Mastering Solidworks, CourseSmart eTextbook

For undergraduate courses that use SolidWorks for teaching and learning CAD/CAM for design, visualization, prototyping, and manufacturing.

 

Mastering SolidWorks: The Design Approach presents SolidWorks as a design system rather than a software program, using design, modeling, and drafting concepts as the building blocks, instead of menus and commands. It describes design approaches, methodologies, and techniques to help CAD designers/engineers and draftspersons achieve their engineering tasks in the fastest, easiest, and most effective way. It develops command sequences to achieve CAD and modeling tasks, providing SolidWorks syntax and details. Starting with a CAD task to accomplish, the book then helps students learn how to accomplish it, motivating students to learn more than by simply going through layers of menus and commands.

 

Part I: Computer Aided Design (CAD) Basics

1. Getting Started

2. Construction Management

3. Design Intent

 

Part II: Basic Part Modeling

4. Features and Macros

5. Drawings

6. Assemblies

7. Rendering and Animation

 

Part III: Advanced Part Modeling

8. Curves

9. Surfaces

10. Sheet Metal and Weldments

11. Sustainable Design

 

Part IV: Part Development and Analysis

12. Geometric Tolerances

13. Analysis Tools

 

Part V: Part Manufacturing

14. Rapid Prototyping

15. Numerical Control Machining

16. Injection Molding

 

A. ANSI and ISO Tolerance Tables

B. SolidWorks Certification

 

Index