For college or high school introductory courses in Computer-Aided Design. Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks 2011 shows students how to use SolidWorks to create engineering drawings and designs. The book focuses on the creation of engineering drawings, including dimensions and tolerances and the use of standard parts and tools. Each chapter contains step-by-step sample problems that show students how to apply the concepts presented in the chapter.
Key Features
Unique Contents. Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks helps students learn how to:
- Set up drawings and use the SolidWorks Sketch tools to create 2D drawings that can be extruded into solid 3D models.
- Use the Feature tools to create and modify 3D solid models.
- Create views using third-angle projection.
- Fashion assembly drawings using the Mate tool.
- Produce and design with threads and fasteners (both ANSI inch and ANSI metric threads are covered).
- Use the Design Library to create bearing drawings.
- Draw cams and springs, add hubs and keyways to cams, and insert the cams into assembly drawings.
Unique Features. Effective pedagogy throughout the text helps students learn and retain concepts:
- Objectives: Each chapter begins with objectives and an introduction to the material.
- Summaries: Each chapter concludes with a summary and exercise problems.
- Numerous illustrations: The multitude of illustrations, accompanied by explanatory captions, present a visual approach to learning. Students see in the text what they see on the screen with the addition of explanatory text.
- Practical application: The text provides hundreds of exercise projects of varying difficulty (far more than any other computer graphics text). These exercises reinforce each chapter’s content and help students learn by doing.
- Flexibility: With the hundreds of problems presented in the book, instructors can assign different problems within the same class and from year to year without repeating problems for students.
- Meets standards: The text teaches ANSI standards for dimensions and tolerances. This helps students understand how their designs are defined for production and the importance of proper tolerancing.
- Step-by-step approach: In presenting the fundamentals of engineering drawing using SolidWorks, the text uses a step-by-step approach that allows students to work and learn at their own pace.
Contents
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Chapter 2: Sketch Entities and Tools
- Chapter 3: Features
- Chapter 4: Orthographic Views
- Chapter 5: Assemblies
- Chapter 6: Threads and Fasteners
- Chapter 7: Dimensions
- Chapter 8: Tolerances
- Chapter 9: Gears
- Chapter 10: Bearings and Fit Tolerances
- Chapter 11: Cams and Springs
Book Details
- Paperback: 1320 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (©2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132740508
- ISBN-13: 978-0132740500
- Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 0.8 x 10.8 inches
- List price: $121.60