Learn SOLIDWORKS - Second Edition: Get up to speed with key concepts and tools to become an accomplished SOLIDWORKS Associate and Professional

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The approach is targeted at a learning process for the beginner. It is an excellent supplement on your way toward mastering solidworks. This book covers many aspects but not everything. I would propose to a beginner to follow this book as a first step.

I used this book to learn Solidworks 3D experience, which is the low cost home version of Solidworks and found everything worked the same as in the text. Once in a while a command would be sluggish to execute when my internet was slow which kind of made it look like things weren't working but I got used to waiting once in a while. Overall a good text and well organized. Good at telling why you are doing things. But not so good at telling you exactly which mouse clicks make things happen. So I ended up doing web searches with words like "how to select center of a circle in Solidworks" and found lots of helpful YouTube videos. So I got through the book at a steady 20 pages a day and am happy with what I learned. I was able to find all the files described in the book on the web without too much trouble. Some of the figures were hard to make out because they are in only grey tones and the text calls out colors like red.

Not compatible with 3DExperience Solidworks for makers which is a web based version. This probably would be an excellent book to learn from, but it requires the software to reside on your computer.