SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial: A Step-by-step Project Based Approach Utilizing 3d Solid Modeling

SolidWorks 2007 Tutorial is written to assist students, designers, engineers and professionals. The book provides a introduction to the user interface, menus, toolbars, concepts and modeling techniques of SolidWorks to create parts, assemblies and drawings.

Follow the step-by-step instructions 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. Review 2 hours of flash movie files that follow the steps in the book.

Desired outcomes and usage competencies are listed for each project. Know your objective up front. Follow the steps 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Linkage Assembly
2. Front Support Assembly
3. Fundamentals of Drawing
4. Pneumatic Test Module Assembly
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.