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A Pro/Manufacturing Tutorial [Pro/ENGINEER Release 2000i-2]

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If your just getting started in Pro-e, this is an excellent book to get started. Giving you good specific step-by-step details to following. But if you are working with any older versions (there are many of them) of pro-e the book can be a little confusing. You will learn how to completly assemble and create 3-d parts. Expanding and enhancing web sites is one way you can export your creations. It should come with a CD-ROM that is also very helpful with understanding the book better. I would recommend this book to anyone trying to learn the program. It will get you started at being proficient.

The benfit to this book is for someone who has never entered Manufacturing Mode in Pro/Engineer. It gives a light overview of NC Sequence types. The Exercise is to make a Plaque with Letters...

This book lacks knowledge of interest to anyone with Pro/Engineer Design Experience. It does have enough information to Manufacture Parts or Organize your Process in a logical Fashion.

Its not worth the 39.95. It lacks Pictures (Descriptive or Not) with the Lesson Material and the Exercises. The exercise parts are not realistic or useful to your learning.

I would equate this book with a demo from PTC. Consider starting your manufacturing journey with a PTC course or Reading the PTC help. At least you learn the menu picks, the definitions, the process and work with exercises using curved surfaces.

I am pretty good at AutoCAD 14. Some projects at work use AutoCAD. However we have an expanding repertoire of Pro-engineer files. I do not need to use Pro-engineer, as I am a Sr. Systems Analyst in the Information Systems department. However I occasionally need to converse with R&D. this book makes it much easier to communicate without having to translate.
This tutorial allows me to hit the deck running. I bought a three-button mouse; in case you did not the book shows how to use a two-button mouse and the control key. I am amazed at how clear the book is and that it does not require you to lean the time's tables first.

Now you may say it has black and white pictures witch makes describing colors difficult. That is true however there is an accompanying CD that has color and voiceover motion. Well now we come to the CD. First attempt was on a machine with a defective sound card that completely keeps the CD from loading. No There was warning from the CD. OK so your machine is perfect. Next I tried it on a windows 98. It went through the first tutorial and hung up with no way out. Again on an NT, Again on windows 2000, nowhere in the book was a web site to contact. Just as I was about to give up I looked at the screen and said what is version 200? Yep the resolution was 800 by 600. Increased the resolution and bingo.

While waiting for this revelation to come to me I tried just reading the book and using the Student version of Pro-engineer. The book said, "do not worry. If you make a mistake you can always back out." It forgot to tell you how to back out. Then it started to describe the coordinate creation system without the picture of the tool bare on the right that was hidden by a part menu. It is quite clear on the as of yet not working tutorial CD.

Well I am over those hurtles and off and running. Believe me this tutorial will pay for its self in the first hr.