SOLIDWORKS 2021: A Step-By-Step Tutorial Guide for Beginners (Mixed Units)

SOLIDWORKS 2021: A Step-By-Step Tutorial Guide for Beginners (Mixed Units) textbook is intended to help students, designers, engineers, and professionals who are interested in learning SOLIDWORKS step-by-step for creating real world 3D mechanical designs. It is a great starting point for new users of SOLIDWORKS and for those moving from other CAD software. This textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions for creating parametric 3D solid components, assemblies, and 2D drawings with ease. Every tutorial in this textbook is created based on real-world projects. This textbook consists of 11 chapters, a total of 428 pages covering major environments of SOLIDWORKS such as Part modeling environment, Assembly environment, and Drawing environment including configurations.

Every chapter ends with exercises that allow users to experience for themselves the user friendly and powerful capacities of SOLIDWORKS, which help users to assess their knowledge.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS
Chapter 2. Creating and Editing Sketches
Chapter 3. Creating Extrude and Revolve Features
Chapter 4. Creating Multi-Feature 3D Models
Chapter 5. Creating Sweep and Loft Features
Chapter 6. Creating Holes, Threads, and Shell Features
Chapter 7. Creating 3D Sketches and Helical Curves
Chapter 8. Working with Configurations
Chapter 9. Creating Assemblies Using Bottom-up Approach
Chapter 10. Creating Assemblies Using Top-down Approach
Chapter 11. Creating 2D Drawings