Customer Reviews

Autodesk Inventor for Designers, Release 10

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This is one of those well written books that keep you interested all the time. Inventor itself is a very interesting tool and this book makes it more interesting. Good to see some real stuff in terms of models in this book. Overall it is a wonderful package.

This can't be the work of a university professor, the intellectual level is very mediocre, far blow the level of the product that it attempt to teach, Inventor 10 is meant to be for the high caliber designers.
Following are a few examples:
- The important and fundamental organizational concept of the "Project" in Inventor is covered in a short paragraph that covers less than half a page, no mention or use for it is to be found anywhere else.
- While explaining the feature of "Mirroring Components", the author talks about how to deal with "Mirrored" and "Reused" components, no effort is done to explain to the reader the difference between the two types, no examples are given.
- The only example for "Interference Analysis" is found in the exercises at the end of the chapter; the funny thing is that no interference is detected in that exercise.
(A tip to whoever wrote this chapter: you can do interference analysis by selecting only one set of components).
- All over the book, the features that are a bit advanced are barely mentioned or completely skipped, and the more obvious ones are explained to death.
- The exercises and tutorials are still the same old ones from previous versions, and from other books by the author, no effort is made to update and reflect the new features of the product.

In this one book, I got all I needed to learn in AutoDesk Inventor. It covers every single bit of the necessary commands in all important modules of AI. I am glad that I purchased this book.

I have never had the misfortune before of encountering a book that is so completely useless in the real world.

I started out wanting to design a simple part: an ellipse lofted to a spline curve.

Holy Jesus I had no idea what a poison-dipped barbed-wire tangle of incomplete information I was about to be tossed into. I tried to find what I needed form the Inventor help files. No dice, sucker. I tried to find it in the book. Fat chance, loser.

I went to Autodesk's online forums and just met with ridicule and emotionally-charged idiocy, with absolutely no help whatsoever.

Autodesk is evidently not interested in gaining any new customers, and I will, if at all possible, avoid using anything they ever have their hand in.

If it's so darn simple, then why are the people at Autodesk too retarded to put the simple steps into a real, useful help file system?

In Microsoft Word, if I have a problem doing something, I can look it up. Autodesk? Ha!

The book, JUST like the program itself, assumes that you know how to do just about every single operation before you ever do it. It doesn't warn you what work spaces you have to be in to perform certain tasks, it uses terminology for operations that, even using the index and help files, you can not find help on how to do first.

I did the tutorials. The tutorials have about as much bearing on creating real parts for the real world as telling your three-year-old son turning the wheel on his Fisher-Price Little Driver play set has on his becoming a Formula One driver.

So, first, I stumbled around for hours just trying to draw a nice spline shape. I figured I could rotate the outline later. Oh HECK NO! Your punishment, mere mortal, for not drawing your spline EXACTLY, TO THE MILLIONTH OF A DEGREE in the orientation you will require ten months from now when you put it in your assembly is that it will NOT rotate a spline. Try to rotate a spline curve, and the lines move, but the handles don't. So it turns into slug vomit. Did Autodesk warn me of this? Why would any program doing 3D modeling not tell you that there are certain shapes you CAN NOT ROTATE?

In spite of all Autodesk's efforts, and the efforts of this book, I finally guessed and stumbled my way into finding how to loft one shape to another.

Worst how-to book I have ever had the misfortune of soiling my eyes with and wasting my time on, EVER.

Unless you work at the Autodesk facility designing all the sadistic little twists and turns required to get even the most basic of results from your software, do not buy this book, because without highly overpaid expert instruction, you will NEVER be able to find out how to use the program, which also has infinitely useless animations that assume everything actually worked and that you know all components necessary to actually get to the point of doing the latest under-explained set of instructions, coupled with no warnings whatsoever regarding certain finicky little conditions that will make the operation not work.

The book is very thorough and understandable. In a few places, he uses the wrong word to describe what he means, but the point is always made very succinctly.

This is the first book by tikoo that I used for teaching the solid modeling class. The students liked this book lot more than any other book. It covers topics from scratch. It is unlike some of the books where advance topics are discussed first and then the basic things. Every student in my class was able to create all examples and exercises in this book with little help. I will recommend this book to all faculty members and to all students.

I have been using Inventor for last 4 years now and I feel it is one of the most user friendly software to work on (close competition with SolidWorks on this). You can create most of your designs using this software with utmost ease. I learnt most of this product using various Inventor books by Tickoo. I find his books very clearn and coincise in their approach. They are well structured so that you start learning from basics.

In my openion, it is the best book available right now. Worth every single dime.

One good book to help you learn inventor in no time. Read the tutorials in the book and you are set to take up any design challenge in Inventor. Highly recommended...