STEM
The Empowering Opening of Fab Lab Austral
Fab Lab Austral, located in Puerto Williams, the southernmost city in the world, is the latest DASSAULT SYSTEMES (DS) SOLIDWORKS sponsored Fab Lab to open, and it is connected to over 1,600 other Fab Labs and Maker Spaces in over 100 countries, all affiliated with the Fab Foundation.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Create the Mechanics of a Finger
Some of the coolest mechanisms look like real life objects. Today we’re going to learn how to create shapes that connect together and move just like a finger! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Smiley Face and Saturn
In SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, you can create mechanisms that can draw picture for you! Today we’re going to learn about using markers in Mech It to create a smiley face and the planet Saturn–what other drawings will you make?
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: 4 Bar Linkage
Now that we’ve seen how all the components of Mech It work, it’s time to put them all together! Today we’ll learn how to make a 4 bar linkage, a great starting point for amazing creations!
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To: Play Motion
Summer’s almost here and the time to Mech It is upon is! We’re back with more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To’s, and today we’re learning all about making things move! Once you add a motor to your Mech It design,
... Continued“Art Can Make Engineering Beautiful”: Ela Kurowska Brings Art to Life with Light Forms, Part Three
Ela Kurowska is a Canadian scientist-turned-artist who utilizes scientific principles to create Light Forms, a photography art project exploring the abstract origins of life using the photoelastic effect. Read her story from the beginning and learn more about the process
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Add Markers and Edit Colors
Today we’ll learn about adding markers and editing colors in Mech It! Now that we’ve added motors to our design, we want to see how our mechanism moves, right? With markers, you get a visual representation of your design’s movement.
... ContinuedArt Experiments: Ela Kurowska Brings Art to Life with Light Forms, Part Two
Ela Kurowska is a Canadian scientist-turned-artist who utilizes scientific principles to create Light Forms, a photo-based art project exploring the abstract origins of life using the photoelastic effect. Read part one of her story here. Art Experiments What do you
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Pin Shapes and Add Motors
One of the best parts of making Mech It designs in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids is animating them using motors. Today we’re going to learn how to add pins and motors to our mechanisms! Check out our blog throughout the
... ContinuedDiscovering Art and Science: Ela Kurowska Brings Art to Life with Light Forms, Part One
In the age of digital design, how rare and thrilling is it to look at a photograph and have no idea what you are seeing? To be unable to decipher what methods and materials were used to create an image?
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Joining Shape Connectors Together
Now that we’ve learned how to create and edit shapes in the Mech It app, it’s time to put them together! Today we’ll learn all about joining shapes! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Editing Shapes
Sometimes you want to change the rotation of a shape in Mech It. Sometimes you want to be sure your shape will lock at one size. And sometimes you want to save time and duplicate shapes you’ve already created. In
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Wheels and Circular Tracks
Let’s not beat aROUND the bush, wheels and circular tracks are important shapes in the Mech It app! In today’s tutorial, we’ll learn how to create and edit wheels and circular tracks in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids. Check out our
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Polygon Shape Connector
Using the Mech It app in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, you can draw and create your own polygon shapes. Today we’re going to learn how to draw, create, edit, and move our own polygons! Check out our blog throughout the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Adding, Positioning, and Sizing a Shape in Mech It
Mech It is similar to Shape It, in that you can choose from a list of shapes to add to your work space and play around with them. Adding, positioning, and sizing all the different shapes in Mech It is
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