Full article: https://www.engineersrule.com/impossible-modeling-challenges-part-6-volume-control/
Hello SOLIDWORKS Power-Users and welcome to the 10th WPUC!
Other than having fun solving riddles, the goal of this week's WPUC is the same as always: facilitate through brainstorming the finding of new techniques for the benefit of the SOLIDWORKS Community.
Hopefully we will:
- Identify areas where SOLIDWORKS' functionality needs enhancements
- Design workarounds to overcome the current lack of functionality
- Submit new ERs or promote existing ERs that are relevant to this WPUC topic.
The story is well know by all of us. A description of the challenge in video format can be found here: 10th SOLIDWORKS Weekly Power User Challenge: Measuring Carafe - YouTube
Snow White needs our help in taking better care of the seven dwarfs. Apparently they are getting too much wine at dinner, so she needs measurement lines inscribed on the wine carafe.
The dwarfs have modeled the carafe using SOLIDWORKS 2015, so if you have the 2015, 2016, 2017 or 2018 versions, you could help them.
Please download the attached model.
This week you could win up to 6,000 points, as follows:
1. For eternal glory and 1000 points, be the first to estimate the volume of wine this carafe could hold. Provide the result in US fluid ounces, 3 decimal places, lower accuracy level.
2. For a bit more glory and 2000 points, be the first to place the measuring lines correctly. Please use 3 decimal places for both volume (US fluid ounces) and dimensions (inch). The height of each line is controlled by a global variable, as explained in the video.
3. For maximum glory and 3000 points, be the first to demonstrate that the method you used, in placing the measuring lines correctly, is the most efficient one. You can describe your workflow in writing and/or by recording a video.
Because the level of difficulty is lower in this challenge, I would ask the VAR and SOLIDWORKS employees to not submit solutions until Wednesday, the 13th of September at noon.
We accept submissions until Friday, the 15th of September, at noon, EDT.
Wow! I was not expecting so many different techniques to be showcased in this challenge. It shows again the fantastic level of creativity in this forum when using a tool as versatile as SOLIDWORKS.
At the end of this challenge, we could say we achieved all the above goals:
1. We identified areas where SW functionality needs improving. In this case users noticed significant variations in the reported volume depending on the SW version and the tools used. Also, the volume reported by a design study differs from the volume reported by the Mass Property Tool. This created a problem for accurately judging the results of this competition, also.
2. Participants used their creativity to find different solutions to the problem! Some of the solutions are incredible!
3. Participants submitted ERs relevant to this WPUC topic.
Let's start by saying a big THANK YOU! to our Platinum sponsors: John Stoltzfus, Dan Pihlaja and Jim Steinmeyer. Their generous donations of points keep this challenges going.
This week we will have a larger than normal list of winners. In addition to the three prizes, we will award several other 500 point prizes, along with the title and the certificate of Power-User, to the users who demonstrated a high degree of originality and creativity. And before you ask,... yes, there will be a Power-User Certificate that all WPUC winners will receive in the near future.
Congratulations to all Winners of the 10th WPUC:
3000 points: Todd Blacksher
2000 points: Andreas Rhomberg
1000 points: Scott Stuart
500 points: Brandon Graham, Muhammad Aamer, Bill Toft, Michael Fernando, Krzysztof W., Dan Pihlaja, John Stoltzfus, Elmar Klammer.
There is more to be discussed here, so stay tuned for more stuff on this topic.