Solidworks

[Alastair Clarke]

Hi,

We use Solidworks for our car design, but one of our students has asked me a question which has got me stumped! They want a recommendation of a good book to get them started with Solidworks - I did explain that the online tutorials, help files, a bit of common sense and some practice would be just as good but no, they want to spend £50 on a book! Fair enough, but I've never read a Solidworks book in my life so does anyone have any recommendations?

Cheers

Alastair

[Alastair Clarke]

Hi,

We use Solidworks for our car design, but one of our students has asked me a question which has got me stumped! They want a recommendation of a good book to get them started with Solidworks - I did explain that the online tutorials, help files, a bit of common sense and some practice would be just as good but no, they want to spend £50 on a book! Fair enough, but I've never read a Solidworks book in my life so does anyone have any recommendations?

Cheers

Alastair

[murpia]

There is a 'Solidworks for Dummies', I found it in my local library. I wouldn't bother buying it though, just work through it once and take it back.

Regards, Ian

[Pete M]

I just did the tutorials. If you spend an afternoon working through them, you pick it up pretty fast.

[Christopher Catto]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SolidWorks-Designers-Release-20...d=1191603689&sr=1-20 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/SolidWorks-Designers-Release-2006-Tickoo/dp/1932709134/ref=sr_1_20/202-9233002-1880607?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191603689&sr=1-20)

i do not own the above book. i own the same one for Catia V5. the catia book is generally well structured. only it lacks info on all the apps in Catia, since it is such a complex program.

i would look for it in a library or buy it used to keep in any fsae office for reference. if you use s.worx for solid modelling and some surfacing then the book from this author should be a step in the right direction. i did the IDS tutorials as well and it was enough. solidworks is about the most intuitive software to pick up.

[Jonathan S]

The "Inside SolidWorks" series is pretty good, and right in your price range. I think it is hard to find an overall "best" book on any solid modeling program.

Nothing beats common sense and practice.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Solidworks-David-Murray/...id=1191697164&sr=8-4 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Solidworks-David-Murray/dp/1418020850/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4/202-6750804-6597403?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191697164&sr=8-4)

[Mike Claffey]

I worked breifly for the local distributor and that gave me access to some very useful training manuals. If your team has a good relationship with whoevers sponsoring your cad, ask if they can get access to the training manuals (borrow or whatever). They come with CD's and tutorials, and covering the basic and advanced assemblies will be enough to build a very good cad model.

Strongly recomend you impliment the PDMworks package if thats available!

[ESaenz]

I find alot of good examples in youtube!

[James Morris]

Just tell him/her to get on with the tutorials and stop wasting time! Hows your lots 08 car coming along anyhow?
You lot up for a test at llandow or pembrey sometime soon? were going to see if we can get swansea uni to come too.

James Morris
S.I.Racing
S.I.H.E.

[Alastair Clarke]

Hey James,

Yes, we'd definitely be up for a test soon - just got to fix the diff on our 07 car and we'd be up for it! Let us know when and where.

08 car is going to be different - we're going to the Aprilia SXV550 and 10" wheels.....

Alastair

[James Morris]

Hey just leave your diff open, ours is and was for the comp it's totally shot!

Our management guys going to get on the case first thing tomorrow if were lucky.

yeah our 08 is on a totally different concept, say goodbuy to the big heavy beast of old, still running the cbr tho but E85 is looking likely.

Man the sx550 is awesome, we looked into it at the start of last year. How are you going to run it, transversely?

[Composites Guy]

The tutorials are quite excellent... tell them to donate their extra money to the car and quit stalling...