Author: Chris Hurd
I currently teach Technology and Engineering at Cazenovia HS in CNY. I also teach summers at the college level for PLTW in Oregon, Ohio, Florida, California, Kentucky, Eastern Michigan, and NY.
Written by Chris Hurd.
Question:
I want to make something on my MakerBot that I have modeled in Inventor, but it always comes out too small. I hate doing math; is there an easy way to scale it?
Answer:
Sure is! Best way I have found is to scale it in Inventor when exporting the STL file. Here’s the process for...
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Written by Chris Hurd.
Scott Tobias and I are teaching at the University of Kentucky for two weeks, and our charge is this: Train 18 teachers from around the country to teach our nations high school students Computer Integrated Manufacturing. (The best PLTW Engineering course by far btw….) Every year we get visitors...
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Written by Chris Hurd.
on Tuesday, 17 March 2015.
START WITH THE BASICS, THEN GET MORE ADVANCED!
Robocell is a very powerful robotic simulation program that allows you to teach and learn how to program robotic arms without all the costly hardware!
Students really enjoy it, and think of it as a video game. Students build...
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Written by Chris Hurd.
on Wednesday, 18 November 2015.
THE 5TH INSTALLMENT OF AN ONGOING SERIES ON HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PLTW CIM CURICULUM
The fifth PDP session for the 2015-16 school year was held last night. In this one, Chris talks about the CAD/CAM Process. No matter what you use for CAD software, or CAM software the...
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Written by Chris Hurd.
This year’s CIM class is doing amazingly well with handshaking and is well on their way to being successful making work cells, and possibly even a factory.
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Written by Chris Hurd.
Question:
How do I use HSM, the CAM tab in Autodesk Inventor?
Solution:
Do we have some tutorials for you! Jim and I put this together, as Jim has been playing with it for some time now, and we feel comfortable enough to put out some videos. Please keep in mind that these videos are only...
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Written by Chris Hurd.
Question:
How do I make a container for CIM class in Inventor?
Solution:
There are many ways to do this, and thanks to Jim, there a bunch of video tutorials to walk you through it step by step from making the part in Inventor 2015, and then putting the tool paths on it, simulating it, and posting...
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Written by Chris Hurd.
on Monday, 16 November 2015.
PLTW NYS PRESENTATION
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On November 18th, in Binghamton NY, PLTW NY will be holding it’s annual conference, and I have been asked to woerk with a few others to do a presentation on how to sustain...
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