Preface

The target audience for this book is college students in courses that use SolidWorks to learn and master CAD/CAM for design, visualization, prototyping, and manufacturing. The book’s primary market is four-year colleges and two-year community colleges. Freshman Engineering Design courses should find this book useful, refreshing, and interesting. Other important markets include high schools, professionals, and training courses. We have written the book with the target audience in mind. Page iii highlights some of the book’s features.

The book includes just the right amount of math in Chapter 8 (Curves), Chapter 9 (Surfaces), and Chapter 13 (Analysis Tools). The math is concentrated in one or two sections in each of these three chapters. ...

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