Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2007 and Multimedia CD

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

Marie Planchard is the Director of Education Marketing at SolidWorks Corporation. Before she joined SolidWorks, Marie spent over 10 years as an engineering professor at Mass Bay College in Wellesley Hills, MA. She has 13 plus years of industry software experience and held a variety of management and engineering positions including Beta Test Manager for CAD software at Computervision Corporation. As a Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP), she presented at SolidWorks World. Marie was the founder and coordinator of the New England SolidWorks User Group.

David Planchard is the President of D & M Education, LLC. Before starting D & M Education LLC, he spent over 23 years in industry and academia holding various Engineering and Marketing positions and degrees. He has five U.S. patents and one International patent. He has published and authored numerous papers on equipment design. David is also a technical editor for Cisco Press. He is a member of the New England Pro/Users Group, New England SolidWorks Users Group and the Cisco Regional Academy Users Group. David Planchard is an active industry and education consultant. David is a SolidWorks Research Partner and SolidWorks Solution Partner.

David and Marie Planchard are co-authors of the following books:

• A Commands Guide Tutorial for SolidWorks 2007.
• Engineering Design with SolidWorks 1999, 2000, 2001, 2001Plus, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
• SolidWorks Tutorial with Multimedia CD 2001/2001Plus, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
• SolidWorks: The Basics, with Multimedia CD 2004, 2005, and 2006.
• Assembly Modeling with SolidWorks 2001Plus, 2003, 2004/2005, and 2006.
• Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2001/2001Plus, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
• Applications in Sheet Metal Using Pro/SHEETMETAL & Pro/ENGINEER.
• An Introduction to Pro/SHEETMETAL.