01 / CAD DESIGN
CSWA.
Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate
NEW ADDITION
Part modeling.
Assemblies.
Design fundamentals.
A curious mind.
A mechanical approach.
I'm Raghav, a mechanical engineering student at VIT Chennai. I turn ideas into CAD, explore how things work, and learn by making.
CSWA certified3rd · Grab the CADOpen to internships
Replay the introduction ↗YOUR VISIT. YOUR PACE.
Two ways in.
Same curious mind.
A quick read or a little discovery. You choose.
Reading view selected. Everything is below. Continue
01 / SELECTED WORKMECHANICAL DESIGN · SOLIDWORKS
Human effort.
Mechanical
support.
A wearable concept for the people doing the heavy lifting.
Back & Upper-Body Assistive Exoskeleton — developed with my team for Grab the CAD.
3rd
PLACE
National CAD Hackathon
THE DESIGN INTENT
01Redistribute
Redistribute
the load.
Explore mechanical support during repetitive lifting and overhead tasks.
02Keep movement
Keep movement
natural.
Work toward a lightweight, wearable system with freedom of movement.
03Put people
Put people
first.
Address back and shoulder strain as a central design challenge.
Inside the project / CONCEPT · PROCESS · TEAM
CONTEXT
Repetitive lifting and overhead work place demands on industrial workers’ backs and shoulders. We explored a wearable mechanical support concept for this problem.
PROCESS
We developed part models and assemblies in SOLIDWORKS, balancing design constraints and collaboration within the hackathon deadline.
OUTCOME
Our team secured 3rd place at Grab the CAD. The exoskeleton remains a design concept; reduced strain and improved ergonomics are design goals.
TEAM
Raghav Khanna
Pranjal Tripathi
Jadhav Om Ramchandra
02 / CREDENTIALSDASSAULT SYSTÈMES
Certified.
Still curious.
Building a stronger foundation in
design, manufacturing and sustainability.
Additive Manufacturing
SOLIDWORKS Associate
Sustainability
SOLIDWORKS Associate
03 / THE PERSONA WORK IN PROGRESS, BY DESIGN.
Curiosity is
part of the process.
I’m a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate at VIT Chennai. I’m developing my practice through CAD, team projects and hands-on design challenges.
My interests span product design, manufacturing, automotive and mechanical R&D. I’m looking for an internship where I can contribute to real engineering projects and learn from the people building them.
Meet me on LinkedInB.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
VIT Chennai
CAD Club Member
VIT Chennai
Campus Ambassador
E-Cell, IIT Bombay
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
01SOLIDWORKS02Fusion 36003Visualize04Flow Simulation053D Printing
04 / OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOMIDEAS UNDER PRESSURE
Less time.
More possibility.
+3
More hackathons recently,
including Into the Gemma by GDG.
Grab the CAD
Assistive exoskeleton concept · Team collaboration
NEURALDAO
24 hours · Team Hustlers · VIT Chennai
18–19 September 2025
Into the Gemma
GDG · Hackathon
Selected hackathons. More opportunities to collaborate, work through constraints and turn ideas into solutions.
THE MECHANICAL LAB / 01
Don’t just look.
Try an experiment.
One beam. A few decisions.
See what changes when you change the design.
Current designDeflection shown ×12.0
Tip deflection5.79 mm
Max. bending stress83.3 MPa
Beam mass1.178 kg
Try rotating the cross-section. The mass stays the same, but the bending stiffness changes.
YOUR DESIGN
What’s behind the model?
δ = FL³ / 3EI · I = bh³ / 12 · σ = 6FL / bh²
Educational Euler–Bernoulli model: a uniform, slender, rectangular cantilever with a point load at its free end. Linear elastic material and small deflection; shear deformation and self-weight are omitted. Presets are illustrative, not material-grade specifications. Yield and buckling are not checked. The orange-to-grey shading indicates bending moment along the beam, not an FEA result.
Beam-displacement reference · MIT OpenCourseWare ↗