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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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... ContinuedThanksgiving Dinner
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.
... ContinuedDining Room in SolidWorks
For this post, Dave and I decided to do a joint project. With the American holiday of Thanksgiving fast approaching, we thought it might be fun to create a Thanksgiving dinner in SolidWorks. This is the first of two
... ContinuedHand Drill in SolidWorks
I found an antique hand drill lying around my house and I thought this would be a fun project. I used revolve features extensively, as well as the obvious gear mates, to create an accurate representation of this mechanism. I
... ContinuedCarved Pumpkins
For this post I carved a number of different pumpkins that I based off the model that I made for my last post. To create the pumpkin eating the other pumpkin I used the scale feature to reduce the size
... ContinuedPumpkin 3D CAD Model in SolidWorks
For this post I decided in the spirit of Halloween to make a pumpkin. My thought is that you can download this model and carve your own virtual Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween. For my next post I will show what I
... ContinuedIndia Engineering Students Win Big at BWIR Design Ace Competition
Engineering students from southern India were challanged with BWIR(Barry Weymiller International Resources) Design Ace Competition. The exciting finals took place last week in Chennai, India and I was fortunate to be a judge. Why? because I got to see first
... ContinuedGolf Equipment in SolidWorks
For this post I made some golf equipment. It started when I wanted to make a golf ball. It seemed like a simple task to put some dimples in a sphere but once I started on it, I
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