This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series New in SolidWorks 2013
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SolidWorks World 2013: General Session Day 2
SolidWorks World 2013 General Session Day 2 had two great examples of technology that will be eventually be used to take over the world.
Professor Vijay Kumar of the University of Pennsylvania was a great speaker that talked extensively about synchronized quadcopters that could also be used in search and rescue operations (or proletariat suppression missions). I was rather hoping that he’d order an armada of quadcopters to fly over the crowd…but no, he just showed Youtube videos.
Festo stole the show. They talked about bio mimicry. And then did this.
SolidWorks 2013 What’s New: Section View Assist
New tool in SolidWorks Drawings called Section View Assist now allows you to create Section Views much quicker without the need for sketches or secondary cutting elements.
2013 Sneak Peek from SolidWorks Blog: Center of Mass
From the SolidWorks Blog,
SolidWorks 2013 won’t be officially unveiled until September 10, but over the next few weeks, we’ll be giving you sneak peeks at a few of the new features we’ll be shipping this fall. And here’s the first.
In SolidWorks 2013, center of mass is a selectable entity in drawings, and you can reference it to create dimensions. In a drawing, you can create reference dimensions between center of mass points and geometric entities, such as points and edges.
Watch “Lego Space Shuttle” on YouTube
Virgin Galactic takes off!
Virgin Galactic has undergone its big we-are-ready moment. On October 10, 2010, they successfully released and glided the VSS Enterprise, class SpaceShipTwo, from its mothership (at an altitude of 45,000 feet) to the landing strip in Mojave, CA.
The two main goals of this test flight were to have a “clean release of the spaceship from its mothership” and to have the pilots free fly and glide the VSS Enterprise back to Space Port in California.
In case your interested, the mothership is named Eve, class WhiteKnightTwo. For those of us interested in the private sector (aka, commercial) space race, this is exciting news.
Here’s the official edited Youtube video: