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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 theskills 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 2hours 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 designersutilize SolidWorks in industry.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Linkage Assembly
2. Front Support Assembly
3. Fundamentals of Drawing
4. Pneumatic Test Module Assembly
Appendix
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Customer Reviews (5)

Found this book the most useful
I bought "SolidWorks 2007 Bible" by Matt Lombard, and "SolidWorks for Dummies", but I found this "SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial" to be the most useful.It helped someone like me who didn't know how to do anything in SolidWorks at all to get started.It was clear and concise about each step you needed to take in order to create the device that you see on the cover.That was the kind of hand-holding I needed.

SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial
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It is a book what do not can buy in any librery.

It have four examples very good explain.

I am wraiting with the autores looking for have this book in spanish and meabe i can be co-autor.

Tranquilino Acosta

Nice Book for Beginners
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.

The SolidWorks book to have for the beginner
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.

Look no further for a great SolidWorks Book
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.
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Information Harbor
Technology has changed the entire world with such COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS as mainframes, microcomputers, minicomputers, supercomputers, and workstations. The accurate, organized data that they send out faces threats not only from not enough skill but also from too much know-how: disaster recovery, ethics and privacy fight against computer crimes of copyright infringement and piracy. Robert A. Szymanski et al's book is the answer to becoming computer literate, to bringing the Asian and European communities into the ongoing global information technology, and to churning out work bent on accuracy, simplicity and visual impact. So it works well with Larry and Nancy Long's COMPUTERS, Charles S. Parker's UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS, and Gary B. Shelly's DISCOVERING COMPUTERS. ... Read more

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This text includes the concepts coverage and BASIC tutorial from "Introduction to Computers and Information Systems, Second Edition", and also features 200 pages of hands-on tutorial exercises featuring the popular applications software packages Lotus 1-2-3, dBASE IV and WordPerfect. ... Read more

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This volume contains the complete set of tutorial papers presented at the 16th IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modelling, Measurement and Evaluation, and a number of tutorial papers presented at the 1993 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Special Interest Group METRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. The principal goal of the volume is to present an overview of recent results in the field of modeling and performance evaluation of computer and communication systems. The wide diversity of applications and methodologies included in the tutorials attests to the breadth and richness of current research in the area of performance modeling. The tutorials may serve to introduce a reader to an unfamiliar research area, to unify material already known, or simply to illustrate the diversity of research in the field. The extensive bibliographies guide readers to additional sources for further reading. ... Read more