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Creative Engineering Camp 2019

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For 7-12 grade students

Want to make this summer vacation useful for your child? We have planned something exciting to help you with that.

Well, it’s the Creative Engineering Camp. You must be wondering how Engineering Camp will be helpful for kids? It might sound absurd that 7-12 years old children will learn engineering concepts, but trust us, it will be an excellent learning experience for your kid. CADD Centre is organizing this summer camp, and we ensure you, your child will fall in love with engineering after this. See what this camp has in stores for your child.

Engineering and Children

The camp will eliminate the significant misconceptions that children have about engineering and will let know how much exciting engineering is.

  • Engineering is both scientific and creative application.
  • Gives you the vision to see things from a new perspective.

Summer Camp Topics

The major topics that will be covered under this camp are:

· Plan CAD Next

Using AutoCAD, your child will learn to create innovative and impressive 3D drawings with a click of a mouse.

· Max 4 Animation

This exciting topic will teach the basics of animation, modeling, environment and more. Children will get hands-on training on 3DS Max.

· Max 4 Visualization

This topic will train students about textures, light, and materials required to make a wonderful product.

· Creative Modeler

This topic will help children to develop an understanding of the idea of modeling, geometries, and drawings that will enhance their designing skills.

· Creative Designer

This topic will help children to understand the process of designing using the SketchUp tool.

· 3D Printing

This topic will provide children necessary training, materials, and platform to develop a simple product.

· Jr. Designer

In this topic children will learn fun things like product modeling, real-time presentation, quick design, and animation, all under a single program.

· Jr. Professional

This is a professional certification course which aims at providing a comprehensive knowledge about designing processes and skills on the single program.

What do Parents you need to do?

Select a camp topic/course that you think is best suitable for your child and register him/her under it. At the end of the camp, the child will have to take an online exam, after that he/she will be awarded a certificate from CADD Centre, once the child clears the exam.

So, to all the parents out there, don’t wait. Register soon. Enrollments start from 1st March 19, give your child a place to explore new things.

Nanobots will flow in your body by 2030

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This statement might shock you, however it is quite true. Well, Mr. Ray Kurzweil, an author, and an inventor predicted that in 2030, our blood will probably be circulating nanobots, to help one from getting sick and to transfer thoughts to a wireless cloud.

What are Nanobots and how do they work?

Nanobots are tiny microscopic machines used in small devices and artificial intelligence. These nanobots will travel inside any human being on a molecular level that will protect the biological system and will connect the human brain to a cloud-based computer network.

What is the need of these Nanobots in the future?

The idea of nanomachines being injected in our bloodstream has been an on-going discussion for decades. However, recently DNA robots have already been tested on the human body for treating cancer cells. As per the predictions, these nanobots will help in many areas such as;

  • Nanobots, through the right dosage will operate on directly disease-prone area in the human being, reducing the other side-effects.
  • It can also monitor other harmful diseases that can multiply and can create severe issues in the human body.
  • It is also predicted that these nanobots will expand our neocortex with the information held in the cloud, making any human being more informative and visionary.
  • Adding other levels of perceptions in the nanobots, can increase the creativity and give clear expressions and sentiments going inside a human being.

Since these micro-machines are still under the development process; we can only consider their positive points until now. However, we are hoping that these nanobots can treat other vital issues and provide us ideal ways to improve our living conditions.

Origination of 3D-Printing Plastics

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If you have bought a 3D printer, and have printed some of the stuff, then you must know what plastic material you need to work with. Different plastic materials have different characteristics and are utilized for certain products. Hence, it is important to know what kinds of plastics are used in 3D printing.

Types of materials used in 3D printing

Naturally occurring organic plastics have been utilized by humans for thousands of years. The use of synthetic plastics was started in mid of 19th century. Gradually by the mid of 20th century, developments in chemical technologies lead to a new era of plastic materials. Plastics are widely used as 3D printing materials. Here, are some types of materials which lead to the origination of 3D printing plastic:

Photopolymers

These polymers are liquid plastic resin that changes into solid form when exposed to light. This UV-curable resin is made up of three main components: Binders, Monomers and, Photoinitiators which are mostly mixed with additives, chemical agents, colorants and plasticizers.

Thermoplastics

They are not as complex as photopolymers. These plastic polymers become moldable at a certain temperature and harden upon cooling. They can also be remelted as per the requirements. Thermoplastics are used in selective laser sintering and fused deposition modelling. 

