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Laurentian University Students win NASA’s Lunabotics Competition with SolidWorks
Congratulations to Laurentian University students in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, have won NASA's Lunabotics competition. This eight member student team of 4th year mechanical engineering students won NASA's prestigious competition, where students design remote controlled excavators to dig, collect and deposit as much "lunar" material as
... ContinuedTen80 Student Racing Challenge, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car with SolidWorks
My partners and I at Ten80 Education, like most of you, are wrapping up the school year and preparing for summer camps and clubs. I want to share with you some of the projects students have worked on in 2011-12
... ContinuedCompleted Telecaster Guitar in SolidWorks
It’s finally done! This is the completed Telecaster model. The electrical components are modeled vaguely, if at all, as they are very complex. However, every other aspect of the guitar is modeled as accurately as possible. This has been a
... ContinuedNot An Ordinary Tire
A little while ago I was asked by a fellow student about the best way to make a tire in SolidWorks, so I gave her some ideas on how to do it and went on with my day. Later
... ContinuedSTEM Education with Ten80, NASCAR(R), SolidWorks and Fun
Many students design cars – all types of cars, but how many teams design the actual sustainable power source? Student from the RC Lions team at R.L. Turner High (M.E.T.S.A) in Carrollton, TX presented the wind turbine they designed
... ContinuedF1inSchools drives success for STEM education
Sometimes you just have a good today. That was today in Michigan at the US F1inSchools finals at Formula SAE. I met Team Raptor, Kelly, Sabine, Anna, and Claire. These girls, now in East Cobb Middle School, Marietta Georgia have been using SolidWorks
... ContinuedComplete Telecaster Guitar Neck in SolidWorks
This is the completed neck to the guitar. The mounting of the fret wire was by far the most difficult part, and it is still not perfect. The entire assembly is posted below, with all of its parts. I am
... ContinuedFinal Trumpet Assembly
Here is my final trumpet assembly. I got the valves to match up and move like they should be able to. However, I could not figure out how to compress the springs as they would in real life. There
... ContinuedMain Trumpet Body With Slides
For this post I have added the tuning slides as well as a mouth piece to the main trumpet body. I did make some changes to main trumpet body in the process. Up next are the three valves; this
... ContinuedTelecaster Guitar Neck in SolidWorks
This is the neck to the guitar. I also re-uploaded the body, as I changed the size of the neck mounting holes. Now this is starting to look more like a guitar! I wonder how I’m going to put
... ContinuedWPI Student Bloggers have a passion for SolidWorks
I went to visit my husband David at WPI last week and was amazed at the dynamics in the lab. Three of his tutors were helping out students – but they were not scheduled to work. They just enjoy helping out
... ContinuedMain Trumpet Body in Solidworks
I am a trumpet player and have always wanted to make a model of my horn. This is the first part that will eventually make up my entire trumpet in detail. Please continue to follow my process as I
... ContinuedTelecaster Guitar Body in SolidWorks
Here is a model of the body of one of my favorite guitars. This is the most logical way to start modeling the guitar, and I hope you will follow my posts and enjoy my future models. Thanks for
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday: Senai Andai, student at University of Texas at Arlington
The following is reposted from the SolidWorks corporate blog Name: Senai Andai Title: Mechanical Engineering Student, Battlebots IQ Team founder School: University of Texas at Arlington Hometown: Dallas, Texas 1. Why do you choose to study engineering? How
... ContinuedStudents display robots, cars, plane, tractors and their own designs at SolidWorks World 2011
It has been a busy week at SolidWorks World 2011 in San Antonio Texas. We announced 1 million licenses sold to educational institutions and I love coming to work everyday to help out so many students who use SolidWorks to design
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