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Sporkman
Jan 11, 2006, 3:30:14 PM1/11/06
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Doing my small part for education today, tomorrow and Friday I'm showing
kids in 5th grade Math classes what an engineer can do with 3D software
(SolidWorks specifically). I should have anticipated that some would be
interested enough to want to thrash around with some 3D applications. I
don't really know what to recommend in the way of freeware that won't
frustrate a kid, and I don't know whether anyone knows of low-cost
student-edition software worthy of trying to obtain for late-elementary
school or middle school computer labs . . . or even for parents to buy
for home. I personally don't think SolidWorks is appropriate, although
it's likely to be as user-friendly as most things out there and more
user-friendly than much of it. I figure Inventor and Solid Edge to be
about the same story. Has anybody played around with low-end stuff
that's even worth looking at? I know about Rhino3D and SketchUp. Does
Alibre have a student edition offering? What about Think3 (or whatever
used to be Think3)? What else, and what's it like?
kids in 5th grade Math classes what an engineer can do with 3D software
(SolidWorks specifically). I should have anticipated that some would be
interested enough to want to thrash around with some 3D applications. I
don't really know what to recommend in the way of freeware that won't
frustrate a kid, and I don't know whether anyone knows of low-cost
student-edition software worthy of trying to obtain for late-elementary
school or middle school computer labs . . . or even for parents to buy
for home. I personally don't think SolidWorks is appropriate, although
it's likely to be as user-friendly as most things out there and more
user-friendly than much of it. I figure Inventor and Solid Edge to be
about the same story. Has anybody played around with low-end stuff
that's even worth looking at? I know about Rhino3D and SketchUp. Does
Alibre have a student edition offering? What about Think3 (or whatever
used to be Think3)? What else, and what's it like?
TIA
Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton
Watermark Design, LLC
www.h2omarkdesign.com
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Jan 11, 2006, 5:54:46 PM1/11/06
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Jan 11, 2006, 5:57:58 PM1/11/06
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M
Jan 11, 2006, 5:59:41 PM1/11/06
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ACADEMIC AND STUDENT PRODUCT KITS
Academic product kits are available to individual students, as well as to
accredited academic institutions that do not wish to subscribe to the BE
Careers Network.
http://www.be.org/en-US/BE+Careers/Products/Software/
Academic product kits are available to individual students, as well as to
accredited academic institutions that do not wish to subscribe to the BE
Careers Network.
http://www.be.org/en-US/BE+Careers/Products/Software/
Sporkman
Jan 11, 2006, 7:24:51 PM1/11/06
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I have yet to see any 3D examples from Bentley. Do you have any links?
TIA
TIA
'Sporky'
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