What’s New in EDU? SolidWorks Assembly Explode
SolidWorks Educaiton Edition 2014-2015 adds some great new features to Assemblies. Now, you can add rotation to components so you can communicate product assembly processes clearly on drawings and in animations. This gives you more flexibility over part orientation in
... ContinuedÉcole de Technologie Supérieure Baja Team Achieves Success with SolidWorks VAR PBI CADCAM
The drive from École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) in Montreal to Baja SAE East in Pittburg, Kansas is 1418 miles,(2282km) and 21 hrs. The drive takes longer when you are pulling a trailer with your Baja vehicle. Our SolidWorks Value Added
... ContinuedSolidWorks Motion: Part 6 – Creating a Motion Study
This part of the series explains how to create a new motion study. A motion study can be used to run simulations on an part or assembly. There are many practical applications for this. In the video below, the motion
... ContinuedMemorial Day – D-Day’s Reflection
This Memorial Day weekend brings thousands to the Boston Common at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument to see the 37,000 US flags, provided by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund. The Flag Garden is planted in memory of Massachusetts service men and
... ContinuedBaja SAE Kansas – There’s No Place Like Home
Baja SAE – one of the most exciting engineering events of the competitive season. For Baja SAE KANSAS, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, KS, USA, has opened its doors to its hometown and state-of-the-art technology center to engineering teams from around
... ContinuedSolidWorks China Education VARs Support Teachers and Their Students
Support. Teachers need support and training. Our education Value Added Resellers (VARs) around the world support SolidWorks educators. When I was in the classroom everyday, I received boxes of “free” software. But the training I got from my SolidWorks VAR
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SOLIDWORKS EDU? SOLIDWORKS Simulation with Fantastic Interactive Results for FEA
Professors ask me why I like SolidWorks Simulation so much. Answer: SolidWorks Simulation is fully integrated and bidirectional, with an easy user interface, just like SolidWorks. Students learn to perform analysis quicker because there are fewer mouse-clicks and tips to
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SOLIDWORKS Education – STEM Curriculum & Robot Models
The new SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014-2105 Instructor’s Guide and Student Guides brings a series of Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) competencies front and center to help teachers in their day to day lesson plans. SOLIDWORKS is a great tool to make
... ContinuedSolidWorks Motion: Part 5 – Saving Animations
This blog post will explain how you can save the animations you have created. The video below will go over some of the different settings you can choose when you are saving the animation as a video file. The next
... ContinuedNOVA’s D-Day’s Sunken Secrets Preview Features Passion for Innovation 3DEXPERIENCE
Hundreds of 3D glasses were given to D-Day veterans and special guests at the WGBH studios in Boston on Thursday. Imagine exploring the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the days that followed. With the help of DASSAULT
... ContinuedBlood, Sweat, Tears and SolidWorks Gets University of Houston SAE Team to Formula Hybrid
It has been a long, hard journey for the University of Houston SAE Formula Hybrid team. With blood, sweat, tears and SoldiWorks, engineering students, Bradlee Henderson, Dixon Valbuena, Jaime Gonzalez reached their goal to participate in Formula Hybrid 2014 and
... ContinuedSolidWorks to Gazebo Robot Simulation
The world of simulating robots in play just got easier with the help of students TJ Watson and Michael Strickland from WPI. These students have worked to bring SolidWorks models into Gazebo in URDF file format. Using WPILIB Java, software
... ContinuedSolidWorks Motion: Part 4 – Adding Transparency
This part of the series shows you how to change the transparency of certain parts during the animation. This transition could expose the inner workings of an assembly. The video below shows how to make parts in an assembly transparent.
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SolidWorks Education Edition 2014-2015: Path Dimension
SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014-2015 has some great new features. I will be sharing some of my favorites over the next few weeks. The Path Dimension is a great sketch feature for robot and FSAE teams that need to design with chains
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SolidWorks Education Edition 2014-2015: Curve Driven Patterns
SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014-2015 has some great new features. I will be sharing some of my favorites over the next few weeks. The Curve Driven Pattern feature is great to use in an assembly at the part level. Assemblies now offer
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