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SOLIDWORKS Tech Blog: Making of the Design Ring Arena at EgyptSWUG
The EgyptSWUG launch event in Port Said was a show-stopping centerpiece: The Design Ring Challenge Arena — a fully hand-built wrestling-style CAD battle zone that stole the spotlight both technically and visually. What many didn’t see was the story behind its
... Continued3D Printed Playdough Tools: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
To begin, I have provided you with the handle part of the roller and the DXF files used for creating the wheel stamp design here Starting with the wheel part for the roller, I extruded a 20mm circle, midplane by
... ContinuedPhysics Simulator SOLIDWORKS Visualize Pro Tutorial: Mother’s Day Theme
Starting from the beginning of my tutorial, I like to begin by ensuring my cameras aspect ratio is the size I want, 16 by 9 is the generic screen size, so I usually choose this. For Instagram I tend to choose
... 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
... ContinuedCogs Toy Drawing Sheet Part 1: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
The design of this cogs toy originated from my other tutorial here, click the link if you’d like to see how it was designed and modeled in SOLIDWORKS. I started with the assembly of my design open. Then selecting file,
... ContinuedChristmas Tree Bell Run: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
This tutorial was inspired by a recent 3DExperience Challenge. The challenge was to create a model inspired by the Fibonacci sequence in SOLIDWORKS and then render a high-quality 2D image with the help of 3DEXCITE’s xStudio rendering software. You can see my entry rendering below.
... ContinuedToy Birthday Cake: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
In this SOLIDWORKS Tutorial to create a Toy Birthday Cake, this tutorial demonstrates a range of features from adding new planes, flexing, circular pattern, dome, inserting dxf files and adding custom decals. The decals and dxf files used in this tutorial will be available to download from the blog description. The tutorial involves creating five parts to create a final assembled toy birthday cake.
... ContinuedPumpkin Tealight Holder: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 2
Moving onto the making side of this tutorial, I put my SOLIDWORKS mold test model to use from Part 1 of this tutorial. I will walk you through the making of the mold from start to finish, I have included a
... ContinuedPumpkin Tealight Holder: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 1
For this tutorial, I wanted to use some of my ceramics knowledge to design a make a Pumpkin shaped tealight holder. To do this, I’ve split my tutorial into two parts. Part 1 will demonstrate how to design and model
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Tutorial: Educational Fractions Wooden Puzzle
For this tutorial, I designed a 21-piece educational wooden fractions puzzle which includes a knife. Through exploratory play, children will recognize that fractions are equal parts that make up a whole, they can learn about fractions in a way that
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