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Rookie Tales from Formula SAE: Day 4

Alex Van Overbeeke-Costello is an intern in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab and a passionate member of the UMass Lowell Formula SAE team. Recently, she joined her team in Barrie, Ontario to represent SOLIDWORKS and compete in Formula North, where 45 teams from across North America showcased their small, formula-style vehicles. All Formula SAE vehicles are conceived, designed, fabricated, and developed by students

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Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Trim an Image

Sometimes you don’t want to use an entire image when working in Capture It. That’s okay! The crop tool is there to help you trim pictures and make something awesome! Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Order Content

Adding images, stickers, and text in Capture It is fun and exciting, but sometimes you need to get organized! Today we’re going to learn how to order layers, bring content forward, or move content backwards. Check out our blog throughout

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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The Empowering Opening of Fab Lab Austral

Fab Lab Austral, located in Puerto Williams, the southernmost city in the world, is the latest DASSAULT SYSTEMES (DS) SOLIDWORKS sponsored Fab Lab to open, and it is connected to over 1,600 other Fab Labs and Maker Spaces in over 100 countries, all affiliated with the Fab Foundation.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Edit Text and Its Color in Capture It

One of the best ways to express yourself in Capture It is to edit text size, color, and font. How will you make your words pop? Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Duplicate, Scale, Rotate, and Delete Items in Capture It

Sometimes you add an image to Capture It and it ends up being the wrong size or angle. Maybe you want to copy that image? Maybe you want to delete it? With Capture It, it’s all an easy click away.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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6th Graders Discover 3D Modeling with SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Classroom

Young students were introduced to SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Classroom at school and learned how to build keychains, use the Classroom interface, and think in 3D.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Create Stickers in Capture It

Creating stickers is one of the the most fun things you can do in Capture It! Today we’ll learn how to draw images, turn them into stickers, and then add them to our 3D models! Check out our blog throughout the

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: 3D Print a Shape It Creation

You’ve mastered the other apps in Apps for Kids. You’ve created incredible 3D models in Shape It. Now there’s one thing left to do: Print It! Using the Print It app to 3D print creations in a breeze. And even

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Firing Up a Futuristic Firetruck

We’re halfway through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge, where SAE teams are hard at work designing the rescue vehicles of the future. Research is an important part of building these new machines, and we’ve got some inspiration for our design teams!

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Change 3D Print Orientation

Sometimes your designs may look completely ready for 3D printing, but when you open them in the Print It app you find they’re orientated at an awkward angle. Never fear! In today’s  lesson, we’ll learn how to easily fix the

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Dousing Fires with Futuristic Helicopters

We’re halfway through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge, where SAE teams are hard at work designing the rescue vehicles of the future. Research is an important part of building these new machines, and we’ve got some inspiration for our design teams!

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Build the Future of Medical Care with SOLIDWORKS xDesign

We’re halfway through the SOLIDWORKS xDesign SAE Challenge, where SAE teams are hard at work designing the rescue vehicles of the future. Research is an important part of building these new machines, and we’ve got some inspiration for our design teams!

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: 2D Print a Shape It Creation

No access to a 3D printer? No problem! There are so many fun ways to 2D pictures of your creation. You can print out a picture of your model with its Style It background, a color by numbers picture to

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Teaching Enrichment with Apps for Kids Classroom, Part One

Michael devised a curriculum using Apps for Kids Classroom. Apps for Kids is an ecosystem of apps designed to take children as young as four through the engineering workflow, and excite them about design possibilities. The Classroom interface allows educators to create self-contained classes, where students can design and share their projects in one digital space. It allows for better organization and lets educators keep tabs on what their students are working on. And Michael put his students to work.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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FIRST Tech Challenge – Kick off the 2019-2020 season with SOLIDWORKS

The 2019-2020 season, FIRST® RISESMpowered by Star Wars: Force for Change, is setting out to inspire citizens of the galaxy. Throughout history, great civilizations have risen, then fallen. Now it’s our turn to rise—building and bolstering our own planetary metropolis. The

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Senior Manager, Education and Early Engagement at DS SolidWorks Corp.

