SDC Publications: SOLIDWORKS 2022 Intermediate Skills Book Errata

Chapter 3 Page 3

Step 1, the text should indicate "select the Right plane" instead of "select the Front plane".

Chapter 5 Page 16

Step 6. The second to last paragraph and corresponding image should instruct you to "select the face in the back of the large flange" instead of the face on the far side of the small flange. Throughout the rest of this chapter images show the threads going all the way through the feature.

Chapter 6 Page 16

Step 2. continued from the previous page. At the top of the page the figure and instructions indicate that you should select 3 edges to keep fixed, but this is not correct. You should only select one edge, the bottom back edge to keep fixed. See the image below.

Chapter 8 Page 19

Step 17 should also note that the .008 fillet should also be added to the tail fins tips, as shown in the completed model. Select the Front and Back edges of the floats on both sides and also the 3 edges of the tail fin tips.

Chapter 8 Page 21

Step 21, fourth paragraph, you should not enable the Reverse checkbox as directed in the text. Enable only the Single Direction checkbox to display the direction arrow. It should be pointing towards the wings.

Chapter 8 Page 26

Step 3. Making the sketch of the tip. The first sentence should say: "Open a new sketch on the Right plane."

Chapter 8 Page 26

The image under step 3 shows a tangent relation between the marked line and arc. This tangent relation is not needed as the model is fully defined without it.

Chapter 16 Page 18

The dialog box for the Geometric Control Frame has changed and it affects pages 16-18 - 16-22 of this book. The author has provided corrections to these pages as a PDF here: Chapter 16 Corrections