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Happy Spring – from SolidWorks Student to SolidWorks Engineer
When mechanical engineer Dawid Fionik from Solidworks Reseller CNS Solutions in Poland sent us this Easter greeting, I thought wow – what an amazing journey has taken place. As a SolidWorks Student, at Bialystok Technical University, Dawid won the CNS design
... ContinuedSolidWorks drives F1inSchools UK finals
SolidWorks sponsors F1inSchools and the UK event this month was more exciting than ever with more teams participating in this engineering competition where students design a miniature F1 race car, test, manufucture, race and have fun project. The project starts
... ContinuedSolidWorks Education hosts Regional NASCAR STEM Student Racing Challenge
STEM – Science Technology Engineering and Math. If you combine these subjects with RC Racing, Tony Schumacher – U.S. Army Top Fuel Dragster and seven-time champion and SolidWorks customer, 25 engineers from the US army and community, along with a great
... ContinuedLobster Trap Using Weldments
This time I decided to make a part using the weldments feature and explain how I went about it. I made a lobster trap using only weldments. Even though this lobster trap is made out of wood, weldments still can
... ContinuedPepper Grinder
The inspiration for this post came during dinner with my family. This project seemed to be fairly straight forward, however once I got going I realized that the bottom grinding mechanism was harder to figure out then I first thought.
... ContinuedNewton’s Cradle with SolidWorks Motion
For this post I made a Newton’s Cradle. It was a fairly easy build. The frame was just a couple sweep features. The spheres were made using the revolve feature and then another sweep feature was utilized to create
... ContinuedDoes Your 2D CAD Software Cost Too Much?
Has 2D CAD software gotten too expensive for high school and community college drafting and engineering graphics programs to survive? A community college professor came up to me last week at SolidWorks World and stated that he can no longer afford his
... ContinuedRocket Man Explodes with Innovation at SolidWorks World 2012
When I first saw a rocket at SolidWorks World, I thought how did that fit in the elevator? How did we get a rocket past security? Would 5600 engineers and designers sneak into the Partner Pavillion at night and try
... ContinuedAldebaran NAO Robot Introduces SolidWorks World 2012
SolidWorks customers design amazing products. So when the General Session of SolidWorks World 2012 opened, it was great to see an innovative humanoid robot, designed by Aldebaran Robotics of Paris, France. Aldebaran’s NAO robot opened the show by introducing CEO
... ContinuedSolidWorks World Day 1
SolidWorks World 2012 woke over 5000 users this morning to a rock – hip-hop dancing robot video. The NAO robot, designed by SolidWorks customer, Aldebaran Robotics, instructed Bertrand Sicot, president and CEO of DS SolidWorks Corp. There are now over
... ContinuedCoordinate 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
... ContinuedFrench Students Excel in STEM Education with Support from SolidWorks VAR CadWare
Before Science, Technology, Education and Math (STEM) became a well used acronym in US education, French students learned to use SolidWorks as a visualization tool in order to understand concepts in simple machines, laws of physics, mathematics, and how things work. In middle
... ContinuedSolidWorks Mentor Races with STEM Education Tutorial and the Ten80 Challenge
When Jeremy Losaw, NASCAR Racing Engineer and SolidWorks Mentor for the Ten80 STEM Racing Challenge sent me this video, I could not help but ask to share it with all of you. Jeremy also sent me the part model
... 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
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