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Beginner's Guide to SolidWorks 2007 | 
 enlarge | Author: Alejandro Reyes
Publisher: Schroff Development Corporation
Category: Book
List Price: $59.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 593781
Media: Paperback
Pages: 218
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1585033480
Dewey Decimal Number: 670
EAN: 9781585033485
ASIN: 1585033480
Publication Date: April 16, 2007
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Product Description
The purpose of Beginner's Guide to SolidWorks 2007 is to help the student learn the basic concepts of SolidWorks and good solid modeling practices in an easy to follow guide. It is intended for the new SolidWorks user, users with experience in different CAD systems, and as a teaching aid in classroom training. After completing the exercises in this book, the student will have a good understanding of the SolidWorks interface and the most commonly used commands for part modeling, assembly and detailing by completing a project designing all the components, their 2D drawings and assembly drawing with Bill of Materials. The book is focused on the processes to complete a certain task, instead of focusing on individual operations, which are generally simple enough to learn. Table of Contents
1. The SolidWorks Interface
2. Part Modeling
3. Detail Drawing
4. Assembly Modeling
5. Final Comments
Appendix
Index
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Beginners Guide to Solidworks 2007 February 3, 2008
M. Tumbleson (AZ)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Beginners beware!
This title will lead you to believe it is for beginners, but really it isn't. I had zero knowledge of Solidworks when I got this manual hoping it would give me a good start, but found myself scratching my head in every other operation.
Vital information is left out leaving the student on his own trying to find out how to activate functions in order to move forward. On average it took an hour or more to figure out operations that should take a few seconds, if the instructor would have given complete instructions.
Perhaps I understand the program better now, but it was extremely frustration trying to figure it out on my own, which is why I purchased the manual in the first place. All in all many, many hours of the student time are wasted because of a lack of good instruction. The instructor should evaluate his writing by letting students with NO experience in the program critique the book and its problems.
Not the book for me April 24, 2007
James York (Texas)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I received a free instructor evaluation copy of this book. I was expecting more from an author who is an Authorized SolidWorks trainer. The book only addresses the basic fundamentals of SolidWorks, and reads mostly like the SolidWorks Help section which is provided free with the software. The Drawing section: No configurations, design tables, Custom Properties, Task Pane, Annotation Notes,etc. and Assembly sections: No SmartMates, very few standard Standard Mates, no Parent/Child relations, Smart Fastners, InContext, etc. are very weak with few and simple examples.
I do agree with a few reviewers on his 2006 book, which looks the same as his 2007 book. "Once a skill is covered in the book, the author assumes that the reader now knows how to do that task." This is not good in a classroom environment. At 200 pages, there is about 150 pages that provides information. This is not the book for me.
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