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Summary: Recommended by my instructor
Review: Being a fresher in the field of parametric modeling, I was looking for some reference books that would get me started with Autodesk Inventor. This is the book that my instructor asked me to take a look at. He gave me his own copy and when I went thru the first few chapters of this book, I was so impressed that I got my own copy. The material in this book is so well organized that even an average person like me has become good at whatever I have read from this book as of now. The author has recognized the problems that a starter can face and has framed the material accordingly. The tips and other additional information that is given in the chapters are really useful. I am thankful to my instructor who recommended this book to me.If you ask me, I will surely recommend that you have this book if you are planning to get started with Autodesk Inventor. I have asked the author to send me some students projects also. Although I am sure its going to take me some time to be able to work on them, but I would surely like to take a look at them also.
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Summary: Single book for all users
Review: I am a full time Design Engineer and part time instructor at a CAD training institute. This book was referred to me by one of my collegues. This is the first book I have seen that can be used in industry as well as in the class. I liked the flow of the material and the tutorials so much in this book that I planned to show this book to my collegues at the training center and the president. All of them were so impressed that we have now decided to use this book as our standard course material for all the Autodesk Inventor classes. If you are planning to use Autodesk Inventor in your company or institute, do try this book. I am sure, just like all of us, you are going to be impressed with the projectss and tutorials of this book.
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Summary: Outstanding Book on Autodesk Inventor
Review: I have used and read several books on Parametric Solid Modeling. The Autodesk Inventor for Designers is the best book on Inventor. The examples and exercises are real-world applications that we see and use in industry. Every example/tutorial contains thorough explination that makes it easy to understand the model creation process. The exercises at the end of the chapter are outstanding that make you think the way a designer should. The book is supported by a student and faculty web site that I have not visited yet.
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Summary: Good but not perfect
Review: I studied this book cover to cover and found it to be an OK book, but it could have been fantastic. It's the first time I was working with inventor and this is the book that had to do it. It's built up out of 15 chapters which are logically structured. Every chapter covers a different aspect of the program and there is little that is left out. It's tutorial based with examples, exercises and even small evaluation tests at the end of every chapter. The tutorial structure makes it less suitable as a reference guide however. The raison why it doesn't get the 5 stars is that it covers some of the fundamentals to briefly. Inventor is parametric and works with constraining your work. How constrains relate or interfere with each other and how you successfully have one feature adapt to another is sometimes to briefly discussed. Together with the few inaccuracies I have found in the book it gave me the feeling that the book was brought to fast into print just to have the book out there for sale. It lacks reviewing which could have taken out the typing and tutorial mistakes. The section on modifying inventor options is poor and the loft tool is covered too briefly. Organic modeling often used in injection molding is left almost untouched. With some time and a few chapters more elaborating on how to construct and think about larger projects, how to effectively use constraints and give some examples of how it may go wrong, how to use parameters in an external database and expand a bit on 3D sketching this could have been the greatest book.
It's not a bad book and if you have to start with inventor it is not a waist of money, it's just too bad that with a little more effort of the author it could have had it all. I have not red any other books on inventor so I couldn't suggest if there are better ones out there.
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Summary: Good but not perfect
Review: I studied this book cover to cover and found it to be an OK book, but it could have been fantastic. It's the first time I was working with inventor and this is the book that had to do it. It's built up out of 15 chapters which are logically structured. Every chapter covers a different aspect of the program and there is little that is left out. It's tutorial based with examples, exercises and even small evaluation tests at the end of every chapter. The tutorial structure makes it less suitable as a reference guide however. The raison why it doesn't get the 5 stars is that it covers some of the fundamentals to briefly. Inventor is parametric and works with constraining your work. How constrains relate or interfere with each other and how you successfully have one feature adapt to another is sometimes to briefly discussed. Together with the few inaccuracies I have found in the book it gave me the feeling that the book was brought to fast into print just to have the book out there for sale. It lacks reviewing which could have taken out the typing and tutorial mistakes. The section on modifying inventor options is poor and the loft tool is covered too briefly. Organic modeling often used in injection molding is left almost untouched. With some time and a few chapters more elaborating on how to construct and think about larger projects, how to effectively use constraints and give some examples of how it may go wrong, how to use parameters in an external database and expand a bit on 3D sketching this could have been the greatest book.
It's not a bad book and if you have to start with inventor it is not a waist of money, it's just too bad that with a little more effort of the author it could have had it all. I have not red any other books on inventor so I couldn't suggest if there are better ones out there.
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Summary: Impressive Tutorials
Review: Recently our company switched to Autodesk Inventor as we were quite impressed with this software. We ordered three books on Autodesk Inventor, including this one from Sham Tickoo. We all are so impressed with this text that we have stopped referring to other books. Till date we have not faced a difficulty for which we could not find a solution in this book. We had some trouble with the sectioning of assembly drawing views and Tickoo has already given solution of this problem with tutorials. This is just one of the examples of a number of outstanding features of this book. I personally recommend this book for everyone who is using Inventor. This is without any doubt a "must buy" text for all Inventor users.
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Summary: Excellent explanation of sketching
Review: We are using Inventor in our company for a few years now and some our team members face problem with sketching of Inventor. This is one of the books that we bought recently. In the first appearance itself it kind of looked a good book with lots of detailed explanation on sketching. We now think that it was a good decision to buy this book. Where most of the authors neglect most of the sketching options considering them to be simple or easy, Sham has taken a special care in explaning each sketching command in detail. I think a user can work with models only after he has learnt how to draw the sketches of the models. I dont think there is anything in the sketching of Inventor that is not covered in this book. If you really want to learn Inventor, sketching is where you start from and this is surely the book that will make sure you understand each command properly.
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Summary: Great Text
Review: We planned to introduce Autodesk Inventor in this semester at our University and this is one of the books that we reviewed to select the text for the course. Tickoo's text is one of the best I have ever seen. The examples and exercises in this text are the ones that we actually see in real mechanical engineering industry. The introduction about the tutorials at the beginning makes it amazingly easy to understand what user has to do in the tutorials. In fact, this approach is something that students really look for in a book. The other great things about this text from Tickoo is the faculty material such as Power Point presentations, Solid Models, course outline, etc. All these teaching aids together at the same time for the same book is something that I have not seen in any book that I have reviewed till date. This material is of great help for teaching faculty. What more, Tickoo also has projects for students. These projects are also real world assemblies and the users would surely enjoy doing them. In all, a great text for students as well as teaching faculty.
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Summary: Excellent for Sheet Metal Design
Review: We work on sheet metal components and we bought this book to refer to it for the same purpose. Me and all my team members are impressed with the details about the sheet metal design in this book. All the topics of a sheet metal design is explained in detail with excellent pictures. We are sure that this kind of detailing about sheet metal component is not available in any other book. We have around 7 books in our library and no book has this much of detailing. We would love to see some more examples for the sheet metal component. We have already written to the author to include at least 2 more of them next time. Surely a must buy for sheet metal designers to learn about various parameters involved in sheet metal design.
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Summary: Highest Grade Point Average
Review: Well, after completing the most successful Inventor class I have ever taught I must tell you that it was all due to this book. I had the lowest drop out rate ever and the highest grade point averages I have ever experienced as an instructor over the past 18 years. This book is wonderful and my only question is: Are you updating it for Release 6?
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