![]() It’s very, very useful when it comes to creating an engineering drawing, and figuring out what line is what, or dimensioning something correctly. It’s a difference between a dash and a solid line. When it comes to mechanical drawing, the alphabet of lines, there’s certain line weights, line types. It’ll give you basically what this thing looks like in different views. Another one was, they usually do one of these questions ‘If you were to rotate an object in some way, how would it look?’ And that’s very good in SOLIDWORKS because you could just pan around a model and imagine … You don’t even need to imagine, because it does it for you. “SOLIDWORKS, they have a tool library of screws and bolts that you could play around with and you learn what certain things are like the red pitch, the diameters. “The ACES competition, which is the economic challenge, there are certain engineering things when it comes to understanding threads on screws, bolts, whatever,” George said. And so, you had to create the 3D models, then recreate the engineering drawings through plotting them on virtual paper.” And you had to create each one of them individually in a 3D model using a 3D software, like SOLIDWORKS, or Inventor, or AutoCAD. It was very, very tough, because you were given a set of engineering drawings, different views of objects. “Some of them were engineering principles that were used during SOLIDWORKS that Skills USA one, the ninth-place one, that was a four-hour test and I was using SOLIDWORKS the entire time. “Some of them were strictly SOLIDWORKS,” George said. 9th Place in SkillsUSA Illinois State Competition – Technical Drafting Category.3rd Place in ACES (Academic Challenge for Engineering & Science) Regional Competition – Engineering Graphics Category.2nd Place in IDEA (Illinois Drawing Educator’s Association) State Competition.With the help of SOLIDWORKS, George has gone on to earn the following: Since then, George has immersed himself even further into designing. The first big project George did with SOLIDWORKS was designing a custom shifter to use while racing cars in video games. I actually never heard of SOLIDWORKS, but he then he got a EAA membership, and I was able to use it.” “Then, my grandpa told me that EAA gives a license, a hobbyist license for SOLIDWORKS. “I think in the seventh grade, I went to the EAA Young Eagles Camp and that was cool to see and do,” George said. George’s grandfather, a longtime EAA member himself, first introduced him to EAA. And that’s kind of what this has done.” Courtesy of Shellie Pytel But when it comes to application, SOLIDWORKS is like how they could turn that imagination into application. “Kids are very good when it comes to imagining things. “The whole thing of SOLIDWORKS, it’s a huge boost to any upcoming engineer,” George said. EAA student member George Pytel, EAA 1396839, has been using SOLIDWORKS, a free CAD software program available to EAA members, to set himself up for success after high school in pursuit of a mechanical engineering career.
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