Collapsible Music Stand in SolidWorks
This assembly was a lot of fun to create. I used design tables to vary parameters on the struts and the rivets. This saves time and file size, as the same parts can be used several times in different configurations.
... ContinuedRobocon 2011 Finals
The Robocon 2011 Finals were last Friday. My colleague Christian, his two children and I got to attend, I have to thank my other colleague Ryan and my intern Greg for helping out last week teach these students about
... ContinuedThe Starting of STEM
Everything starts somewhere, everything has a beginning. Young girls might not have ever heard of the word STEM and less about what it means. We introduce the topic to them as fun projects to do and build from there after a good foundation is started into these topics.
... ContinuedEdgeFactor Sneak Peak and SolidWorks
EdgeFactor is the subject of my “Cool thing I did this summer” for my back to school essay. Luckily, I got to go behind the scenes on EdgeFactor episode 2 video shoot. If you teach engineering design, robotics, or machining this is the video series for your
... ContinuedSolidWorks Sustainability Green Design Contest Winners
SolidWorks Sustainability Green Design Contest Winners were announced today and I have to congratulate all winners – especially the students winners. First place winner Gerard Libby and Second place winner Elais Chavez will both receive a trip to SolidWorks World.
... ContinuedCFD Tutorial: Verification and Validation with SolidWorks Flow Simulation Part 2
CFD Tutorials for verification and validation of flow based analysis exercises can be found inside of SolidWorks Flow Simulation and the SolidWorks Customer Portal. This is the second blog post in this CFD flow series. Part 1 is located here. Part
... ContinuedCan Opener
For this post I decided to make something that we all have used at least once; a can opener. There is a gear mate on the gears but if you want to have the handle move you will need
... ContinuedDetergent Bottle in SolidWorks
In learning more about SolidWorks surfacing, I decided to complete a fun, but fairly common project. The bottle is not based on any known design in particular, and I was careful to draw the profile myself, and to use a
... ContinuedCFD Tutorial: Inlet Flow, Air over a Wing, and more SolidWorks Flow Tutorials – Part I
Today I explored the SolidWorks Flow Simulation folders, a CFD (computational fluid dynamics) goldmine inside the SolidWorks Education Edition that I didn’t know existed, so I thought I would share our flow tutorials, curriculum, and my goldmine with you. There is
... ContinuedMotor W16: Chiulasa (Partea III)
The English version of this post can be found here
In acest ultim post despre Chiulasa motorului W16 voi “repara” piesa facuta pana acum si o voi adapta si pentru V-ul drept al motorului.
Explicatiile detaliate despre constructia chiulasei pot fi gasite in “extended entry” la sfarsitul postarii.
Va multumesc pentru ca ati citit despre aceasta constructie. Continuati sa cititi urmatoarele postari ce vor prezenta componentele in miscare din interiorul chiulasei is mate-urile folosite la conectarea si crearea miscarii lor.
George Bucsan
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Aerospace Engineering, 2014
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: NAFEMS Steady State Temperature Distribution of a Plate in SolidWorks
SolidWorks contains tutorials based on the NAFEMS benchmarks. These benchmarks demonstrate the accuracy of SolidWorks Simulation software for the analysis modules of linear statics, thermal, geometric and material, non linearity and linear dynamics. NAFEMS benchmarks are used throughout many FEA examples
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: Bending of A Cantilever Beam in SolidWorks
?SolidWorks Education Edition contains hundreds of FEA Tutorials right inside the software. I decided to talk about classic examples I did for my students in Engineering Mechanics – Statics and Engineering Physics. SolidWorks has Verification examples.and NA FEMs examples. These
... ContinuedSolidWorks Foam Airplane Tutorial
Download Plane Body My intern Greg Margolis from University of Massachusetts Amherst and a few of his engineering friends were testing aerodynamics of this foam plane before a meeting. Greg helped me turn this action into a SolidWorks tutorial
... ContinuedRobocon 2011 an international game of MIT Hack History
It's Robocon 2011 and this year the international event takes place at MIT. If you are a fan of the MIT hack history, you will love this event. Years ago, I remember watching the 11pm local Boston news report on
... ContinuedSpiral Staircase
For this post I decided to design a spiral staircase. At first it seemed like an easy concept, but there were difficulties. Trying to make the treads was a lot harder than I thought. The problem was getting the treads
... Continued