January is the start of new educational programs, new courses, and new competitions. With the new year, Artificial Intelligence (AI) knowledge becomes that latest skill students need to know and understand. Engineering, design and manufacturing students need to know SOLIDWORKS too. I used an AI app called, PI.AI to ask “What is SOLIDWORKS?
Happy New Year! As my first post of 2024, I am excited to announce Dassault Systèmes, SOLIDWORKS, and 3DEXPERIENCE EDU sponsorship, to all FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams, with FREE software and student community support. Kickoff CRESCENDOSM presented by Haas, is this Saturday January 6, 2023 12PM ET. With the help of the 3DEXPERIENCE EDU team, we are providing all FRC teams our latest software technology with SOLIDWORKS for your Windows PC, the same technology used to design the FRC
Our friend and SOLIDWORKS Master Teacher, Patrick Haley shared with us the The Watermaster as part of his library of SOLIDWORKS Tutorials. These SOLIDWORKS tutorials from Cuda Country are certain to bring smiles on your students’ faces. Try this solar project in your favorite bird bath. The one and only Bird Bath Solar Fountain Pump Water Jet Boat!
After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Simulation for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation and the Abaqus solver. Through the SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Lesson series, David helps educators understand 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation fundamentals through simple examples and industry practices. In this lesson, learn the proper workflow to upload a SOLIDWORKS assembly to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and perform a
After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Simulation for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation and the Abaqus solver. Through the SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Lesson series, David helps educators understand 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation fundamentals through simple examples and industry practices. I ask my students, what is the objective of Structural Design? I tell them that Structural Design simply ensures that
My friend Scott is teaching a new SOLIDWORKS-based course at a local university. I wanted to share my answers to his questions with you and add some valuable resources for the new instructor or a seasoned educator. What is SOLIDWORKS? SOLIDWORKS is the leading 3D product design software used by companies throughout the world.
After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Simulation for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation and the Abaqus solver. Through the SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Lesson series, David helps educators understand 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation fundamentals through simple examples and industry practices. Dassault Systèmes owns SOLIDWORKS and various simulation software packages. Simulation packages range from SOLIDWORKS
SOLIDWORKS desktop in education is now connected to advanced simulation with SIMULIA Technology through the 3DEXPERIENCE Engineer offer. Our new engineering simulation portfolio of products allows educators to cover structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, multibody dynamics and electromagnetic field simulation for a true Multiphysics approach. With the 3DEXPERIENCE Works eBike Modeling and Simulation (MOD-SIM) series, my colleagues, Greg and Ronit, present how to use this new
After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring SOLIDWORKS desktop and the integrated 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Through the 3DEXPERIENCE Works Lesson series, David helps educators understand the 3DEXPERIENCE Add-In with simple examples and industry practices. The platform offers are available thru your Education Partner (VAR) What is 3DDrive? Why should I use 3DDrive?
After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring SOLIDWORKS desktop and the integrated 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Through the 3DEXPERIENCE Works Lesson series, David helps educators understand the 3DEXPERIENCE Add-In with simple examples and industry practices. The Platform offers are available thru your Education Partner (VAR). Why should I care about using the new Search tools on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?
After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring SOLIDWORKS desktop and the integrated 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Through the 3DEXPERIENCE Works Lesson series, David helps educators understand the 3DEXPERIENCE Add-In with simple examples and industry practices. The Platform offers are available thru your Education Partner (VAR). Most of my students have had a class in Windows-based CAD software.
After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring SOLIDWORKS desktop and the integrated 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Through the 3DEXPERIENCE Works Lesson series, David helps educators understand the 3DEXPERIENCE Add-In with simple examples and industry practices. The Platform offers are available thru your Education Partner (VAR). In my experience, students in Junior and Senior Design classes have a very hard time using any
After teaching 1000’s of students and writing about SOLIDWORKS for over 25 years, David Planchard, emeritus WPI, is exploring SOLIDWORKS desktop and the integrated 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Through the 3DEXPERIENCE Works Lesson series, David helps educators understand the 3DEXPERIENCE Add-In with simple examples and industry practices. The Platform offers are available thru your Education Partner (VAR). In my experience, students lose files, overwrite files, use poor naming conventions (Example:
To get started, download the Trace Academia App on your mobile and search SOLIDWORKS. Can we democratize technology to everyone by providing education and hands-on learning through mobile apps? Can we teach concepts of 3D Design, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and job skills to those who never imaged the possibilities? Yes we can and it’s 100% FREE.
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. What is the main different between SOLIDWORKS model files and xDesign Physical Products?
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’m excited to explore xDesign and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
SOLIDWORKS’ mission is to prepare students for great careers with our commercial clients and promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) learning for all students. The SOLIDWORKS academic portfolio supports our mission by offering new tools to help educators teach, manage, and collaborate with their students using SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a business and technology platform that provides a collection of web-based and native apps that work
In today’s competitive job market, students need every advantage they can get. With DASSAULT SYSTEMES 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, SOLIDWORKS® Education has expanded its portfolio to bring cloud technology and collaboration into the classroom, boosting students’ employability. My friends Gian and John worked through a Hair Trimmer product design using SOLIDWORKS and our new technology applications, SOLIDWORKS Connected, 3D Sculptor and 3D Creator during a SOLIDWORKS Live event. This workflow shows an
3D Designer for education includes several design tools: browser-based 3D Creator, 3D Sculptor, and 3D SheetMetal Creator. Plus, it includes Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS, which enables you to connect SOLIDWORKS® to the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE® platform. When connected, you can easily upload your SOLIDWORKS models to the platform and can leverage various design tools, manage team projects, and plan key milestones. Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS eliminates the need for clunky
Celebrated for the first time on April 22, 1970 under the leadership of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson who wanted to educate his students about the environment, Earth Day annually marks the anniversary of this environmental movement that has been so inspirational. We, at Dassault Systèmes, pay a great attention to the Earth and the environment in general and it is important for us to celebrate Earth Day the way it deserves. Indeed, sustainability is at the heart of Dassault Systèmes’ Corporate
Seven videos are up on airplane stability! Ever wonder why aiplanes have stabilizers on the aft of the tail? How do they work? Why are they there?
In this 1st video in a series on airplane stability, we introduce the concepts that we’ll cover. We continue where we left off in the series on airfoils. Using SolidWorks for model demonstrations, we get a feel for the forces involved in aircraft stability and control. Look out for the next videos in the series throughout the coming weeks 🙂 Matthew Gruber Matthew Gruber is an alumni of Concordia University's Aero Design and Design/Build/Fly teams in 2015 through 2017, having joined after
Matthew Gruber Matthew Gruber is an alumni of Concordia University's Aero Design and Design/Build/Fly teams in 2015 through 2017, having joined after gaining an interest in helicopters and airplanes from living in Alaska. Now is in his 3rd year in the airframe stress group of the 525 helicopter program at Bell and with 1 year of internships at Bombardier behind him, he credits the hands-on learning and team project experiences in SAE and D/B/F as the most formative in his path towards aerospace
Matthew Gruber Matthew Gruber is an alumni of Concordia University's Aero Design and Design/Build/Fly teams in 2015 through 2017, having joined after gaining an interest in helicopters and airplanes from living in Alaska. Now is in his 3rd year in the airframe stress group of the 525 helicopter program at Bell and with 1 year of internships at Bombardier behind him, he credits the hands-on learning and team project experiences in SAE and D/B/F as the most formative in his path towards aerospace
