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HNY! Onshape with my 8 y.o daughter, grade 3 geometry homework
daniel_chow
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Happy New Year guys!
I'd like to share with you something neat I did with my daughter with Onshape. So she just turned 8, her name is Abigail, she is in grade 3. She had some make-up math homework to do. Its a geometry assignment where they are learning things like triangles (equilateral, right), rectangles, squares in 2D and 3D. Her teacher wants her to find a building, draw it by hand and using multimedia (thats where Onshape comes in) and explain how the geometry features make up the design and construction of the building.
She choose our shed. My first thought is to use Google Drawings to snap together some boxes, rectangles and triangles to make the shed. But I figure we could make it 3D if we use Onshape.
She likes drawing on the computer using Pixlr.com and MS Paint so I figure she might like Onshape.
I also figure lets use my crappy first generation Chromebook. Its 4 years old, only a Terga (old cell phone) processor with 1GB RAM. I wanted to see Onshapes performance on it. I was surprised to find that it wasn't noticeably different than my 2015 Chromebook with an i3 and 4GB RAM and my i7 PC.
Well here's what happened:
Video
The she she choose to draw
What she drew with my help of course. She was able to add the purple door herself and change the colors herself too.
Here is the assignment, note the 3D stuff
I'd like to share with you something neat I did with my daughter with Onshape. So she just turned 8, her name is Abigail, she is in grade 3. She had some make-up math homework to do. Its a geometry assignment where they are learning things like triangles (equilateral, right), rectangles, squares in 2D and 3D. Her teacher wants her to find a building, draw it by hand and using multimedia (thats where Onshape comes in) and explain how the geometry features make up the design and construction of the building.
She choose our shed. My first thought is to use Google Drawings to snap together some boxes, rectangles and triangles to make the shed. But I figure we could make it 3D if we use Onshape.
She likes drawing on the computer using Pixlr.com and MS Paint so I figure she might like Onshape. I also figure lets use my crappy first generation Chromebook. Its 4 years old, only a Terga (old cell phone) processor with 1GB RAM. I wanted to see Onshapes performance on it. I was surprised to find that it wasn't noticeably different than my 2015 Chromebook with an i3 and 4GB RAM and my i7 PC.
Well here's what happened:
Video
The she she choose to draw
What she drew with my help of course.
She was able to add the purple door herself and change the colors herself too. Here is the assignment, note the 3D stuff
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The first thing I did was get her to share the model with me. Thats when I got a chance to try out the realtime sharing in Onshape. I use the share feature a lot to check on my student's models and optimize their work for 3D printing. But this is the first time I used the realtime collaboration features ... mostly to fix my daughter's tiny mistakes. I dn't know why I'm surprised but realtime sharing in Onshape WORKS!!! Lots of examples of realtime collaboration of documents (Google Docs / Drive, Office 365, Zoho Office), but truly AMAZING that this could work in CAD using WebGL.
I see my daughter has a learning unit on measurement coming up soon (grade 3). This teacher likes to draw pictures as part of the assignment, I have a feeling we'll be using Onshape again. She loved it! And within 1/2 an hour she was able to do a something herself with minimal help.
Here is the finished model that we printed for the assignment, I left her to change the colors herself. I only helped her in the end rotate the model and position it for a screenshot.
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Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
I'm going to guess there are not many women in this field. Maybe your daughter and Abi will be collaborating on the next big thing in Onshape!
I should mention that a fellow teacher, the AP calculus teacher, has expressed interest in using Onshape to demonstrate how 3D objects are rendered from 2D drawings which is apparently how its done in calculus as well. I was going to send her one of my students in my STEM program who is also in her class to demonstrate the technique in rendering 3D objects from 2D designs which I imagine they are going to use link to a function they're studying.
I'll make sure to get some pics if this goes anywhere.
Two easy ways to create a cone are:
- Revolve a Right angle triangle around the axis of the a or b edge's, not c edge (the hypotenuse).
- Extrude a circle with a taper and a length which exceeds the converging point of the taper.
I'd add some picture if I had more time but think you should have not trouble working these out.Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977