SolidWorks Robotics Summer School

[Stormnnormn]

This seems like a very good opportunity.

Also, the whole animation/video on the link was sort of amusing. I really want to build an oragami robot myself.

[mplanchard]

While judging in Atlanta this year, so many students came up to me and wanted a copy of SolidWorks for their robot camps and to learn SolidWorks before college. We decided to do summer school with a free 60day download for summer outreach programs. SolidWorks had 1000's of requests last year and we wanted a faster method to process.

Also, there are high school graduates starting engineering school in the Fall. Before you take a college SolidWorks based engineering class, working through the SolidWorks tutorials will help you get a head start. Most university classes use SolidWorks as a design tool - they do not teach "CAD". You are expected to know it - just like using a calculator. To begin, Go to Help, SolidWorks Tutorials. I created movie files to help you with the first three lessons, http://www.solidworks.com/pages/prog...arnsolidworks/. Learning SolidWorks over the summer will give you a head start.

SolidWorks Corp. will support any registered team that wants to use SolidWorks software for the 2009-2010 academic year - just go to www.solidworks.com/SponsoredDesignContest and fill out the application. This will provide to a team all our 3D CAD software and engineering analysis tools for 1 year. The DVD comes in Windows XP and Vista (Ultimate and Business). 2009-2010 contains many new enhancements to help out in large assembly modeling, you can also specify design limits - such as weight in Simulation advisor (SolidWorks Simulation is the new name for COSMOSWorks), sketch a slot in one step, and Photoview 360 that creates beautiful photorealistic images - very quickly.

In addition, you will be able to downlown the new Add-In, SolidWorks SustainablityXpress from http://labs.solidworks.com/. SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress lets you understand and improve the environmental impact of your robot designs. For engineering students, you will see more courses in Life Cycle Assessment and environmental impact. As a young product designer, you have a great influence on selecting the materials and manufacturing processes. All design will be sustainable design.

Marie

[Brandon Holley]

Marie,
Thanks again for your continued support to FIRST and Chiefdelphi.

I believe I am missing something, I cannot seem to find the link to actually download the 60 day software. Maybe you can point me in the right direction?

-Brandon

[mplanchard]

1. Click the big button on the right "Get your Free Robot Kit here"
2. Enter your email address. Click Next.
3. Answer other questions. You will be taken to the screen "Download Your Free Origami Kit"
4. Click the "Free 60 day SDK" Write down the code "Trial version to design your own robot use code ToriXX" Where xx is a number. There are other downloads on this page too.
5. You will be taken to another screen to download the software. Enter SDK code ToriXX.

Brandon, let me know when your robot competition is at Northeastern - we will help you. Marie