Iowa Central Community College Engineering & Design Technology

How's about a cuppa? Check out this Blender lesson and quench your thirst!!

Let's Make Coffee: Blender Fluid Sim (Manta Flow) For Beginners ➤ Grab your FREE copy of Press Start | Your first Blender Project - https://b3d.cgcookie.com/coffee-psIn this exciting Blender tutorial, CG Cookie contributo...

Yeah.....who doesn't love a bunch of spheres falling all over the place. BALL PIT!!!

Anyone can Create this Satisfying Ball Animation! Balls do be satisfying like thatMSI Creator Z17: https://msi.gm/cggeek_z17MSI OPTIX MPG321QRF-QD: https://msi.gm/CGOPTIXMPG321QRFQDpatreon: https://www.patre...

A short but interesting video detailing modeling for flexibility in Rhino!

How to do extrusions the right way in Rhino In this quick tip we will have a look into how to extrude a curve in Rhino the "right" way. We'll see how we can keep the most amount of flexibility when des...

This is Tally. She is a photography student. She is doing headshots today. So I did a shot of her doing a headshot of me.

Iowa Central Community College Photography Program is the best!

What?!?! You haven't tried Onshape yet??? Check out this video that shows the power of Onshape when dealing with scenarios of surface modeling!!

Fill, Loft, Boundary Surface, which to use? In today’s Tech Tip, learn about Onshape's surfacing features, including Loft, Fill, and Boundary Surface, and how they offer designers a range of options to...

Who doesnt love optimization? This video gives us a brief look at a mechanical design optimization using SolidWorks. The video is a bit dated but still gives the basic idea. What's lost here is that this is not a simple optimization of a single variable, but a multi-objective optimization, which is a more involved process.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation - Design Optimization Kick your design automation into high gear. The Optimization tool in SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional shows how you can guide SOLIDWORKS to find the versio...

Good turnout today for our Jam the Gym event!!!

So Computational Urbanism is the order of the day for class. Students in the "Intro to Algorithmic Design" class will be using creative coding to drive the CAD modeling - and in the process, they will be creating models of cities. We've got 50 minutes to create a minimum of 1000 buildings complete with streets and open spaces.

This is gonna be fun!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt__M6x_CLU

Arts and Technology Programs at Iowa Central With a 19:1 student/teacher ratio, you'll get the personalized education you deserve at Iowa Central! See all Iowa Central has to offer and schedule your vis...

It's 2nd semester - and the 3d printers are coming to life again!

Our Intro to Algorithmic Design is ready to start working on their first projects. They spent a few days learning the basics of modeling (a crash course!) and now they are ready to start their journey. Remember, this is an open enrollment course - so we have a LOT of students who are learning modeling and programming for the very first time. Over the course of the next 12 weeks, they will learn how to use computers to create some amazing art!

Mr Liebniz and Neo paid us a visit today as we started on vectors and matrices today in Modeling and Simulation II class.

Pretty proud of these kids. Many came in despising the thought of Algebra. Not only did they conquer that, they got through Geometry, then Trig, then Calculus, and now Matrix Algebra. It takes courage to learn - these kids are courageous and almost ready for the world! ♥ 13 Weeks left!

Slab Casting – A New Way To Combine 3D Printing And Ceramics Slip casting can be messy both in processing and in making the original plaster mold. What if there was a better way, thanks to 3D printing? [Allie Katz] has developed a new technique using 3D prin…

Love this! Sometimes application is just about people!!!

https://www.ge.com/news/reports/brazilian-doctor-3d-printing-baby-ultrasound-blind-parents #:~:text=3D%20Printing-,Love%20At%20First%20Touch%3A%20Brazilian%20Doctor%20Uses%203D%20Printing%20To,Blind%20Parents%20Feel%20Baby's%20Ultrasound&text=When%20Ana%20Paula%20Silveira%20got,got%20to%20feel%20it%20instead.

In our program, we celebrate Fridays!!!!!

After moving the laser into the new lab, we were able to get everything back up and running! One of the fun things to do with this laser is burning designs into glass and mirrors. But they are surprisingly difficult to photograph without (a) putting yourself in the shot (b) getting the details to show. But some backlighting did the trick!

Kudos to Rochelle Green and Jennifer Dutcher for the awesome signage. They developed designs for each of the spaces in our Arts and Technology building. The results were amazing! Thanks to both of you!

Speaking of AI...have you checked out the newest apps that are doing really great stuff in the creative fields? I did this one using Midjourney with little effort at all and voila, I'm ready for fame and fortune. But seriously, this will be a great discussion point this Fall. Is this really a creative work? And if so, who is the artist? Food for thought!

We are pleased (and excited) to announce that we have been selected to participate in a study by Northwestern University in Chicago. The study will focus on combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) with modeling in design work!

Oh, and I should have mentioned this, too..... Stay tuned!!

The ATB building is moving towards opening day - and we are getting settled into our new home for CAD and VR! Equipment is still arriving and being moved in - but here are the most recent photos!

A great video from Rhino master Kyle Houchens on the use of push/pull with geometry.

Push Pull Tools In Rhino 8 Use The New Push Pull tools in Rhino v8 to go from From Cube to House in 30 min! We'll talk in depth about how to use Push Pull, Inset, Split face, Gumball e...

Interesting article from the BBC on the design of emergency homes.

Seven cleverly designed emergency homes around the world On World Refugee Day we look at some of the ingenious dwellings around the world created for displaced people, from Ukraine to Cape Town and California.

https://www.dw.com/en/despite-promise-3d-printed-buildings-still-face-hurdles/a-65776745

Despite promise, 3D-printed buildings still face hurdles – DW – 06/06/2023 A new data center building under construction in Heidelberg, Germany, is set to be Europe's largest 3D-printed structure. The technology shows promise, but challenges to its widespread adoption remain.

Here's a nice little OnShape tutorial that deals with the modeling of a hinge.

OnShape 3D Modeling Hinge Tutorial Exercise In this video I show you how to create a hinge using OnShape. Visit http://onshapepro.com for a copy of the drawing used in this video.Thanks for watching.