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Summary: Review of Pro/Engineer Tutorial Release 2000i2
Review: I am a new user to Pro-E. My only past experience in 3-D modeling was using AutoDesks's Mechanical Desktop.I found Toogood's tutorial to be just the ticket I needed to come up to speed quickly on how to use the major features of the software. The tutorial is very well organized and concise. I have now compledted about 75% of the lessons and feel that I can be productive at desiging complicated parts. Toogood does an outstanding job of identifing certain caveats in the program at just the right time in the lessons. Don't let the realitively small page count of the book fool you, it is packed with usefull information without a lot of elementry windows stuff and hand holding. The book is extreamly accurate when it outlays Pro-E commands and what the expected response will be. My only criticism is that there are no color pictures. Since Pro-E has the capabiltiy to generate stunning shaded images it would have added greatly to the text. Color would also add some clarity since Pro-E uses specific colors to relay axis position and datum relationship information e.g. yellow is positive red is negative. I would highly reccommend this book to anyone who is familiar with general mechanical design principles and is looking to quickly come up to seed with Pro-e 2000i2.
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Summary: Review of Pro/Engineer Tutorial Release 2000i2
Review: I am a new user to Pro-E. My only past experience in 3-D modeling was using AutoDesks's Mechanical Desktop. I found Toogood's tutorial to be just the ticket I needed to come up to speed quickly on how to use the major features of the software. The tutorial is very well organized and concise. I have now compledted about 75% of the lessons and feel that I can be productive at desiging complicated parts. Toogood does an outstanding job of identifing certain caveats in the program at just the right time in the lessons. Don't let the realitively small page count of the book fool you, it is packed with usefull information without a lot of elementry windows stuff and hand holding. The book is extreamly accurate when it outlays Pro-E commands and what the expected response will be. My only criticism is that there are no color pictures. Since Pro-E has the capabiltiy to generate stunning shaded images it would have added greatly to the text. Color would also add some clarity since Pro-E uses specific colors to relay axis position and datum relationship information e.g. yellow is positive red is negative. I would highly reccommend this book to anyone who is familiar with general mechanical design principles and is looking to quickly come up to seed with Pro-e 2000i2.
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Summary: I bought this book for a class
Review: I am pretty good at AutoCAD 14. Some projects at work use AutoCAD. However we have an expanding repertoire of Pro-engineer files. I do not need to use Pro-engineer, as I am a Sr. Systems Analyst in the Information Systems department. However I occasionally need to converse with R&D. this book makes it much easier to communicate without having to translate. This tutorial allows me to hit the deck running. I bought a three-button mouse; in case you did not the book shows how to use a two-button mouse and the control key. I am amazed at how clear the book is and that it does not require you to lean the time's tables first. Now you may say it has black and white pictures witch makes describing colors difficult. That is true however there is an accompanying CD that has color and voiceover motion. Well now we come to the CD. First attempt was on a machine with a defective sound card that completely keeps the CD from loading. No There was warning from the CD. OK so your machine is perfect. Next I tried it on a windows 98. It went through the first tutorial and hung up with no way out. Again on an NT, Again on windows 2000, nowhere in the book was a web site to contact. Just as I was about to give up I looked at the screen and said what is version 200? Yep the resolution was 800 by 600. Increased the resolution and bingo. While waiting for this revelation to come to me I tried just reading the book and using the Student version of Pro-engineer. The book said, "do not worry. If you make a mistake you can always back out." It forgot to tell you how to back out. Then it started to describe the coordinate creation system without the picture of the tool bare on the right that was hidden by a part menu. It is quite clear on the as of yet not working tutorial CD. Well I am over those hurtles and off and running. Believe me this tutorial will pay for its self in the first hr.
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Summary: Excellent Tutorial Book
Review: I just started using ProE at work and this book was very helpful in teaching me the fundamentals of Pro-E 2000i2. The click by click examples are easy to follow. The book shows you the most common commands that you'll use when you start designing your first parts. I recommend you practice some of the projects in this book before you take the week long "Fundamentals of Pro Engineer" course offered by PTC. The fast paced course can become very frustrating if you are completely new to ProE. This book also has very few text errors. The book's CD demonstrations are also helpful. Overall, I am very satisfied with my first ProE book.
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Summary: Excellent Tutorial Book
Review: I just started using ProE at work and this book was very helpful in teaching me the fundamentals of Pro-E 2000i2. The click by click examples are easy to follow. The book shows you the most common commands that you'll use when you start designing your first parts. I recommend you practice some of the projects in this book before you take the week long "Fundamentals of Pro Engineer" course offered by PTC. The fast paced course can become very frustrating if you are completely new to ProE. This book also has very few text errors. The book's CD demonstrations are also helpful. Overall, I am very satisfied with my first ProE book.
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