{"id":9540,"date":"2018-01-31T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:18:19","slug":"solidworks-world-xdesign-solidworks-fabconnect-fabrication-interface-mit-mods-fab-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2018\/01\/solidworks-world-xdesign-solidworks-fabconnect-fabrication-interface-mit-mods-fab-labs.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS World &#8211; XDESIGN SOLIDWORKS FabConnect the Fabrication Interface MIT MODS for Fab Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9543\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Neil-Impromtu-SolidWorks-MODS-add-in-615x615-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Neil-Impromtu-SolidWorks-MODS-add-in-615x615-1.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Neil-Impromtu-SolidWorks-MODS-add-in-615x615-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Neil-Impromtu-SolidWorks-MODS-add-in-615x615-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mods is a fabrication platform developed by MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Dr. Neil Gershenfeld.\u00a0 Mods provides a set of software tools for personal fabrication, intended for use with machines common to Fab Labs,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9544\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Mods-Shawn-in-Fab-lab-615x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Mods-Shawn-in-Fab-lab-615x346.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Mods-Shawn-in-Fab-lab-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Mods-Shawn-in-Fab-lab-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Mods-Shawn-in-Fab-lab-728x410.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shawn Liu introduces mods and the integration between<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9541\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-and-mods-615x322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-and-mods-615x322.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-and-mods-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-and-mods-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-and-mods-728x381.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-and-mods.jpg 1311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mods and SolidWorks.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9542\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/XDesign-and-mods-615x322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/XDesign-and-mods-615x322.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/XDesign-and-mods-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/XDesign-and-mods-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/XDesign-and-mods-728x381.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/XDesign-and-mods.jpg 1269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>mods and xDesign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"heading heading-and-icon\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fabfoundation.org\/\">Fab labs<\/a> provide widespread access to modern means for invention. They began as an outreach project from MIT\u2019s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), and became into a collaborative and global network.\u00a0\u00a0The Fab Lab network is exploding, doubling in size every 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Liu holds PhD in Industrial Engineering and joined SOLIDWORKS in 2000.\u00a0 He used to manage API development for SOLIDWORKS and now is working on the web infrastructure for xDesign, you can meet Shawn 4:30pm Monday,\u00a0 Room 403A at SOLIDWORKS World.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mods is a fabrication platform developed by MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Dr. Neil Gershenfeld.\u00a0 Mods provides a set of software tools for personal fabrication, intended for use with machines common to Fab Labs, Shawn Liu introduces mods and<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2018\/01\/solidworks-world-xdesign-solidworks-fabconnect-fabrication-interface-mit-mods-fab-labs.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5381,5606,5380,5211],"tags":[5772,5607,6303,6391,3931,4275,4330,6392],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-2","category-fab-labs","category-stem-science-technology-engineering-and-math","category-technology-2","tag-cba","tag-fab-labs","tag-mit-center-for-bits-and-atoms","tag-mods","tag-solidworks","tag-solidworks-education","tag-solidworks-world","tag-xdesign"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","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=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}