CAD Books

Introduction to Autodesk Land Desktop 2008 and Civil Design 2008 introduces the reader to Autodesk's Land Desktop software using tutorial style lessons. Each lesson is based on real world projects that acquaint the reader with the important features of the software. In each lesson goals and objectives for the section are explained then a...

Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks 2008 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...

CATIA V5 Tutorials Mechanism Design and Animation Releases 17 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 17 wishing to create and simulate the motion of mechanisms within CATIA Digital Mock Up...

SolidWorks 2008: The Basics provides a sound foundation on using SolidWorks in an engineering design environment. The book supplies a general introduction to the User interface, CommandManager, menus, consolidated toolbars, Confirmation Corner, etc. and design modeling techniques to create and modify parts, assemblies, and drawings....

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...

SolidWorks 2008 Tutorial with MultiMedia CD is written to assist students, designers, engineers, and professionals. The book provides an introduction to the SolidWorks 2008 User Interface (UI); CommandManager, Task Pane, Menus, Toolbars, and general concepts, and modeling techniques to create parts, assemblies, and drawings. Follow...

The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce students to Pro/ENGINEER's Wildfire 4.0 design capabilities. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation, and creation of engineering drawings. Also...

Engineering Design with SolidWorks covers parts, assemblies and drawings. The part section covers all the major solid features in SolidWorks. There are 3 assemblies. The first assembly, GUIDE-ROD utilizes industry components and simple extruded parts. Individual part drawings and assembly drawings with Bill of Materials are...

AutoCAD Civil 3D Introduction to Corridor Design is designed to teach students how to use AutoCAD Civil 3D to successfully create road corridors. The interactive exercises will include configuring objects and object styles that are used in the AutoCAD Civil 3D design process. Students will use tools to model existing ground surfaces, layout...

The Fundamentals of SolidWorks 2007 is designed for students, educators, hobbyists, and engineers to learn the basic principles of SolidWorks as it relates to the design of the VEXplorer™ robot. The VEXplorer is a 300 part robot kit manufactured by Innovation First, Inc. and Revell Inc. Innovation first engineers utilized SolidWorks to...

The Primary Goal of Parametric Modeling with UGS NX 5 is to introduce the aspects of designing with Solid Modeling and Parametric Modeling. This text uses UGS NX as the modeling tool and the chapters guide you from constructing basic solid models to building intelligent mechanical designs, creating multi-view drawings and assembly models....

This textbook has been completely updated for AutoCAD 2008 and includes a new chapter (chapter five) which covers hand sketching. Principles and Practices: An Integrated Approach to Engineering Graphics and AutoCAD 2008 combines an introduction to AutoCAD 2008 with a comprehensive coverage of engineering graphics principles. By...

This workbook is an introduction to the main Workbench functions CATIA V5 has to offer. The book's objective is to instruct anyone wanting to learn CATIA V5 through organized, graphically rich, step-by-step instructions on the software's basic processes and tools. This book is not intended to be a reference guide.

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 Essentials is designed for students, Civil Engineers and Surveyors who want to take advantage of AutoCAD Civil 3D's interactive, dynamic design functionality. AutoCAD Civil 3D permits the rapid development of alternatives through its model-based design tools. You will learn techniques enabling you to organize project...

Space Planning with AutoCAD Architecture 2008 focuses on the space planning capabilities of AutoCAD Architecture. Working with space criteria tables to determine the best floor plan and use of space, you create and use documentation layouts, spaces, space boundaries, areas, area groups, space and room tags, create 3D and 2D elevations of...

This textbook contains a series of twelve tutorial style lessons designed to introduce SolidWorks 2007, solid modeling and parametric modeling techniques and concepts. The lessons guide the user from constructing basic shapes to building intelligent solid models and assemblies and creating multi-view drawings.

This textbook is an intermediate level tutorial which uses commercial interior design exercises as the means to teach AutoCAD 2008. The student 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. Throughout the...

This textbook contains a series of ten tutorial style lessons designed to introduce students to AutoCAD LT 2008.

Engineering Graphics Essentials with AutoCAD 2008 Instruction is specifically designed to be used in a one or two credit introduction to engineering graphics course. It covers the main topics of engineering graphics, including tolerancing and fasteners, and gives engineering students a basic understanding of how to create and read...