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Keep On (Monster) Truckin’: SOLIDWORKS Meets Jonah
For the past few weeks, members of the R&D department at SOLIDWORKS have been pouring over monster truck designs. They’re now cozy with the designs and dimensions of some of the regulars at Monster Jam, a massive event where monster
... ContinuedThink. Make. Improve. IIS Perlasca Italy Students Learn By Doing with SOLIDWORKS
One year ago, IIS Perlasca established a partnership project with Nuovamacut, SOLIDWORKS reseller in Brescia, Italy. In Brescia and surrounding areas, SOLIDWORKS has a very strong presence with manufacturing companies. Nuovamacut also works with these companies that require qualified graduates and highly
... ContinuedLost in Translation
As a drafting and design student, I have spent some time putting things in the “glass box”, and visualizing what they would look like in 2D in order to draw multi-view orthographics in 2D software. At the
... ContinuedGlad to be aboard!
Right off the bat, I want to say how blown away I am to be given this opportunity to participate in the SolidWorks Teacher Blog. I want to thank Marie Planchard and Matthew West for giving me this chance.
... ContinuedConstruction Training Institute – Kuwait’s 1st SolidWorks Campus-wide Deployment
All students at the Construction Training Institute (CTI) in Kuwait will be able to use SolidWorks Education Edition software on and off campus. CTI becomes the first school in Kuwait to deploy the SolidWorks Campus-wide network. The SolidWorks Campus license
... ContinuedSolidWorks 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
... ContinuedTeaching CAD with SolidWorks? You are not alone and SolidWorks can help.
? When I first started teaching engineering design courses I was the only instructor at my college. I was hired on Friday and classes started Tuesday. Luckily there was a holiday on Monday. So our EDU team put together curriculum
... 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
... ContinuedCAD/CAM to New Heights with EdgeFactor’s Gnarly Metal
CAD/CAM – two acronyms that define Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing. Sometimes they live in separate worlds. When you want to teach students the same excitement I feel every time I walk into a machine shop, then the new
... ContinuedKinematics Tutorial: Finding Linkage Cognates with SolidWorks
Lately, I have been thoroughly enjoying learning about linkages, their motion, and their synthesis. Anyone who has tried to find the cognates of a four-bar linkage may have noticed that the process is time-consuming and a bit tedious. SolidWorks to
... ContinuedIf Eiffel had SolidWorks, would Marie Sophie Germain make the short list?
In the week where major retailers have pulled from their shelves the girls Tshirts “Allergic to Algebra” and “ I am too pretty for homework so my brother has to do it for me”, I find myself in at a
... ContinuedTips for the Engineering Student – and SolidWorks too
I decided to put some tips together to help engineering students this week – not just with SolidWorks but also with engineering subjects. Choosing the engineering fields can be challenging as an engineering student. My intern Greg created his own web
... ContinuedSolidWorks Tutorial: Building a Robot Arena
You have seen Assabet Valley robot students featured on the SolidWorks TV series, Let's Go Design. These students and their instructor, Bryant LaFlemme, have used SolidWorks to design the robot arena. Then they built it for a National Robots
... ContinuedStudents 6dot Braille Labeler Designed in SolidWorks on KickStarter
Students designed the 6dot Braille Labeler in SolidWorks. the 6dot is a low cost, low weight printer that can be used on all types of objects to assist those who are visually impaired. Now they are using KickStarter to
... ContinuedSolidWorks Curriculum for Educators on the SolidWorks Customer Portal
SolidWorks provides curriculum, tutorials and projects for educators on our SolidWorks Customer Portal. This video shows how you obtain your SolidWorks serial number, create an account and access the Customer Portal right inside of the SolidWorks Education Edition. The projects
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