After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring xDesign. Through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign Lesson series, David helps educators understand the differences and similarities between xDesign and SOLIDWORKS through simple examples. He also introduces new apps in the engineering design process. I’ve been excited to explore SOLIDWORKS xDesign and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with simple examples for the past 11 weeks.
Nadir Oktay Küçükaltun is a SOLIDWORKS Champion, our SOLIDWORKS User Group Leader (SWUG) Leader in Turkey, 3DEXPERIENCE EDU Champion, and winner of SOLIDWORKS Student Model Mania in 2023. Known to the SOLIDWORKS community and his friends as Nadiro, he has also won Student Model Mania in 2022, ARM4ALL Public Vote Winner, and taken first place in our DASSAULT SYSTEMES Take Climate Action challenge. I am honored to interview Nadiro for 3DEXPERIENCE Works EDU Spotlight. When I first contacted him,
Kettering University Formula SAE Graduates Congratulations to all the engineering, design and manufacturing graduates in 2022. The SOLIDWORKS community cheers for you and your accomplishments. We’ve seen you on the race tracks, the arenas, and reviewed your senior design projects. We invite you to join our communities, learn new tools, prepare for certifications and stay connected to SOLIDWORKS.
Student Teams work all year long to prepare for grueling competitions. Designs are perfected over years for the ultimate machine. Long before the students take to the track, they design, analyze, and then re-design/re-test their components and vehicles. I was fortunate to interview TEAM Eta, a Shell Eco Marathon team from Somaiya Vidyavihar University (SVU), in Mumbai, India.
I was fortunate to be the keynote at the SolidProfessor Virtual Education Summit. Now I want to share with all educators some topics to help you prepare for the upcoming semester. SOLIDWORKS Student Access Licenses Qualified schools with SOLIDWORKS subscription can provide their students individual licenses of SOLIDWORKS Student Access. Students can install SOLIDWORKS on their own home computers.
What does every student want after they graduate from college? A good, stable job. Engineering and design students put in years of hard work to become experts in their field, and they want to do everything they can to succeed. To help them out, SOLIDWORKS Education put together a fantastic resource for students over at MySolidWorks.com!
3DEXPERIENCE World will be here before you know it! For students 18 and older, registration ends Wednesday, January 29, 2020. Don’t miss this opportunity, come and jump-start your career and find your path to success. REGISTER NOW!
The DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented By The Boeing Company Field in SOLIDWORKS Visualize The DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented By The Boeing Company Field in SOLIDWORKS Visualize And we have lift off! The 2019 FIRST ® Robotics Competition, DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented By The Boeing Company has officially begun, kicking off today at 10:30 on the official FIRST Twitch channel. The FIRST Robotics Competition The FIRST Robotics Competition Championships, 2018 FIRST (For Inspiration and
Summer interns Maxime Boyer and Marta Puig García-Capelo Summer interns Maxime Boyer and Marta Puig García-Capelo There are over 300,000 certified SOLIDWORKS users worldwide, and this summer two SOLIDWORKS interns in the Waltham office were added to their number. Maxime Boyer and Marta Puig García-Capelo are international students who spent their summer in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab. They are also two of the newest Certified SOLIDWORKS Associates (CSWA). During the year, Maxime attends Estaca in
FIRST Championships FIRST Championships – Detroit April 2018, 405 teams descended on Detroit, MI, and 405 on Houston, TX. Inside two of the largest convention centers in the country, high school students from around the world competed in one of the most exciting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) events high school students can participate in: the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). Out of the 3,660 teams from 27 countries who competed in this year’s FRC, 810 teams,were invited to
Empowering Students to Help Build Successful Careers With SOLIDWORKS® Education Edition 2018-2019, students will learn the design and engineering skills they need to jumpstart their careers. The next generation of engineers and designers must be equipped to solve problems skillfully and efficiently. The SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2018-2019 provides students and educators professional software, local support and a connection to a massive user community to help students take their next career
The Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE Lab Boston, located in the North American Headquarters at Waltham, MA, has two components – a Startup Accelerator and a Fab Lab. The Accelerator works with early to mid-stage startups that focus on new technologies and products that can shift the scales of Innovation across domains of City, Life, Lifestyle, Internet of Things and Ideation. These startups have access to a state-of-the-art Fab Lab with mentorship and support from Dassault Systemes (DS) community.
The most wonderful time of year Back to School!!
Dereck Sanchez, a rising junior in high school, has been working with his team, R4 Robotics, for all of seven years now; but the most impressive part is that he’s only seventeen years old. His team joins many BEST Robotics competitions every year, which last approximately six weeks long each. At the age of eleven, he started learning SOLIDWORKS so his team could brainstorm what they wanted the robot to look like before they would actually start creating it.
This year’s SAE AERO Design West competition took place in the heart of the USA, nestled right in Fort Worth Texas. Students from all around the world and from different walks of life, filled the hotel lobby with propellers, DC motors, and aerodynamic fuselages, as they marched their planes in and out of the judges’ arena. Day 1 of the event was all about technical qualifications. A warm Texas morning welcomed the teams to the Thunderbird Field that hosted the Day 2’s agenda: Flight.
Hernan Malleret, an industrial designer from Buenos Aires in Argentina, is a self taught SOLIDWORKS user. He started using the software in 1997 and was able to self-learn the program because of its user-friendly interface he says. Starting with designing plastic pieces, Hernan discovered how SOLIDWORKS allowed him to develop his work in a more precise manner. “It is very intuitive”, he tells us.
“I love to be able to take a person’s dream and write it down in pictures for them to see. With SOLIDWORKS they can see all aspects of their design and have a video to show how to use it. I have learned so much about the versatility and the expansive ability in creating all sorts of models in SOLIDWORKS. It truly is an amazing program.
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) 2017 is here! Shared by SOLIDWORKS mentor, Earl Hasz January 7, 2017 marked the kickoff of the exciting design and build competition season. SOLIDWORKS is a FRC Crown Sponsor. To all teams that apply for sponsorship at www.solidworks.com/FIRST, SOLIDWORKS will provide the SOLIDWORKS Robotics Suite of software tools.
