Educators. Do you teach SOLIDWORKS-based courses, use SOLIDWORKS for your research, or want to explore new technology from SOLIDWORKS? Then 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023 is the place to be in Nashville, TN, February 12 – 15, 2023. If you can’t attend live, we have a virtual program you can attend from anywhere in the world – at any time.
3DEXPERIENCE World 2022, February 7-9, 2022 is a completely FREE virtual event. All you have to do is register and attend. Join us daily to hear from amazing engineers and innovators about how they are combining the real and the virtual to create new ways of inventing, learning, and producing the best designs. Wow astrophysicist, Dr Hakeem Oluseyi will be here!
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.
With so many kids at home learning remotely, educators need tools that will help keep their students’ attention and engage their creativity. Apps for Kids Classroom is what they’re searching for. Classroom is a free interface specifically designed for educators to have self-contained workshops in an easy to use environment. Utilizing the Apps for Kids collection of apps educators are able to teach kids ages 4-14 about design and engineering workflows, Apps for Kids Classroom makes teaching,
PART TWO: Using Apps for Kids Classroom and Tips Michael Steeves is a Senior Product Introduction Manager at SOLIDWORKS who volunteers to teach an after school enrichment class at his daughter’s elementary school. He utilizes Apps for Kids Classroom to teach the students about 3D modeling, printing, and more. Meet Michael and follow along with his popular bridge lesson in Part One. Apps for Kids Classroom is a powerful teaching tool for many reasons.
PART ONE: Bridge Lesson Michael Steeves had a simple desire: get involved with his local community. His eldest daughter just started kindergarten, and he wanted a way to connect with her and other kids. His daughter’s elementary school had an after school enrichment program packed with activities, all sorts of sports, dance classes, music lessons, art, tech classes where students learned how to use programming through Scratch. But there was nothing that taught 3D design.
On a sunny day in June, students at The Meadowbrook School in Weston, MA, were treated to a fun and exciting crash course in 3D modeling. SOLIDWORKS intern Lucas Saden taught two classes of 6th graders how to use the SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Classroom interface to create keychains with their initials. I joined him as a teaching assistant. Classroom is an interface in Apps for Kids where educators can organize private, self-contained classes.
The Capture It app is the best place to keep track of your ideas! You can use it to build stories and keep track of images and content that will help inspire future Apps for Kids creations. Use your imagination and learn how to create a collage in Capture It! Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos.
In today’s lesson, we’ll learn how to make walking mechanisms by connecting bars, wheels, and motors. Get ready to strut your stuff with the Mech It app! Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
With Mech It, you can use colors and mechanisms to create fun patterns, and change the patterns with small, simple adjustments. What kinds of patterns will you make? Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Some of the coolest mechanisms look like real life objects. Today we’re going to learn how to create shapes that connect together and move just like a finger! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
In SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, you can create mechanisms that can draw picture for you! Today we’re going to learn about using markers in Mech It to create a smiley face and the planet Saturn–what other drawings will you make? Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Now that we’ve seen how the components of Mech It work, it’s time to put them all together! Today we’ll learn how to make a 4 bar linkage, a great starting point for amazing creations! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Danielle Boyer at SOLIDWORKS World 2019 Danielle Boyer at SOLIDWORKS World 2019 Danielle Boyer is a STEAM advocate and SOLIDWORKS user. Read her story from the beginning in part one and part two. Considering everything she does, it’s hard to believe Danielle Boyer is eighteen; she’s is currently in the middle of a gap year between high school and college, which she took specifically so she could continue her work with FIRST teams, students, and the under served communities in and around Detroit,
Summer’s almost here and the time to Mech It is upon is! We’re back with more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To’s, and today we’re learning all about making things move! Once you add a motor to your Mech It design, playing the motion is a snap! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos.
Danielle presenting at EMSWUG Danielle presenting at EMSWUG Danielle Boyer is a STEAM advocate and SOLIDWORKS user. Learn more about her student journey in part one. When we last spoke for her SOLIDWORKS Women in Engineering feature, Danielle Boyer told me about her FIRST Robotics Competition team’s special project. Team 4384, Benzene Bots, created Every Kid Gets A Robot, a low-cost alternative to the Lego Mindstorms kits used by FIRST Lego League teams.
Danielle Boyer Danielle Boyer Danielle Boyer taught her first STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) class when she was ten years old. After she found a pack of animal puppets while shopping, Danielle put together a short curriculum for a kindergarten-level animal science class. “I made the coloring sheets myself, I taught the kids, I read to them, I had activities planned,” she recalled, laughing. “Once I remembered that class, I realized I’ve been doing this a lot longer than
Today we’ll learn about adding markers and editing colors in Mech It! Now that we’ve added motors to our design, we want to see how our mechanism moves, right? With markers, you get a visual representation of your design’s movement. And you can see it in a bunch of different colors, too!
One of the best parts of making Mech It designs in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids is animating them using motors. Today we’re going to learn how to add pins and motors to our mechanisms! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Now that we’ve learned how to create and edit shapes in the Mech It app, it’s time to put them together! Today we’ll learn all about joining shapes! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Sometimes you want to change the rotation of a shape in Mech It. Sometimes you want to be sure your shape will lock at one size. And sometimes you want to save time and duplicate shapes you’ve already created. In today’s tutorial, we’ll learn how to do all that and more in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids!
Let’s not beat aROUND the bush, wheels and circular tracks are important shapes in the Mech It app! In today’s tutorial, we’ll learn how to create and edit wheels and circular tracks in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids. Check out our blog throughout the winter for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Using the Mech It app in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, you can draw and create your own polygon shapes. Today we’re going to learn how to draw, create, edit, and move our own polygons! Check out our blog throughout the winter for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Mech It is similar to Shape It, in that you can choose from a list of shapes to add to your work space and play around with them. Adding, positioning, and sizing all the different shapes in Mech It is a great place to start when learning how to master this new app! Check out our blog throughout the winter for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