Just a working mom with three kids trying to find the happy balance of life!

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SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To: Share to the Public Gallery

Publicly sharing your incredible model in Apps For Kids is easy! In today’s video, we will learn how to share your project with other users in the community. The Apps For Kids admin may choose your project for the Featured

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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Teaching Enrichment with Apps for Kids Classroom, Part Two

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. In Part Two of his story, Michael gives other educators advice on how to best use Classroom to teach.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Get Spooky with the #Shapetober Riff Off!

Throughout the month of October, you can tag your Apps for Kids, xDesign, or xShape creations on social media with the #Shapetober and SOLIDWORKS Education will share your models with the world! This year, we want to include everyone in on the fun with our Apps for Kids #Shapetober Riff Off! Find the skull model created by SOLIDWORKS EDU below in the Apps for Kids public gallery, riff it, add something weird or fun to the design, and then share publicly with the world! At the end of October, we'll see what kind of crazy model this Riff Off has wrought!

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial: Creating a Project

The SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial Series will show how to use SOLIDWORKS Electrical and use its different functions. In this first video, we will learn how to create a new project or make our own custom template.

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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Using SOLIDWORKS for New Creative Purposes

In this blog, you will learn how to use SOLIDWORKS for different new creative purposes such as designing a ring.

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Gian Calise
Education and Early Engagement Sales Intern at SOLIDWORKS

I am a SOLIDWORKS Education and Early Engagement Sales Intern in Waltham, MA. I am currently pursuing a Masters of Science in mechanical engineering at Tufts University in Somerville, MA. I love to draw and sculpt in my free time, and I played football through high school and college.

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Using SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal for Cardboard Packaging Design

In thig blog, you will learn how to use SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal for Cardboard Packaging Design.

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Brian Craven

Brian Craven is a Solidworks Education Intern working in the Dassault Sytemes 3DExperience Lab in Waltham. He is a Mechanical Engineering student at UMASS Lowell. Brian is excited about using this blog to showcase interesting and creative utilizations of Solidworks products. In his free time Brian enjoys building Jeeps for offroad-use and hiking.

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial: Inserting and Creating a Line Diagram Symbol

The SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial Series will show how to use SOLIDWORKS Electrical and use its different functions. In the second video, we will learn how to insert and create a line diagram symbol.

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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FIRST Global Challenge Dubai Inspires STEM Students and the World

Great challenges face our planet.  Today’s students will solve our biggest problems.  The FIRST Global Challenge is a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Olympic – like competition that showcases students’  abilities to solve one of the 14 Grand Challenges

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Director of Education & Early Engagement, SolidWorks at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation

Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship.

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Using the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab’s UR-10 Robot for Cinematography

In this blog, you will how to use the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab UR-10 Robot to hold a camera in order to achieve dramatic cinematographic shots.

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Ben Horton

I am an intern and a mentor in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab here at the DASSAULT SYSTEMS Waltham campus. Currently I am studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. I am also the Vice-President of the Society of Automotive Engineers at UMass Lowell. My interests include building racecars, petting dogs, being a maker, and going on adventures in my Outback!

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial: Assigning, Creating and Modifying Manufacturer Part

In the prior video, we learned how to insert and create a line diagram symbol. In this video we will learn how to assign a manufacturer part to a line diagram symbol, create our own manufacturer parts and edit an

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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A Time To Be Thankful

  Here in the US, November is the time of year to show thanks for all the many things we often take for granted like good health, our families, friends, and for our veterans that serve our country.   SOLIDWORKS

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Sara Junghans
Senior Manager, Education and Early Engagement at DS SolidWorks Corp.

Just a working mom with three kids trying to find the happy balance of life!

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial: Detailed Cabling

In today's tutorial, we'll learn how to connect cable cores to components using SOLIDWORKS Electrical.

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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Mastering SOLIDWORKS Visualize and Creating the FIRST Global Challenge Field

In this blog by intern Ben, he explains how to learn and master SOLIDWORKS Visualize

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Ben Horton

I am an intern and a mentor in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab here at the DASSAULT SYSTEMS Waltham campus. Currently I am studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. I am also the Vice-President of the Society of Automotive Engineers at UMass Lowell. My interests include building racecars, petting dogs, being a maker, and going on adventures in my Outback!

