Coordinate System Based on the Center of Mass
About two week ago I was wondering if it was possible to make a coordinate system that was based off of the location of the center of mass. I figured that this would be useful so that it would be
... ContinuedFrench Students Excel in STEM Education with Support from SolidWorks VAR CadWare
Before Science, Technology, Education and Math (STEM) became a well used acronym in US education, French students learned to use SolidWorks as a visualization tool in order to understand concepts in simple machines, laws of physics, mathematics, and how things work. In middle
... ContinuedBallpoint Pen in SolidWorks
This pen was a fun assembly to model. For the most part, it was quite an easy job. The only challenging part was the cap, and I was able to complete it using a loft feature, a mirror feature, and plenty of
... ContinuedSolidWorks Mentor Races with STEM Education Tutorial and the Ten80 Challenge
When Jeremy Losaw, NASCAR Racing Engineer and SolidWorks Mentor for the Ten80 STEM Racing Challenge sent me this video, I could not help but ask to share it with all of you. Jeremy also sent me the part model
... ContinuedFire Extinguisher
For today's post I decided to make a fire extinguisher. This was a really fun project to build. I was not sure exactly sure how the inside of the fire extinguisher worked but with some research and some designing on
... ContinuedFire Sprinkler with Flow Simulation with SolidWorks – Revised
For this post, I decided to take the fire sprinkler that I posted on December 18th and run a flow simulation with it. In order to do this I first had to suppress the glass tube that would hold the
... ContinuedSolidWorks Brazilian Blog Hosts Contest for Students and Teachers
SolidWorks Brazilian Blog https://solid3d.blogspot.com/ celebrates its 1 year anniversary with a great promotion for Brazilian students and teachers. With over 1 million views, solid3d.blogspot.com is the creation of SENAI educator José Cardoso Junior. Follow the link Promotion: https://solid3d.blogspot.com/2012/01/promocao-1-ano-de-blog.html These are the prizes: 1st Place: 1 license of
... ContinuedSolidWorks Expands the Science Fair to Amazing Products
Students use SolidWorks to visualize great ideas for Science Fairs and Technology Fairs. But former high school science fair winner, Ben Gullak has taken his winning project into amazing products to start his own company, BPG-Werks in just a few years. The
... ContinuedFire Sprinkler with Flow Simulation
For this post, I decided to take the fire sprinkler that I posted on December 18th and run a flow simulation with it. In order to do this I first had to suppress the glass tube that would hold the
... ContinuedMechanical Ice Cream Scoop in SolidWorks
I came across this ice cream scoop in my kitchen and couldn't resist modelling it. It is complete except for the torsion spring that adds tension to the lever. I did not model the spring because I did not want
... ContinuedSnow Shovel
In the spirit of winter I decided to make something that is familiar to everyone who has experienced snow; a shovel. This is your classic shovel with a plastic handle and bucket and a wooden shaft. For the handle, I
... ContinuedGingerbread House in SolidWorks
This was quite a fun assembly to make. The gingerbread man was outlined using splines and a sketch picture. The model was decorated with liberal use of linear component patterns. The only difficulty was in creating the candy canes, but
... ContinuedFire Sprinkler
For this post I made a fire sprinkler thanks to the suggestion of one of my friends who is studying fire protection. The base sprinkler head was made using some boss extrudes. The threads were made by using a helix
... ContinuedWeldment Tutorial in Balsa Wood for Bridge and Structures
To create a Balsa Wood bridge or other wood structures, use a SolidWorks Library Feature, a SolidWorks 3D Sketch and SolidWorks Weldments, Here are the steps, video and model files to create a Balsa Wood Structure: 1. Create a cross
... ContinuedW16 Engine: Intake Manifold
In this post about the W16 engine I will present the build of the intake manifold through top-down design.
See detailed explanations in the extended entry at the end of the post.
Thank you for reading about this build and stay tuned for the next post which will detail the build of the exhaust manifolds, turbo compressors and their integration with the intake manifold.
George Bucsan
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Aerospace Engineering, 2014
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