SolidWorks Training books

I am looking for some training book on SolidWorks And I am wondering what
books would be good for me.
I would say that I am a beginner to intermeadite user, I have taken the
essentials parts and assembly and the drawing course for SW 03 from my VAR.
I am planing on taking the Advance trainning for part and assembilies as
well. I am looking at other book that will help me even more. I would like
to increass my producitive using SW. I've seen some of the book on
Amazon.com and I am just wondering if they are to basic? Or are they quite
indepth?

Thanks Nathan

 

The book by Sham Tickroo is pretty good. He touches
on things that aren't gone over in Adv. Parts. However, the
advanced parts class is far supererior, in my opinion.

-Dennis

 

I am reviewing some SW training books that seem to be quite good. They are
made by David & Marie Planchard. SDC publications. www.schroff.com They are
in a school book format meaning there are easy to use lessons with a page of
questions ever so often. It has simple to complex subjects. They come with
CD's with lesson files. They are 8.5" x 11" in size and hundreds of pages
(512 for the first one listed below.)

Here is a sample of the different books they have:

Assembly Modeling with SolidWorks
Engineering & Computer Graphics using SolidWorks
Engineering Design with SolidWorks
Inside SolidWorks 2003 Publisher: Thompson/Delmar Learning
SolidWorks Tutorial
Automating SolidWorks using Macros
Drawing and Detailing with SolidWorks

They are all about $60.00 or so. That's cheap for the wealth of info they
have in them.

I hope this helps,

Dan Bovinich

P.S. I have seen Marie Planchard post on this newsgroup.