Design Workbook Using SOLIDWORKS 2026: Design, Detailing, Assembly & Analysis Basics

Design Workbook Using SOLIDWORKS 2026 is an exercise-based book that guides you through a series of easy to understand, step-by-step tutorials that cover basic SOLIDWORKS commands. The 2026 edition includes updated SOLIDWORKS processes and methods to create models more efficiently than ever before. The intended audience is undergraduate engineering majors, but it can also be used in pre-college engineering courses. The engaging and straightforward lab exercises in this workbook are also ideal for self-learners.

The text takes an educational approach where you learn through repetition, starting with simple models, and introducing more complex models and commands as the book progresses, leading you to create assemblies, make Finite Element Analyses, detail manufacturing drawings, complete dynamic simulations, and learn the basics of rapid prototyping. The principles of engineering graphics are also incorporated into the lessons throughout the text.

The commands and functions learned throughout this book will help a new user understand their use, how to apply them in different situations, and design ever more complex components.

Includes Video Instruction

Each copy of this book includes access to video instruction. In these videos the author provides a clear presentation of tutorials found in the book. The videos reinforce the steps described in the book by allowing you to watch the exact steps the author uses to complete the exercises while he provides additional details along the way.

⚙️ KEY FEATURES:

• ✨ Structured SOLIDWORKS 2026 Core Engineering Foundations Curriculum: Official workbook layout designed to guide technical graphics students through step-by-step part modeling, geometric dimensioning, multi-part assembly creation, and finite element analysis basics flawlessly.
• 🚀 Multi-Axis 2D Sketching, Relations, and Fully-Defined Constraint Rails: Comprehensive training paths teaching drafting candidates how to apply geometric relations, lock sketch parameters, and eliminate constraint errors to maintain strict design intent.
• 🔩 Extruded and Revolved Feature Solid Modeling Sandboxes: Project-driven engineering modules covering material additions, cut extrusions, hollow shell pathways, fillets, chamfers, and multi-axis linear or circular patterns driverless.
• 🏗️ Advanced Part Detailing, Sheet Layout, and Orthographic Projections: Symmetrical drawing templates focused on generating standard front-top-right engineering layouts, auxiliary cross-section cuts, and isometric presentation views with clear typography legibility.
• 📋 Automated Bill of Materials (BOM) Synthesis and Parts Indexing: Real-time background documentation calculation rules mapping out how to insert automated annotation flags, extract geometric attributes, and compile organized assembly components lists.
• 🧱 Multi-Component Assembly Mating and Mechanical Joint Alignment: Highly intuitive instructional segments detailing standard concentric, coincident, distance, and advanced kinematic joint movement limitations to simulate real-world hardware systems smoothly safely.
• 🔬 Quantitative Material Mass Property Analytics and Volume Calculations: Specialized database instruction targeted at teaching operators how to allocate material profiles, calculate part volume parameters, trace structural center of mass centers, and audit payload weights.
• 📊 Basic Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Stress Simulation Workspaces: Foundational analytical modules instructing students how to apply localized structural fixtures, configure uniform loading forces, and evaluate von Mises stress distribution plots.
• 🛠️ Structural Design Intent and Parent-Child Feature Hierarchy Tracks: Step-by-step instructional roadmaps showing how modifications made to a base sketch parameter dynamically flow down to drive modifications across secondary components without breaking the feature tree structure.
• 🎨 High-Contrast Workspace Graphics and Real-World Software Screenshot Overlays: Symmetrical construction tracks packing thousands of real-world user interface graphics and colored visual anchors to maximize reader comprehension.
• 🔬 Quantitative Part Section Properties and Inertia Tensor Tracking: Dedicated technical modules teaching engineering students how to calculate area moments of inertia, locate principal axes, and evaluate mass distribution profiles flawlessly.
• 📐 Standard Tolerancing Stack-Ups and Clearance Fit Analysis: Specialized geometric problem-generation setups designed to guide drafting candidates through determining maximum/minimum material conditions and matching component clearance thresholds.