incorporates material selection, stress analysis and thermal analysis. Your students will edit an assembly and explore how different materials can effect the
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: Windmill with SolidWorks Sustainability
The Windmill Tutorial takes you through the design of a component utilizing SolidWorks Sustainability Xpress to perform a Life Cycle Assessment on a part. The first document illustrates a parts list and the assembly. The second document develops the sustainable
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: Gas Engine
When engineers from industry retire and then decide to give back to the SolidWorks educational community, great things happen. I wanted to share with you a great project produced by Chrysler engineer Robert Cadwell in the complete working drawing set of
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: Car Assembly Project
I was fortunate to receive this project from Elise Moss to share with you. Elise is a great engineering educator that dedicates her time to students at Laney College in Oakland, CA. This summer Laney College hosted a two week
... ContinuedIntroducing The STEM Academy
I was fortuante to meet with educators this week at the ACTE conference in Nashville. What a great time to be in technology and engineering education with the importance of making math and science relevant for all students. That is why
... ContinuedA CREATIVE INTRODUCTION TO SOLIDWORKS USING A RAPID PROTOTYPING MACHINE
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... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial 03 Magnetic Block
This tutorial gives students a chance to explore the Hole Wizard, SolidWorks Toolbox and part configurations. Provided by instructor Jack van den Broek (Vakcollege Dr. Knippenberg). Follow these self paced instructions to add color to parts and create an assembly. Marie Download SolidWorks_Tutorial03_MagneticBlock_English_08_LR
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial 02 Picture Holder Assembly
Due to file size, a teacher asked me to posting each one of the12 Dutch tutorials seperately. These Vocational Technical Tutorials created Jack van den Broek , Vakcollege Dr. Knippenberg, Netherlands and SolidWorks Benelux provide create instruction on SolidWorks techniques for creating parts, assemblies
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial01 Axis for Engineering and Technical Instruction
Due to file size, a teacher asked me to posting each one of the12 Dutch tutorials seperately. These Vocational Technical Tutorials created Jack van den Broek , Vakcollege Dr. Knippenberg, Netherlands and SolidWorks Benelux provide create instruction on SolidWorks techniques for creating parts,
... Continued12 SolidWorks Tutorials for Technical/Vocational Instruction
Under the direction of instructor Jack van den Broek , Vakcollege Dr. Knippenberg, Netherlands and SolidWorks Benelux, these 12 tutorials are excellent for technical-vocational instruction. All in easy to read step-by-step instructions and every part can be machined, folded or formed. I met
... ContinuedA Fantasy Look into the “Future Cities” Competition
How proud I was today to be a judge in the Future Cities Competitions held here in Las Vegas. Our middle school kids did research, mechanical designs, essays with abstracts and model building of what our cities of the future would look like
... ContinuedGravity Simulation Ball in Bowl for FIRST Robotics
How does gravity play a roll in a ball dropped into a spherical bowl? You can simulate the physical condition with SolidWorks. This was asked of a FIRST Robotics member who saw a similar movie somewhere on YouTube. Physical behavior
... ContinuedWeldments for Buggy and Frame
SolidWorks Weldments are a great tool for creating frames for a buggy, fsae/formula student car frames, robot frames, and support frames. Begin with a sketch and then chose your cross section member or define your cross section member. Add gussets
... ContinuedLearning the Hard Way
Well Folks, I had my first real experience using Photovoltaic cells today. I had a little left over allowance and headed for one of my favorite places that I think we all have heard
... ContinuedBrief History of Robotics and CAD
This PowerPoint presentation provides a brief overview of the history of industrial robotics and computer aided design from the early 1960’s to present day. Marie Download brief_history_robot_and_cad.zip
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