Introduction to Solid Modeling Using SOLIDWORKS

by William Howard

Howard and Musto's industry-leading text presents a tutorial-based introduction to solid modeling and the SOLIDWORKS software. Although the tutorials can be followed by anyone interested in learning the software, it is geared toward introductory engineering students or high school students interested in engineering. Accordingly, the examples and problems are based on the authors' experience with teaching engineering students.


This new edition is now available in Connect, which includes curated question banks that are assignable as high stakes assessment or unlimited practice problems. These auto-graded banks save faculty time while providing instant feedback to students. Instructors can edit these questions and/or add their own questions to these banks.

432 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Librarian note: Also see William Howard which was a pseudonym used by William Johnston.

Reviews

[Adrian Cook]

I have this book as it was required course material.
I have read it first in an introductory course in SolidWorks and again a few years later to refresh myself.

I am giving this book a low rating because it confuses simple examples by adding unnecessary information especially about customizing the work space. It also gives unnecessarily long explanations for simple operations especially as the book progresses.

I would not recommend this book a desktop reference, and it barely serves it's purpose as an introductory resource.