Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Tutorial [Paperback]

Louis Gary Lamit (Author), James Gee (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 4, 2008

Although this set of four tutorials was written as a companion for the book: Moving from 2D CAD to 3D CAD for Engineering Design, they are also an excellent starting point for understanding and mastering the capabilities of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0. You can get access to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 software by purchasing the Student Edition (www.JourneyEd.com) or by downloading a free 30-day Tryout Edition from www.ptc.com. Of course, if you have a commercial version at work or home you can also complete the assignments and if you are at a school you can complete the tutorials on an Academic Edition.

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About the Author

Louis Gary Lamit received a BS degree from Western Michigan University in 1970, and studied for a master's degree at Wayne State University and Michigan State University. He also did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, and holds an NC programming certificate from Boeing Aircraft. Mr. Lamit has worked as a drafter, designer, numerical control (NC) programmer, technical illustrator, and engineer in the automotive, aircraft, and piping industries. He started as a drafter in 1966, working in Detroit for the automobile industry, doing tooling, dies, jigs and fixture layout, and detailing at Koltanbar Engineering, Tool Engineering, Time Engineering, and Premier Engineering for Chrysler, Ford, AMC, and Fisher Body. He has also worked at Remington Arms and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft as a designer, and at Boeing Aircraft and Kollmorgan Optics as an NC programmer and aircraft engineer. He has taught at all scholastic levels from secondary school to university. He is currently a full-time instructor and department head in CAD at De Anza College, in Cupertino, California. In addition, Mr. Lamit owns and operates his own consulting firm, Lamit and Associates - CAD-Resources.com, and does trainings and industry consulting. He has authored over two dozen other published works, including several well-respected books on industrial model building, piping drafting and design, descriptive geometry, electronics drafting, technical drawing, engineering graphics and design, CAD software, and other technical topics. More information on the author, his publications, and his courses, are available at the Web site of CAD-Resources (www.cad-resources.com).

Product Details

• Paperback: 388 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (August 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419693565
• ISBN-13: 978-1419693564
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,899,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Presently I live and work in the San Jose, California area- see work bio at bottom.

My main activity outside of work activity is writing books (35 and counting). Not very lucrative but I have been at it since 1978 and can't seem to stop.
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Also see:
walkingfishbooks.com
I write childrens books and journals for outdoor activities.
An educator for almost 40 years, Gary Lamit has taught second grade through university and has published over 30 books on a variety of subjects. Married with grown kids, he currently teaches at a community college. He spends considerable time reading children's books to his pre-school extended-family members, whose number seem to increase every few months!

From WalkingFish Books:

*My Fishing Journal
*Fishing Journal
*Resources for boating and fishing in Santa Clara County, Califorinia
*Wally the Walking Fish
*Wally the Walking Fish meets Madison and Cooper
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Also see:
scholarshipforveterans.org
I founded and fund Scholarships for Veterans, a not for profit organization awarding community college scholarships to recent veterans in Santa Clara Valley.
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Also see (from my work site):
cad-resources.com

For the last 25 years, Louis Gary Lamit has been a full time instructor and department head at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, where he teaches Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/SURFACE, Pro/SHEETMETAL, Pro/NC, and Expert Machinist, and Unigraphics NX. He does Pro/E training for local industry in Silicon Valley.

Mr. Lamit has worked as a drafter, designer, numerical control (NC) programmer, technical illustrator, and engineer in the automotive, aircraft, and piping industries. A majority of his work experience is in the area of mechanical and piping design. He started as a drafter in the Detroit area in 1966 (as a job shopper) in the automobile industry, doing tooling, dies, jigs and fixture layout, and detailing at Koltanbar Engineering, Tool Engineering, Time Engineering, and Premier Engineering for Chrysler, Ford, AMC, and Fisher Body. He has worked at Remington Arms and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft as a designer, and at Boeing Aircraft and Kollmorgan Optics as an NC programmer and aircraft engineer.

