{"id":6708,"date":"2014-12-16T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2014-12-17T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T03:42:10","slug":"love-robots-solidworks-might-be-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/12\/love-robots-solidworks-might-be-for-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Love Robots? SOLIDWORKS might be for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/12\/love-robots-solidworks-might-be-for-you.html\/car-chassis-assembly\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6728\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/car-chassis-assembly-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Car Chassis Assembly\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/car-chassis-assembly-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/car-chassis-assembly-615x422.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/car-chassis-assembly-120x82.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/car-chassis-assembly.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Designing competitive robots can be challenging and resource consuming!<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you love doing it, but wouldn&#8217;t you rather spend less time and money while doing the same thing on a computer? This way you can optimize it before you even build it!<\/p>\n<p>SOLIDWORKS allows you to do just that\u00a0and the most important part is that it is <em>easy to use<\/em>.\u00a0This could be of great help if you plan to participate in robotics competitions.<\/p>\n<p>If you have never heard of it, here&#8217;s a short video to get you started with some fast and fun facts:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unit 1: Introduction - Lesson 1: What is SOLIDWORKS\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogKYHcprYlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We designed a set of tutorials to help you create a robot and improve it in the digital form, before you actually build it in real life.<\/p>\n<p>The videos cover not only instructions on how to create the components and put them together, but also aspects such as how to simulate loads for different materials and how to calculate the amount of wires you will need. It may sound difficult but, when you do it step by step, you will be amazed at how much you can learn without even trying!<\/p>\n<p>If you have never used the software before, check out this video to get familiar with the interface before you model your first component!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unit 1: Introduction - Lesson 2: The SOLIDWORKS Interface\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O4WhrdIpbfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You are now ready to create your first 3D part!<\/p>\n<p>Follow our playlist on YouTube and let us know how it is going. Feel free to ask any questions in the comment section!<\/p>\n<p>The playlist can be found <a title=\"here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiKqXuECiKNJaUpNv3ZW-gEKDxfWgShwG\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good luck,<\/p>\n<p>Ruxi<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Ruxandra Duca<\/p>\n<p>Aerospace Engineering &#8217;16<\/p>\n<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Designing competitive robots can be challenging and resource consuming! Sure, you love doing it, but wouldn&#8217;t you rather spend less time and money while doing the same thing on a computer? This way you can optimize it before you<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/12\/love-robots-solidworks-might-be-for-you.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":6376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015,5219,4770,1],"tags":[3934,4016,4856,3930,4620,5122,3940,3952,4048,4546,5158,4180,4285,5126,5175,3951,4358,4446,4447,4976,5699,3925,3931,4001,4077,4318,4495,3959,5574],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2","category-solidworks-tutorials","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-3d-cad","tag-build","tag-cad","tag-computer-aided-design","tag-dassault-systemes","tag-design","tag-education","tag-engineering","tag-first","tag-first-robotics","tag-how-do-i-get-help-in-solidworks","tag-instructional-video","tag-interface","tag-learning-solidworks","tag-model","tag-part","tag-robot","tag-robotics","tag-robots","tag-sae","tag-simulation","tag-solidworks","tag-student","tag-tutorial","tag-tutorials","tag-user-interface","tag-video","tag-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}