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Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2008

Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2008

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Authors: David C. Planchard, Marie P. Planchard
Publisher: Schroff Development Corporation
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 reviews
Sales Rank: 325866

Media: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 436
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Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 1.2

ISBN: 1585034681
Dewey Decimal Number: 670
EAN: 9781585034680
ASIN: 1585034681

Publication Date: February 29, 2008
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Product Description
Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2008 is written to educate and assist students, designers, engineers, and professionals in the drawing and detailing tools of SolidWorks. Explore the learning process through a series of design situations, industry scenarios, projects, and objectives targeted towards the beginning to intermediate SolidWorks user.

Work through numerous activities to create multiple-view, multiple-sheet, detailed drawings, and assembly drawings. Develop Drawing templates, Sheet formats, and Custom Properties. Construct drawings that incorporate part configurations, assembly configurations, and design tables. Manipulate annotations in parts, drawings, assemblies, Revision tables, and Bills of Materials.

Apply your drawing and detailing knowledge to over thirty exercises. The exercises test your usage competency as well as explore additional topics with industry examples. Advanced exercises require the ability to create parts and assemblies.

Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2008 is not a reference book for all drafting and drawing techniques. The book provides examples to:

  • Start a SolidWorks session and to understand the following interfaces: Menu bar toolbar, Menu bar menu, Drop-down menus, Context toolbars, Consolidated drop-down toolbars, System feedback icons, Confirmation Corner, Heads-up View toolbar, Document Properties and more.
  • Apply Document Properties to reflect the ASME Y14 Engineering Drawing and related Drawing Practices.
  • Import an AutoCAD file as a Sheet format. Insert SolidWorks System Properties and Custom Properties.
  • Create new SolidWorks Document tabs.
  • Create multi-sheet drawings from various part configurations and develop the following drawing views: Standard, Isometric, Auxiliary, Section, Broken Section, Detail, Half Section (Cut-away), Crop, Projected Back, with a Bill of Materials and a Revision Table and Revisions.
  • Insert and edit: Dimensions, Feature Control Frames, Datums, Geometric Tolerancing, Surface Finishes, and Weld Symbols using DimXpert and manual techniques.
  • Create, apply, and save Blocks and Parametric Notes in a drawing.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Project 1 - SolidWorks 2008 Interface
Project 2 - Drawing Templates and Sheet formats
Project 3 - Drawing Views
Project 4 Fundamentals of Detailing
Project 5 Assembly Drawings
Project 6 Applied Geometric Tolerancing and Other Symbols
Appendix
Index


Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Not bad   July 22, 2008
I. Kekahuna (Austin, TX)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful

I was hoping for a reference that had quite a bit more detail than this book included. Not much help for the experienced, but definitely good for those starting out.


5 out of 5 stars THE DRAWING AND DETAILING BOOK!   June 12, 2008
Steven Smith (TX)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

This excellent text will be useful to any user who is concern or needs a book targeted on drawing and detailing information using SolidWorks. It covers many of the relevant commands, features, tools and does it in a clear and methodical fashion for parts and simple and complex assemblies.

The breadth and depth of the author's information in this book is outstanding. The book covers: surface finishes, weld symbols, control frames, geometric tolerancing, all of the available drawings views, revisions and BOMs along with blocks, notes, importing AutoCad files, system and custom properties, document properties, etc. This is the best book on SolidWorks for drawing and detailing that I've even seen or used in my last six years.



5 out of 5 stars An in-depth drawing book for SolidWorks 2008   April 18, 2008
Jamie Lu (TX)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful

This book saved my butt. We had a downsizing at my company, and I needed to learn more on creating SolidWorks drawings fast. With no money for training, I needed a source of knowledge. I found it.

My company switched over from 2007 to 2008 this year and my experience with drawings is limited. I've been using SolidWorks for approximately two years; focusing on 3D parts and assemblies. The book provides great sections on document properties, drawing templates, addressing ASME Y14 standards, custom properties, link to properties, notes, driven dimensions, centermarks, arc conditions, centerlines, sheet formats, view palette, DimXpert and so on. DimXpert is a great tool to go directly for part - to - drawing with embedded feature dimensions, feature control frames, datums, geometric tolerancing, etc. Note: DimXpert is new, be careful on using it for complex surface parts. I had some issues.

The book addresses: Standard views, Isometric view, Section view, Detail view, Crop view, Projected view, Exploded view will balloons, Broken view, with BOMs, editing BOMs, revision tables, adding revisions etc.

It also covers in manual detail: surface finishes, weld symbols, geometric tolerancing, feature control frames, etc. Indeed, an in-depth book on SolidWorks drawings.