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SolidWorks Education Edition 2013 – 2014, 3D Design Simplified
The SolidWorks Education Edition 2013-2014 for schools is now available through your SolidWorks Value Added Reseller. SolidWorks continues to support educators and students by providing a complete suite of tools to design, analyze, simulate and document products. Qualified schools can
... ContinuedFirst Woman in Guatemala to Achieve CSWA Certification
Posadas Maria Mercedes Gomez is a new type of leader in Guatemala. Mercedes is a mechatronics student at the Universidad Galileo. She is the first woman in Guatemala to take and pass the Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) exam and achieve
... ContinuedFormula Michigan 2013 – For the Love of Engineering Part 2
If you have a FSAE car on the track at Michigan, you push the car to the track and you push the car from the track. The Jayhawks Motorsports team from the University of Kansas – Lawrence (KU) is at
... ContinuedGoldieBlox – The Magic of Engineering for Little Girls
What kind of toys do little girls play with? Do toys influence decisions on how engineering is perceived by girls as they grow up? When Debbie Sterling looked to buy toys for her friend’s children, there wasn’t much of a
... ContinuedExtreme Sports! Extreme SolidWorks!
The DTV Shredder manufactured by BPG Werks lets you ride to the extreme on their all-terrain skateboard. Visit our Born to Design website to see how SolidWorks is helping this team take an idea to reality. I first met owner 23-year-old Ben Gulak
... ContinuedIIT Kharagpur Students Fill SolidWorks Workshop with Energy and Skill
As SolidWorks expands across India, more and more students are learning SolidWorks skills thanks to educators that open their classrooms. 150 engineering students from IIT Kharagpur participated in a SolidWorks Workshop. Students demonstrated energy, enthusiasm, and skill in this
... ContinuedSolidWorks 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
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