[Design and Technology] Rapidprototyping and SolidWorks

[Peter Niass]

Hi Philip,

What do you recommend for the manufacturing side of things? What was used to
make the vase in your attachments.? 



Cheers, 
 
Peter Niass


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Subject: [Design and Technology] Rapidprototyping and SolidWorks


Hi everyone.

At the TEAV conference I presented a workshop on Rapid Prototyping and
Engineering Design. If you were unable to attend but were still interested
in rapid prototyping as a design development tool in the classroom or just
in using Solidworks., you can contact me here at work. I'd love to hear from
you. 

Any CAD program in the classroom is great. I think ProDesktop, Inventor, Pro
Engineer and SolidEdge all work well but I guess I just love using SoliWorks
and believe in the product for schools! 

My students build 3D CAD skills through a semester long elective in years 9
and 10. It complements the Technology and VCD Courses really well.

SO WHY SOLIDWORKS?
1) "The SolidWorks Corporation recognizes that today's students are
tomorrow's industry leaders. As the leader in 3D modelling software,
SolidWorks is committed to providing the most innovative resources for
learning and teaching CAD to students and educators, worldwide. The
SolidWorks Education Program has been endorsed by global leaders in
government, industry, and education". LOOK AT EXAMPLES BELOW!

2)Over 75% of the world's top-ranked academic institutions have enhanced
engineering graphics and CAD instruction with SolidWorks software. WOW!

3)SolidWorks is used widely in schools in the US, Canada and Germany. Also
in Northern Ireland, there are 300 high schools with 9,000 Solidworks
licences - a Government initiative. In Norway there are 1,300 schools with
about 30,000 licences. In the US, North Carolina for example there are 17
high schools with 425 licences. In France there are 5,000 French middle
schools and high schools teaching SolidWorks, In that country SolidWorks has
about 65% market share in French secondary education.

4) EXCELLENT Online Tutorials, and Teaching materials. My year six students
have used it to design their CO2 cars but amazingly it's the same software
that top Engineers use everywhere. 

5) Excellent Technical support - through InterCAD in Box Hill

6) About $4,000 for a 30 seat licence. So for the cost of a fully installed
Pedestal Drill and a Grinder, your schools administration could really
afford SolidWorks - it's the "design tool". 

Your administration should know that Solidworks is used in Engineering and
Product Design Degrees at most of Melbourne's Universities. They'd be giving
their students such an opportunity. 

If your interested, check out this SolidWorks Teacher Blog
http://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher/
and these websites
http://www.solidworks.com/
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/products/edu/index.html

I'll leave this here.

Philip Cranswick

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