Books

Residential Design Using Revit Architecture 2010 is designed for the architectural student new to Revit Architecture 2010. This text takes a project based approach to learning Revit Architecture in which the student develops a single family residence all the way to photo-realistic renderings like the one on the cover. Each book comes with a...

The purpose of Beginner's Guide to SolidWorks 2009 is to help the readers learn the basic concepts of SolidWorks and good solid modeling practices in an easy to follow guide. It is intended for the new SolidWorks user, users with experience in different CAD systems, and as a teaching aid in classroom training. After completing the exercises...

Parametric Modeling with Autodesk Inventor 2010 contains a series of fifteen tutorial style lessons designed to introduce Autodesk Inventor, solid modeling, and parametric modeling. It uses a hands-on, exercise-intensive approach to all the import parametric modeling techniques and concepts. The lessons guide the user from constructing...

Engineering Analysis with SolidWorks Simulation 2009 goes beyond the standard software manual because its unique approach concurrently introduces you to the SolidWorks Simulation 2009 software and the fundamentals of Finite Element Analysis ( FEA ) through hands-on exercises. A number of projects are presented using commonly used parts to...

Commercial Design Using AutoCAD 2010 is an introductory level tutorial which uses commercial design exercises as the means to teach AutoCAD 2010. The reader begins a campus library floor plan. Using step-by-step tutorial lessons, the library project is followed through to create FFE plans, interior elevations, schedules, and details....

Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2009 is written to educate and assist students, designers, engineers, and professionals in the drawing and detailing tools of SolidWorks. Explore the learning process through a series of design situations, industry scenarios, projects, and objectives targeted towards the beginning to intermediate...

Residential Design Using AutoCAD 2010 is an introductory level tutorial which uses residential design exercises as the means to teach AutoCAD 2010. After completing this book readers will have a well-rounded knowledge of Computer Aided Drafting that they can use in the industry and a feeling of satisfaction having completed a set of...

SolidWorks 2009: The Basics is targeted toward any beginning to intermediate SolidWorks user looking for a step-by-step project based approach with an enclosed 1.5 hour Multi-media CD. Learn by doing, not just by reading! The book covers the SolidWorks User Interface and CommandManager, Document and System properties, simple...

The objective of this tutorial book is to expose the reader to the basic FEA capabilities in CATIA V5 Release 18. The chapters are designed to be independent of each other allowing the user to pick specific topics without the need to go through the previous chapters. However, the best strategy to learn is to sequentially cover the chapters....

Chapters in Architectural Drawing provides an introduction to the fundamental principles needed to create compelling freehand and hard line drawings. Using the graphics, instructions, sketching exercises, and the included videos the reader will learn the techniques used by architectural professionals to visually communicate ideas and...

Mechanism Design with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 is designed to help you become familiar with Mechanism Design, a module in the Pro/ENGINEER software family, which supports modeling and analysis (or simulation) of mechanisms in a virtual (computer) environment. The book is written following a project-based learning approach and is...

Revit Structure 2009 Fundamentals is designed to teach students how to take full advantage of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with Revit Structure 2009. This book will teach students the concepts and principles from building designs through construction documentation using Revit Structure 2009. This textbook introduces students to the...

CATIA V5 Tutorials Mechanism Design and Animation Releases 18 is composed of several tutorial style lessons. This book is intended to be used as a training guide for those who have a basic familiarity with part and assembly modeling in CATIA V5 Release 18 wishing to create and simulate the motion of mechanisms within CATIA Digital Mock Up...

SolidWorks 2009 Tutorial with Multi-media CD is targeted toward a technical school, two year college or four year university instructor/student or industry professional that is a beginner or intermediate user who is looking for a step-by-step project based approach with an enclosed 1.5 hour Multi-media CD. The book covers the...

The primary goal of Introduction to Finite Element Analysis Using Pro/MECHANICA Wildfire 4.0 is to introduce the aspects of finite element analysis that are important to engineers and designers. Theoretical aspects of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) are also introduced as they are needed to help better understand the operations. The primary...

Engineering Design with SolidWorks 2009 & Multimedia CD is written to assist students, designers, engineers and professionals. The book provides a solid foundation in SolidWorks by utilizing projects with Step-by-Step instructions for the beginning to intermediate SolidWorks user. Explore the user interface, menus, toolbars and modeling...

Automating SolidWorks 2009 Using Macros is designed as a tutorial to help beginner to intermediate programmers develop macros for SolidWorks and SolidWorks Workgroup PDM. This new edition focuses primarily on the new Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) macro interface. It covers many of the major API functions through practical use...

An Introduction to COSMOSFloWorks 2008 takes the reader through the steps of creating the SolidWorks part for the COSMOSFloWorks simulation followed by the setup and calculation of the COSMOSFloWorks project. The results from calculations are visualized and compared with theoretical solutions and empirical data. Each chapter starts with the...

The main purpose of this book is to provide civil engineering students with a clear presentation of the theory of engineering graphics and the use of AutoCAD 2008. Each chapter starts with the chapter objectives followed by the introduction. The contents of each chapter are organized into well-defined sections that contain step-by-step...