We have purchased SW Premium, specifically for the routing add-in. I have access to the customer portal, and have down-loaded the training course, however I can't find the book that goes with it. I would like to go through the course at my own pace instead of doing the course, as I can play at home as well, but can't find the link.
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Cool Thanks I'll look into it, My main usage will be electrical routing for a start. I've had a quick chat to my provider, they want a fee for a paper copy, I just want to download it as a .pdf if possible.
If you happen to be able to contact forefrontstudios.com I would love to hear about it because I've tried several times since the beginning of this year.
That your VAR wants a fee for it I find absurd but seeing as that they can't make money of you because you won't follow the training that normally is, or should be, provided by them is kind of understandable. Finding the manual in .pdf form you won't be able to and even if you can rest assured that it won't be the most recent version and it certainly won't be a legal copy.
Tried that email addy in the past, to no avail.
Frankly, for the price that SW charges for the premium package they should give all those concerned indepth manuals for the Routing, Simulation and Motion studies on request with no extra charge.
Can you imagine if SW was a car manufacturer ?
Ah, dear client, you have opted for the fully loaded turbo GT. Now to use the turbo and all the other extras you'll need lessons, which we'll provide for the economical price of 500 USD per day (any day started counts as a full day, with a minimum of 3 days, no refunds will be provided for any reason except in case of global thermno-nuclear war if it starts on a tuesday at 2pm) . If you want a manual then you can get a tutorial guide from us for the price of 100 USD (which may or may not be of such an nature that it could have been boiled down to a leaflet without losing any of it's informative value) or you can buy an indepth one from a 3rd party (which isn't supported or acknowledge by us and may or may not be writen by someone that actual knows what he is writing about and therefor you can't hold us responsible for any errors).
Solidworks is a great program but manuals are certainly not one of their strong suits.
I know I learned more about the Routing module on this forum and from trial and error then from the SW routing manual and course.
Peter, I can understand the situation and your frustration. Wes Mosier offered for free copies of his Routing Manual once on this forum. I'll PM him to check the status of the his site and routing manual.
You can also check with Andy Hughes for more details
I doubt you will be able to find the PDF of the actual SW training manual online as they guard them pretty well. The reseller has to purchase the manual from the SW printer thus the fee.
You can try and search on eBay and see if there is one for auction on there, otherwise you may have to pony up and purchase from your VAR. I am actually suprirsed they are willing to sell you one without taking the class. All the VARs I worked for over the past ten years typically did not seel the manuals without the clas.
This no longer exists, can it be found elsewhere?
That book is available with your VAR (I'm not sure if users can have a copy of that).
Check this link SolidWorks Routing Manual (one of the best stuff on SolidWorks Routing)