Customer Reviews

Designing Parts with SolidWorks

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This book provided very little useful information to enhance use of Solidworks. Inside Solidworks provided much more useful information.

This book is a great introduction to feature-based modeling. It doesn't teach everything one needs to know about SolidWorks, but what it does teach, it does very well. I wish there were more books like this one that covered the advanced features of SolidWorks.

This book is a very helpful, step-by-step introduction to feature-based solids. It helped me understand the basics thoroughly before I tried to use the more advanced features of SolidWorks. Wysack's book doesn't tell you everything you need to know about this program, but it's a great start. I hope he writes more books like it.

The book only covered about 25% of the subject. This requires that you purchase other books, at a lower cost, that will cover the material as intended.

This book is worthless. First, they don't tell you that what release of Solidworks this book covers until you find out for yoruself when you crack open the cover. Guess what? It's for a version of Solidworks that's three years old and there isn't an update version of the book available! Secondly, the step by step lessons totally [are bad]. Very poorly written and illustrated.

This book is good - but mostly Nuts & Bolts....

A book which I have read recently is "Thinking Pro/ENGINEER - Mastering Design Methodology" This book covers a broader spectrium of the advanced methods and techniques for Parametrics (which is very improtant in SolidWorks for optimum flexibility).

I strongly recommend this book - because it exposes and addresses the real problems of both variational and parametric technologies - something which no other book has effectively been able to do within the Solidworks arena.

Un-detailed, very overpriced. crude tutorials with insufficient explanations.

The only disappointment to the book was that it didn't show enough example excerise. The given examples were easier to follow than the user's guide from Solidworks. In order to use this book efficiently though, you still have to know the the basics from the Solidworks user's guide. This book didn't show any hardcore design examples an engineer might face in the 'real' world. I would only recommend this book to novice user Solidworks.

This is a wonderful book for beginners who haven't taken SolidWorks dealer training or can't afford same. It has lots of practical design examples from real life.

This was a secondary text for a solid modelling class that I recently took. I believe that I personally drew 90% of the excercises with little difficulty. I found it to be a straight forward guide to mastering the basic SolidWorks commands. Unlike some texts, the author doesn't always give you every single mouse-click necessary to draw every part. In fact, I found a step or two missing here and there. Personally, I believe that this just makes you think a little bit more.

The only real shortcoming of this text is that it doesn't really cover assemblies, mating up parts, and determining interferences.

The book does have a good index in the back, so it can serve as a decent reference to the various commands and features. It also has a trouble-shooting appendix that could prove useful.

If you combine this with Planchard's _SolidWorks 2001 Tutorial_ (which does a much better job on assemblies) then you've got everything you really need to develop a working proficiency with the program.