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The Dog Days of Summer
As August weeks get hotter in Boston, dogs need to cool off. So I asked SolidWorks dog Ellie, a yellow lab mix, and the other dogs to sit in the shade and share their favorite new features in the
... ContinuedSolidWorks Plastics: Meshing
iPhone 5 with a Plastic Case Many manufacturers use plastic injection molding to create cases for phones. A practical application of SolidWorks Plastics is using it to assess the manufacturability of these plastic cases. You too can design your own
... ContinuedHow to Create Runners in SolidWorks Plastics
SolidWorks Plastics Runner There are many practicle applications of runners in mold design. The runner in the picture above (T shaped bit) allows two parts to be made from a single gate. When the plastic has cooled, this runner can
... ContinuedChanging Configurations In SolidWorks Plastics
Cooling Time and Air Traps of a Part with Two Configurations You might have realized your initial part is not ideal for molding. Air might get trapped or it could take too long to fill up or cool down. If you
... ContinuedIntroduction to SolidWorks Plastics
Plastic Injection Molding Injection molding is very widely used in industry when creating plastic parts. SolidWorks Plastics is an Add-in for SolidWorks that simulates this process. It is included in SolidWorks Education Edition 2013-2014.* To learn more about SolidWorks Plastics
... ContinuedSolidWorks at ASEE K12 Teacher STEM Workshop in Atlanta
Hundreds of educators spent Saturday at the 10th American Society of Engineering Educaiton (ASEE) K12 Teacher workshop in Atlanta Georgia. The ASEE event was sponsored by Dassault Systemes. I was fortunate to present with two great educators, Fred Stillwell and
... ContinuedIIT Kharagpur Students Fill SolidWorks Workshop with Energy and Skill
As SolidWorks expands across India, more and more students are learning SolidWorks skills thanks to educators that open their classrooms. 150 engineering students from IIT Kharagpur participated in a SolidWorks Workshop. Students demonstrated energy, enthusiasm, and skill in this
... ContinuedRobotics Engineering Advances at WPI
Robots are everywhere at WPI. Last week I visited WPI and met the VP of Manufacturing from Rethink Robotics, who introduced me to Baxter. Baxter is an adaptive manufacturing robot. It contains cameras, sensors and sophisticated software that enable it
... ContinuedItalian Teachers use SolidWorks to Promote Innovation and Student Employment
Istituto Professionale Fossati, in the beautiful northern town of Sondrio, Italy, is a school that embraces new technology focusing on students’ future employment. In a recent event named, Innovation and Career, students (Ages 13-18) and their teachers showed how their
... ContinuedCFD Flow Analysis Tutorial on Intake Manifold
Take a look at this video tutorial using SolidWorks Flow Simulation on an intake manifold from the SolidWorks SAE tutorials. The video covers the setup and running of a CFD analysis on a model and includes everything from creating
... 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 Brazilian Blog Hosts Contest for Students and Teachers
SolidWorks Brazilian Blog https://solid3d.blogspot.com/ celebrates its 1 year anniversary with a great promotion for Brazilian students and teachers. With over 1 million views, solid3d.blogspot.com is the creation of SENAI educator José Cardoso Junior. Follow the link Promotion: https://solid3d.blogspot.com/2012/01/promocao-1-ano-de-blog.html These are the prizes: 1st Place: 1 license of
... ContinuedGreen Initiatives in Engineering featured in Good Magazine
How green are the products we teach young engineers to design? Paper or plastic or your own bag? A question you get in the grocery store. I am fortunate that my colleague Asheen is not only the sustainability product
... 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
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