In the first General Session, the invited was Hugh Herr founder of BioM, manager of the Center for Extreme Bionics in MIT
Solidworks Helps to “design without limits”
Sicot Headed to the presents to speak of the community SolidWorks, to where directs and how helps the signature to the professionals to “design without limits”. With 2,3 million users all over the world, the community SolidWorks is the elder in the industry of the CAD three-dimensional.
The centre of conventions of San Diego went once again stage of SolidWorks World.
Today the wallet of products of SolidWorks has expanded to cover the areas of CAD three-dimensional, the simulation, the management of data, the sustainable design and the tools of documentation. In the last years, have added new tools for the plastic and electrical design, as well as free tools such as eDrawings and DraftSight. Sicot Continued the day with the announcement of two new products that will see the light during the next months: SolidWorks Inspection and eDrawings Meetings.
All prepared for three full days of technical conferences, demonstrations and zone of exhibition.
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The team of SolidWorks also has worked in new products based in the platform 3DExperience of Dassault Systèmes. Said platform, based in the cloud allows services of researches, labeling, exchange colaborativo, messages and storage in the public or private cloud. One of the novelties that presents the company in SolidWorks World is the first application Solidworks on the platform 3DExperience: Solidworks Mechanical Conceptual, based in four basic pillars: intuitive, conceptual, social and connected.
Based in the platform 3DExperience, one of the novelties of this edition was Solidworks Mechanical Conceptual.
Also during the general session there was time to know to the winner of the contest of design, Amir Sadjadpour of Ocean Cleanup and cofounder of the signature Boyan Slat, a student of the University of Technology of Delft convinced that we can delete the tonnes of plastic that house our oceans. It has designed for this platforms of floating leak that, working during five years, could clean the marine bottoms of scraps. (More information:
Copenhagen Wheel, a bicycle that happens of conventional to hybrid. Image of Michael D Spencer.
Also presented the project Copenhagen Wheel, of a group of students of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) that allows to convert a conventional bicycle in a hybrid electrical. The wheel learns the form of pedalear of the user, intuitivamente recognises it and captures his power.
Copenhagen Wheel Can connect to the smartphone and customise the wheel. Said application also allows to register the statistics of the distance visited, burned calories and even share data with friends and other fans. (More information:
Bernard Charles, CEO of Dassault Systemes, president of the signature from 17 years ago, went up to the estrado to explain to the present how in the last years have helped to “transform the world of the manufacture and the design and connected the processes with the products”. The past year, Dassault Systèmes attained the position number 3 in the ranking international of software and engineering in the list Forbes of the most innovative companies. The maximum exponent of the multinational announced three new products: Exalead OnePart, HomeByMe, and 3d.by.me.
To continuation, Aaron Kelly VP of Management of Product of SolidWorks, went the attendant to continue with the presentation to carry out a demonstration of SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual.
Intelligent prostheses to the service of the society
Engineer, biophysical and climber, Hugh Herr designed his own intelligent prostheses.
In each edition, SolidWorksWorld brings some invited special to the General Sessions. If in other occasions famous characters like the director of cinema James Cameron or the tycoon Richard Branson, founder of the group Virgin, participated in the event, in SolidWorks 2014 miscellaneous invited deleitaron to the presents, leaving them boquiabiertos and in some occasion starting them more than a smile. The hit of impact, the lesson of humanity, of superación and the tangible proof of what the technology is able to do by the medicine and the society, went to charge of Hugh Herr, manager of the department of investigation biomecánica in MIT Half Lab and of one of the companies with greater international projection in the investigation and manufacture of intelligent prostheses, BioM.
Herr Has founded his own company, BioM, one of the ones of greater poyección international in the investigation and manufacture of intelligent prostheses.
“BioM Develops electromechanical systems that plant in the body or implant in the interior of the organism, normalising the capacities of the human body or awarding him more capacity”. To continuation, the manager of the company raised the legs of the trousers, while it affirmed “Carry two prostheses. I have designed them I”, for stupefaction of the room.
Engineer, biophysical and climber, lost his two legs under the knee after remaining trapped in a storm of snow during three days while escalaba the mountain Washington (New Hampshire) in 1982. Instead of resignarse to not going back to scalar, Hugh designed his own prostheses, that have allowed him reach the same level of climbing that before the accident.
With a degree in physics in the University of Millersville, Master in mechanical Engineering in MIT, and titled in biophysics, Hugh Herr has founded his own company, BioM, and is the manager of the Center for Extreme Bionics at MIT, specialised in the design and investigation of intelligent prostheses and exosqueletos. Hugh has a vision of a world in which there is not place for the disabilities, a world where the prostheses and exosqueletos are a way of daily transport for all.
The prothetic legs BioM imitate the natural movement of the extremities adapting them to the person, to the speed in passing and to the terrain to help to that the prosthesis adapt of natural form to the person. Using a battery, the prothetic legs increase the capacity to run and walk of the user and normalise his rhythm since they move while they offer stability and control the fatigue. The knee acts like a regenerador of extra power for the prosthesis. To show the extremities into use, Hugh showed a video of a soldier with both legs amputated in Iraq running with the legs ortopédicas BioM by a hill without losing the breath.
Hugg Herr In the cover of the
Generally, the power of the battery in the prosthesis allows to walk some 3.000 steps. When it designed his legs, Hugh darse that the priority was not that his legs seemed human as long as these worked of optimum way. Combining the technology of impressesion 3D with the neurobiología, Herr was able to create a technology that allowed him move freely and continue enjoying of his passion by the climbing.
"The well of these artificial extremities BioM is that I can adjust my height, if I go to an appointment for example”, kidded Hugh. Herr Also mentioned that his laboratory is working in the creation of exoskeletons to create extra mobility for the athletes with normal extremities that allow to the people work in different terrains without prejudicing his articulations.
