Customer Reviews

Mastering Mechanical Desktop Release 3: Surface, Parametric and Assembly Modeling

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I was very disappointed with this textbook. The basic tutorial included with AutoCAD is much more informative and helpful. I expected more tips and tricks for the price I paid, but I was sadly disappointed. Not one tip or trick.

As another reviewer previously mentioned....the written text on one page usually refers to figures located one or two pages from the actual text. A lot of flipping pages, very annoying. Also, the author asks you several questions at the end of each chapter, as if this were a student manual or something. Wasted pages on this since he already outlines at the beginning of the chapter what you are supposed to learn. Also, the author doesn't take advantage of the toolbar menu structure of AutoCAD, so you are left with no support on how to locate icons at all within AutoCAD. This is really bad because 1/4 of the AutoCAD graphics area contains these icons and one is left with no definition of how they are laid out or what they mean. One of the things I was really looking for was how to incorporatate a systematic or standard approach in creating parts, assemblies, and on to drawing documentation. There was a huge amount of information left out in regards to this and I felt sort of "suckered" from the summary. I had really expected more depth in this, but rather half of the text covers surface modeling only. About 1/5 actually text content covers any type of documentation process.

Overall....I expected more and you would be better off with a lower cost student manual. Steer clear of this one unless you get a deal on a used one.