On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:50:48 -0500, "David R. Birch"
wrote:

I just completed a Solidworks course called Solidworks Essentials. The
company I work for is installing up to four seats of SW2012 and I want
to get more books on the software, especially concerning sheet metal and
press brake forming work.

Any suggestions? My instructor recommended the Solidworks Bible,
anything else I should look at?

David

I hope you don't mind that I use your post for a little rant about
Solidworks. I love it most of the time. But too often... like the
other day when I was mating a cylinder base to a surface. A simple
operation if ever there was one. The mate seemed to work like
thousands before it. The cylinder base could be flipped to either side
of the surface by clicking on the mate direction. But other than that
the mate didn't work in the slightest. The cylinder showed no sign of
ever giving up any freedom of movement no matter what I tried.
Eventually I gave up like I always do, recreated the cylinder, and
then the mate on the new part worked perfectly. The original part file
will live for some time in the folder I maintain for quirk infected
..SLDPRTs. You will soon have one of those folders and it will hold
files with schizophrenic cosmetic threads and magically linked
appearances. If Dassault would refund $1 for every one of these files
then their only hope of keeping their lights on would be to promise
Sheldon Adelson that they'd exterminate all the Palestinians. On a
list of the causes of suicide I'd expect to see Solidworks somewhere
between _lost the lottery for the 4 thousandth time_ and _tired of
pocket locking my car doors_

The Solidworks Bible is excellent. And I mean that. If you're still
enjoying it beyond the halfway point though then you're probably
qualified to pontificate on the meaning of life and all forms of
existentialism.