Best Text For Learning SW?
Best Text For Learning SW?
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Can anyone recommend a good text for learning and for reference to SW. I am a SW newbie and have obtained a Solidworks 2005 Personal Edition and I am trying to learn it. Being a 14 year ACAD and 5 year Mechanical Desktop veteran I find it a little more difficult than people have told me it was going to be. Especially the cumbersome sketching compared to Mechanical Desktop. But I know I am missing something, it can't be all that difficult;) I tried the tutorial but I find it irritating that it takes up so much of the modeling space.
Any suggestions regarding good books???????????
Rick VJ
Any suggestions regarding good books???????????
Rick VJ






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rickvj
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http://www.solidprofessor.com/
(Not exactly a text, but a great way to learn.)
Also, if you go to youtube.com and search "solidworks", you'll find lots of free tutorials on-line:
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Meanwhile, I believe the book to which you referred is one I've heard of before--probably a great start.
Check out the built-in tutorials for SolidWorks itself--very good for getting up and running quickly on your own. I'm self-taught (from ACAD) from way back in 1997, and sketching in SolidWorks at first felt like I was drawing with crayons--but I certainly wouldn't say it was cumbersome.
Then, start modeling things around you (on your desk, for instance) and refer to the Help files in SolidWorks (the best Help documentation I've ever seen--particularly for such a complex application) if you get stuck on anything.
Also, some community colleges offer courses on SolidWorks.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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The CD is very much like SolidProfessor and very helpful. I noticed there are newer versions of that book also. Youtube, as Theophilus mentioned, has some great FREE tutorials.
SW07 SP1.0
Flores
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By the way can you customize menues so you can have all of your favorite or most commonly used icons in one menu like in ACAD? I really loved that feature.
Rick VJ
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Yes, you can customize your toolbars (not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for). Right-click in an area around the view screen where the toolbars are docked and you can set up which icons are shown in which toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, etc. It's great. Check it out.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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For menus, right-click in a grey area of the menu, scroll down to customize. From there you can go to the menu you want to customize and just drag the icon you want to the menu where you want it, then selsct OK.
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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Rick Vander Jagt
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Ken
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I have a collection of Unigraphics, Solidworks and Autocad books and all of them don't compare to the helpful tips in the "help" menu and eng-tips.com
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M
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http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/3DSkills.html
Some VARs are offering a free online training course.
http://javelin-tech.com/main/events/3d_skills.htm
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