Looking for referrals that want to learn SolidWorks.

I know this is a tough group, but I just have to do it:


Silicon Valley Technical Institute (www.svtii.com) located in San Jose
CA is now offering classes for those interested in learning
SolidWorks. It's 12 week session runs from 6-9pm Tuesdays and
Thursdays and covers basic part modeling, assembly, and drawings.
We're currently running a beginner's course, but registration is open
for our advanced course as well. It is the perfrect alternative for
employers that cannot afford to downtime from their employee during
the week.

If you know anyone that may be interested, please shoot me an e-mail
at or contact .

Thanks!

 

Veed,

I invite you to make a posting here when you have graduates that don't
come from a company. It's getting hard to find noobish CAD drafters
these days. Either its new engineers breaking into the field (not
interested in drafting), or old timers whose skill sets have moved
past simple drafting. Also, for any noobs, I highly recommend
covering GD&T, since having SolidWorks drafting skills without it is
kinda pointless. Just some thoughts.

Matt
http://sw.fcsuper.com

 

What's GD&T

 

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Dimensioning_and_Tolerancing
-Mark

 

That's actually a skill I wish I had. I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-
pants new drafter with a quarter of community college SolidWorks, some
AutoCAD from high school, and now 8 months of work experience.
Luckily, none of my drawings ever need to be very technical, as the
parts are simple sheet metal parts. However, I'm aware that there's a
whole set of technical skills out there that I'll need to utilize
someday.

 

Geometric Tolerancing was taught when I was in college in the 60s, and
there are a lot of good books to get you started. They have
applicability to sheet metal just like a lot of other machined, cast
or molded parts.

Specifying parallelism, concentricity, perpendicularity and such will
become second nature to you after you go through a book and then
relate it to the work you do with the correct levels of tolerancing
appropriate for your industry's processes.

 

How can you make drawings for anything that has to be manufactored in
the real world without knowing about Geometric Tolerances?
But then again I build machines... so I wouldnt be able to make
anything fit without them.... maybe if you where only making welded
constructions you could live without.
All depends on how well it needs to fit together.

They do still teach them at the University, at least I know they did
3-4 years ago, dont think that has changed.
B.Sc.M.E