Kinematics Tutorial: Finding Linkage Cognates with SolidWorks
Lately, I have been thoroughly enjoying learning about linkages, their motion, and their synthesis. Anyone who has tried to find the cognates of a four-bar linkage may have noticed that the process is time-consuming and a bit tedious. SolidWorks to
... ContinuedIf Eiffel had SolidWorks, would Marie Sophie Germain make the short list?
In the week where major retailers have pulled from their shelves the girls Tshirts “Allergic to Algebra” and “ I am too pretty for homework so my brother has to do it for me”, I find myself in at a
... ContinuedSolidWorks Turtle with Flow Simulation
For this post I decided to model a turtle. I sort of modeled it after a sea turtle. I used the boundary feature to create the shell, and then used a series of chamfers and fillets to smooth
... ContinuedTips for the Engineering Student – and SolidWorks too
I decided to put some tips together to help engineering students this week – not just with SolidWorks but also with engineering subjects. Choosing the engineering fields can be challenging as an engineering student. My intern Greg created his own web
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: Building a Robot Arena
You have seen Assabet Valley robot students featured on the SolidWorks TV series, Let's Go Design. These students and their instructor, Bryant LaFlemme, have used SolidWorks to design the robot arena. Then they built it for a National Robots
... ContinuedFormula SAE, Formula Student, SAE and SolidWorks Collegiate Vehicle Sponsorship and Tutorials
SolidWorks is proud to sponsor teams for Formula SAE, Formula Student, Baja, Formula Hybrid, Supermilage, Clean Snowmobile, Aero, Electric, Solar and other collegiate vehicle competitions. Your team can apply for sponsorship at www.solidworks.com/sae With sponsorship, you will receive 1. SolidWorks
... ContinuedStudents 6dot Braille Labeler Designed in SolidWorks on KickStarter
Students designed the 6dot Braille Labeler in SolidWorks. the 6dot is a low cost, low weight printer that can be used on all types of objects to assist those who are visually impaired. Now they are using KickStarter to
... ContinuedW16 Engine: Inside the Cylinder Head
In this post about the W16 engine I will detail the build of the main internal parts of the Cylinder Head: the rocker fingers, the valves and the camshaft.
See detailed explanations in the extended entry at the end of the post.
Download the camshaft assembly, the valves and the rocker finger assembly.
Thank you for reading about this build and stay tuned for the next post which will detail the calculation of the camshaft phase angles and the mating of the components that go inside the cylinder heads.
George Bucsan
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Aerospace Engineering, 2014
... ContinuedSolidWorks Curriculum for Educators on the SolidWorks Customer Portal
SolidWorks provides curriculum, tutorials and projects for educators on our SolidWorks Customer Portal. This video shows how you obtain your SolidWorks serial number, create an account and access the Customer Portal right inside of the SolidWorks Education Edition. The projects
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: CO2 Dragster from Team CudaCountry
SolidWorks Tutorials by master teacher, Pat Haley astound me again with his lastest SolidWorks Tutorial featuring a CO2 dragster. Take a look at the updated CO2 Dragster Car Tutorials at Cudacountry https://www.cudacountry.net/html/sw_co2car.html New in the SolidWorks 2011 tutorials: Mate References
... ContinuedLinking Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Around SolidWorks
The University of Western Ontario, under the direction of Paul Kurowski, has built an undergraduate design curriculum around SolidWorks. A number of non-design courses are also linked to that design stream. Graduating students leave UWO with working knowledge of CAD and Simulation and with
... ContinuedWomen Stars make Engineering Exciting for Students
Every week I get to meet amazing students, educators and commerical customers that make it truly exciting to be an engineer. This week is no exception. On Tuesday, Professor Barbara Hughey from the MIT Women in Technology program got to talk
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: NAFEMS Benchmark Hemisphere Under External Pressure
NAFEMS Benchmarks, Hemisphere Under External Pressure in SolidWorks, allows you to explore creating a hemisphere in SolidWorks and analyzing the model using SolidWorks Simulation – all in the same interface. NAFEMS Benchmarks in SolidWorks contain a variety of exercises in Linear Static,
... ContinuedPipe Valve with SolidWorks Flow Xpress
For this post I decided to make a pipe valve. One of the reasons for doing this was because I wanted to use FloExpress through the pipe. You can see the results in the video above or
... ContinuedSolidWorks Drawings Keep on Truckin’
Using SolidWorks Drawings can save you time when design changes enevitably occur. The drawings I saw from the SAE team at Concordia Univerisity were amazing because they were placed on their Ford F150 truck! I asked Concordia's vice president Jimmy Stabio to
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