Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #768821 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-11
• Released on: 2006-12-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 703 pages

Customer Reviews

Great Classroom book
I've been using the Engineering Design with SolidWorks book by Planchard and Planchard in my classroom for the past three years. In my opinion, this is the finest SolidWorks book on the market today for students that are new to the software and would like to better understand and apply proper design techniques.

I can't comprehend why some people are compelled to write an unconstructive review about a skillfully written book. This book is the only book on SolidWorks that covers in a project base format; Fundamentals of part modeling, Fundamentals of assembly modeling, Fundamentals of drawing, and the fundamentals of top-down assembly modeling along with numerous key features from the features toolbar: Extruded Boss/Base, Extruded Cut, Sweep, loft, Revolve Boss/Base, and more.

To the best of my knowledge, this is the only book that also briefly covers the sheet metal toolbar and its features. It provides a great exposure to creating simple sheet metal models without purchasing a separate sheet metal book.

A past reviewer stated that, the book omitted important imbedded information to set up the title block in a drawing. He may want to read Chapter 3, page 13: Sheet Format and Title block under the custom properties section.

Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2007 is by far the most comprehensive SolidWorks book for beginners on the market today. This book makes my life a lot easier in the classroom. My students enjoy the layout, illustrations, step by step procedures and the enclosed multimedia CD.

Excellent Text
The Planchards teach solid engineering principles as well as Solidworks design. This text book is a cut above the rest.

Easy to use, Easy to understand. Great book
This is the second book that I purchased from these authors. This book does a great job in explaining and illustrating the procedure to learn SolidWorks in various areas. I spent many hours going over the SolidWorks online tutorials incorporated into the software, and I just did not find them too useful. The tutorials assumed that you know the information in some areas and provided few or no illustrations to assist in the description process. Example: No PropertyManager or ConfigurationManager illustrations.

For the new user, the incorporated Multimedia CD in the book is great to view and learn about 2D Sketching and 3D features: Extruded Boss/Base, Extrude Cut, Loft, Chamfer, Revolved Boss/Base, Revolved Cut, Fillet, Rib, Shell, Pattern, Mirror, etc.

The book does an excellent job in providing the most recent changes in the 2007 software interface and covers the new features like: FeatureXpert, MateXpert, DraftXpert, SketchXpert, Task Pane, SW Search, etc.

It does an excellent job on describing and showing the Mate process and geometry relation process. It provides an insight on various assembly design approaches, bottom-up vs. top-down and a sheet metal section that I thought I would never use, but was wrong until yesterday.