Bioplastics

Substituting conventional plastics with bio-based plastics, made from renewable feedstocks, is an excellent way to mitigate the harmful impact of plastics on the environment. Polylactic Acid (PLA), which is a thermoplastics polymer derived from renewable sources and is the most preferred choice of plastic for 3D printing.

Upcoming 3D printing plastic

There are many organizations which are creating 3D printing plastic from renewable sources and are taking measures to keep the environment clean and protected. Many organizations are also focussed on manufacturing machinery for recycling plastic objects to make 3D printing filaments. All in all, 3D printing the future of the digital world, and it is vital to know about the raw materials used in it to ensure that it is environment-friendly.

Why Every Engineer Should Learn Machining?

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Both engineers and machinists play a contributory role in the production process. However, they have interpersonal conflicts, such as machinists never follow engineer’s instructions and engineers never interpret their drawings properly. In order to have a close working relationship between engineer and machinists, all engineers should endeavor to gain some first-hand experience in machining. 

Engineers take on Machinists

Engineers and machinists are likely to have different backgrounds, interests, and standpoints on the manufacturing process. These variances can lead to misapprehensions and miscommunication. Learning the ins and outs of machining can give an engineer a complete insight of machine’s capability.  

Machinists take on Engineers

A common complaint from machinists is that engineers do not respect machinist’s expertise and do not clearly explain their requirement. According to machinists, issues of incomplete drawings and improper instructions can be avoided by bridging the gap of communication between machinists and engineers.

Learning Machining is important for an Engineer

In the current world, improving machining know-how is very important. An engineer having an understanding of machining can transfer engineering concepts into physical realizations and sometimes open their eyes to new opportunities and challenges.

The Future is Collaborative

The manufacturing process requires an ever-growing library of skills and knowledge. Above all, communication between machinists and engineers and faith in the experience and expertise of a team is important to make their work even better.

All in all, the manufacturing process can only be improved if machinists and engineers understand each other’s issues. Their collaborative efforts can accomplish great things in manufacturing.  

User Interface Enhancements in Solidworks 2019

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Solidworks 2019 continues to innovate in 3D CAD to improve user experience and daily productivity. It delivers many enhancements and improvements with new capabilities that makes designing and communication easier and faster. Check out these new features in Solidworks 2019: 

Extended Reality (XR)

Easier way to experience designs in Augmented and Virtual Reality. Solidworks Extended Reality (XR) empowers future design and engineering with the following rich features from Solidworks file:

  • Geometry & Scene Hierarchy
  • Appearances/Materials and textures/Decals
  • Lights and Cameras
  • Exploded and Motion Study Animations
  • Display States and Configurations
  • Metadata including per-configuration custom properties, per-node comments, per-node and document general and design tables

Solidworks Inspection

A great tool to help streamline the making of inspection documentation. Now, one can add custom properties from either the drawing or its related model. The new version has improved Bill of Characteristics with a new grid layout and group/ungroup. This new feature allows us to see how characteristic is organized and how to generate inspection reports more efficiently than ever.

Defeature Tool

This feature speed up the process of simplifying assemblies and remove parts or features from the assembly which are unnecessary to protect intellectual property (IP).

Enhanced eDrawings Output Formats

One can now open ACIS®, CALS, CATIA™ V6, HOOPS, IGES, JT™ data format, Parasolid®, Pro/ENGINEER®, and Creo®, Solid Edge®, STEP, Stereo Lithography (STL), and Unigraphics NX™ files in eDrawings. It enables direct export to 3D HTML, as well as formats to support AR/VR devices.

Improved Milling Features

This feature provides flexibility in the programming process. The new CAM milling features will reduce the time it takes to generate NC programs.

Large Assembly Tools

Large Design Review (LDR) has been improved to include assembly editing capabilities. It allows us to access and edit mates, add and remove components, and change configurations.

New 3D Texture Tool

Solidworks 2019 introduces a new 3D Texture Tool that converts patterns from an image file into 3D geometry automatically. It develops solid geometry from mesh models automatically.

Enhancements in Drawings

Now, one can create a section view at a slice through a model, eliminating the need for construction geometry. For better communication, Bills of Materials (BOM) exports include graphical preview images of part geometry. The graphical preview provides better clarity and reduces the risk of identifying parts incorrectly.

These are some significant new features incorporated in Solidworks 2019. However, there are some other features such as enhanced graphical performance, direct 3D markup tools, new chamfer and fillet creation options, and many other features which makes design and communication quick and efficient.

Explore these features soon!