Support for Teachers
SolidWorks Student & Teacher Guide
The SolidWorks Teacher Guide features 11 lessons that correspond to the SolidWorks Online Tutorials.
This fully reproducible, 500-page document incorporates lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, student goals, vocabulary, and answers to student assessments. A corresponding SolidWorks Student Guide provides exercises and assessments for your students. The lessons relate to nine tutorials.
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SolidWorks Simulation Guide
The SolidWorks Simulation Teacher Guide features an introduction to the principles of analysis utilized in SolidWorks Simulation and SolidWorks Flow Simulation. Design analysis is an essential part of completing a product, and is fully integrated with SolidWorks software.
SolidWorks Simulation simulates the testing of your model's prototype working environment. It can help answer questions such as, how safe, efficient, and economical is your design?
SolidWorks Flow Simulation is an analysis tool for predicting the characteristics of various flows over and inside 3D objects modeled by SolidWorks, thereby solving various hydraulic and gas dynamic engineering problems.
This fully reproducible document incorporates lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, student goals, vocabulary, and answers to student assignments. A corresponding SolidWorks Simulation Student Guide provides exercises and assessments for your students.
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Tutorials
The SolidWorks Tutorials
Hands-On
SolidWorks Tests and Practical Lessons
The Hands-on Test Drive series gives teachers and students a quick overview of SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation capabilities, as they work on a real-life project. The SolidWorks Hands-on Test Drive is based on the SeaBotix LBV model. Step-by-step, students design SolidWorks parts, assemblies, drawings, SolidWorks SimulationXpress, MoldflowXpress, DWG conversion, and eDrawings files.
SolidWorks Simulation Test and Practical Lessons
In the SolidWorks Simulation Hands-on Test Drive, students follow step-by-step instructions to learn about temperature distribution, stress, drop-test, fatigue, optimization, motion, and flow analysis.
SolidWorks® Motion Guide & Tutorials
SolidWorks Motion Student & Teacher Guide
From dynamics to kinematics, both SolidWorks Motion guides provide step-by-step examples to incorporate theory through virtual simulation.
SolidWorks Motion Virtual Tour
Explore concepts of forces, acceleration, dynamics, and kinematics. Your students can better understand theory and basic engineering principles in an interactive environment. The Curriculum and DVD also features project-based learning with optional hands-on fabrication projects.
Project-Based Curriculum
Bridge Design Project
The Bridge Design Project is a series of movies and models for constructing a trussed wooden bridge. Students utilize SolidWorks Simulation to analyze different loading conditions of the bridge. An optional hands-on activity is provided by Pitsco, Inc., with classroom kits.
CO2 Powered Car
This project leads students through the steps of designing and analyzing a CO2 powered car, from the car body design to the analysis of air flow in SolidWorks Flow Simulation. Students must make design changes in the car body to reduce drag. They also explore the design process through production drawings in this 170-page document. An optional hands-on activity is provided by Pitsco, Inc., with classroom kits.
Mountain Board Design
The Mountain Board Design Project is a competency-based learning activity that takes your students through an interactive design project. This 500-page document leads students through varied experiences with practical applications, including the iterative process, implementing design ideas, engineering a product, analysis for improving performance, and visualization for marketing a product.
Trebuchet Design Project
The Trebuchet Design Project is a 200-page document that guides students through the parts, assemblies, and drawings used to construct a trebuchet. Utilizing SolidWorks SimulationXpress, students analyze structural members to determine material and thickness. Mathematics and physics competency-based exercises explore algebra, geometry, weight, and gravity. An optional hands-on construction with models is provided by Gears Educational Systems, LLC.
SolidWorks software provides 37 step-by-step tutorials that guide students through the fundamental concepts of modeling. Found in the Help menu, these electronic tutorialsrequire no printing. Students can be assigned 30 to 60 minute lessons in a classroom setting or independently. 11 lessons are explored in greater depth in the SolidWorks Teacher Guide, providing goals, assessments,
and related exercises.
