SolidWorks 2008 Tutorial and
Multimedia CD

by David C. Planchard & Marie P. Planchard

Student Design Kit
A 150-day term license for SolidWorks

SolidWorks 2008 Tutorial and Multimedia CD comes bundled with the SolidWorks Student Design Kit. The SolidWorks Student Design Kit is a 150-day term-of-use license, and is compatible with the SolidWorks Education Edition 2008-2009. This is available for educational use only when ordered through a school bookstore or department.

Note: This software is available only to college/university bookstores and schools located in the United States. Individual Sales to students are not permitted.

SolidWorks 2008 Tutorial with MultiMedia CD is written to assist students, designers, engineers, and professionals. The book provides an introduction to the SolidWorks 2008 User Interface (UI); CommandManager, Task Pane, Menus, Toolbars, and general concepts, and modeling techniques to create parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Follow the step-by-step procedures and develop multiple assemblies that combine over 80 extruded machined parts and 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, and configurations.

Desired outcomes and usage competencies are listed for each project. Know your objective up front. Follow the step-by step procedures 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 designers utilize SolidWorks in industry.

The book is designed to compliment the SolidWorks 2008 Tutorials and Help files. The goal is to illustrate how multiple design situations and systematic steps combine to produce successful projects.

The authors developed the industry scenarios by combining their own industry experience with the knowledge of engineers, department managers, vendors, and manufacturers. These professionals are directly involved with SolidWorks everyday. Their responsibilities go far beyond the creation of just a 3D model.

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: Insert Axle & Flatbar

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

Linkage Assembly

Front Support Assembly

Fundamentals of Drawing

Pneumatic Test Module Assembly
Appendix
Index

409 pages

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