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SOLIDWORKS Certification Celebrates 400,000!

Sometime over this weekend, we passed 400,000 certified SOLIDWORKS users and sometime between leaving work in a Boston snowstorm and traveling to DS HQ outside of Paris we reached 401,134. Wow! What an accomplishment for SOLIDWORKS users all over the

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Director of Education & Early Engagement, SolidWorks at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation

Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship.

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial: Creating Electrical Connection Points inside a SOLIDWORKS part

In the previous video, we learned how to do create detailed cabling and connect cable cores to components. In this video, we will learn how to create electrical connection points inside a SOLIDWORKS part in SOLIDWORKS Electrical

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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A Tour of the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab, Part 1

In this blog, Ben gives you a virtual tour of the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab

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Ben Horton

I am an intern and a mentor in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab here at the DASSAULT SYSTEMS Waltham campus. Currently I am studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. I am also the Vice-President of the Society of Automotive Engineers at UMass Lowell. My interests include building racecars, petting dogs, being a maker, and going on adventures in my Outback!

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial: How to open a SOLIDWORKS Electrical project and associate electrical components

In today's video, we will learn how to open a SOLIDWORKS Electrical project in the SOLIDWORKS and associate components to the SOLIDWORKS part using SOLIDWORKS Electrical.

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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3DEXPERIENCE – A New Year’s Resolution for Education

Hover Bike Entry xChallenge by Kunal Jain & FRC 5422 Stormgears using 3DEXPERIENCE Platform &  SOLIDWORKS xDesign app. My 2020 New Year’s Resolution is to learn how the 3DEXPERIENCE cloud-based business platform will help educators, students, and researchers share new

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Director of Education & Early Engagement, SolidWorks at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation

Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship.

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Congratulations to the Winners of the SOLIDWORKS xChallenge 2019!

We are excited to announce the winners of the SOLIDWORKS xChallenge 2019! FIRST® Robotics Competition Teams in the United States were invited to become 3D Creators and 3D Sculptors for the chance to win $10,000. Using xDesign and xShape on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, dozens of teams collaborated on the cloud and designed their own personal flying machines. We received 26 entries and a panel of SOLIDWORKS executives and employees judged them all and decided on the top three.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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FIRST Teams Rise with SOLIDWORKS Sponsorship and Kit of Parts

SOLDIWORKS is a proud sponsor of over 1,000 FIRST Robotics Competition teams worldwide, providing free software and support to teams of all sizes, from rookies to well-established robot builders. We are excited to continue our support during the 2019-2020 season, FIRST ® RISE powered by Star Wars: Force for Change. And we’re ready to empower FRC teams during INFINITE RECHARGE.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial: Creating a routing path and route cables along the path

In today's tutorial, we'll learn how to create routing paths and route cables along the path.

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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Learn from a Former Student! Jump-start Your Career by Attending 3DEXPERIENCE World for Free!

Last year, Nikhil Potabatti attended SOLIDWORKS World 2019 as a student and the experience changed his life. Now, he’s one of its biggest fans and encourages all students to head to Nashville for 3DEXPERIENCE World.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Danielle Boyer Makes STEAM Fun with The Engineering Design Club

Discover how STEAM advocate Danielle Boyer created the Engineering Design Club in her hometown and used SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids to make learning STEAM more enjoyable.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Formula SAE Tutorial: How to flatten the route and creating reports

In our last video, we learned about how to create a routing path and route cables along the path in the SOLIDWORKS Electrical. In our last and final tutorial, we will learn how to flatten the route, create reports and draw from the flattened route.

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Ajay Vaidya

I am the SOLIDWORKS Education Brand Advocacy Digital Marketing Intern in Waltham, MA. I go to Marywood University, Scranton, PA. Currently, I am studying Management Information Systems. During my free time, I love to play the keyboard, guitar, and ukulele. I can speak 8 languages!

