Show off your skills and solve real design problems
GrabCAD is proud to announce a new challenge. This time it is all about educating ourselves sharing tips, tricks and shortcuts of SolidWorks in order to get more work done with less time. So feel free to share your knowledge and help each other to become even better engineers.
The content can be anything starting from useful button to all the way to most efficient way of modeling Fokker F50 propeller. The question should be asked in our Q&A and clearly answered step by step with tutorial.
You can ask the question from here: http://grabcad.com/questions/new
Tutorials to other peoples questions are welcome as well.
You are more than welcome to post as many tutorials as you wish.
We truly believe this is will help our engineers to work more efficiently and get things done with less period of time. It is also fun to see how different people work and learn something from each other.
GrabCAD will announce similar challenges with all the major CAD software to make sure all of us can give something useful to each other.
Each tutorial have to be entered in the Q&A including with clearly asked question
Question should start with capital letter and end with question mark
No unnecessary capital letters or question marks allowed
Tutorial software is SolidWorks
Tutorials have to be entered as per illustration pictures shown on the challenge page.
No video links to other pages are allowed
Tutorials to other peoples questions are welcome as well.
Winning design will be chosen based on ''It worked'' numbers
The competition is open to everyone
You can submit several tutorials
Only tutorials entered in our Q&A will participate in the contest
One engineer can earn no more than 1 prize
Users making fake accounts to give point will be disqualified
Competition winner will be announced in GrabCAD’s blog
Ten most ''It Worked'' tutorials will all get 50 USD.
The winning tutorials will be chosen by GrabCAD engineers.
GrabCAD is a community founded by mechanical engineers. It is also a place for engineers to share their talent, expand knowledge, find a dream project and work with tools and features that make life better.
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37 comments
Fateh MERRAD over 13 years ago
Nice challenge :)
naveen thontepu over 13 years ago
what do you mean by "it worked"?
should we comment under the video as "it worked" or should we like it.
it is a nice challenge :)
and guys who are good at rendering pls upload some nice tutorials for rendering.
Hendy over 13 years ago
only for modeling the Fokker F 50 or could be something else?
Kaspar Kiis over 13 years ago
Naveen, all you need to do is to ask a question in our Q&A section and answer it yourself by tutorial. People can click ''it worked'' on your answer in our Q&A form if they find it useful. More clicks you receive better it is.
Hendy, Fokker F50 was just an example. You can ask any CAD related questions as you wish.
Kaspar Kiis over 13 years ago
So good luck guys and let's make the most of these two weeks. If you have any questions or comments just type them here. Thanks.
Scott Bruins over 13 years ago
Do old Q&A posts count or do they have to be posted after the contest start date?
Kaspar Kiis over 13 years ago
Unfortunately we can't count the older posts as they have been in our Q&A for longer period and might have earned more ''It worked'' clicks. But you can surely post something similar again.
Matt Smith over 13 years ago
I uploaded a Q&A with a tutorial on the Q&A page. Will I have to upload it here as well to enter the competition, or is it automatically entered?
Kaspar Kiis over 13 years ago
No Matt, it is enough if you upload it to Q&A. Thanks.
Sudhir Gill over 13 years ago
can we upload tutorial from DVD's etc?
Kaspar Kiis over 13 years ago
I clarified the requirements on the challenge page. Take another look.
Tutorials have to be entered as per illustration pictures shown on the challenge page. No video links to other pages are allowed. Good luck!
Tomica Vukovic over 13 years ago
I'll do it in Word doc and add comment. Is this kind of presentation can pass beacuse I prefer to use a features from COMMAND MANAGER where sometimes I jump over some steps for which I mean is unnecessary. Word doc is actually SW features which is founded in DESIGN BINDER - Design journal.
Unfortunately screen capture take only graphics area and you cannot see how it do it. SW2007 have only screen capture but SW2009 has also possibility to make movie but without seeing how to do it.
naveen thontepu over 13 years ago
will my tutorial be considered if it is an answer to a question that has been posted by some other person and it got many "it worked" votes?
Kaspar Kiis over 13 years ago
@Tomica, we would like everybody to add the tutorials step by step on our page as shown on the pictures above. So people can see it right away without having download the file. We believe it is more convenient. So it would be much appreciated if you can do so.
@Naveen tutorials to other peoples questions count as well.
Aabha over 13 years ago
there are many tutorials in DVDs present can i use the help of them to create the needed tutorials?
it simply would be an advantage for me and others also
Kaspar Kiis over 13 years ago
The tutorial can not be copied from the DVD but can be similar.
Andreas Gkertsos over 13 years ago
this is my first challenge!!!! I'm so excited that i'm going to help someone with my tutorial!!!!
Juan Esteban Paz (JEPaz) over 13 years ago
I made a tutorial yesterday but it doesnt show on the entries list why can that be?
Juan Esteban Paz (JEPaz) over 13 years ago
here it is http://grabcad.com/questions/tutorial-how-about-some-timesaving-tips
Kaspar Kiis over 13 years ago
@Andreas Welcome and we are looking forward to see few entries from you.
@J E Paz, thank you for tutorial. Tutorials appear in only in our Q&A. So everything is correct.
Cemal Uslu over 13 years ago
The deadline of adding a tutorial is tomorrow but what is the real deadline for it worked counts? :)
Hendy over 13 years ago
haha.. youre right, Cemal.. :D
Siva Praneeth V over 13 years ago
Hello... I posted 2 tutorials and none of them showed up in the entries
here they are
http://grabcad.com/questions/some-good-tips-to-improve-your-working-speed-in-sw-using-shortcut-bar
http://grabcad.com/questions/mini-tutorial-on-using-linear-pattern-wrap-and-circular-pattern-features-solidworks
Adan Isais over 13 years ago
The first one: http://grabcad.com/questions/what-is-autotrace-and-what-is-used-for
Adan Isais over 13 years ago
Second one: http://grabcad.com/questions/how-can-i-get-more-appearances-for-photoview
Adan Isais over 13 years ago
Third one: http://grabcad.com/questions/what-affects-photoview-render-performance/
Adan Isais over 13 years ago
I just found out of this challenge, so maybe I have no "It worked" votes but I hope GrabCAD Staff recognize this effort.
Thank you.
Adan Isais over 13 years ago
I have an error and can't submit the second part of one tutorial ='( http://grabcad.com/questions/what-affects-photoview-render-performance/
Tanel Välja over 13 years ago
Hello,
i just now noticed that the tutorials have to be in picture/text form, and I had prepared 2 video tutorials - can i still add them to the challenge :) ?
Video links -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Xyh5VpPE8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVLL6oVFL8
Thanks!
Aykut Dana over 13 years ago
http://grabcad.com/questions/tutorial-how-to-create-car-rims-in-solidworks
if you liked, please don't forget to click on ''it worked'':)
Cemal Uslu over 13 years ago
we are all waiting for the announcement of results :)
Andreas Gkertsos over 13 years ago
Congratulations to all guys!!
Abhijeet over 13 years ago
Congratz to all de winners. :)
naveen thontepu over 13 years ago
Congratz to all the winners and to me.lol
:):D:):):D:D:D:D:
Siva Praneeth V over 13 years ago
Congratz to all :D
Hevi over 13 years ago
Where's "results" tab? :]
mustafa zorlu about 13 years ago
What happened to the winner's fees in this section?
Who are the winners
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