Designing Parts with SolidWorks

By Roy L. Wysack

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934869227
• ISBN13: 9780934869225
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Cad/Cam Pub
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

A decent text and reference

This was a secondary text for a solid modelling class that I recently took. I believe that I personally drew 90% of the excercises with little difficulty. I found it to be a straight forward guide to mastering the basic SolidWorks commands. Unlike some texts, the author doesn't always give you every single mouse-click necessary to draw every part. In fact, I found a step or two missing here and there. Personally, I believe that this just makes you think a little bit more.The only real shortcoming of this text is that it doesn't really cover assemblies, mating up parts, and determining interferences.The book does have a good index in the back, so it can serve as a decent reference to the various commands and features. It also has a trouble-shooting appendix that could prove useful.If you combine this with Planchard's _SolidWorks 2001 Tutorial_ (which does a much better job on assemblies) then you've got everything you really need to develop a working proficiency with the program.

Very helpful.

This is a wonderful book for beginners who haven't taken SolidWorks dealer training or can't afford same. It has lots of practical design examples from real life.

A great introduction

This book is a great introduction to feature-based modeling. It doesn't teach everything one needs to know about SolidWorks, but what it does teach, it does very well. I wish there were more books like this one that covered the advanced features of SolidWorks.

Helpful for beginners

This book is a very helpful, step-by-step introduction to feature-based solids. It helped me understand the basics thoroughly before I tried to use the more advanced features of SolidWorks. Wysack's book doesn't tell you everything you need to know about this program, but it's a great start. I hope he writes more books like it.