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SolidWorks World Day 3 2013 – Design without Limits
SolidWorks World Day 3 is filled with inspiration when mentor, Tom Atchison of the Rocket Mavericks took to the stage during General Session. Tom is the leader and visionary behind the Mavericks. Tom shares the Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)
... ContinuedSolidWorks World 2013 – Design without Limits!
Design without Limits. That is the theme for SolidWorks World 2013. In General Session, Day 1, customers got to experience great designs – without limits. Our commercial customers create amazing products. And students do too. The Uno, was
... ContinuedSolidWorks World Celebrates Educators and Their Students
SolidWorks World 2013 is only a few days a way and I wanted to share with you the featured speakers at the Education Breakout Sessions. Justin Lai, Lemelson MIT InvenTeams and Dan Schab, math teacher, Michigan teacher of the year (2005-2006) and mentor, Williamston
... ContinuedHow SolidWorks Sustainability Can Help You In School
This video shows how to use SolidWorks Sustainability to make a model more sustainable. SolidWorks Sustainability can also be used as a way to find alternative materials to use. This tool can help out a lot in courses dealing
... ContinuedExternal Flow Simulation on a SAE CAR Body
Check out this video showing how to set up and run an external flow simulation on an SAE Car Body. A surface goal in created in order to calculate the lift forces on the car. The key to calculating
... ContinuedSolidWorks Japan Starts Young Engineers At Age 9
SolidWorks Japan has raised the bar in engineering education. My Japanese colleagues have introduced SolidWorks to students starting at age 9 during "Kids Engineer" in Yokohama. Organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan and major Japanese automobile companies,
... ContinuedUsing SolidWorks Costing for Formula SAE and other Design Presentations
Check out this video showing how you can use SolidWorks Costing to obtain an estimate on how much a sheet metal or milled part will cost. This tool is very useful when creating costing reports needed for such competitions
... ContinuedPaper Airplane in SolidWorks
For this post I created a paper airplane using the sheet metal tools in SolidWorks. These tools allowed me to create all the folds that I would use if I were to create the airplane from an actual piece of
... ContinuedChristmas Tree Bulb in SolidWorks
This bulb was a fun and festive project. I used a couple of Thin Revolve features to make the globe and the cap, and the clip and hanger are done with Sweeps. Enjoy this bulb; use it to decorate your
... ContinuedSolidWorks Extends Engineering Outreach to Kuwait Educators and Students
When colleges and industry combine to share trends and ideas in engineering education, great things happen. The College of Technological Studies (CTS) and SolidWorks Value Added Reseller, CAD CAM CIM, joined efforts to host an engineering educators conference to showcase trends in education with SolidWorks
... ContinuedSAE Car Suspension With SolidWorks Motion: Part 3 Post Processing
This is the third and final part in a series of three showing how to use SolidWorks Motion to analyze a suspension system in a Formula SAE Car. This last part covers the post processing of results that was
... ContinuedGalileo, Physics and SolidWorks Motion
Galileo climbed 290+ steps in the Tower of Pisa to tests his theory of mass versus time. I've been to the beautiful Tower, now leaning, it's a long way up. What if Galileo had SolidWorks Motion to illustrate the path of a
... ContinuedSAE Car Suspension With SolidWorks Motion: Part 2 Set Up
Check out this video which is part two out of a three part series showing how to use SolidWorks Motion to analyze a suspension system in a Formula SAE Car. The second part covers the set up and running
... ContinuedSolidWorks Animation From A Buckeye
When you get a SolidWorks animation from a buckeye, you know it’s going to be good. The Ohio State University mechanical engineering students, Kyle Steinkerchner, Clinton Lehotan, and Matt Taylor exceeded in this year’s ME5680 Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
... ContinuedSAE Car Suspension With SolidWorks Motion: Part 1 Eliminating Redundancies
Eliminating Redundancies in SolidWorks Motion Check out this video which is the first part of three showing how to use SolidWorks Motion to analyze a suspension system from a Formula SAE Car. In the first part, the process of eliminating
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