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Book ReviewsAutodesk Inventor for Designers Release 5 |
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Book: Autodesk Inventor for Designers Release 5
Written by: Sham Tickoo |
Publisher: Cadcim Technologies
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Highest Grade Point Average
Rating:
5 / 5
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?
Excellent explanation of sketching
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5 / 5
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.
Good but not perfect
Rating:
4 / 5
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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