Great 2008 SW book for everyday applications

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	• A Commands Guide For Solidworks 2008 (Solidworks) David Planchard, Marie Planchard Delmar Cengage Learning, 2007 - 685 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The best SW Reference book

I've been combining my retraining in 3D modeling and learning SolidWorks specifics with the help of two SolidWorks books; Engineering Design with SolidWorks and A Commands Guide for SolidWorks. Both books deploy a step-by-step illustrated instruction approach.

I'm rather new to 3D. I found the two books to be extremely useful and easy to follow. In a previous life, I was an AutoCad VAR, although that is going back quite a few years. Part of my learning process has been unlearning some of my AutoCad approaches. This takes time, but is well worth it. SolidWorks is a great software package.

The Commands Guide for SolidWorks is excellent when it comes to short, quick, and informative tutorials, to quickly learn a subject topic or to understand a feature or tool. The CD is very helpful with both the initial and final models. The layout of the book provides a logically flow to learn. I took the time to write this review and will write a review for the Engineering Design with SolidWorks book, because I strongly believe that these books can help a new user and are the best books on the market today. I contacted the author for a question, which was trivial, but he responded to me in less than a day. WOW!

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Most borrowed book in my department

These authors know their stuff. It is easy to read and follow. As a new user, I can really appreciate a well written reference book. The book has a getting started section and then brakes into logical feature and sketch tool sections. The short tutorials lets you apply the tools to ensure that you understand their functionality. There are over 200 short tutorials with final models to help you learn 95% of what SolidWorks has to offer. There are full screen shots of most propertymanagers and dialog boxes which is a big help when trying to understand the various options.

It provides extensive coverage of the document properties and system options section with system defaults. This is helpful when sharing a system. This is the most borrowed book in my department. Thank you ..

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Great 2008 SW book for everyday applications

For the past two years, I've been using SolidWorks either in college or at work. SolidWorks is a fantastic, uncomplicated 3D CAD package with a familiar Windows user interface. At work, we just updated from 2006 to 2008; and 2008 provides a lot of new features, menus, and toolbars. In other words; there are a lot of new cool tools.

This is a great book which provides a core overview of the new 2008 SolidWorks User Interface with over 200 embedded short model tutorials on the enclosed CD. Use the models to learn and apply many of the existing and new features; both for 2D and 3D sketches, and 3D features. The book provides a strong insight and overview of drawings, and assemblies; both top-down and bottom-up. For each feature, the full PropertyManager is displayed to identify the available options. I like the way the PropertyManager is illustrated as the options are discussed. This makes if very easy for the user to relate the words/options to the actual illustrated PropertyManager. I used the book today, to help me create and calculate the flow area for a vent in a sheet metal box.

I also like the way the authors provide the initial and final models. I've used numerous models; "Edit Feature tool in the FeatureManager" to help me apply the feature tools to my everyday functions.

This is not the first book which I purchased from these authors, and it will surely not be the last. Keep up the good work.

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I love these authors!

These authors are great. I've used them in college and now I use them in industry. This is a great reference book with over 200 models on an incorporated book CD.

I cracked open the book, inserted the CD and as I worked through the problems, I become more and more impressed with it. SolidWorks 2008 has a very different look from 2007. There are many neat tools and features; namely - Pop-up Context toolbars, DimXpert, MotionStudy, Instant3D and TolAnalysis to name a few.

There are some weaknesses in this book, but ones that you can work around. To have all of the answers, they would need to write a 3000 page book. The index, in particular, I found to be pretty expansive - I used it to find answers to more than one problem where I was fairly clueless. Tons of illustrations and clearly written. Keep up the good work.

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Learn to effectively create, modify, and edit sketches and solid features using the latest release of one of the most popular software programs in the industry, SolidWorks 2008. A Commands Guide for SolidWorks 2008 offers readers a comprehensive reference guide that begins with an overview of the software's concepts and terminology. Subsequent chapters address System and Document properties, FeatureManagers, PropertyManagers, ConfigurationManagers, and RenderManagers as well as 2D and 3D sketch tools, sketch entities, and more. This thorough coverage provides readers with a solid understanding of the techniques for reusing features, parts, and assemblies through symmetry, patterns, copied components, design tables, and configurations. The perfect resource for users with beginner to intermediate-level experience with SolidWorks, this book illustrates clearly and carefully how multiple design situations and systematic steps combine to produce successful designs.

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