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Our SolidWorks Cool Design Contest is still open and currently accepting entries from commercial and educational customers. I thought we would share with you just a few of the cool designs we have received so far, along with the product descriptions provided by the designers. Here they are in no particular order…

Entry – Fully Adjustable Walker

Fully Adjustable Walker

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Ralph Wright, CSWP

Ralph Wright has just posted a very useful tech tip on the Javelin blog, including a detailed step by step guide about how to add new hole sizes in the Hole Wizard.

I know Ralph very well from meetings at the Ontario SolidWorks User Group and from having him in my SolidWorks classes. We discovered we have a common hobby – both of us like to brag about our expertise in SolidWorks. As a result, we entered in a friendly competition to see who can get the most SolidWorks certificates.

When he sent us the article, he also agreed to tell our readers a few things about his background as a designer in general and a SolidWorks user in particular. Here is the full interview:

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Chris is the only CSWP in the Thunder Bay area

At the age of 15 most teenage boys are thinking about video games, skateboards and being with friends. Chris Rudnicki is an exception to that stereotype. Chris may think about those things as well, but he is also now the only Certified SolidWorks Professional in Thunder Bay and most probably the youngest CSWP in Canada.

Chris’ interest came when he spent the summer of 2010 working in his father, Mike Rudnicki’s, machine shop. Rudnicki Industrial designed and built machinery used in the forestry industry and later changed course and started to build equipment for mining.  Chris stepped in and started converting drawings from Pro Engineer to SolidWorks. This project for his father, although Chris claims it was not difficult, turned into a machine used to unload crates from float planes so that this task would not have to be done manually.

After working with SolidWorks, Chris was encouraged by his father to take the 4 day SolidWorks Essentials course offered by Javelin. Mike recruited not only his son but other potential SolidWorks users in the Thunder Bay area, so our Elite Applications’ Engineer, Alin Vargatu, packed a bag and headed north.

Alin is no stranger to certifications as he is one of a handful of SolidWorks Elite Applications’ Engineers, worldwide. Alin encouraged Chris to write the CSWP exam and sure enough, Chris achieved certification.

As a high school student, one would think that Chris would be shouting his news from the rooftops, but this very calm and mature young man said “I didn’t say anything, because no one would know what I was talking about.”

In terms of his future, Chris would like to get into some sort of Engineering or Design Program, however, his real interest lies in innovation. Whether it be changing existing products and making them better or software development.

We wish Chris all the best for his future endeavours and are very proud of his achievement.

Click here to learn more about getting your CSWP certification.

On Wednesday of this past week my son and I attended an event at the Design Exchange.  After the event we did some touring around and reviewed all the winners from the DX 2010 Design Contest.  We were really pleased to see that two Javelin customers were winners in the Industrial Design category.  Miles Keller Design (MKDA) and Ohm Design won awards.

Miles won the Silver award for his design of the Reevo R9 Mixed Martial Arts Equipment.

Reevo R9 Mixed Martial Arts Equipment by MKDA

The team from Ohm Design won a Bronze award for their design of the Sharx Safety Whistle.

Sharx Safety Whistle by Ohm Design

We are very pleased that both Miles and Ohm Design won their awards and we are very proud that they used SolidWorks as their design tool.

The Design Exchange is a great organization.  Please check them out at www.dx.org.  I am a member and would encourage you to visit or to perhaps submit your design in their 2011 Design Contest.

Both Miles Keller and Ohm Design are long time Javelin customers and both do awesome work.  Please check out their websites below.

MKDA www.mkda.ca

Ohm Design www.ohm.ca