There are plenty of kit 3D printers out there that can make things out of everything from chocolate and sugar to plastic…. and now metal. A team at Michigan Tech managed to turn a traditional delta style printer on it’s head and combine it with a MIG Welder to create a device that can be […]
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas A few confessions of a competitive guy that has average intelligence and mediocre athletic abilities: In my college organic chemistry lab, I would increase the quantities of the ingredients, because a component of our grade was the overall “yield” of lab work. In lacrosse, I kept a
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas First week of training is done. When I first started, I had the youthful optimism that, with a little work, I might be able to sweep the Model Mania top award easily. It doesn’t appear that will be the case. My times are all over 10
Strava is a useful GPS app that is free for the iPhone. Turn it on and it will track you as you run, bike, or walk and then compare results with other Strava users. The result of the tracking is a map that can also be embedded into a website. The default embed option uses
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This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas SolidWorks World is coming in January! I just found out that I get to go. I’m a competitive guy, and enjoy challenges like Model Mania. It’s too bad they only happen once a year and that you have to go to the conference, because it motivates me
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Find the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview On the test, I ended up bringing something like this into excel- mostly because I wasn’t that familiar or comfortable with tables. It’s actually not that difficult at all. First- let’s add a couple of
Learn SOLIDWORKS certification at your own pace with CSWP tutorials & online training. This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Find the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview So- in this question, you are asked to sort the BOM by Part #. If you are a cheater (like me) this
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Find the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview Making a BOM and extracting info from it… The way that “lazy, paranoid & beat-the-system” me does this question- Open up the assembly and count all the sub-trigger assemblies in the assembly. Make sure
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Do you think I would learn my lessons about not using traditional/standard methods? No… the point of this is to find the surface area of a cross section. This can also be found by performing a cut in part mode. Why do I insist on using
This article is a guest post by Jim LucasFind the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview. This always happens to me. I think I’m so smart with my shortcut shenanigans until I get to the next problem that builds on the first. So- if you were able to bring the part in
