SolidWorks Surfacing and Complex Shape Modeling Bible

You need to feel quite comfortable with SW basics before attempting to approach this book successfully.The 1st part of this book (page 3 to 276)can be a little bit boring, with only some minor and limited examples... but you start seeing Lombard's working philosophy: he discusses the SW tool with the rigor of an engineer, and wants the reader to be conscious of both Solidworks' strengths and weaknesses. You start seeing why SW Corp values this guy as a good assessor.The 2nd part is where you start getting much more action, tips and step-by-step tutorials (not all the time though; Lombard suggests u develop your own best practices). He also approaches some models taking in account how the final product will be manufactured, which in my opinion is great!I'm now finishing Chapter 18 (modeling a plastic bottle), but I already consider this book a very valuable resource.SUGGESTIONS:1) A new book with a greater number of step-by-step tutorials of more complex and cooler industrial products will be very welcomed. If an industrial designer could co-write it with Lombard adding tips on ergonomy, functionality and rendering (i.e. with PhotoView360) I would buy it straightaway.2) If Lombard designed a new book orienting the SW modeling even more towards manufacturing processes I would certainly buy it.

Great aid to using software

Good theory but short on depth and very little practice to extend ones capabilties.Why not a car body or a boat?

Having moved jobs i had to become a solid worker rather than a pro engineer so i found this book, along with the basic bible very helpful to guide me through.

Good quality and fast delivery. Very happy

It starts off with curves, goes through to surfaces and then starts explaining (in detail) the various features that allow you to get there. In this book you really get a lot, you get:the theory behind surfacing in Part 1all features related to surfacing in Parts 2 and 3worked examples in Part 4Also covered, although in less detail; is working from scandata, overmolded geometry, master modeling techniques and some presentation tips. This book is highly recommended for:solidworks users who have always wondered about surfacing, and how to utilize themsolidworks users who know some surfacing, but want to further their knowledge about surfacingany user that uses a similar tool (inventor, catia, pro/e) and wants to know surfacing in solidworks, many topics are valuable and not solidworks specific This book is not what you're looking for, if you:have no experience with Solidworks at allwant to do class-a surfacingwant deep mathematical theory on surfaces and NURBSwant elaborate technical specifics of how to model manufacturable parts (such as plastics)want in-depth explanations on working with scandataNote, however, this book doesn't try to be any of the "is not what you're looking for" things and totally rocks at being all of the "is highly recommended" things!Highly recommended!!!

Great book for Solidworks users with an up to date knowledge of solid feature creation and manipulation in SW2007 and SW2008, but now requiring to use surfacing techniques.Needs a good working knowledge of SW basics. Publishers web site has tutorial samples for download.

Explique tres bien le logiciel. Je m'en sert pour donner mes fromations

Matt has said it himself, this is not a line-by-line, push the buttons kind of resource. It will get you thinking about the overall concepts and capabilities and then make you figure out the details. With the discussion in the book, you will get the basics and then you can refer to the tutorials and roll the part back if something doesn't make sense. The difference with this approach is you will walk away with a deeper understanding.If you have ever done complex surfacing our solid modeling, this will be a great resource on how things work, where you will likely find bugs and workarounds. I also found it very readable. You can read the chapters and skim the tutorials, then go back and work on the tutorials in greater detail.I think this is one of the best CAD resources I have seen and I have used several surfacing and solid modeling tools. It reminds more of the in-depth classes the large CAD companies used to have rather than the less thoughtful classes often taught now by resellers.

good product.

I have been working in SolidWorks for around ten years. In that period of time there has been a great deal of change in the program. I find that my skills are generally good, but lacking variety across all of the available SolidWorks features; so this book, along with Matt's other works have become a staple reference for me whenever I get "stumped."Matt has approached this book with obvious first-hand and detailed understanding of both the strong and weak features of SolidWorks Surfacing aspects. You will likely find, as I did, that even the fundementals that he covers will hold some valuable recommendations and methods.I will be keeping this book close at hand.

This is an excellent book to start off learning the tools for Surface Modeling. The author points out some of the "non-intuitive" trapfalls, and provides good guidance regarding when to use specific features. He takes it step by step so you have a compete understanding of all the tools.I do have a significant complaint: the book is only available in the Kindle version, and the illustrations (of the toolbars and screenshots) are not legible...And it is difficult to follow some of the tutorials when using a black and white Kindle because many of the instruction refer to different colored surfaces...which are not shown on the black and white Kindle