Industrial Design Computing II

- Use images and graphics where possible instead of lengthy text. As soon as you put a bunch of text on the screen, the audience will ignore you and read the text.

- The text you use should be bulleted talking points - like 4-8 word summaries of what you are trying to say - then talk about it, don't have them read it.

- Reduce image file sizes. Images much more than maybe 400kb take time
to load. Most projectors are at most 1024x768 pixels, so inserting a 3000 x 4000 pixel image is a waste. Also, many images can be reduced to 256 colors without harming the appearance when projected. These reduced image sizes will pop up much faster and you won't wonder whether you've hit the button to move on in your presentation.

- PDFing your entire presentation can work OK but only if the source
document is small in file size AND if you set Acrobat to properly compress text and images. PDF conversion, done improperly, can greatly increase the file size of a presentation, and then each page loads slowly. As above, you'll then keep clicking the button to get the slow presentation to advance and then find you've moved on 2 or 3 pages too far - not professional.

- A benefit to using Powerpoint is that you can reveal your graphics
and text one item at a time or in logical groupings, and then talk about them in sequence, rather than displaying a whole page of text and graphics and trying to explain it while the audience ignores you and reads it themselves.

- If you use Powerpoint, avoid fancy slide transitions, fades, wipes, spinning bullet items, etcetera. All they do is distract the audience, and slow laptops will make the effect choppy.

- If you are using video clips in your presentations, copy them (and the presentation) to the laptop's hard drive and run them from there - video can
get choppy while the laptop reads the CD or flash drive during playback.

- For formatting tips, visit http://volunteers.sae.org/authors/slidedesign.pdf

Sketch Picture

Adding Entourage

Lighting Setup

3D Printing (Rapid Prototyping)

Feature Configuration

SolidWorks Hotkeys For Views

CTRL+1 Front View
CTRL+2 Back View
CTRL+3 Left View
CTRL+4 Right View
CTRL+5 Top View
CTRL+6 Bottom View
CTRL+7 Isometric View
CTRL+8 Normal To View
Shift + Arrow Rotates a view 90°

eDrawings into a Microsoft Document

You can embed eDrawings files and control in other documents as OLE
objects.
To embed eDrawings files in Microsoft Office documents:
You can drag the eDrawings file into the document as well as insert the
eDrawings file as an object.
Tip: Double-click the file name to launch the eDrawings Viewer. In
PowerPoint, to be able to interact with eDrawings, you must insert the file
as an object.

To embed eDrawings control in Microsoft Office documents:
1.) Open a new document in Word or PowerPoint®.
2.) Click Insert, Object.
3.) Select eDrawings Control for Object type, then click OK.
4.) Right-click the eDrawings Control box and select Properties.
5.) For FileName, browse to any eDrawings file, then click OK.
6.) Select EnableFeatures, then browse to the Property Pages dialog box.
7.) Set the options, then click OK.
8.) Close the Properties box.
9.) To view the eDrawings file:
Exit Design Mode (Word)
View the slide show (PowerPoint)

How to place an eDrawing on a webpage.
The steps are fairly straightforward:
1. Save the e-drawing as HTML.
2. In your Web Page Creation Software (e.g. Microsoft Frontpage), insert
the file and browse for the the E-Drawing you saved.
The e-drawing will appear with all of the interface controls and will be
fully functional. If you don't want the user interface, only the e-drawing,
double click the e-drawing in Frontpage after you insert it, and you will see
one-box checked for Active-X. Uncheck it. You can also resize the edrawing
to suit as well.