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SolidWorks World – Design without Limits – Day 2
Solidworks World 2013 continues to amaze 4500 SolidWorks users. Mechatronics students from Militar Nueva Granada University in Columbia brought their projects to share with the SolidWorks community. The Certification team presented results about the Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP) exam, Certified
... ContinuedSolidWorks World Celebrates Educators and Their Students
SolidWorks World 2013 is only a few days a way and I wanted to share with you the featured speakers at the Education Breakout Sessions. Justin Lai, Lemelson MIT InvenTeams and Dan Schab, math teacher, Michigan teacher of the year (2005-2006) and mentor, Williamston
... ContinuedSolidWorks – Helping Students with the Fundamentals of CAD and Simulation
How do you prepare your students to work for talented SolidWorks customers, like Franck Muller Watchland? You need to start with the fundamentals. My colleagues from the SolidWorks Web Team put together a series of 200 videos to help our
... ContinuedPaper Airplane in SolidWorks
For this post I created a paper airplane using the sheet metal tools in SolidWorks. These tools allowed me to create all the folds that I would use if I were to create the airplane from an actual piece of
... ContinuedChristmas Tree Bulb in SolidWorks
This bulb was a fun and festive project. I used a couple of Thin Revolve features to make the globe and the cap, and the clip and hanger are done with Sweeps. Enjoy this bulb; use it to decorate your
... ContinuedSolidWorks Animation From A Buckeye
When you get a SolidWorks animation from a buckeye, you know it’s going to be good. The Ohio State University mechanical engineering students, Kyle Steinkerchner, Clinton Lehotan, and Matt Taylor exceeded in this year’s ME5680 Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
... ContinuedThanksgiving Dinner from SolidWorks
This is part two of Dave and my joint project. We finally put dinner on the table for Thanksgiving. We had a few challenges to overcome when designing the food. This was due to the difficulty of designing natural shapes.
... ContinuedCalculating Natural Frequency of a Semi-Ring
For this post I decided to test out something that I learned in my mechanical vibrations class which is calculating the natural frequency of a semi-ring. This ring can be seen above with some of the basic dimensions. Below are
... ContinuedRobotics Engineering Advances at WPI
Robots are everywhere at WPI. Last week I visited WPI and met the VP of Manufacturing from Rethink Robotics, who introduced me to Baxter. Baxter is an adaptive manufacturing robot. It contains cameras, sensors and sophisticated software that enable it
... 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
... 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
... 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
... ContinuedCreating Blocks within Sketches for Synthesizing Linkages, Cams and Gears
Check out this video demonstrating how to use the block feature within SolidWorks to create sketches that behave like linkages, cams, or gears. Blocks take a group of entities and lock them together. These are able to be moved,
... ContinuedTake-Out Food Box in SolidWorks
For this post, I decided to create something that we all have most likely seen at some point in our lives, a take-out food box. I created it using sheet metal tools as I treated the sheet metal like paper.
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