SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial [Paperback]

David C. Planchard (Author), Marie P. Planchard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2, 2007

SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial is written to assist students, designers, engineers and professionals. The book provides a introduction to the user interface, menus, toolbars, concepts and modeling techniques of SolidWorks to create parts, assemblies and drawings.

Follow the step-by-step instructions 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. Review 2 hours of flash movie files that follow the steps in the book.

Desired outcomes and usage competencies are listed for each project. Know your objective up front. Follow the steps 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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Marie Planchard is the Director of Education Marketing 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 13 plus years of industry software experience and held a variety of management and engineering positions including Beta Test Manager for CAD software at Computervision Corporation. As a Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP), she presented at SolidWorks World. Marie was the founder and coordinator of the New England SolidWorks User Group.

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 and Marketing 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 Planchard is an active industry and education consultant. David is a SolidWorks Research Partner and SolidWorks Solution Partner.

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

• A Commands Guide Tutorial for SolidWorks 2007.
• Engineering Design with SolidWorks 1999, 2000, 2001, 2001Plus, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
• SolidWorks Tutorial with Multimedia CD 2001/2001Plus, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
• SolidWorks: The Basics, with Multimedia CD 2004, 2005, and 2006.
• Assembly Modeling with SolidWorks 2001Plus, 2003, 2004/2005, and 2006.
• Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2001/2001Plus, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
• Applications in Sheet Metal Using Pro/SHEETMETAL & Pro/ENGINEER.
• An Introduction to Pro/SHEETMETAL.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Schroff Development Corporation (February 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585033383
• ISBN-13: 978-1585033386
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #947,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #80 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Graphics & Multimedia > Solid Works

More About the Author

David Planchard is the Founder of D&M Education LLC. Before starting D&M Education, he spent over 27 years in industry and academia holding various engineering, marketing, and teaching positions and degrees. He holds five U.S. patents and one International patent. He has published and authored numerous papers on Machine Design, Product Design, Mechanics of Materials, and Solid Modeling.

David is an Adjunct Faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the Mechanical Engineering department and has been a SolidWorks Solution Partner for the past 11 years. David has written over 40 books on SolidWorks, many with a Multimedia CD targeted for the beginner to intermediate user. His books have ranked first in sells for the past nine years and are used by many of the top Engineering schools around the world!

Dave's goal is to write clear, concise, and well illustrated step-by-step and short tutorial SolidWorks books for professionals, colleges, universities, technical institutes, and secondary institutions. Learn by doing, not just by reading!

Customer Reviews

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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Look no further for a great SolidWorks Book, April 10, 2007

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James York (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial (Paperback)

I`m a Mechanical Design Engineer by profession. I have over 20 years in the CAD industry primarily with AutoCAD, SDRC, and Pro/E, and the last three years using SolidWorks. SolidWorks, by far is the most intuitive 3D CAD package out there today!

A few years ago, I decided to leave industry, and I now teach at a mid size college in Texas. I teach four freshmen sections of SolidWorks, along with evening and weekend SolidWorks classes.

I, like many instructors who are teaching a software class review numerous books, for potential classroom text and lecture notes. Last year, my local VAR recommended the SolidWorks Tutorial book by Planchard & Planchard. The book provides an excellent foundation in a timely step-by-step procedure with numerous illustrations to clearly enforce the chapter desire outcomes and objectives.

The book is suited well for a classroom / learning environment. It is also great as a self learning tool either for a student or an adult. The material is clearly presented, in a very logical manner. It starts with the SolidWorks Interface, moves to 2D sketches, and then progresses to 3D features: Extruded Boss/Base, Extruded Cut, Extruded Revolved, Loft, Swept, etc. The features are then applied to build parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Part, assembly, and drawing fundamentals and foundations are addressed. This is a great book for the beginner in SolidWorks.

45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Book for Beginners, November 6, 2007

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Omar Sanchez (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial (Paperback)

Im new to Solidworks, and after going through the book, I feel pretty comfortable using the software. In the exercises the book covers, you build various parts and sub-assemblies. At the end of the book, you put it all together and end up with the assembly shown on the cover of the book. So basically, you'll be able to do that when you're done with the tutorial. Nice book, I only wish it covered Importing from AutoCAD. It completely ignores the subject. Other than that, I was happy with it.

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The SolidWorks book to have for the beginner, June 12, 2007

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John Kapper - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial (Paperback)

This is a great step-by-step book for the SolidWorks user who is a beginner. I've been using SolidWorks for approximately three months. The book provides a solid foundation and a straight forward logical procedure to follow. The enclosed CD-ROM is priceless. The CD provides a solid foundation to learn the fundamentals of SolidWorks. Read, watch, learn, and do. Great book.