SolidWorks 2007: The Basics was written to assist students, designers, engineers and professionals.  SolidWorks 2007: The Basics is a subset of Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2007 and provides a general introduction to the user interface, menus, toolbars and broad concepts and modeling techniques to create parts, assemblies and drawings. 

This book uses step-by-step instructions in 60 activities to develop eight parts, four assemblies, three drawings and six document templates. The user formulates the skills to create and modify solid features to model a Flashlight component. Project exercises analyze and examine usage competencies based on the project objectives. 

SolidWorks 2007: The Basics is designed to compliment the Online Tutorials contained within SolidWorks. Each section explores the SolidWorks Online User's Guide to build your working knowledge of SolidWorks.

To download the text of chapter 1 (in Adobe Acrobat PDF format), and a sample movie from the MultiMedia CD, click on the links below.

Sample Chapter:	Project 1
Media File:	Measure

Instructor Resources:  Instructor's CD

• Answers to all questions
• Model files
• PowerPoint feature summary presentation with more examples that focus on design intent
• PowerPoint presentations of the material covered in the text

Instructors may e-mail resources@schroff.com to request the instructor's CD for this textbook.  CD's will be sent to instructors by mail.  

Click here for complete table of contents PDF

Projects

Introduction

1. Introduction to Part Modeling
2. Revolved Features
3. Sweep, Loft and Additional Features
4. Assembly Modeling
5. Fundamentals of Drawing
   Index

264 pages

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