Engineering Design and Graphics with SolidWorks 2019

Description

James D. Bethune taught drafting and Computer Aided-Design (CAD) for 39 years, twice winning the Outstanding Professor of the year award. He has an EdD in Education from Boston University and has written more than 25 books on drafting and CAD. While retired from full-time teaching, Jim continues to write textbooks on CAD. An avid golfer, Jim lives in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

• 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.
• CSWA EXAM PREP: This edition includes sample problems to help students prepare for the CSWA Exam.

• New chapter devoted to practice for the CSWA certification exam, with many sample problems
• Includes extensive coverage of dimensioning, tolerancing, and the use of standard parts and tools
• Learn by doing, step-by-step, with hundreds of example problems at all levels of difficulty
• By award-winning CAD instructor and author James Bethune

• 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 Dimensioning
• CHAPTER 8 Tolerancing
• CHAPTER 9 Bearings and Fit Tolerances
• CHAPTER 10 Gears
• CHAPTER 11 CSWA Preparation
• APPENDIX
• INDEX

Updated throughout to reflect new SOLIDWORKS 2019 features, Engineering Design and Graphics with SOLIDWORKS shows students how to use SOLIDWORKS to create engineering drawings and designs, including dimensioning, tolerancing, and the use of standard parts and tools. Each chapter contains step-by-step sample problems that show students how to apply its concepts it presents. These and other pedagogical features are designed to help students learn more quickly and retain concepts more successfully:

• Chapter-opening objectives
• Chapter-ending summaries and exercise problems
• Many illustrations throughout, with clear explanations
• Hundreds of practical exercise projects of varying difficulty, helping students learn by doing
• Flexibility for instructors: with hundreds of problems, instructors can assign different problems within the same class and from year to year without repetition
• ANSI standards support: Uses ANSI standards for dimensions and tolerances, showing how designs are defined for production and the importance of proper tolerances
• Step-by-step approach: Helps students learn at their own pace

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