Solidworks 2007: The Basics - Softcover

David C. Planchard; Marid P. Planchard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585033529 ISBN 13: 9781585033522

Publisher: Schroff Development Corp, 2007

Synopsis

SolidWorks 2007: The Basics was written to assist students, designers, engineers and professionals. SolidWorks 2007: The Basics is a subset of Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2007 and provides a general introduction to the user interface, menus, toolbars and broad concepts and modeling techniques to create parts, assemblies and drawings.

This book uses step-by-step instructions in 60 activities to develop eight parts, four assemblies, three drawings and six document templates. The user formulates the skills to create and modify solid features to model a Flashlight component. Project exercises analyze and examine usage competencies based on the project objectives.

SolidWorks 2007: The Basics is designed to compliment the Online Tutorials contained within SolidWorks. Each section explores the SolidWorks Online User's Guide to build your working knowledge of SolidWorks.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Introduction to Part Modeling
2. Revolved Features
3. Sweep, Loft and Additional Features
4. Assembly Modeling
5. Fundamentals of Drawing Index

About this title

About the Author

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, 2006 and 2007.
• SolidWorks: The Basics, with Multimedia CD 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
• 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schroff Development Corp
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585033529
• ISBN 13: 9781585033522
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 264