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SOLIDWORKS 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
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for INDIA
Announcing the SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for INDIA! This is the first design challenge using SOLIDWORK xDesign for all students across India. Student teams will have the opportunity to design and collaborate to win a Mega Sponsorship Award. The top three
... ContinuedFIRST Comes First: Team YETI, Queen City Robotics Alliance, and TPM, Inc.
True story: here at SOLIDWORKS, we’re crazy about FIRST Robotics. What kind of engineering nerds wouldn’t be? Created by Dean Kamen, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics aims to inspire students to become leaders in science and engineering, to
... ContinuedThe Cubie Awards: A SOLIDWORKS Story
If you ever have the chance to visit the DASSAULT SYSTEMES campus in Waltham, MA, you’ll initially be greeted with what looks like an ordinary office. Inside the Water Building, pods of cubicles dot the wide, open floor plan.
... ContinuedStudents Get Help for Your Projects with MySolidWorks
You have a design project due in a few weeks. How do you explain your ideas to your instructor, classmates, and be successful? SOLIDWORKS can help. You heard about SOLIDWORKS for other students – but how do you start to learn
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS and Makerbot Tutorials: How to 3D Print Cool Stuff
My name is Colleen Gallagher and I am an Electrical Engineering Major entering my fourth year at Northeastern University. This post will discuss three different videos, produced by me, covering how to model and 3D print various items using a
... ContinuedLove Robots? SOLIDWORKS might be for you!
Designing competitive robots can be challenging and resource consuming! Sure, you love doing it, but wouldn’t you rather spend less time and money while doing the same thing on a computer? This way you can optimize it before you
... 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
... ContinuedVote for your favorite SolidWorks Student Design from Portugal
Sqedio's SolidWorks Student Design Contest features some of the best engineering talent from Portugal. Everyone around the world can participate in the “People’s Choice Award” and vote for your favorites. Following these steps: Goto: http://www.facebook.com/sqedio/app_162850930432266 Click the ?Like button. Review
... ContinuedNAO Robot Tutorials in SolidWorks
At SolidWorks World, I introduced our community to the NAO Robot, designed in SolidWorks by Aldebaran-Robotics. We have developed a series of SolidWorks video tutorials in 3D assembly modeling to help students get excited about engineering and robotics. Download and
... 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
... 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
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