A Commands Guide For Solidworks 2008,   ISBN:9781428353015

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As an instructor, I can appreciate good material, and this book is no exception. I'm presently using their solidworks 2008 tutorial book in class, which is project based and has a great multi-media cd which explains most of the book using avi files.

This book uses short tutorials vs. a project approach. They both work well, but this book is helping me to gain knowledge quicker on various skills sets using feature and sketch tools.

The book is extremely well laid out with rational progression throughout all 15 chapters. The provided cd contains all models needed in the book. The 200+ individual tutorials provide the ability to implement and view your results through solidworks models. This is a great way to learn and to understand a software package.

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This is an excellent book if you are looking for a reference book that covers tons of information with short tutorials on SW. Each tutorial provides the ability to implement and view your results through an actual model.

The CD provides all models, so you can use them to compare your results. Better yet, you can open existing models, and explore new ways to doing things.

The book is well illustrated and laid out with excellent steps to following. The authors are real users, and you can tell with their ability to explain and show simple and detail procedures. Its great to find the right book for the right job.

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I've been combining my retraining in 3D modeling and learning SolidWorks specifics with the help of two SolidWorks books; Engineering Design with SolidWorks and A Commands Guide for SolidWorks. Both books deploy a step-by-step illustrated instruction approach.

I'm rather new to 3D. I found the two books to be extremely useful and easy to follow. In a previous life, I was an AutoCad VAR, although that is going back quite a few years. Part of my learning process has been unlearning some of my AutoCad approaches. This takes time, but is well worth it. SolidWorks is a great software package.

The Commands Guide for SolidWorks is excellent when it comes to short, quick, and informative tutorials, to quickly learn a subject topic or to understand a feature or tool. The CD is very helpful with both the initial and final models. The layout of the book provides a logically flow to learn. I took the time to write this review and will write a review for the Engineering Design with SolidWorks book, because I strongly believe that these books can help a new user and are the best books on the market today. I contacted the author for a question, which was trivial, but he responded to me in less than a day. WOW!

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These authors know their stuff. It is easy to read and follow. As a new user, I can really appreciate a well written reference book. The book has a getting started section and then brakes into logical feature and sketch tool sections. The short tutorials lets you apply the tools to ensure that you understand their functionality. There are over 200 short tutorials with final models to help you learn 95% of what SolidWorks has to offer. There are full screen shots of most propertymanagers and dialog boxes which is a big help when trying to understand the various options.

It provides extensive coverage of the document properties and system options section with system defaults. This is helpful when sharing a system. This is the most borrowed book in my department. Thank you ..

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These authors are great. I've used them in college and now I use them in industry. This is a great reference book with over 200 models on an incorporated book CD.

I cracked open the book, inserted the CD and as I worked through the problems, I become more and more impressed with it. SolidWorks 2008 has a very different look from 2007. There are many neat tools and features; namely - Pop-up Context toolbars, DimXpert, MotionStudy, Instant3D and TolAnalysis to name a few.

There are some weaknesses in this book, but ones that you can work around. To have all of the answers, they would need to write a 3000 page book. The index, in particular, I found to be pretty expansive - I used it to find answers to more than one problem where I was fairly clueless. Tons of illustrations and clearly written. Keep up the good work.