Dezignstuff SolidWorks Blog

I know I tend to scare off beginners. I’m emotionally scarred from not getting training as a young SolidWorks user. So, if there are any new SW users still left reading this site, instead of buying my book and criticising it because it doesn’t cater to noobs, I found this site for you. I’m not convinced this is totally  legal, it appears to be a 200+ page teacher guide for the educational side of things, so get it while the getting’s good. It’s at least a couple of versions old, but I don’t think for the level of stuff they are covering that the age is going to make much difference.

You could go a step further and read the Getting Started guide for SW2001. You can also find old Planchard books here and a 2005 Planchard assemblies book, a 2005 Planchard tutorial, as well as a SW2004 What’s New, a SolidWorks 2008/Rhino surfacing lesson, a confidential 2006 UGS “internal and reseller use only” comparison between SE and SW, a 482 page Essentials training manual for SW2008 in Portuguese, lots of stuff in other languages and from universities, and where ever.

After looking at it, I would question the legality of much of the material people have put here. From the looks of the copyrighted SW training materials,  electronic versions have been bootlegged, not like scanned paper docs. Access to electronic versions of SW training manuals is limited. How hard is it to find a portuguese speaking SW reseller? Uploading restricted access copyrighted data to a public site is stupid.

How did I find this? Someone clicked on a link to this blog from somewhere on that site, and the link shows up in my stats. I don’t think Scribd is a secret, but I had never thought to look there for SW stuff before.

I’m sometimes discouraged by the fact that I see so many people searching for obviously bootlegged documentation and software, including my books. Stats for this site show what people are searching for. I like to do stuff for people for free, but I don’t like to have what is meant to be for sale stolen. For years I kept a traditional website with pages for different topics, and ppt presentations, and white papers and stuff that was all free. I just closed that site down because this blog takes all my effort now. Please make use of free stuff. Encourage people to make stuff available. But also have some respect, and if it’s a resource that’s for sale, pay for it.