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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.
Hallmark Features:Comes with SolidWorks student version.
Intended for design courses, the book uses a minimal amount of mathematical concepts, covering basic math in Chapter 8 (Curves), Chapter 9 (Surfaces), and Chapter 13 (Analysis Tools).
Step-by-Step instructions help students learn SolidWorks as a design system rather than a software program.
Tutorials offer comprehensive coverage of a full design task.
Examples with Solutions cover a single concept in detail.
Industry Chat sections at the end of each chapter provide a sneak preview of how the chapter material is used in real life by professional CAD designers.
Each chapter includes challenging modeling and design examples and problems.
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 goes about how to accomplish it, motivating students to learn more than 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