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Paperback
Dec 2018
1248 pages
1st Edition
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Get a grasp on fundamental SolidWorks 2D and 3D tasks
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Delve into advanced functionality and capabilities not commonly covered by how-to guides
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Incorporate improved search, Pack-and-Go and other file management tools into your workflow
SolidWorks is the leading 3D CAD program and is an essential tool for engineers, mechanical designers, industrial designers, and drafters around the world. This book is a comprehensive reference every SolidWorks user needs, with tutorials, background, and more for beginner to advanced techniques.
The book begins starts with an introduction to SolidWorks, enabling you to learn the installation process, concepts, and terminologies of SolidWorks. You’ll also become familiar with parametric history-based design. Next, you’ll explore the SolidWorks interface and create simple sketches and drawings using different tools. Towards the end, you’ll make your drawings livelier by using Assemblies, and advanced techniques such as surface modeling and multibody modeling.
By the end of this book, you’ll have gathered a thorough understanding of SolidWorks and how it is applied in the context of everyday design or engineering practice.
If you are a mechanical engineer, industrial designer, or a drafter, who wants to create cleaner, more precise, more polished designs in a fraction of time, then this book is for you. Even veteran users will find value in new techniques that make familiar tasks faster, easier, and more organized, including advanced file management tools that simplify and streamline pre-flight checks.
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Identifying elements of the SolidWorks interface
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Create sketches using the sketch entities on the Sketch toolbar
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Discover visualization techniques to analyze a model
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Create wireframe representation of objects from 3D sketches
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Control assembly configurations and displays
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Use imported geometry and direct-editing techniques