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3DEXPERIENCE World: More SOLIDWORKS. More Apps. More Fun!

3DEXPERIENCE World  is the best event to learn more about SOLIDWORKS, explore new technology, and get inspired by our community of designers, engineers, educators and students. For 17 years, I went to SOLIDWORKS World, as a customer, user group leader,

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Director of Education & Early Engagement, SolidWorks at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation

Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship.

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Building Careers and Appreciating Teachers with SOLIDWORKS Certification

Kent Allison changed directions as a high school teacher when he discovered SOLIDWORKS. Now he is one of the leading SOLIDWORKS certification providers in Colorado and his students' are able to grow their careers and skip college courses by becoming Certified SOLIDWORKS Associates (CSWA).

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Reverse Engineering to Fix the Laser Cutter

In this blog, Nick Zhang explains how he used reverse engineering to fix the laser cutter

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Nick Zhang

I am a SOLIDWORKS intern working at the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab in Waltham, Massachusetts. I am a rising senior at The Pennsylvania State University, pursuing a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. My interests include boxing, swimming, and volleyball.

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Find Career Resources for Students at MySolidWorks

Students can discover straightforward guidance and resources by checking out Career Resources for Students at MySolidWorks.com. They’ll learn how to gain skills, expand their knowledge, show off expertise, add to their experience, obtain internships and co-ops, and so much more!

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Collaborative Business Innovation Role for Education

My 3DEXPERIENCE New Years Resolution continues.  Let’s explore the Collaborative Business Innovator role on the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and see why it is relevant for students and educators in our SOLIDWORKS community. The Collaborative Business Innovator role is a

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Director of Education & Early Engagement, SolidWorks at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation

Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship.

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Creating a Guitar Stand from Scratch Using SOLIDWORKS, Part 1

Fab Lab intern Matthew Desrochers created a guitar stand for the Lava Drop X xDesign Edition electric guitar. In Part 1 of "Creating a Guitar stand from scratch using SOLIDWORKS" blog learn about how he planned and created a guitar stand using SOLIDWORKS.

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Matthew Desrochers

Matthew DesRochers is a SOLIDWORKS Education Engineering Intern working in the Dassault Sytèmes 3DExperience Lab in Waltham. He is a Mechanical Engineering student at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. In his free time Matt enjoys working on his Volkswagen and screen printing.

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Teaching and Learning SOLIDWORKS from the Kitchen Table

With school closed due to COVID-19, my husband, David, is transforming his SOLIDWORKS-based courses, labs, and senior design projects to be delivered online to his engineering students at WPI. Our kitchen has become “command central”  to new instruction delivery methods

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Director of Education & Early Engagement, SolidWorks at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation

Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship.

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Remote Learning with Apps for Kids Classroom

School closed? Teaching remotely? We can help! SOLIDWORKS Education created a playlist of Apps for Kids videos made specifically for educators who are teaching their students remotely. Teachers looking for a STEAM solution for children ages 4-14 can use Apps for Kids Classroom to teach students about STEAM concepts and the engineering workflow.

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Sara Zuckerman

Sara Zuckerman is a Content Marketing Specialist in Brand Offer Marketing for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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3DEXPERIENCE Design Contest for Students POTY 2020

Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Project of the Year (POTY) 2020 is a virtual design competition for students. The 3DEXPERIENCE is our latest solution on the Cloud, which brings together CATIA, SIMULIA and SOLIDWORKS all in one place!   Sign up now. Students,

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Director of Education & Early Engagement, SolidWorks at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation

Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship.

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Creating a Guitar Stand from Scratch Using SOLIDWORKS, Part 2

#3DEXPERIENCE Lab intern Matt Desrochers created a guitar stand for the Lava Drop X xDesign Edition electric guitar using SOLIDWORKS. In Part 2 of this series, learn how he planned and created a guitar stand from scratch.

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Matthew Desrochers

Matthew DesRochers is a SOLIDWORKS Education Engineering Intern working in the Dassault Sytèmes 3DExperience Lab in Waltham. He is a Mechanical Engineering student at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. In his free time Matt enjoys working on his Volkswagen and screen printing.

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