The SolidWorks 2009 Bible is here!
The SolidWorks 2009 Bible is finally printed and delivered! The final page count is 1130, only slightly more ponderous than before.
I will start getting these out to those who have paid for the book and contest winners. If you want to buy one now that you can see that it is a physical reality, not just a far away distant promise, you can click the Buy Now button below. The book sells for $45, which includes shipping, and a personalized author signature if that kind of thing keeps you going.
This book was a lot of work for being simply a revision. It encompasses the changes in both 2008 and 2009, so just about anything that has an interface screen shot had to be redone.
Ricky Jordan was the Tech Editor for this book, which means that he was the one who pointed out the mistakes in the original book, and the new text written for the 2009 edition. Ricky helped a lot, especially seeing that the first edition of the book hardly saw any technical editing at all. It’s hard work researching and writing 1100 pages worth of information.
The biggest changes in this edition are the reorganization of the first 5 chapters, and especially the birth of Chapter 5 – Visualization Techniques. I added a chapter on Plastic Techniques and Mold Tools. My friend Wes Cobb wanted a whole chapter on Mold Tools, but I think that one has to wait… Of course that’s what I said last time.
There is also a new chapter on the Motion Manager. This was difficult to write because the old SolidWorks Animator is full of, well, quirks. Getting examples that worked properly was difficult.
Thank you all for your patience, and especially for all of you who pre-ordered. I hope you enjoy and learn from the book, and if you can offer feedback, I will really appreciate it.
Matt, are you going to send mine to my home/work address?
Steve
@Steve Calvert
Steve,
Books just went out this morning. Sent to your RR address.
Matt,
Just ordered a copy. Can’t wait to see your latest work.
Best regards,
John Picinich
@John_P
Thanks, John! It’s going out today. Ran out of my regular shipping boxes, so I had to put one together for you.
Thanks again.
Great Matt, I and others around the office here are looking forward to reading it.
Steve
Congrats on getting the book out. You did a great job on it!
The book just arrived – looks like it will be fun!
Just wondering – the CD states there is a pdf version included – I could not find it anywhere.
Just got the book yesterday looks like a great resource. But like Jeff H the CD has me stumped – I can’t find the pdf of the book.
Yes it’s here too!
today i received your solidworks bible after it traveled half the planet!
I’m impressed with the book, it’s wonderful! definitely has a lot to learn.
thanks a lot Matt.
@matt
Matt, firstly thanks for all the work you do for us!
After the first Solidworks 2007 bible i bought the 2009 version, especially for the useful pdf that i could use with my notebook. That i discovered i won’t find in the cd, after 2 hours.. I sincerely hope you and Wiley solve this situation, every website in the world and every little review of your book says “as well as the entire book in searchable PDF format”.
Hi Matt,
I’ve downloaded yours files, used into SolidWorks Bible.
They are from previous SolidWorks version.
Have you verify that some into SW2009 have errors or different result ?
It’s not your problem, but SW Corp. has changed something in they algorithmic.
For example ‘Chapter 17 – stool.sldprt’, opened into SW2008 has a result, but into SW2009, the result has a little bad behaviour.
Can you verify and pull ears to SolidWorks Corp. ?
@cubalibre00
You’re talking about the surfacing book? Can you be more specific about the “little bad behavior”? I do see some imperfections around the sharp corners in 09 that I would have been unhappy with. The parts were built in 08.
@matt
Hi Matt, I don’t remember where, I know that I’ve downloaded from you 10 days ago and by checking the files and solutions, with the 2009, I noticed that in some cases, the areas change from 2008 to 2009 and often worse.
Hi, Matt.
I sow preveiw chapters – interest book for me.
Are you want will translite this book on russian language?
Avodon,
I think my publishers translate it to Chinese, but not to Russian. If you could guarantee selling 5000 copies they might do it. You game?
Oh, and the CD that comes with the book only runs on PC, not Linux. Or Mac for that matter.
Yeah, I’m working on that. Gotta keep an eye on those publishers… The first version didn’t have a pdf, and didn’t claim to. They said they were gonna do one for this version, and I saw it in pieces, just not all together. I’ve got a call in to the editor, we’ll see what she has to say.