Autodesk Inventor 8 Essentials Plus [Paperback]

Daniel T. Banach (Author), Alan Kalameja (Author), Travis Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 2004 | ISBN-10: 1401864961 | ISBN-13: 978-1401864965 | Edition: 3

Gain proficiency using Autodesk Inventor® 8 as you progress from basic sketching and modeling through advanced modeling techniques! This indispensable how-to and reference manual teaches students, mechanical engineers, and others how to take maximum advantage of this powerful design tool, with features that speed learning and more than 700 screen captures that provide easy-to-understand visual cues. Chapters build upon each other to help reinforce the material, while step-by-step tutorials that showcase practical skills will instill confidence in users, making it easy for them to apply professional techniques to their own projects.

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About the Author

Daniel T. Banach earned his B.S. in Industrial Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. With more than five years of professional mechanical design experience and over 16 years working with CAD software, Daniel is the Director of Professional Learning at MasterGraphics, Inc., an Autodesk® Premier Solutions Provider. He has written three books on Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop® and co-written eleven books on Autodesk® Inventor®. Daniel is a long-time speaker at Autodesk® University.

Alan J. Kalameja is the CAD Department Head at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina. He is an Autodesk® Consultant and a speaker at Autodesk® University.

Travis Jones owns a consulting company and manages projects in the manufacturing industry, including a number of large domestic and international companies in a variety of disciplines. Travis has worked with AutoCAD® since the early 1990s and with Inventor® since its inception; he is equally skilled in a number of other parametric modeling applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 816 pages
• Publisher: Autodesk Press; 3 edition (January 20, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401864961
• ISBN-13: 978-1401864965
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,961,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Banach is a recognized expert, and author in the Mechanical CAD field and an Autodesk Inventor Certified Expert, Dan has been providing CAD solutions for MasterGraphics' in Wisconsin (Autodesk Premier Solutions Provider) clients for over sixteen years where he is a Senior Technical Specialist. A nationally recognized instructor and long-time speaker at Autodesk University, Dan has written three books on Mechanical Desktop and has co-authored eleven books on Autodesk Inventor. He also consults to Autodesk on numerous projects.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Book does not do justice to INVENTOR, May 6, 2004

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Opusaone (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Autodesk Inventor 8 Essentials Plus (Paperback)

The main material of this book is a rehash/dryrun and listing of what the Inventor user interface and menus do in each chapter. There is not much content on how to actually use the concepts and techniques of Inventor to do real stuff. The authors have decided to put all that stuff on the CD. They have some kind of a compiled html file that walks you thru the techniques of each chapter with busted exercises. The CD is very poorly made with lots of chapters entirely missing and incomplete exercises in many other chapters. The program constantly crashes. I am surprised that a respected name like Autodesk would put out a book like this. That is my two cents worth.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book if you are serious about learning Inventor, June 27, 2005

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Joseph Nastasi (Hamilton, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Autodesk Inventor 8 Essentials Plus (Paperback)

An excellent book, yes it may have some info that can be accessed from the help, but it goes far beyond that, and the advanced section of the book does a great job in exploring the details of the features particular to Inventor, don't forget the tutorial CD that comes with the book, it is another complete training manual in itself. I read the whole book and I did all the tutorials, I am including it in the curriculum of my students, and I recommend it to anyone serious about learning Inventor.

4.0 out of 5 stars Book Review: AutoDesk Inventor 8 Essentials Plus, February 18, 2012

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This review is from: Autodesk Inventor 8 Essentials Plus (Paperback)

For those who appreciate the format of the first "COMPLETE" AutoCAD companion texts, "Autodesk Inventor 8 Essentials Plus" does for Autodesk Inventor 8 what a true step-by-step AutoCAD manual does for AutoCAD. Coupled with an electronic student workbook CD, each exercise takes you through the book's pertinent chapter and the Autodesk Inventor 8 commands (you need to have the program installed, of course). Every chapter in the text is concluded by a short summary of the commands covered including a "true/false" question segment to check what you have learned.

In conclusion, on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best, I rate it a "9" only because of the grayscale images in the chapters which I believe should have been in color. The publishers may have chosen to pass on this because of cost, but now, in an age of "Kindles" and "e-books" this makes no difference.