Pro/ENGINEER Tutorial (Release 20) [Paperback]

Roger Toogood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1998

This tutorial series was created to introduce new users to Pro/ENGINEER Release 20. This is a major revision of the software, particularly in regards to the user interface, which is now considerably friendlier and easier to use. The tutorials cover most of the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation, and creation of engineering drawings. The major functions that make Pro/E a parametric solid modeler are illustrated. Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner, an effort has been made, in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage, to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy. Moreover, since error recovery is an important skill, considerable time is spent exploring the created models (in fact, intentionally inducing some errors), so that users will become comfortable with the "debugging" phase of model creation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Schroff Development Corp; 3 edition (August 1, 1998)
• ISBN-10: 188750365X
• ISBN-13: 978-1887503655
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,790,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review of Pro/Engineer Tutorial Release 2000i2, September 14, 2000

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JOSEPH D ORNDORFF (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro/ENGINEER Tutorial (Release 2000i-2) & MultiMedia CD (Paperback)

I am a new user to Pro-E. My only past experience in 3-D modeling was using AutoDesks's Mechanical Desktop.

I found Toogood's tutorial to be just the ticket I needed to come up to speed quickly on how to use the major features of the software. The tutorial is very well organized and concise. I have now compledted about 75% of the lessons and feel that I can be productive at desiging complicated parts. Toogood does an outstanding job of identifing certain caveats in the program at just the right time in the lessons. Don't let the realitively small page count of the book fool you, it is packed with usefull information without a lot of elementry windows stuff and hand holding. The book is extreamly accurate when it outlays Pro-E commands and what the expected response will be.

My only criticism is that there are no color pictures. Since Pro-E has the capabiltiy to generate stunning shaded images it would have added greatly to the text. Color would also add some clarity since Pro-E uses specific colors to relay axis position and datum relationship information e.g. yellow is positive red is negative.

I would highly reccommend this book to anyone who is familiar with general mechanical design principles and is looking to quickly come up to seed with Pro-e 2000i2.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money..., December 13, 2000

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Yuri Kuzyk (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro/ENGINEER Tutorial (Release 20/2000i) (A Click by Click Primer) and MultiMedia CD (Paperback)

This book was really meant as a textbook for Toogood's class in CAD, given at the University of Alberta. As such, it is really apparent that he took his hand-written overheads and just typed them out in book format; that is, this book is not much help to those with real questions about Pro/E.

The lessons will be familiar to anyone who has taken the three-day course from either PTC or Rand - your binders have a lot more information than this book! The book is made even worse by the fact that there is no index; in this day of simply clicking the mouse to create an index this oversight is not forgiveable.

Toogood does not give any details on many of the more fundamental issues associated with Pro/E such as ensuring that the config.pro file is set correctly. There is also very little information on working on anything more complicated than basic models since the sections on drawings and assemblies are very weak.

The cd that comes with the book is not very good either; that is, if you can even view it. It should be in some other software and/or format since both of my computers come back with errors about "low system resources" when I try to run the program. In the end I had to find a rather old pc in order to run the disk. If you are the type of person who learns from listening to a disembodied voice drone on while an animated mouse points and clicks through Pro/E's many menus then this is the cd for you!

For the rest of us, I'd suggest spending your money on the PTC manuals or else taking one of the official courses. Considering the price of this book you are not getting your money's worth!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction to Pro/Engineer, January 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pro/ENGINEER Tutorial (Release 20) (Paperback)

I am a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of New Hampshire. I used this book to introduce a Freshman level design course to the use of Pro/Engineer. I had looked at most of the other Pro/Engineer books offerred by Amazon and selected this one based on its thoughtful step-by-step approach. The reaction from the 52 students in the class was extremely positive and they were able to progress through the ten lessons at the rate of about one per week.

Because the author, Toogood, has experience in teaching this material to his own students he correctly anticipates where they are likely to be confused or make mistakes. The text is very good at anticipating these pitfalls and explaining how to avoid them.

I also used the text as the basis for a "short course" taught to upper level undergraduates. We were able to progress through the material at the rate of two lessons per day, making the ten lessons fit nicely into a one week course.

Overall, this is an excellent introduction to a powerful CAD package and I recommend it highly.