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