Beginner's Guide to SOLIDWORKS 2016 - Level I (Including unique access code) 1st Edition

Nice book. Look in great condition. Look forward to using it in class tomorrows!

I'm a beginner on SOLIDWORKS & the school has SOLIDWORKS 2014-2015, but this works as a good guide even if some of the changes from 2014-15 to 2016 is a little frustrating, but overall it is a good investment for Beginners who don't want to damage a $10,000 Computer Program & need to learn to apply SOLIDWORKS as a tool in the field of Machinist/Technician.

Easy to Follow Projects.

Not friendly

Great

Upon first use, the book seems very useful. It does its job of instructing the user on the basics of SolidWorks and is pretty easy to understand and follow. The problem comes when you finish the chapter. At the end of each chapter, there are exercises which are not guided so that you can test what you just learned. This is an awesome idea, and I really liked it - mostly. After the exercises are Project Parts. Generally the exercises use skills you have learned. However, the Project builds use several things that HAVE NOT been taught, shown, or displayed nor are they intuitive (otherwise we wouldn't need a book to learn the program). Attempting to figure out how to do the things that SHOULD have been taught can take hours. It is highly frustrating when you are attempting to do something that you know what you need to do, but just cannot figure out how to do it. So, you say, just skip the project stuff? Well, the project stuff, as it sounds like, leads to a full project that you put together. If you can't build the parts, no project to put together. I bought this book to teach me, not to make me as frustrated as I was without it. All I asked was that the author explain how to do the things he believes are important in using SolidWorks. If he believes the skills needed in the project are important, then they should be explained.

Worst quality

It's very wordy and not written from the perspective of an expert trying to clearly teach the steps to a novice.It seems to jump around and skip information, doesn't have a good flow to it. It feels like I am supposed to already understand the language before even reading the book. Maybe video tutorials are better for teaching stuff like this, books are such a waste of students money.

A well planned introduction to SolidWorks, it revolve around the complete design of a gearbox, with separate exercises after finishing each part of the design, one improvement to get to the 5 stars is adding sound narration to the videos, this will compliment the book to become a fully self study textbook.

how can I write a review on a book 1" thick in three weeks? It seems to be an excellent book and I have learned things from it but it is a long term project.