Customer Reviews

Pro/ENGINEER Tutorial Wildfire 4.0 and MultiMedia CD

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I'm an Engineer that's not 100% intuitive. Most of the time, I really have to work at it to succeed, so for all those people who pick up this book and got everything in it on their first try, this review is not for you. Proe isn't a really easy program to use at all!!! I tried the tutorials given with the program and forums, but they're not really helpful. This book really helps people to get a firm foundation of the program and with each lesson helps you get more and more comfortable with manipulating parts and making assemblies. However, there are some parts of this book where the author clearly hasn't checked his statements or if he had mentioned something earlier, you would be saved hours of agony and frustration. I would sit there for hours on a lesson trying to figure out how to reproduce the same patterns in his book only to discover a much simpler way to do it in later lessons, or the fact that he left out some critical part to the lesson which you may never get unless you figure it out on your own. However, for the beginner who's trying to break in this is a good book. It still has a long way to go in terms of clarity though.

This is a very good beginner's guide to Pro/E Wildfire 4. Pro/E is not easy to learn (at least it is difficult for me). The author has attempted, and to my mind at least, generally succeeded, in not only presenting the mechanics of constructing the models, but also to convey the methodology of good design practice. He consistently stresses the role of planning and proper notations for the modeling process. Stress is placed on the proper use of constraints for symmetry and dimensioning to facilitate later design modifications. With Pro/E's model tree and documentation, a designer's competency (or lack of it) is indelibly imprinted on the design, so the author stress the "robustness" of a proper design, that is, are features dimensioned to allow future modification without starting over from scratch. I don't want to imply that the book is "preachy", it is not, there are plenty of click by click instructions. The book is terse, it must be studied. I found myself reading and rereading the instructions. I had the usual several hours of unproductive flailing looking for the proper command and frustrations when my models failed. I am no doubt older than most Pro/e beginners; I have been retired from Professional engineers more than 15 years. I turned 79 on my last birthday and am learning Pro/e for the sheer joy of seeing what tools are available to present day engineers. This book has helped make that learning experience productive and enjoyable.

Very helpful for initially getting to understand how ProE works.
Prepare to spend a lot of time following the instructions in the book and doing it more then once as the isn't always entirely clear.

well delivery was good and the book in great condition.
Unfortunately the CD tutorial that should have come with the book didnt?
I understand that I bought a "Used" book, but it should still have come with a "Used" CD too....but thats just me.

This was a first time order which I will not duplicate again, although my wife and friends love the site.

This book is required for an introductory engineering course that involves work with the CAD program Pro|Engineer 4; I have, to date, only completed the first 3 lessons (i.e., chapters) of the book. Despite numerous typos--e.g., "queues" for "cues"--the content is clear. The steps for creating a given lesson's target part are clear and progressively integrate new software functions. Other than typos, the questions about lesson content that conclude each lesson can be difficult, even impossible, to answer with certainty. Since I view this as a training manual with tutorials, the content review questions do not annoy me much.

Overall a good book for the price, needs more information in it- (there are missing dimensions for some of the models)but covers the material stated.

I bought this for my son who is a mechanical engineer. He had purchased the actual software but not the tutorial. He is very pleased. And so I am pleased.

Got this book for my CAE class in college and found the program hard to use. I have used Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks and can definitely tell you that both are far superior than ProE. The book does a decent job of giving you basic tools for working the program, but leaves a lot missing.