SolidProfessor Blog

It’s an exciting time for the Carl D Perkins Act, with Perkins V rolling out July 2019.

Many sites falsely claim to have SolidProfessor coupon codes or discounts, but in reality, SolidProfessor doesn’t offer promos to the general public.

For some educators, technology is a four-lettered word.

Working with large assemblies in SOLIDWORKS can be very challenging — and even frustrating — if you’re not familiar with some basic large assembly performance improvement techniques.

If you’ve had access to a 3D printer for a while, you’ve likely tried plenty of projects like printing calibration cubes to attempt getting just the right amount of extrusion.

Creating robust engineering programs is tough.

Project Lead The Way (PLTW), the nonprofit provider of STEM curricula for elementary, middle, and high schools, has been buzzing around school halls for years.

Taking a look at the use and setup of the seven mechanical mates in SOLIDWORKS Choosing which mates to use when building your assemblies in SOLIDWORKS depends on what you want to do with the assembly itself.

An introduction to SOLIDWORKS’ 7 advanced assembly mates and when to use them When you’re building a static assembly — or even one that just needs to look a certain way for renders or meetings — the standard mates in SOLIDWORKS (coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, concentric, lock, distance, angle) will usually be enough.

If you’ve ever seen a model of a small electronic train chugging along a little metal track lined with cotton-ball bushes and a painted foam mountain, you’ve seen how important scale is.