Mastering SolidWorks: The Design Approach

by Ibrahim Zeid

Mastering SolidWorks: The Design
Approach, Second Edition is entirely updated for SolidWorks
2014 and presents SolidWorks as a design system rather than a
software program, using design, modeling, and drafting concepts as
the building blocks, instead of focusing on 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.

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). 

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).  
•    Shows concepts to
those who are curious about how CAD/CAM systems work "under the
hood."
•    Broadens the book
appeal to many students, professors, and readers. 
•    The coverage of
math in chapters 8, 9, and 13 may be ignored without affecting the
continuity of the material in those chapters.

Step-by-Step instructions
help students learn SolidWorks as a design system rather than a
software program.
•    Ample
illustrations guide students as they learn. 

Tutorials offer
comprehensive coverage of a full design task.
•    Each tutorial
ends with a hands-on exercise that both challenges the
student’s understanding and extends it. 

Examples with Solutions
cover a single concept in detail.
•    Each example
offers a hands-on exercise that builds on the previous example,
ensuring the student has gone through each example.  

Each chapter includes
challenging modeling and design examples and problems.
•    The book’s
unique approach covers the theoretical concepts behind the various
functions of SolidWorks.
•    This sheds light
about why things work the way they do, as well as explains their
limitations and uses.

552 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 19, 2010