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Re: SolidWorks Robotics Summer School

I got my copy today! Thanks SolidWorks!

As far as the virtual school goes, I've been taking classes with the Florida Virtual School for a few years now, and the online learning environment is great. It would be cool if the tutorials are available in several formats for each lesson, such as text, picture walk-throughs, and video tutorials. I second the idea of an RSS feed. Also, I don't know if it has previously been mentioned, but a community to go along with the tutorials will probably be useful too so that users, students rather, can interact with one another and discuss their challenges and successes with other students. Will there be "teachers" available to assist? Weekly challenges could be another interesting factor, perhaps to promote some more creativity and innovation within the community. I'm really looking forward to it...

Can't wait for AP exams/finals to be over so I can try it out!
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Re: SolidWorks Robotics Summer School

As others have said, multiple formats would work rather nicely. Also, possibly having formats which would work well on computers with slightly lower system requirements (just enough to run the program) would be nice, since that's my situation.

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Ah, yes.... I'm studying for the AP English Language exam now... but next year, I'm taking 3 AP classes (would take more, but only AP History is available beyond that, and history is not fun to me.)
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Re: SolidWorks Robotics Summer School

I'll jump on the bandwagon and let everyone know that I got my software today. Now I just need a computer to put it on. . .
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Re: SolidWorks Robotics Summer School

Copy has been recived.
Just in time to design that lasershooting, flying, bad guy busting, robotic exoskeloton i've always wanted
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I dont know if it has been fixed in this version, but the last one I always had trouble with the automated bolt mates, that might have also been partially the computer I was using, as it was somewhat slow. A tutorial on doing that correctly would be nice.[/quote]

I will definitely cover bolt assembly this summer, but for now I will give you a few pointers.
First method. A bolt requires a Concentric and Coincident mate with a hole in the assembly. Open the assembly. Open the bolt part. Tile the two windows. Click and drag the circular edge at the bottom of the bolt head into the assembly window. Drag the mouse over the hole edge. Release the mouse button when you see the Coincident/Concentric symbol on the hole's edge.
Second method. Use HoleWizard for the holes and Toolbox for the bolts, to automatically size the bolts for your holes. Smart Fasteners will size all holes on one face. Always choose the first seed feature in a pattern and use derived patterns in the assembly, Marie
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As far as the virtual school goes, I've been taking classes with the Florida Virtual School for a few years now, and the online learning environment is great. It would be cool if the tutorials are available in several formats for each lesson, such as text, picture walk-throughs, and video tutorials. I second the idea of an RSS feed. Also, I don't know if it has previously been mentioned, but a community to go along with the tutorials will probably be useful too so that users, students rather, can interact with one another and discuss their challenges and successes with other students. Will there be "teachers" available to assist? Weekly challenges could be another interesting factor, perhaps to promote some more creativity and innovation within the community. I'm really looking forward to it...

Can't wait for AP exams/finals to be over so I can try it out!
Thanks for the input. We will take in your suggestions. We will also have assistance as best we can. Good luck on the AP exams - Marie
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As others have said, multiple formats would work rather nicely. Also, possibly having formats which would work well on computers with slightly lower system requirements (just enough to run the program) would be nice, since that's my situation.


Ah, yes.... I'm studying for the AP English Language exam now... but next year, I'm taking 3 AP classes (would take more, but only AP History is available beyond that, and history is not fun to me.)
If you have lower system requirements and cannot run SolidWorks, all summer school students will receive the DWGeditor; it comes with the SolidWorks Student Edition. The DWGeditor allows you to create and modify files in .dwg format. Although working with dwg file format will not be the focus of this class, we do have 2 dwg lessons on our teacher blog http://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher/2d_dwg/index.html.

We dont make a light version of SolidWorks. The Student Edition is based on our commerical premium product with all our analysis tools -motion, flow, and stress analysis - plus toolbox (component library) and photorealistic materials and the ability to create animations. The System requirements are posted on the back of the box or on our website. Marie
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Re: SolidWorks Robotics Summer School

Are the classes (or tutorials) going to be live (as in one has to be logged on at a certian time) or they are just going to be posted periodicly? If they are going to be live, I would appreciate it, if there was an easy way to see lessons again, if you aren't able to attend that day.

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Signed up before I realized there is no OSX version of Solid Works. boooo. You guys should get on that.

But I really respect you guys going out on a limb to educate people. For free no less! Stay classy SolidWorks.
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Got mine yesterday, about to install it now. Can't wait to play around with it!
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Signed up before I realized there is no OSX version of Solid Works. boooo. You guys should get on that.

But I really respect you guys going out on a limb to educate people. For free no less! Stay classy SolidWorks.
I dont know much about Macs since it is true that SolidWorks Corporation does not official suppor this operating system. However I will try to help you, check the "General" category of SolidWorks Forums http://forum.solidworks.com/
There are many SolidWorks users that help other SolidWorks users. You will find that the professional SolidWorks community is very help to design and engineering students. Marie
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On June 1 we will post on Chief Delphi, at www.solidworks.com/robotics, and email students who registered for school. The site is not live yet. All lectures will be recorded. We will cover many topics. There are middle school, high school and college students so we need 24 hours access. SolidWorks supports 15 different student robot contests - from robots underwater to robots that fight fires to robots that want to go into space. There will be basic instruction and the examples from different featured robots. There will also be other product designs. Ofcourse - just a little math to keep you from getting rusty over the summer. Marie
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Re: SolidWorks Robotics Summer School

ok, i am on the tutorial that has you safe a drawing format under the
a - landscape.slddrt, but everytime i try, i get an error that says failed to save document.

also, whenever i start, i get an error from edrawing that is all in chinese, is this anything that i need to worry about?
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ok, i am on the tutorial that has you safe a drawing format under the a - landscape.slddrt, but everytime i try, i get an error that says failed to save document.also, whenever i start, i get an error from edrawing that is all in chinese, is this anything that i need to worry about?
When you select File, Save Sheet Format, the <install_dir>data complete path needs to be selected. Most likely you need to select C:\ProgramFiles\SolidWorks\data. If you want to change a sheet format, right-click in the drawing, select Properties. There you will see the path to all your sheet formats. Companies usually create custom sheet formats with their own title block information. The sheet formats contain your title block information. This title block can be very powerful when you link properties to the part or assembly- such as mass, material and surface finish. A drawing template contains the sheet format + units + size of paper + dimensioning standard (ANSI, ISO).

Try File, Save As, Select eDrawing for file type. If this is Chinese, you probably selected this language during installation instead of English. Install eDrawings agian. Marie
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I disabled cosmos and edrawings and those errors disappeared and i can save the drawing format
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