Solidworks 2015

SOLIDWORKS 2015: A Power Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. This textbook is intended to help engineers and designers who are interested in learning SOLIDWORKS for creating 3D mechanical design. It will be a great starting point for new SOLIDWORKS users and a great teaching aid in classroom training. This textbook contains of 13 chapters covering major environments of SOLIDWORKS: Part, Assembly, and Drawing which teaches you how to use the SOLIDWORKS mechanical design software to build parametric models and assemblies, and how to make drawings of those parts and assemblies. This textbook is not only focuses on the uses of tools/commands of SOLIDWORKS but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials which intend to help user to experience how things can be done in SOLIDWORKS step by step. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives which allow users of this textbook to experience themselves the ease-of-use and powerful capabilities of SOLIDWORKS.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS
Chapter 2. Drawing Sketches with SOLIDWORKS
Chapter 3. Editing and Modifying Sketches
Chapter 4. Applying Geometric Relations and Dimensions
Chapter 5. Creating First/Base Feature of a Solid Model
Chapter 6. Creating Reference Geometries
Chapter 7. Advanced Modeling I
Chapter 8. Advanced Modeling II
Chapter 9. Patterning and Mirroring
Chapter 10. Advanced Modeling III
Chapter 11. Working with Assemblies I
Chapter 12. Working with Assemblies II
Chapter 13. Working with Drawing