Engineering Analysis with SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2015 1st Edition

I am a mechanical design engineer, PE, and have been mainly self taught in CAD using 3rd party manuals since the early 90's on autocad, pro/e (since 1993) and lately Solidworks. I am now diving into the simulation package for Solidworks as it has, in my opinion, finally gained the power and stability to be a potential alternative for flotherm and ANSYS (my previous preferred tools) as CFD and FEA analytical tools. I have found this book to be extremely well written, with great depth, accuracy and user friendliness; when I run a problem from the book the solution teaches methodology, works (without having to dig through typos, errors or crashes), and occasionally touches on theory without diving into the linear algebra basis for FEA that is frankly only interesting to FEA programmers or hard core math nuts. A definite 5 star tutorial that is suitable for self study. I am admittedly only ~ 2/3 of the way through so there might be an example problem that needs tweaking left to find, but so far so great. 10 points, 5 stars, A+, whatever..

This book has become my reference to learn simulation.

Terrible book. It skips so many steps. Constant, constant skipping. I'll read three pages, confused, only to go back and realize I was supposed to do a step the book does not mention. Too bad this review doesn't matter, because you have to buy this book anyway!