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Engineering Love with SOLIDWORKS Motion

By DesignPoint February 26, 2018
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Engineering Love with SOLIDWORKS Motion

While many of us enjoyed a movie, a fancy dinner, or chowed down on some chocolates, I spent my Valentine’s Day this year engineering love itself! An urban legend has it that a heart gear has a conjugate gear of another heart

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Getting Lucky with SOLIDWORKS: Creating a Skew Pair of Dice

By DesignPoint January 22, 2018
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Getting Lucky with SOLIDWORKS: Creating a Skew Pair of Dice

Ever wondered how to skew the odds in your favor? Well, we can try to make some dice that are skewed using SOLIDWORKS so that we can win at craps.   But the funny thing is, as biased as these

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Winter Challenge: Create a Snowflake Using all of the SOLIDWORKS Patterns!

By DesignPoint January 3, 2018
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Winter Challenge: Create a Snowflake Using all of the SOLIDWORKS Patterns!

  There’s no better way to end 2017 than with a SOLIDWORKS challenge! I’ve tasked myself to design a snowflake using all of the feature patterns available in SOLIDWORKS. Do you think I can do it? The patterns I will

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SOLIDWORKS Magic Up in the Sky: Building Parade Balloons

By DesignPoint November 28, 2017
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SOLIDWORKS Magic Up in the Sky: Building Parade Balloons

As we wind down from the fantastic Thanksgiving parade that happened last Thursday, now is a great time to reflect on the preparation and engineering that goes into making those parade balloons soar! The first instance of parade balloons being

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Wrap Feature Fun: Carving a Jack-O’-Lantern in SOLIDWORKS

By DesignPoint October 23, 2017
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Wrap Feature Fun: Carving a Jack-O’-Lantern in SOLIDWORKS

The Wrap feature in SOLIDWORKS has been around since the early versions, but it just recently got a major enhancement. In SOLIDWORKS 2017, this feature gained the ability to apply the wrap to any surface, an upgrade from just analytical

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The Longest Scoring Shot in the History of the NBA in SOLIDWORKS Motion

By DesignPoint September 29, 2017
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The Longest Scoring Shot in the History of the NBA in SOLIDWORKS Motion

On February 17, 2001, a basketball game was played between the Hornets and the Bucks. It was in this game that a world record was set. As time expired in the third quarter, a teammate passed the ball to Baron

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Designing a Button Insert for My Truck With SOLIDWORKS

By DesignPoint August 28, 2017
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Designing a Button Insert for My Truck With SOLIDWORKS

I drive a Toyota Tacoma, and I love this thing. Numerous cross-country trips have made this machine close to my heart, almost like a childhood home. I only want the best for this truck. I’m always looking for new ways

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