solidworks!

oh solidworks, you beauty!

if you dont know it, its my favourite program on the market. Its technically a c.a.d program in 3d, but if that turns you off, its so much better than lines and dots. the picture is not mine, i might upload a video of what i can make, but this shows its capabilities. have a look at this engine, a nice rendering which could be made in blender or AOI quite easily. make this in solidworks and its not just polygons in space. solid works gives it the ability to actually be an engine with movng parts and everything! (engine noises not included ;) )

we are very lucky in my school where,for DCG (design and communication graphics) we get this program for free to use in projects and our final design folder. really interesting stuff to get your hands on when your an inteligent imaginative teen with too much computer time and their own laptop to keep the program on. unfortunately, it is a memory whore! taking up about a third of the space on my laptop, but fortunately, rendering and RAM is not too badly shunted. The worst part is waiting for it to start up. i have had five minute waits to get the program workably loaded. worth it though.

The open evening of my school is on tonight at 8 and as one of (THE) the best students working with the program, i have been asked to come in and show off what i can do. I spent 3 hours yesterday working on a model of a robotic arm (like the ones at car assembly factories). I had most of the mechanism in the gripper complete when crash bang my computer freezes. which is an unfortunately common error i get. so i was knocked back about an hour or so which was annoying, but not a total train wreck. In DCG today i was lucky to have time to rectify the problems and get the mechanism fixed and saved. yay! so tonight will consist of finishing the project infront of a couple dozen people and showing off my wicked skillz! actually, im not wicked...

thanks for reading if you have!

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