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Get Spooky with the #Shapetober Riff Off!
Throughout the month of October, you can tag your Apps for Kids, xDesign, or xShape creations on social media with the #Shapetober and SOLIDWORKS Education will share your models with the world! This year, we want to include everyone in on the fun with our Apps for Kids #Shapetober Riff Off! Find the skull model created by SOLIDWORKS EDU below in the Apps for Kids public gallery, riff it, add something weird or fun to the design, and then share publicly with the world! At the end of October, we’ll see what kind of crazy model this Riff Off has wrought!
... ContinuedFIRST Tech Challenge – Kick off the 2019-2020 season with SOLIDWORKS
The 2019-2020 season, FIRST® RISESMpowered by Star Wars: Force for Change, is setting out to inspire citizens of the galaxy. Throughout history, great civilizations have risen, then fallen. Now it’s our turn to rise—building and bolstering our own planetary metropolis. The
... ContinuedBuild the Future of Medical Care with SOLIDWORKS xDesign
We’re halfway through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge, where SAE teams are hard at work designing the rescue vehicles of the future. Research is an important part of building these new machines, and we’ve got some inspiration for our design teams!
... ContinuedDousing Fires with Futuristic Helicopters
We’re halfway through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge, where SAE teams are hard at work designing the rescue vehicles of the future. Research is an important part of building these new machines, and we’ve got some inspiration for our design teams!
... ContinuedFiring Up a Futuristic Firetruck
We’re halfway through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge, where SAE teams are hard at work designing the rescue vehicles of the future. Research is an important part of building these new machines, and we’ve got some inspiration for our design teams!
... ContinuedAnnouncing the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge
All SAE Collegiate Design teams within the United States have the chance to work on their creative design and collaboration skills, and three teams will win a grand prize of $3,000, with six runner-up teams winning $1,000.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge- India WINNERS!
We are proud to announce the winners of the first SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for India! 1600+ students and 249 teams had 41 days to work on their Futuristic Public Transport designs. The submissions we received were amazing! The response from
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Create a Collage in Capture It
The Capture It app is the best place to keep track of your ideas! You can use it to build stories and keep track of images and content that will help inspire future Apps for Kids creations. Use your imagination
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Walking Mechanism
In today’s lesson, we’ll learn how to make walking mechanisms by connecting bars, wheels, and motors. Get ready to strut your stuff with the Mech It app! Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Spiral Art
With Mech It, you can use colors and mechanisms to create fun patterns, and change the patterns with small, simple adjustments. What kinds of patterns will you make? Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Create the Mechanics of a Finger
Some of the coolest mechanisms look like real life objects. Today we’re going to learn how to create shapes that connect together and move just like a finger! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Smiley Face and Saturn
In SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, you can create mechanisms that can draw picture for you! Today we’re going to learn about using markers in Mech It to create a smiley face and the planet Saturn–what other drawings will you make?
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: 4 Bar Linkage
Now that we’ve seen how all the components of Mech It work, it’s time to put them all together! Today we’ll learn how to make a 4 bar linkage, a great starting point for amazing creations!
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To: Play Motion
Summer’s almost here and the time to Mech It is upon is! We’re back with more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To’s, and today we’re learning all about making things move! Once you add a motor to your Mech It design,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2019-2020 is here!
Our mission is to provide students with the tools and skills they need to get the job of their dreams. With SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2019-2020, students have access to the same 3D development tools used by millions of engineering and
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