He owns and operates his own consulting firm, and has been involved with advertising, and patent illustration.

He is the author of over 30 textbooks, workbooks, tutorials, and handbooks.

Mr. Lamit received a BS degree from Western Michigan University in 1970 and did Masters work at Wayne State University and Michigan State University. He has also done graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley and holds an NC programming certificate from Boeing Aircraft.

Since leaving industry, he has taught at all levels (Melby Junior High School, Warren, Michigan; Carroll County Vocational Technical School, Carrollton, Georgia; Heald Engineering College, San Francisco, California; Cogswell Polytechnical College, San Francisco and Cupertino, California; Mission College, Santa Clara, California; Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California; Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky; and De Anza College, Cupertino, California).

His books include:

*Industrial Model Building, with Engineering Model Associates, Inc. (1981),
*Piping Drafting and Design (1981),
*Piping Drafting and Design Workbook (1981),
*Descriptive Geometry (1983),
*Descriptive Geometry Workbook (1983), and
*Pipe Fitting and Piping Handbook (1984), published by Prentice-Hall.
*Drafting for Electronics, (3rd edition, 1998),
*Drafting for Electronics Workbook (2nd edition 1992) and
*CADD (1987), published by *Charles Merrill (Macmillan-Prentice-Hall Publishing).
*Technical Drawing and Design (1994),
*Technical Drawing and Design Worksheets and Problem Sheets (1994),
*Principles of Engineering Drawing (1994),
*Fundamentals of Engineering Graphics and Design (1997),
*Engineering Graphics and Design with Graphical Analysis (1997), and
*Engineering Graphics and Design Worksheets and Problem Sheets (1997),published by West Publishing (ITP/Delmar).
*Basic Pro/ENGINEER in 20 Lessons (1998) (Revision 18) and
*Basic Pro/ENGINEER (with references to PT/Modeler) (1999) (Revision 19 and PT/Modeler), published by PWS Publishing (ITP).
*Pro/ENGINEER 2000i (1999) (Revision 2000i), and
*Pro/E 2000i2 (includes Pro/NC and Pro/SHEETMETAL) (2000) (Revision 2000i2),
published by Brooks/Cole Publishing (ITP).
*IX Design, CD book (2001) ImpactXoft
*Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire (2003) (Revision Wildfire) published by Brooks/Cole Publishing (ITP).
*Introduction to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 (2004) (Revision Wildfire 2.0) published by SDC.
*Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 (2006) (Revision Wildfire 3.0). Thomson Engineering (ITP)
*Moving from 2D to 3D CAD for Engineering Design (2007)BookSurge
*Moving from 2D to 3D CAD for Engineering Design (2007) MobiPocket eBook
*Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 Tutorial (2007) BookSurge
*Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 Tutorial (2007) MobiPocket eBook
*Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Tutorial (2008) BookSurge
*Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Tutorial (2008) MobiPocket eBook
*Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 (2008) Cengage Learning

From WalkingFish Books:

*My Fishing Journal
*Fishing Journal
*Resources for boating and fishing in Santa Clara County, Califorinia
*Wally the WalkingFish
*Wally the Walking Fish meets Madison and Cooper

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pro/E Wildfire 4.0 Tutorial Review, February 18, 2009

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James E. Kemp (Troy, MI) - See all my reviews
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I'm a bit disappointed with this book. While the step-by-step construction of models is good, there are many times when it would be good to understand WHY the steps are being done. Instead, your expected to blindly follow the steps and some how your expected to just "get it" by doing the steps.

Also, a third of the book relies on downloading a model that has already been constructed. OK, that's fine, but the downloaded model with not open using the student version. So, I'm at a loss has to how to use the book now.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am completely satisfied with this order., July 5, 2010

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Bharat B. Dewan (Carol Stream, IL, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Tutorial (Paperback)

This product is extremely useful, but needs more visual training material so that everyone is able to learn it quickly and use the product in industry.