Tag Archives: SwellIdea

Spirograph Design for CSWP Contest

I’m going SolidWorks World next week and I’ve been told that the CSWP event on Monday night should be a good time. I remember seeing details about last year’s event where everyone got to play with the iCoaster. It looked cool. This year everyone gets to test drive an RC car.  I’m not very good with RC cars, but there’s a design contest too.  That’s something I can do. The Problem:  design a new wheel in SolidWorks for the SC10 RC car. The Rules:  Points will be awarded in these […]

80/20 Weldment Profile Library Features

SolidWorks does an amazing job of making the design of frame structures very easy.  I’ve given a few presentations lately about how to do this using 80/20 products as the example.  As promised, here are all of the Weldment Profile Library Features I created and uploaded to 3DContentCentral.  I will give step-by-step instructions in a future post.  -Amos 8020 PROFILES Update: I’ve just added all of the new 80/20 smooth profiles here.

How to make a Booger Ball

Here it is, the original story.  I’ve only modified it slightly since it was first written, adding the update note from my daughter.  I am keeping the old page intact here as it is fun to watch the counter.  This is the “product” I was talking about in the post about Product Development. When my daughter Ellen was four I started teasing her that I was saving all of my boogers in a big booger ball. I don’t know why I told her that except that it was fun to […]