Category Archives: CAD

CSWP Advanced Weldments Specialist

I discovered yesterday from reading Mike Pucket’s blog that the SolidWorks certification team had released another advanced exam, CSWP Weldments.  Since I am scheduled to teach a hands-on session at SolidWorks World next month titled, “Non-Welded Weldments – Using SolidWorks Weldment Tools and 3DContentCentral to Create Cool 80/20 Structures”, I thought it would be a good idea to get certified. The first thing I discovered is that SolidWorks is just like any other company – their website is not up-to-date.  The certification page in the Customer Portal lists a coupon […]

R2-Table2

I’m headed to SolidWorks World and I’m getting in for free! I submitted a proposal to teach a 90 minute hands-on session called, “Non-Welded Weldments – Using SolidWorks Weldment tools and 3DContentCentral to create 80/20 structures”. My plan is to demonstrate how to design a mobile cart in SolidWorks while my assistant actually builds the same (or similar) cart from 80/20 parts. My goal is to demonstrate how easy it is to both design and build stuff using SolidWorks and 80/20. I was having a hard time deciding what to […]

Alive Forever Platform Plans

Every year my church creates a meaningful experience for its Easter celebration. This year we developed an updated version of Alive Forever, a musical multisensory presentation of the Passion story. In the past I have designed and built various props and sets. This year we needed additional staging platforms as we reconfigured the placement of the actors, musicians and choir (see photo, we’re standing on them). I designed the platforms using SolidWorks 2009 and its weldment tools.  The weldment tool is primarily used to make welded structures using a library […]