Customer Reviews

SolidWorks 2006 for Designers

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This book completely omits the topic of Configurations. There is a single paragraph of about 6 lines mentioning Design Tables. There is also nothing on multi-body parts. Sheet metal does not show up once. Nothing on weldments. About 5 lines on top-down modeling. Nothing at all on surfacing. Nothing on installation, templates, any CAD admin topics. No best practice or performance tips.

Use of the English language is a bit quirky. Seems like an uncomfortable translation.

Somehow, with all that missing, and probably more that I haven't found, 5 of the 14 chapters are listed as "advanced".

The index is alphabetized using words like "creating", "changing", "drawing", "editing", "generating" which makes some topics unsearchable.

This may be a useful book for beginners, but anyone who has been using the software for more than six months will find it lacking. You're better off with the SW help files.

On the good side, there are several simple tutorials and exercises, along with evaluation exams. The illustrations and charts are pretty good.

This book has a very clearn and concise approch for teaching SolidWorks. I find it very helpful in learning basic and advanced commands in SolidWorks. Tutorials are really helpful---the best part I like about this book. This book is worth every single dime I spent on it.

We are using this textbook in our class to learn SolidWorks. This is the best book available right now to learn SolidWorks. It is very well planned book, especially for the people who are new to this software. The publisher provides wonderful resources (all listed in the book) on his website. I am a regular visitor of thier website and I regularly download the part files, tips, and other stuff from their website.

Learning SolidWorks using this book is turning out to be a wonderful experience for me and all my class mates.

This is a wonderful text with so many amazing real life tutorials. Working on these tutorials gives me a great sense of relief and and I am getting more and more confident of my skills. I am sure after completing all tutorials in this book, I will be able to create any engineering design given to me. Author has provided more material on his website that also has helped me a lot.

I rate this book one of the best and would recommend it to anyone looking to learn solid works or enhance their skills.

Don't buy this book. CADCIM doesn't support their product. Student lesson/files not available for download. This is typical of CADCIM I've been this route with them before (see Revit review). Back spine of SolidWorks Textbook clearly labeled SOILDWORKS. How's that for proof-reading?

I learned to use SW largely through this book. The style is like a textbook with good "homework problems." It is quite readable, given the dry subject matter. In particular, there are many very good examples at the end of each chapter in both "cookbook" style and those needing to be solved, free form, by the reader (a great way to test and reinforce learning). It is a little weak on some of the advanced topics and doesn't really deal with the "peripheral" SW applications (PDMworks, PhotoWorks, FeatureWorks, etc.). In particular, surface modeling is lightly treated and (if I recall correctly) sheet metal modeling is noticeable by its absence. Nonetheless, the book will get you 85% of the way there and that's not bad. Recommended.

This text is a great technical resource. There is so much more than just SolidWorks... it teaches you how to approach towards modeling a component with best possible manner and in minimum time. The steps at the start of the tutorial lists the route we should take and that makes our life a lot easier.

Downloaded resources from the publishers website and they are great too. The part files of the illustrations in the book makes us understand every concept so easily because they are the same model displayed in the exaplanation in the book also.

Good job guys...

Reference books about SolidWorks are few and far between. As the program becomes more widely used we will undoubtedly have more books from which to choose. I have looked over and used many of the references that are currently available and in my opinion this one is the best of the bunch. There are omissions - no sheetmetal or configurations to name two - but what is included here is good. SolidWorks is a great program but learning it can be quite challenging. This book can make the experience easier and more enjoyable.

Being a SW instructor using this book in the class, just wanted to drop a couple of lines. It is a great book for teaching as well as learning SW. Most of the commands of completing an industry design are explained in details. Recommended for learners and teachers both.