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INSIDE Pro/SURFACE: Moving from Solid Modeling to Surface Design

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I recently finished the book, and I learned quite a bit from it. If you want to be taught exact command sequences to perform specific modeling tasks, this may not be the book for you. If you do not mind a bit of work and experimentation, which leads to a pretty thorough knowledge of Pro/Surface, this is it.

My suggestion for using this book to learn surfacing is to read/skim the first 6 chapters (part I & II; essentially no modeling exercises in these), attempt the next 3 chapters' modeling problems, re-read the first 6 chapters, and then do the modeling exercises in chapters 7 thru 12, with the assistance of the info in ch. 14 --> 18.

If you are already familiar with surfacing this may not be a bad book, but for someone trying to learn, the applications are very weak, and presume the user has more knowledge concerning the art of surfacing than a newcomer to this area of modeling could have.

Disappointed because it lacked tutorials. The few examples that were in the book were not too easy to follow

This is the best in depth treatment of surfacing in non-PTC literature. It is not a tutorial. It is very dense. Read it slowly and work examples as if they were tutorials. I think it's better time spent for the advanced user than in the ProE surfacing class.

This book is well written but not meant for beginning users of ProE. The creation of surfaces requires the designer to create datum features which more advanced surfaces can be created with. The book dose a poor job discussing the creation of datum features. But if you are a intermediate level user of ProE it will not matter. The book is great for getting some valuable concepts from... However, you will not be able to do surfacing even if you master the concepts in the book because there are no menu picks in the book. The material is presented in a clear manner but the menu picks for some of the more advanced topics are 3-4 layers deep.. "so good luck finding them"

FYI: You will still need the advice of an experienced Surfacing Designer. Just to find the menu picks....

There are few surfacing books on the market so I suggest you get what you can.. BUY THE BOOK...

If you expect to learn surfacing techniques in Pro-E
with help from this book - good luck! The examples are weak
at best and lack any step by step instruction. Save your money.

This book offers a wide range of useful information involving surface creation theory and techniques. However, it does not offer in depth surface creation tutorials.