SOLIDWORKS 2017: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users, 4th Edition

SOLIDWORKS 2017: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate User textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers and designers interested in learning SOLIDWORKS for creating 3D mechanical design. Taken together, this textbook can be a great starting point for new SOLIDWORKS users and a great teaching aid in classroom training. This textbook consists of 14 chapters, total 768 pages covering major environments of SOLIDWORKS: Sketching environment, Part modeling environment, Assembly environment, and Drawing environment, which teach you how to use the SOLIDWORKS mechanical design software to build parametric models and assemblies, and how to make drawings of those parts and assemblies. Moreover, this textbook includes the topic of Configurations.

This textbook not only focuses on the usages of the tools/commands of SOLIDWORKS but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials which instruct users how things can be done in SOLIDWORKS step by step. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives which allow users to experience themselves the ease-of-use and powerful capabilities of SOLIDWORKS.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Introducing to SOLIDWORKS and Drawing Sketches
Chapter 1. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS
Chapter 2. Drawing Sketches with SOLIDWORKS
Chapter 3. Editing and Modifying Sketches
Chapter 4. Applying Geometric Relations and Dimensions

Part 2. Creating 3D Models/Components
Chapter 5. Creating First/Base Feature of Solid Models
Chapter 6. Creating Reference Geometries
Chapter 7. Advanced Modeling – I
Chapter 8. Advanced Modeling – II
Chapter 9. Patterning and Mirroring
Chapter 10. Advanced Modeling – III
Chapter 11. Working with Configurations

Part 3. Working with Assemblies
Chapter 12. Working with Assemblies – I
Chapter 13. Working with Assemblies – II

Part 4. Creating Drawings
Chapter 14. Working with Drawings