- ISBN13: 9780470481691
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The only continuous, step-by-step tutorial on the essentials of this manufacturing software If you want to get up and running quickly on the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software, Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required is your perfect resource. It quickly teaches the essential skills and demonstrates the software using a continuous, real-world tutorial project. Once you understand the interface and how to use Inventor conventions, you’ll beg… More >>
Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required
Tags: 2010, Autodesk, autodesk inventor, Experience, Interface, Inventor, inventor conventions, manufacturing software, mechanical design software, real world, remainder mark, Required
#1 by Larry Armitage on March 31, 2010 - 4:39 am
So far the “Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required” is kinda of just average. The details in the description and practice operations are minimal.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by J. Lee on March 31, 2010 - 7:09 am
If you have never used Inventor before, this book will get you up and running quickly. However, to get the most benefit, one will have to do all the exercises. This not only exposes you to all of the options associated with different tasks, but the exercises build on what’s been done before, so a step will be repeated in shorter form in later chapters as part of a new exercise, and you develop a memory on how to do things, and do them more automatically. You can probably be building your own assemblies within a few days or less.
After a chapter on the user interface, the book goes step by step building a large fan on casters. There is a webpage on the Sybex/Wiley website with supplemental files, and you can look at the part files and avi files for the last chapter, and that will give you an idea of what you will be making. The beginning chapters have you building sheet metal parts, then later on, using part files available from the Autodesk website and from libraries, and plastic parts after that. The book ends with creating presentation files – 2D drawings, exploded views, assembly drawings, BOMs, and animations. The steps are easy to follow with explanations of options along the way. There are pictures on almost every page, and they are for the most part very clear. (The pictures are grayscale, no color plates, but you can get all the files from the Sybex/Wiley website.)
One thing I wish this book had was some indication of what number sketch you’re supposed to be on. You make a lot of sketches in this book, and every new sketch is automatically numbered by Inventor, like Sketch 1, Sketch 2, etc., and if you’re on the wrong sketch, you may get a “No uncconsumed sketches on the part” message, so then you have to go back and see where you missed a step about starting a new sketch.
Overall, a very clear book exposing lots of Inventor features and tools, and through the exercises, familiarity enough to make your own parts and assemblies.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Brian K. Seitz on March 31, 2010 - 8:12 am
Tremblay is not new to the Autodesk world, having written an excellent book Introducing Autodesk Inventor 2009 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2009on the previous edition of Inventor. I am not new to the field, as I’ve consulted to various manufacturing and Engineering companies and Engineering Software companies of the past 30 years. However, I still have an eye for those coming up the ranks in the field and their issues.
While the title boldly states no experience required, it refers to Inventor Experience. If you do not have a mechanical design background or some similar design engineering background, the book will be well beyond the average person’s ability to use Inventor effectively. This is not Visio flowcharting or PowerPoint on steroids. This is a serious engineering application.
Those ground rules understood, Thom jumps straight into how Inventor is laid out. If you expect a slow meander and the typical two or three chapters before you really get into hold onto your hat. You’re not in Kansas anymore Dorothy. From the get go, the book gives you a firm grasp on how the User interface is laid out and proceeds to go through almost step by step with major design activities and features which are so rich in Inventor. By the end of the book you’ll have a working knowledge of how to not only create a 3D model with multiple views correctly, you’ll have an understanding of working with Purchased & Multipurpose Parts and of real importance today Assemblies.
If you’re entering into the Mechanical Design Field or would like a refresher on using Inventor to its best advantage I would strongly recommend Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required
Rating: 5 / 5