What Is Covered in This Book

You will find enough information here that the book can grow with your SolidWorks needs. I wrote the tutorials for most of the chapters with newer users in mind, because for them, it is most helpful to see how things are done in SolidWorks step by step. The longer narrative examples give more in-depth information about features and functions, as well as the results of various settings and options.

This book includes many details that come from practical usage and is focused on the needs of professional users, not on student learners. My preference is to teach concepts rather than button pushes, because if you understand what is going on, you can find the button pushes for yourself.

This book is divided into five parts. You will find that some topics are visited multiple times, such as sketching, mates, templates, and so on. When a topic is visited more than once, it is because there are many aspects to that topic. One such example is sketching, which includes...