subject: Solidworks Tutorials: Key Considerations When Choosing Your Provider [print this page] In recent years SolidWorks tutorials have gained popularity as a reliable, convenient, and effective way for engineers to gain 3D design expertise. Most practicing engineers prefer to learn SolidWorks techniques and skills through tutorials rather than by attending formal classes. SolidWorks tutorials provide an opportunity for you to tutor yourself at the most convenient time, in the most effective manner, and in the comfort of your office or home. These tutorials have also gained wide popularity among corporate design teams.
Online learning is slowly but steadily replacing traditional classroom-based learning as the best available option for practitioners with busy schedules and who are still committed to lifelong personal and career development. Indeed, even non-practicing professionals now increasingly prefer online learning to formal classes. SolidWorks video tutorials, for instance, enable a practicing engineer to learn easily, at a personal pace, with personal convenience, and from anywhere across the globe, as long as he/she has a personal computer and an internet connection.
According to Dassault Systems SolidWorks Corporation, the developers and marketers of SolidWorks Solutions, most SolidWorks users acquire crucial techniques and skills using tutorials. For those interested in using this new option, the company has partnered with several certified vendors to offer and facilitate SolidWorks tutorials for users globally. In this regard it is advisable to make several key considerations when choosing the best provider of such tutorials in the market.
To begin with, the provider must be a certified SolidWorks Solutions partner. Providers certified by the developer are trustworthy and reliable unlike the many unscrupulous scam artists all over the internet. Secondly, the provider should facilitate all available versions of SolidWorks. This is because all the SolidWorks versions from 2008 to date work on the same compatible platform. Slight functionality improvements have been made in the newer versions though. Thirdly, the provider should facilitate SolidWorks video tutorials alongside the necessary manuals. The demonstration effect of video tutorials makes learning easy, practical, and highly effective.
Fourthly, the provider should offer tutorial packages covering key SolidWorks techniques and skills including but not limited to the Core Concepts, 3D basics, Animation, Assembly, Advanced Assemblies, Drawings, eDrawings, Simulation, Simulation Express, Update Training, Sheet Metal Design, Part Design, Advanced Parts, Surface Design and Modelling, as well as Application Programming Interface.
Finally, the SolidWorks tutorials provider should provide course materials in a variety of formats. Ideally, the course material should be available for controlled download (i.e. one user limits per subscription), on disks (mailed to subscriber's address), and for online access (regulated by user password). This will give a user the flexibility to choose the most convenient and effective way to learn. For instance, a user can use SolidWorks tutorials installed on a laptop when in offline locations, but then use online-based SolidWorks video tutorials when in the office or at home.
