SolidWorks APPS 儿童启蒙应用

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在Solidworks World 2017第一天，首席执行官吉安保罗巴斯通过分析微软 Surfacebook 的开发历程，透露有关 SOLIDWORKS 未来有望以 App 的形式完善整个产品线。
现在SolidWorks APPS终于出来了，目前四款应用以儿童启蒙教育为主。
If you’re wondering what to do with the kids this half term and fancy something that’s educational and fun, let them loose on SOLIDWORKS’ new beta Apps For Kids.
Whether it’s designing their own 3D toy, making moving spiral art or even a colour-by-numbers page of their artistic design – there are SIX apps (CAPTURE IT, SHAPE IT, STYLE IT, MECH IT, SHOW IT, PRINT IT) that they can easily switch between to turn their wildest creations into a reality.
Aimed at children aged 4 to 14, SOLIDWORKS app engineer Chinloo Lama says it’s an easy way to get kids used to playing with CAD tools and start believing a career in design and engineering isn’t just about being good at science or maths. “Just because they like to draw doesn’t mean engineering isn’t in your future,” she says.
SOLIDWORKS Apps For Kids recently won the Editor’s Choice Award 2017 at the NYC Maker Faire, so could it captivate the imagination of one family with a spot of designing at home?

测试方邀请13岁的黛西，10岁的克洛伊和8岁的汤姆玩一玩，并为他们的房间设计一些东西。
Like most young boys, Tom wanted to run before he could walk. He immediately wanted to design a Storm Trooper or Power Ranger, which felt just slightly on the ambitious side for a first try. Luckily, SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids allows you to do just that. You can copy a project from the public gallery using the duplicate command and then a copy will appear in your project page to edit it anyway you like. This was a great way for Tom to play around with the SHAPE IT controls, stretching and contorting someone else’s squirrel or rocket into unrecognisable lumps to get a feel for the tools.
Soon he had the confidence to try his own design from scratch. He’d seen a design of a PAC-MAN and wanted to create his own from scratch. Importing a ‘globe shape’, he was soon spinning the shape around to check surfaces and repair areas with which he wasn’t quite happy. He then discovered the MECH IT app with touch-friendly, snap together shapes, pistons, bi-directional motors and pins which helped him draw his own spiral art.
汤姆说：“我真的很喜欢MECH IT App，因为我可以参照公共图库来做我自己的螺旋，我做了很多螺旋。

After watching the help videos, Chloe was quickly up and running. Left to her own devices, Chloe wanted to design a unicorn pen pot. She selected basic 3D shapes to get started and then using the SHAPE IT command, manipulated the surfaces to get the desired shape and curves. After 30 minutes, she had the shape she wanted and then it was time to customise her unicorn with the STYLE IT command. She then had the option to PRINT IT. We’ve sent her design as an .std file to our product partners at Laser Lines to realise her design, but if you don’t have access to a 3D printer, SOLIDWORKS Apps For Kids also has options for 2D printing, whether it’s a picture of your app, a net to make a cube of your design or a colour-by-numbers print out.
看了帮助视频后，克洛伊很快就学会了。 克洛伊想要设计一个独角兽笔筒。 她选择了基本的3D形状来开始，然后使用SHAPE IT命令，操纵曲面以获得所需的形状和曲线。 30分钟后，她有了她想要的形状，然后是用STYLE IT命令定制她的独角兽的时候了。 她然后有选择打印它。 我们已将她的设计作为.std文件发送给Laser Lines的产品合作伙伴，以实现她的设计，但如果您无法使用3D打印机，SOLIDWORKS Apps For Kids也可以选择2D打印，无论是 你的应用程序的图片，一个网络，使您的设计的立方体或按颜色打印出来。
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Daisy really enjoyed pulling the different shapes together in SHAPE IT to create one 3D model and using STYLE IT to add her own personal touch. In STYLE IT, she could let her artistic side flow with colours, stickers and backgrounds to see how it would look in a room setting.