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Advanced Surfacing Book

Advanced Surfacing Book

Advanced Surfacing Book

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In the past there have been many posts looking for tutorials on advanced surfacing techniques.  

I had a look at a book/manual recently published by Solidworks that comes with a new class being offered by VARs called Advanced Surface Modeling (I believe it's a fairly new training).  It offers a consise walkthrough of most of the surfacing tools, features and techniques available in SW2007.  The publication is just focused on using surface modeling. I was pretty impressed with the information.

Just wanted to pass along the info in case anyone was interested.

John

RE: Advanced Surfacing Book

Cool!  I really could have used something like that a few years ago--of course the surfacing stuff in SW wasn't nearly as advanced as it is these days.

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe transcends reason.

RE: Advanced Surfacing Book

That sounds really interesting.  Right now, the company I work for only works with steel, so I'm really not learning a lot of the techniques that I hope to end up using in the aerospace field.  

RE: Advanced Surfacing Book

Even for those users that don't know surfacing.. its worth while to attend, because not all models can be achieved with just standard features. And even if you can get there with standard features, you could probably cut your time in half if you had some surfacing techniques to use in combination with standard features.

We start that surfacing training this year as well, as should all the VAR's... If you have the time and the money I think its a good investment... I taught myself how to use (like I have with everything else in SW) surfacing. If you take the class you will learn more from the class then I did teaching myself.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: Advanced Surfacing Book

Using surfaces to get some quick can be very useful sometimes.

Consider the following link:
http://www.swcommunity.com/feature_full.php?cpfeatureid=7318

It shows just one of many methods on how surfaces can be used to create complex paths for a simple sweep feature.

You can use complex surfaces as something to extrude to or cut with also.

DiMonte.com haves a lot of presentations that have been used a SolidWorks conventions to help explain the background nitty-gritty of surfaces.  Even if you don't use surfaces, these presentations will help improve basic understand of what is happening when certain features are applied to models and why the models react the way that they do.

Christopher Zona - Product Designer
Concord, Ontario

RE: Advanced Surfacing Book

Is the book available without taking the class?

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