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SolidWorks Surfacing and Complex Shape Modeling Bible |  | Author: Matt Lombard
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 34151
Media: Paperback
Pages: 460
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 0470258233
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.00420285536
EAN: 9780470258231
ASIN: 0470258233
Publication Date: April 28, 2008
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Product Description
If you want to gain proficiency and expertise with SolidWorks surface modeling, this is the resource for you. You'll learn how to apply concepts, utilize tools, and combine techniques and strategies in hands-on tutorials. This Bible covers the range from sketching splines and shelling to modeling blends and decorative features. Complete with professional tips and real-world examples, this inclusive guide enables you to coax more out of SolidWorks surfacing tools.
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 Fantastic book October 4, 2009
Mark Howards (Boston, MA)
Matt has said it himself, this is not a line-by-line, push the buttons kind of resource. It will get you thinking about the overall concepts and capabilities and then make you figure out the details. With the discussion in the book, you will get the basics and then you can refer to the tutorials and roll the part back if something doesn't make sense. The difference with this approach is you will walk away with a deeper understanding.
If you have ever done complex surfacing our solid modeling, this will be a great resource on how things work, where you will likely find bugs and workarounds. I also found it very readable. You can read the chapters and skim the tutorials, then go back and work on the tutorials in greater detail.
I think this is one of the best CAD resources I have seen and I have used several surfacing and solid modeling tools. It reminds more of the in-depth classes the large CAD companies used to have rather than the less thoughtful classes often taught now by resellers.
 Complete wasted effort September 9, 2009
A. Matevosian (Glendale, CA United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The books available for surfacing with Solidworks are short...very short.
When I found this book on Amazon, I asked my company purchase for me (Thank goodness I didn't need to use my own money to buy this).
It is a complete wasted effort this book is. Surfacing is an intensely graphic based activity. You learn by doing. What does this book do? It goes ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON with pages of text, ramblings, verbose-ness that is complete waste of time, with diagrams and pictures that are far too small and useless.
But forget all that. It's the examples...OH the examples. I'd have to say the examples...as they relate to the book....are utterly incomprehensible. The author describes steps in his examples that are COMPLETELY different and non-existent in the examples.
CASE IN POINT: Chapter 10 - Page 209-211 (plastic clip)...just read what he asks you to do and then try and do it. Figure 10.24 has nothing to do with what he is asking you to do on Pages 209-210.
This is of but one examples. The whole back has this theme. I actually gave up on this book about a few months ago. I got to Chapter 10 and was utterly sick of READING and not doing...and not doing tutorials that make sense and add knowledge...not just having to follow carefully what he is asking.
I had such high hopes for learning surfacing techniques better. It's not going to happen with this book. And this is coming from a Solidworks veteran - I have over 130000 hours of SW time and started when SW 98 came out...now I'm using SW 09.
If you want to be turned off from surfacing and have all the fun taken out of it, this is the book for you.
If you want to continue to want to learn surfacing and still have fun with Solidworks, either try it yourself or get another but book....or take a class....but please...stay away from this book.
Experienced User's Dream Book April 29, 2009
Steven Tregilgas (Linden, Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is what you always dreamed "Help" should be. Just about every other page of this surfacing bible has an observation or tip that is worth the price of the book all by itself. I've been modeling in CAD for 20 years, five of it in SolidWorks. SolidWorks is my favorite CAD tool, but every system has its limitations, and these are never discussed in the "Help." Matt Lombard frankly discussions these limitations without sounding critical of the software. And the usual training courses, unless they are very expensive, rarely suggest many strategies, different ways to orchestrate all of these wonderful tools to get professional results, which are vital because a single surfacing strategy will not always produce the desired results. Matt is all about strategies and evaluates numerous strategies in each tutorial. Add to that clear color illustrations, tight prose, free downloads of all of his models, and I have a book that I enjoyed studying and will refer to over and over. (Beginners should get Matt's 2009 SolidWorks Bible and master it first.)
Great Reference April 9, 2009
R. N. Beck (Sagle, Idaho)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been working in SolidWorks for around ten years. In that period of time there has been a great deal of change in the program. I find that my skills are generally good, but lacking variety across all of the available SolidWorks features; so this book, along with Matt's other works have become a staple reference for me whenever I get "stumped."
Matt has approached this book with obvious first-hand and detailed understanding of both the strong and weak features of SolidWorks Surfacing aspects. You will likely find, as I did, that even the fundementals that he covers will hold some valuable recommendations and methods.
I will be keeping this book close at hand.
The book for Surfacing March 12, 2009
R. Marchel
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the only book on the market today for anyone SolidWorks user who is serious about learning Surfacing, which is an advance feature and topic in SolidWorks. I would give it five stars, if Matt provided a few (not too many more) additional steps during the modeling procedure. OH, I also enjoy the wacky stuff in the book too!
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