SOLIDWORKS 2017: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate User textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers and designers interested in learning SOLIDWORKS for creating 3D mechanical design. It can be a great starting point for new SOLIDWORKS users and a great teaching aid in classroom training. This textbook consists of 14 chapters, total 768 pages covering major environments of SOLIDWORKS: Sketching environment, Part modeling environment, Assembly environment, and Drawing environment, which teach 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. Moreover, this textbook includes the topic of Configurations.

This textbook not only focuses on the usages of the tools/commands of SOLIDWORKS but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials which instruct users how things can be done in SOLIDWORKS step by step. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives which allow users 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 Solid Models
• 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 Configurations
• Chapter 12. Working with Assemblies - I
• Chapter 13. Working with Assemblies - II
• Chapter 14. Working with Drawings