Creating 3D Sketches in SolidWorks
This video shows the basics of using 3D sketches within your models. 3D Sketches are very useful when creating car chassis or anything where lines or curves cross through multiple planes. They reduce the number of planes that will
... ContinuedF1 in School Greece Team Succeeds at World Finals
Congratulations to the students from Team Ground Force Project that won two awards Best Newcomer Award Best Use of Social Media in the F1 in Schools 2012 World Finals in Abu Dhabi. The success of the Greek team will inspire
... ContinuedSketch Pictures Help in SolidWorks
Are you trying to create SolidWorks sketches that are based off of pictures or hand drawn sketches? If you are, this video will show the basics of how to open an image file within a SolidWorks sketch and use
... ContinuedSolidWorks Design of a Tip-Enhanced Near-Field Optical Microscope
Everyday the SolidWorks EDU team is fortunate to work with great university researchers. They share their ideas and projects with the SolidWorks Community. One such physics research team comes from Portland State University where A.J. Lawrence, Derek Nowak and Erik
... ContinuedScooter in SolidWorks
For this post, I created something that a number of people use as a means of transportation or just for fun. The scooter was a simple but fun build consisting of seven basic parts. The grip on the base was
... ContinuedSolidWorks Engineers Go Underground in Paris
My colleagues and I decided to take the metro to Paris on Sunday. So what landmark does a group of engineers visit first? The Eiffel Tower? The Louvre? No. We decide to go underground to the "Le Musée des Égouts de
... ContinuedTransition to SolidWorks from Creo or ProE: Drawing Documents
This video is the final part of a three part series providing tips to help learn SolidWorks if you have used Creo or ProE before and now have to learn SolidWorks for school or for a job. The basics
... ContinuedLeverage Freedom Chair wins100K Diamond Prize at MassChallenge
I first saw a prototype of the Leverage Freedom Chair a few years ago at the De Florez student competition at MIT. Then, student Amos Winter, showed how his design, from bicycle parts could be manufactured, maintained and used over the rough terraine
... ContinuedAdjustable Wrench in SolidWorks
I used simple boss extrudes, cut extrudes, and a sweep feature to create this adjustable wrench. The knurl slides the jaw back and forth using a rack and pinion mate, and a limit distance mate keeps the jaw from sliding
... ContinuedTransition to SolidWorks from Creo or ProE: Assembly Documents
Check out this video which is the second part of a three part series providing tips to help learn SolidWorks if you have used Creo or ProE before and now have to learn SolidWorks for school or for a
... ContinuedHan University Drives Education Success with SolidWorks
This week, members of the global SolidWorks Education team visited Han University of Applied Science in Arnhem, Netherlands. We truly were impressed with their curriculum that uses SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation. The director and engineering instructors shared information about the
... ContinuedHelmetHub Makes Getting a Bike Helmet Easy, Mass Challenge Finalist
At the start of your capstone/senior design project, engineering students are presented with a problem. With little or no direction, your team must solve the problem. In MIT, Professor David Wallace's 2.009 class, Product Engineering Processes, one idea has gone far beyond
... ContinuedTransition to SolidWorks from Creo or ProE
Check out this video which is part of a three part series providing tips to help learn SolidWorks if you have used Creo or ProE before and now have to learn SolidWorks for school or for a job. The
... ContinuedOctopus in SolidWorks
This post I decided to create something that was a little out of the ordinary. This octopus took me a quite a while to complete. I started by creating sketches for the head of the octopus in order to define
... ContinuedCareer and Technical Teachers and Students Succeed with CSWA
When you walk into your office and find someone left a newspaper article promoting a local school, you know you are going to have a good day. For everyday I know that career and technical teachers are faced with tough
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