pic: GUS Team 228's 2011 SolidWorks Render

[Navid Shafa]

That is beautiful, I can't really speak to the whole Inventor vs. Solidworks battle much. However, I can say that the renders often look more realistic and pretty like this one!

Does Solidworks give out free FRC student copies like Autodesk does? I would be interested in obtaining a copy and broadening my modeling spectrum if you could point me in the right direction.

Once again, nice work!

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

That is beautiful, I can't really speak to the whole Inventor vs. Solidworks battle much. However, I can say that the renders often look more realistic and pretty like this one!

Does Solidworks give out free FRC student copies like Autodesk does? I would be interested in obtaining a copy and broadening my modeling spectrum if you could point me in the right direction.

Once again, nice work!

Yes Solidworks does, they gave our team 33 copies this season.

Art, this is another fantastic rendering. I love the design of the entire bot. I used to look forward to Lewis's renderings, now I look forward to seeing yours.

Best of Luck!

-RC

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by R.C.

Yes Solidworks does, they gave our team 33 copies this season.

Any chance you could spread the wealth JK. However, can you direct me as to how one would acquire copies for themselves/team?

[NickE]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Any chance you could spread the wealth JK. However, can you direct me as to how one would acquire copies for themselves/team?

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/educati...gn-contest.htm

[R.C.]

Marie Parchland, is the Solidworks Rep for FIRST Robotics. If you PM her, she'll direct you to how you can get a free copy.

As I don't have link on me.

-RC

EDIT EDIT - Nick Beat me to it.

[Navid Shafa]

I filled out the registration information, Thanks for the help!

[artdutra04]

There's a variety of reasons we use SolidWorks, but mostly they involve several of our mentors have SolidWorks experience and one of our machine shop sponsors uses SolidWorks for all their production runs.

I don't know if we ever got any "glamor shots" of our robot before we crated 'em up (we missed a cumulative week due to snow days), but our students have [finally!] updated our website photo galleries for the 2011 season. They're still missing a lot of photos, and many still have to be tagged, but here's the link:

http://www.team228.org/media/pictures/2011

Here's the most completed whole photo of our competition robot (taken several days before ship) we currently have on our website: