Product Description

SolidWorks 2008 Tutorial with MultiMedia CD is written to assist students, designers, engineers, and professionals. The book provides an introduction to the SolidWorks 2008 User Interface (UI); CommandManager, Task Pane, Menus, Toolbars, and general concepts, and modeling techniques to create parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Follow the step-by-step procedures and develop multiple assemblies that combine over 80 extruded machined parts and components. Formulate the skills to create, modify, and edit sketches and solid features. Learn the techniques to reuse features, parts, and assemblies through symmetry, patterns, copied components, design tables, and configurations.

Desired outcomes and usage competencies are listed for each project. Know your objective up front. Follow the step-by step procedures in Project 1 through Project 4 to achieve your design goals. Work between multiple documents, features, commands, and custom properties that represent how engineers and designers utilize SolidWorks in industry.

The book is designed to compliment the SolidWorks 2008 Tutorials and Help files. The goal is to illustrate how multiple design situations and systematic steps combine to produce successful projects.

The authors developed the industry scenarios by combining their own industry experience with the knowledge of engineers, department managers, vendors, and manufacturers. These professionals are directly involved with SolidWorks everyday. Their responsibilities go far beyond the creation of just a 3D model.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Linkage Assembly
2. Front Support Assembly
3. Fundamentals of Drawing
4. Pneumatic Test Module Assembly
Appendix
Index

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #633886 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 416 pages

About the Author
Marie Planchard is the Director of World Education Markets at SolidWorks Corporation. Before she joined SolidWorks, Marie spent over 10 years as an engineering professor at Mass Bay College in Wellesley Hills, MA. She has 17 plus years of industry experience and held a variety of management and engineering positions. Marie holds a BSME, MSME and the Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP) Certification.

David Planchard is the President of D & M Education, LLC. Before starting D & M Education LLC, he spent over 23 years in industry and academia holding various engineering, marketing, and teaching positions and degrees. He has five U.S. patents and one International patent. He has published and authored numerous papers on equipment design. David is also a technical editor for Cisco Press. He is a member of the New England Pro/Users Group, New England SolidWorks Users Group, and the Cisco Regional Academy Users Group. David holds a BSME and a MSM. David is a SolidWorks Research Partner and a SolidWorks Solution Partner and holds the Certified SolidWorks Associate CSWA Certification.

David and Marie Planchard are co-authors of the following books:

• Official Certified SolidWorks Associate CSWA Exam Guide, Version 1
• The Fundamentals of SolidWorks 2007: Featuring the VEXplorer robot
• A Commands Guide Tutorial for SolidWorks 2008
• A Commands Guide Reference Tutorial for SolidWorks 2007
• Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001Plus, 2001, and 1999
• SolidWorks Tutorial with Multimedia CD 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, and 2001/2001Plus
• SolidWorks: The Basics, with Multimedia CD 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004
• Assembly Modeling with SolidWorks 2006, 2005-2004, 2003, and 2001Plus
• Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001/2001 Plus

Customer Reviews

Great Text book learning SolidWorks
I'm relatively new to SolidWorks. I've been using SolidWorks for approximately three months. I used AutoCAD and a little PRO/E for ten years. I worked in the Automotive industry; Educational department, and now teach technology / engineering classes for a living.

From the sounds of most reviews, you either are a beginner or an expert using SolidWorks. I'm no expert with 3D CAD, but I do know text books, students, and the way they learn.

I'm teaching a SolidWorks evening class at a Community College this Spring. I purchased this book to better understand SolidWorks and to learn additional features, commands, and design techniques. I was also looking for a text book which would be useful to my students.

The book provides clear and concise procedures in a Project base approach with an incorporated CD to view the actual User Interfaces, and features which are used in the book. The CD also contains additional useful models.

The illustrations are large, clear with bolded step by step procedures. This is essential in a classroom environment when you have 15 or more students at various skill levels.

I look forward in using this book in my classroom. This is a great text book for learning SolidWorks at a beginner to intermediate level.

Very helpful
This is the second SolidWorks book which I purchased from Amazon.com in the past month. As a new SolidWorks user, I'm looking for a book / books that provide insight and a general exposure to the User Interface and how to use, apply, edit and learn the software in context to an Engineering approach. This book does a great job in doing this.

The book spends time in describing the functions, features, and tools which are available in SolidWorks whiling creating useful models. The book also provides a systematic approach in teaching the user how to use the software. Throughout the chapters, the authors reiterate what was stated in the previous chapter. This is very helpful to the new user.

The book CD contains movie and model files to view and use. I highly recommend this book for any new SolidWorks user.

Solid Works Tutorial
As an experienced autocad teacher, I recently obtained SolidWorks software for use in my classroom. However, the commands and sequences were vastly different from what AutoCad uses. After looking for textbooks and tutorials, I found this book. It works great not only as a individual tutorial, but as a classroom asset as well.

The sequences and projects are well designed for beginners, and cover a vast range of information. This is a great classroom book! There are some areas which are not clear, and take some experimentation to make things work, but overall, it is a good text.