Author Archives: Jonathan Harrison
SOLIDWORKS for Makers: How I Made My Own Offroad Kart – Part 2
SOLIDWORKS for Makers: How I made my own offroad kart – Part 2 Chassis Design
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers: How I Made My Own Offroad Kart – Part 1
Let’s face it at some point or another most young aspiring engineers or designers have thought how cool it would be to make their own go kart, off road buggy or just ride on kart type of thing… well now
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers: Soundboard to Communicate with Animals Part 2
During part 1 of this blog, I showed you how I used the powerful SOLIDWORKS for Makers to design my dog’s own soundboard to allow him to communicate with us more easily. If you haven’t read part 1, I suggest
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers: Soundboard to Communicate with Animals Part 1
Okay, I’ll start by saying the title of this blog might be a little bit of a stretch of the story. However, what I’d be designing did have some potential to allow our dog to communicate with us in an
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers: Design and Create a Remote Control Car Part 2
If you haven’t checked out the first part of this blog series where I got to grips with designing my own RC car you can check it out [here] I set my created designs away to print overnight and came
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers: Design and Create a Remote Control Car Part 1
While attending 3DEXPERIENCE World in Dallas I had the pleasure of being involved with the Makers Zone within the playground. I worked with some great Makers to design a simple and easy remote control car which attendees could have a go
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers Tutorial: Designing and making custom cookie cutters
Halloween is upon us and with my young nephews staying for the weekend I’m looking for any way possible to stop them from wrecking my house. To do so I decided it might be time for us have a dig
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers Tutorial Part 2: How I designed and built an acrylic pressure casting vessel
Welcome to Part 2 of this design and make project. If you’ve not seen or read part 1, I suggest you start here. When we concluded Part 1, we had completed the design on our acrylic pressure pot, this section
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers Tutorial Part 1: How I designed and built an acrylic pressure casting vessel
If you read my Festive Ornaments blog last year, you’ll know how much of a pain casting clear epoxy can be, if you haven’t you can check it out here. In the blog I use some techniques that can help to
... ContinuedWedding Save the Date Magnets: 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers Tutorial
Let’s face it… weddings are expensive, luckily for me 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers isn’t! For just a $15 per month or $48 per year (at the time of writing) you get access to SOLIDWORKS software allowing anyone to have a
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