SolidWorks – Up Where the Air is Clear
It's the last unofficial weekend of the summer so do something fun with your family or friends. Take time to dream. I always dreamed about para sailing. Luckily David agreed to try too - always ready to test the laws of physics
... ContinuedTeaching CAD with SolidWorks? You are not alone and SolidWorks can help.
? When I first started teaching engineering design courses I was the only instructor at my college. I was hired on Friday and classes started Tuesday. Luckily there was a holiday on Monday. So our EDU team put together curriculum
... ContinuedConverting Printed Circuit Board Designs into SolidWorks Assemblies using CircuitWorks
Check out this video showing how to use CircuitWorks within SolidWorks to convert a printed circuit board file into a SolidWorks assembly. CircuitWorks is able to convert a number of different file types. This tool is very useful when
... Continued2012 CMU Robot Hall of Fame(R) Nominees
How do you relate ASTRO BOY, Lego Mindstorms, R2-D2, and the Mars Pathfinder? They are all inductees into the Carnegie Melon Robot Hall of Fame. Now you can vote for the 2012 Inductees. IEEE posted all the nominees at https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/robot-hall-of-fame
... ContinuedTuning Fork Optimization
Starting Model Optimized Model For this post, I decided to create a tuning fork. To figure out what pitch it was I created a frequency simulation study to determine the resonant frequency of the tuning fork. I added a fixed portion
... ContinuedReality Redesign Final Episode – Design Student’s Dream
Are you teaching a design or manufacutring course? Need a video to excite students about taking your class? Producer Jeremy Bout has made manufacturing exciting by teaming up with PINKBIKE to develop the Reality Redesign contest. I was fortunate to be one of the judges here
... ContinuedFrequency and Vibration Help Using SolidWorks
Check out This video that show which tutorials in SolidWorks can help you solve frequency and vibration problems using SolidWorks Simulation. These tutorials look at resonant frequency as well as linear dynamic problems such as harmonic loads and random
... ContinuedBattlecry 13 at WPI – Robots that Keep on Playing with SolidWorks Support
Battlecry BC13 was a blast! A record number of students attended this year's robot competition at WPI in Worcester, MA, USA. When the first team shows up at 0800 this morning for our 1600 opening, you know there is going to be
... ContinuedDesign Optimization Help Using SolidWorks
Check out this brief video that shows where to find tutorials within SolidWorks that use design studies alongside with SolidWorks Simulation. Using a design study can help optimize a model based off of important parameters specified by the
... ContinuedHot Air Balloon in SolidWorks
For this post I decide to create something typically not seen every day; a hot air balloon. This model was unique in the fact that it integrated surface modeling, solid modeling, and weldments all into one project. To create
... ContinuedKayak Paddle in SolidWorks
What's a kayak without a paddle? A very bad day. I created the ends of this paddle using a Revolve and an Extrude. I then used two Flex features to twist and bend the part. There are left and right
... ContinuedThermodynamic and Heat Transfer Analysis using SolidWorks
Are you analyzing problems that involve Thermodynamics or Heat Transfer? Check out this video that will highlight tutorials that are in SolidWorks that can help you solve these problems. Using SolidWorks Simulation and Flow Simulation, both simple and
... ContinuedVote for your favorite SolidWorks Student Design from Portugal
Sqedio's SolidWorks Student Design Contest features some of the best engineering talent from Portugal. Everyone around the world can participate in the “People’s Choice Award” and vote for your favorites. Following these steps: Goto: https://www.facebook.com/sqedio/app_162850930432266 Click the ?Like button. Review
... ContinuedCongratulations to The University of Michigan Solar Team
On Saturday, The University of Michigan (U-M) solar racing team won its fourth consecutive American Solar Challenge (ASC), which is a 1,600 mile, week-long endurance race that began in Rochester, NY and concluded in St. Paul, MN. The win earned
... ContinuedSolidWorks Workgroup PDM Helps RIT Baja Team Design, Compete and Succeed.
The Rochester Institute of Technology Baja team, like many other collegiate engineering teams, faces the challenge of designing, fabricating, testing and competing with a new vehicle every year. So, when SolidWorks began offering workgroup PDM software alongside the educational version
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