Solidworks is a Geometry teacher's Heaven...Literally. If a Geometry teacher was stuck on a deserted desert island and asked to bring one item with them, it would be Solidworks (oh, and a computer...) Solidworks asks you to configure geometric shapes in a 3-D manner to create models that engineers can then transform into real life products. Today Chuck, my project sponsor, was giving me the "411" on this hot new product. It's the juiciest "gossip" at MPR right now...Shocker. And it amazed me how much ninth grade Geometry he had to remember. So Mr. Perry haunts me again in the real world. You see, I always though that high school math was supposed to teach you the basics and the real world would ask you to apply the basics. But today it's just plain old area and volume formulas, postulates and theorems, and of course coloring in the geometric shapes. I'm living a ninth grader's dream today and all I can think about right now is blue triangles, orange squares, and red circles...somebody save me please!!!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Spinning in Circles...
Today I entered the three-dimensional world of Solidworks for the first time. Solidworks is a cutting-edge, computer-based, engineering design tool that engineers use to create a 3-D models before they actually manufacture a product. Solidworks is unique from other engineering design softwares in the sense that it uses Parametric modeling instead of Direct modeling. The distinction being that Solidworks is programmed to remember history ( it remembers every step the engineer took to reach the final product) whereas the Direct model doesn't care about the steps you took to reach the final product.
Solidworks is a Geometry teacher's Heaven...Literally. If a Geometry teacher was stuck on a deserted desert island and asked to bring one item with them, it would be Solidworks (oh, and a computer...) Solidworks asks you to configure geometric shapes in a 3-D manner to create models that engineers can then transform into real life products. Today Chuck, my project sponsor, was giving me the "411" on this hot new product. It's the juiciest "gossip" at MPR right now...Shocker. And it amazed me how much ninth grade Geometry he had to remember. So Mr. Perry haunts me again in the real world. You see, I always though that high school math was supposed to teach you the basics and the real world would ask you to apply the basics. But today it's just plain old area and volume formulas, postulates and theorems, and of course coloring in the geometric shapes. I'm living a ninth grader's dream today and all I can think about right now is blue triangles, orange squares, and red circles...somebody save me please!!!
Solidworks is a Geometry teacher's Heaven...Literally. If a Geometry teacher was stuck on a deserted desert island and asked to bring one item with them, it would be Solidworks (oh, and a computer...) Solidworks asks you to configure geometric shapes in a 3-D manner to create models that engineers can then transform into real life products. Today Chuck, my project sponsor, was giving me the "411" on this hot new product. It's the juiciest "gossip" at MPR right now...Shocker. And it amazed me how much ninth grade Geometry he had to remember. So Mr. Perry haunts me again in the real world. You see, I always though that high school math was supposed to teach you the basics and the real world would ask you to apply the basics. But today it's just plain old area and volume formulas, postulates and theorems, and of course coloring in the geometric shapes. I'm living a ninth grader's dream today and all I can think about right now is blue triangles, orange squares, and red circles...somebody save me please!!!
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Solidworks? I never heard of it before. It seems really complex. How detailed is the 3-D model? Can you move it around and look at the model at different angles and such? Do the engineers just use the model to run a test to see if the model would work the way it is or do the engineers move parts and pieces around in the program to see if it could work? I’m sorry that I can’t really say much besides questions. I just don’t know anything about it, so I can’t relate. I mean I guess I could just ask my dad if he knows anything about Solidworks. Did he let you try the program or at least let you see someone else work the program?
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