Autodesk Inventor for Designers Release 5 [Paperback]

Sham Tickoo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0966353714 | ISBN-13: 978-0966353716

This textbook introduces the readers to Autodesk Inventor, one of the world's leading solid modeling applications. Some of the features of the textbook are: detailed explanation of Autodesk Inventor commands, 50 real-world tutorials and projects with step-by-step explanation, coverage of all modules of Autodesk Inventor, emphasis on Why and How with explanations, tips and notes throughout, 600 pages with heavily illustrated text, and self-evaluation tests.

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Review

This textbook introduces the readers to Autodesk Inventor, one of the world's leading solid modeling applications. Some of the features of the textbook are: detailed explanation of Autodesk Inventor commands, 50 real-world tutorials and projects with step-by-step explanation, coverage of all modules of Autodesk Inventor, emphasis on Why and How with explanations, tips and notes throughout, 600 pages with heavily illustrated text, and self-evaluation tests. --Author

About the Author

Professor Sham Tickoo has been teaching CAD/CAM, MAX/VIZ, and design since 1981. Mr. Tickoo is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet. In addition to his academic career, Mr. Tickoo has been employed as a machinist, quality control engineer, design engineer, and software developer. He has authored several books on AutoCAD, 3D Studio, Autodesk Inventor, Pro/Engineer, and Mechanical Desktop.

Product Details

• Paperback: 650 pages
• Publisher: Cadcim Technologies (April 5, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966353714
• ISBN-13: 978-0966353716
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,629,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Text, July 27, 2002

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"stenley_joseph" (TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Autodesk Inventor for Designers Release 5 (Paperback)

We planned to introduce Autodesk Inventor in this semester at our University and this is one of the books that we reviewed to select the text for the course. Tickoo's text is one of the best I have ever seen. The examples and exercises in this text are the ones that we actually see in real mechanical engineering industry. The introduction about the tutorials at the beginning makes it amazingly easy to understand what user has to do in the tutorials. In fact, this approach is something that students really look for in a book.

The other great things about this text from Tickoo is the faculty material such as Power Point presentations, Solid Models, course outline, etc. All these teaching aids together at the same time for the same book is something that I have not seen in any book that I have reviewed till date. This material is of great help for teaching faculty. What more, Tickoo also has projects for students. These projects are also real world assemblies and the users would surely enjoy doing them.

In all, a great text for students as well as teaching faculty.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended by my instructor, July 31, 2002

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Shiela Morea (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Autodesk Inventor for Designers Release 5 (Paperback)

Being a fresher in the field of parametric modeling, I was looking for some reference books that would get me started with Autodesk Inventor. This is the book that my instructor asked me to take a look at. He gave me his own copy and when I went thru the first few chapters of this book, I was so impressed that I got my own copy. The material in this book is so well organized that even an average person like me has become good at whatever I have read from this book as of now. The author has recognized the problems that a starter can face and has framed the material accordingly. The tips and other additional information that is given in the chapters are really useful. I am thankful to my instructor who recommended this book to me.

If you ask me, I will surely recommend that you have this book if you are planning to get started with Autodesk Inventor. I have asked the author to send me some students projects also. Although I am sure its going to take me some time to be able to work on them, but I would surely like to take a look at them also.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent explanation of sketching, September 4, 2002

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Morice (Windsor, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Autodesk Inventor for Designers Release 5 (Paperback)

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.