If you are a student or engineer who is interested to learn SOLIDWORKS 2016 for mechanical design, then this book helps you to do it easily and quickly. You will also enjoy the learning process by creating real world models. In addition, if you are a graphical learner, then you will find this book very interesting. The topics in this book include Getting Started with SOLIDWORKS 2016, Basic Part Modeling, Creating Assemblies, Creating Drawings, Additional Modeling Tools, and Sheet Metal Modeling. Chapter 1 introduces SOLIDWORKS. The user interface and terminology are discussed in this chapter. Chapter 2 takes you through the creation of your first SOLIDWORKS model. You create simple parts. Chapter 3 teaches you to create assemblies. It explains the Top-down and Bottom-up approaches for designing an assembly. You create an assembly using the Bottom-up approach. Chapter 4 teaches you to create drawings of the models created in the earlier chapters. You will also learn to place exploded views, and part list of an assembly. Chapter 5: In this chapter, you will learn sketch tools.