{"id":8449,"date":"2016-10-10T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2016-10-10T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:16:00","slug":"italian-students-succeed-with-speed-using-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2016\/10\/italian-students-succeed-with-speed-using-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"Italian Students Succeed with Speed using SOLIDWORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8452\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-1.jpg\" alt=\"solidworks-italian-speed-contest-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>IIS Perlasca<\/strong> challenges students&#8217; passion for Design with their own version of the SOLIDWORKS Model mania contest. \u00a0IIS Perlasca students recently achieved Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) and Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/education\/certification-programs-cad-students.htm\">SOLIDWORKS\u00a0academic certification program<\/a>. Teachers decided to further challenge their students\u00a0by organizing their own SOLIDWORKS Model Mania Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind the contest is to\u00a0stimulate students to push their SOLIDWORKS competencies even further and have some fun with a friendly\u00a0competition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8454\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-3-.jpg\" alt=\"solidworks-italian-speed-contest-3\" width=\"602\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-3-.jpg 602w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-3--300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Teachers were inspired by the SOLIDWORKS World Model mania contest and used 2015 Edition parts for their contest. <strong>Prof. Simone Orio<\/strong> developed custom software for the test that would show part drawings to the student, keep track of modeling time, and validate\u00a03D model correctness on the basis of part weight, \u00a0input by the student. You can have a look at the interface here:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fo5PvZJLGA8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Professor Orio software application came in\u00a0very handy because students participated in the contest at different times (some were involved in classes, some in sport competition finals like football (soccer) or volleyball.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8455\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-4--615x420.jpg\" alt=\"solidworks-italian-speed-contest-4\" width=\"615\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-4--615x420.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-4--300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-4--768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-4--728x497.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SOLIDWORKS-Italian-Speed-Contest-4-.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the contest was modeling the part in the shortest time.<br \/>\nFirst place went to <strong>Mario Zanetti<\/strong> (15-minute time), second place <strong>Alex Badini<\/strong> (19,5 minutes), third place to <strong>Enrico Zanetti<\/strong> (22,3 minutes).<br \/>\nThis \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/you\u00a0tu.be\/_CkMMNE9KcI\">video <\/a>shows Prof. Simone Orio and the three students.<br \/>\nSimone commented: &#8220;I had so much fun looking at how students were challenged: I can understand how much work there&#8217;s behind Model Mania parts because they&#8217;re made to have users think about strategy to use and design intent. It&#8217;s not easy: some students took 1 hour to finish the part. \u00a0Ten (10) students belonging to two different classes participated in the contest and I was amazed by the results: some students that performed well in SOLIDWORKS certifications took very long time to finish the part, while others that scored less in certifications did very well in the contest. In this case probably students with good speed of thought were more advantaged respect to those that were more academic and best in modeling the part.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou can have a look at the solution of the original SOLIDWORKS Model mania contest <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2016\/01\/solidworks-world-solution-to-model-mania-2015.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the students were challenged by the three central cuts with fillets. I found out that a winning strategy was dis-sectioning the part in small feature rather than using fewer features with complex sketches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,\u00a0Ing.<strong> Alessandro Tornincasa<\/strong>, from SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuovamacut.it\/\">Nuovamacut <\/a>and <strong>Professor\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Orio\u00a0<\/strong>for sharing with the SOLIDWORKS Community. \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IIS Perlasca challenges students&#8217; passion for Design with their own version of the SOLIDWORKS Model mania contest. \u00a0IIS Perlasca students recently achieved Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) and Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) as part of our SOLIDWORKS\u00a0academic certification program. Teachers decided<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2016\/10\/italian-students-succeed-with-speed-using-solidworks.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5381,4184,5506,5204,5491,5492],"tags":[4058,4286,4039,4040,5831,4662,5413,5830,3931],"class_list":["post-8449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-2","category-cad-instructor","category-certificaiton","category-curriculum-2","category-customer-stories","category-design-2","tag-certification","tag-contest","tag-cswa","tag-cswp","tag-iis-perlasca","tag-italy","tag-job-skills","tag-model-mania","tag-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449","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\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8456,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions\/8456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}