Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks 2023
In Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks 2023, award-winning
CAD instructor and author James Bethune shows students how to use
SolidWorks to create engineering drawings and designs. The textbook has
been updated to cover the new features in SolidWorks 2023. It 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.
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
