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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2007 is written to assist students, designers, engineers and professionals. The book provides a solid foundation in SolidWorks by utilizing projects with Step-by-Step instructions for the beginning to intermediate SolidWorks user. Explore the user interface, menus, toolbars and modeling techniques to create parts, assemblies, and drawings in an engineering environment. Follow the Step-by-Step instructions and develop multiple parts and assemblies that combine machined, plastic and sheet metal components. Formulate the skills 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, Bill of materials, properties and configurations. Desired outcomes and usage competencies are listed for each project. Know your objective up front. Follow the steps in Project 1 through Project 6 to achieve the design goals. Work between multiple documents, features, commands and custom properties that represent how engineers and designers utilize SolidWorks in industry. Review individual features, commands and tools for each project with the Multimedia CD. The projects contain exercises. The exercises analyze and examine usage competencies. Collaborate with leading industry suppliers such as SMC Corporation of America, Boston Gear, DE-STA-CO, Emerson-EPT, Emhart, Enerpac, Reid Tool and Die and 80/20 Inc. Collaborative information translates into numerous formats such as paper drawings, electronic files, rendered images and animations. On-line intelligent catalogs guide designers to the product that meets both their geometric requirements and performance functionality. The Table of Contents includes the following: Introduction; Project 1 - Fundamentals of Part Modeling; Project 2 - Fundamentals of Assembly Modeling; Project 3 - Fundamentals of Drawing; Project 4 - Extrude and Revolve Features; Project 5 - Sweep, Loft and Additional Features; Project 6 - Top Down Assembly Modeling; Appendix; Index | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | David C. Planchard | | Paperback: | 703 pages | | Publisher: | Schroff Development Corporation | | Publication Date: | December 11, 2006 | | ISBN: | 1585033359 | | Package Length: | 11.0 inches | | Package Width: | 8.4 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 9 reviews |
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2007 & MultiMedia CD Mar 31, 2008
Excellent book for a person who wants a solid foundation in SolidWorks. Ideas very well explained.
23 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 If your a begginer this books is for you Nov 21, 2007
This is a great starter book which has step by step instructions. Also this book came witha CD to show how to do the different excercises if you cannot figure from the book.
27 of 28 found the following review helpful:
Great book for all new SolidWorks users Oct 03, 2007
I passed my CSWA Certification process partly due to the Planchards. I had a SolidWorks issue a few weeks ago, I contacted David Planchard, and he helped me out to resolve the problem, and it turned out that it was a design issue, not even a SolidWorks issue.
The Planchards have been writing great SolidWorks books for over 10 years. The books are targeted for the beginner to intermediate user using a large bold command structure format and a simple but effect step-by-step procedure.
I hired three new designers in the past two weeks. They are relatively new to SolidWorks. I purchase this book and arranged SolidWorks VAR classes to bring them up to speed quickly.
The book provides an excellent foundation of the user interface, menus, toolbars and Feature and Sketch tools. The Multi-media CD does a great job in providing a visual presentation of the first five chapters. The step-by-step procedure moves at a good pace, while each new section reflex's on the previous section. There are great design tips and notes thought-out the book.
One reviewer wrote that the book from Scott Hanson is a better book for the beginner. Scott does not write a book for 2007! You can not believe all reviews...
1 of 29 found the following review helpful:
 Solidworks 2007 Review Aug 09, 2007
I bought this book based on the prior reviews and was so frustrated with it, I almost gave it up. I found that the Planchard's wrote their text with a lot of detail information and if you have experience with Solidworks, it would be a useful manual to have, however if you are new to Solidworks, this is the type of manual that is best bought AFTER using another manual first and gaining confidence. I made an adjustment manual wise and found my enthusiam for this software returned almost instanteously. Learn the basics from someone such as Scott Hansen's book then graduate to this text and beware of the reviewers. One reviewer made the statement that he did not know how somebody could write a bad review about a well written book. For a beginner, the Planchard book gets into too much orgin of the commands. Keep it simple. The two stars are for the reviewers moreso than the authors. That's my view.
35 of 35 found the following review helpful:
Great Classroom book Mar 13, 2007
I've been using the Engineering Design with SolidWorks book by Planchard and Planchard in my classroom for the past three years. In my opinion, this is the finest SolidWorks book on the market today for students that are new to the software and would like to better understand and apply proper design techniques.
I can't comprehend why some people are compelled to write an unconstructive review about a skillfully written book. This book is the only book on SolidWorks that covers in a project base format; Fundamentals of part modeling, Fundamentals of assembly modeling, Fundamentals of drawing, and the fundamentals of top-down assembly modeling along with numerous key features from the features toolbar: Extruded Boss/Base, Extruded Cut, Sweep, loft, Revolve Boss/Base, and more.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the only book that also briefly covers the sheet metal toolbar and its features. It provides a great exposure to creating simple sheet metal models without purchasing a separate sheet metal book.
A past reviewer stated that, the book omitted important imbedded information to set up the title block in a drawing. He may want to read Chapter 3, page 13: Sheet Format and Title block under the custom properties section.
Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2007 is by far the most comprehensive SolidWorks book for beginners on the market today. This book makes my life a lot easier in the classroom. My students enjoy the layout, illustrations, step by step procedures and the enclosed multimedia CD.
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