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Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 Tutorial & MultiMedia CD

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Problems, Problems and more Problems. This is the way I would describe the book. This is my view, and I am expressing it as a practicing design engineer.

Errors in this book are too numerous to name and address and far from acceptable as an Engineer. Is Roger an Engineer or a very poor English major.

You will require lots of patience's and time, one cannot effectively get through this book without reference to the companion CD. The quality of the CD is very poor!!

I believe most new users of Pro-Engineer reliant on this tutorial is up the river with out a paddle. The author wrote this book in hopes that you understand and know Pro/E and or assumed that either the reader has previous exposure to an earlier version of Pro-Engineer. The search goes on for a good basic book on Pro/E.

This book is ok for starters. Just about ok.
It omits (intentional) a whole bunch of features. Toogood barely touches drafting (pro/detail)(omits BOM tables, balloons, some important assembly features - they are available in advanced tutorial). This book leaves a lot to be desired. Only the basic - very basic proengineer tools are discussed in this book. If you really want your money's worth, go for sham tickoo's proengineer wildfire for designers. In tickoo's book, you get a fair knowledge. He discusses good number of menus and options. It is easy to refer back in case of any questions because of the organization of the book. Hope this review is useful.

i have both beginner books tickoo's and toogood's

sure tickoo's book is more expensive than toogood's but it's worth every penny.
Put it this way. toogood just brushes through every subject and tells you to "experiment, play, etc". sure i would experiment, but its' frustrating when you dont know your way around (beginner). i dont have time to spend hours "exploring" either.
tickoo spoon-feeds you everything, and can be used easily as a reference guide in case you forget something. try doing that with toogood. you have to dig through his unnecesarily philosophical language. it gets even worse since the book is not arranged step-by-step like a self-teaching book should be.

sure toogood might be a pro at using proe, but knowing is one thing and teaching is another. tickoo has 1/4 of a century teaching experience under his belt (or so i read)

dont cheapen out on this one guys/gals.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 Tutorial & MultiMedia CD is a great book.
The CD takes you through a step by step tutorial that gets you up to speed very quickly.
I wish they had books with CDs like this when I started learning ProEngineer back in 1995.
The transition from ProE 2001 to Wildfire was drastic for many old time ProE users, but once you know it it is business as usual.

Just what I was looking for. Great tutorial for any Pro/E newbie