Graphics Concepts with SolidWorks 2000 [Paperback]

Richard M. Lueptow (Author), Michael Minbiole (Author)

Book Description

Series: Esource--The Prentice Hall Engineering Source | Publication Date: December 15, 2000

For Freshman or Introductory courses in Engineering and Computer Science. ESource-Prentice Hall's Engineering Source-provides a complete, flexible introductory engineering and computing program. Featuring over 15 modules and growing, ESource allows professors to fully customize their textbooks through the ESource website. Professors are not only able to pick and choose modules, but also sections of modules, incorporate their own materials, and re-paginate and re-index the complete project. http://emissary.prenhall.com/esource or http://www.prenhall.com/esource

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Part of Esource—Prentice Hall's Engineering Source—a complete, flexible introductory engineering and computing program. Featuring over 23 modules and growing, ESource allows professors to fully customize their textbooks through the ESource website. Professors are not only able to pick and choose modules, but also sections of modules, incorporate their own materials, and re-paginate and re-index the complete project.
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FEATURES:

PART I:

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Chapter 1-5: Basic Concepts introduce the reader to fundamentals that they will need to learn for engineering graphics and design.

PART II:

• Solidworks tutorial is self-paced and allows the reader to create and assemble a pizza cutter with Solidworks.
• "Great for self-study or short courses; This text provides an inexpensive solution that gets the user up-and-running on Solidworks.

About the Author

RICHARD M. LUEPTOW is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. He is a native of Wisconsin and received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He teaches design, fluid mechanics, and spectral analysis techniques. "In my design class I saw a need for a self-paced tutorial for my students to learn CAD software quickly and easily. I worked with several students a few years ago to develop just this type of tutorial, which has since evolved into a book. My goal is to introduce students to engineering graphics and CAD, while showing them how much fun it can be." Rich has an active research program on rotating filtration, Taylor Couette flow, granular flow, fire suppression, and acoustics. He has five patents and over 40 refereed journal and proceedings papers along with many other articles, abstracts, and presentations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education; 1st edition (December 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130141550
• ISBN-13: 978-0130141552
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,647,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars skip the first six chapters, September 25, 2001

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david l. eley (los alamos, nm USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Graphics Concepts with SolidWorks 2000 (Paperback)

I purchased this book expecting that it offered practical insights into SolidWorks functionality, as I was a neophyte user at that time and was hungry for a good reference work. However, the first third of the book covered very basic and generic drafting technique, from the importance of visual thinking to GD&T. These are the sort of things drafting students learn in their first year of college, and I was already very familiar with all these concepts due to my years of experience as a mechanical designer. If you are a recent graduate of a drafting program and have just begun using SolidWorks, this would be a useful book, and it's mainly for this reason that I gave it three stars. If you have any experience working in the industry, there are probably better aftermarket manuals available for the serious SolidWorks user.