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| | Product Details | | Author: | Louis Gary Lamit | | Paperback: | 400 pages | | Publisher: | Schroff Development Corporation | | Publication Date: | 2004-07 | | ISBN: | 1585031941 | | Package Length: | 10.8 inches | | Package Width: | 8.4 inches | | Package Height: | 1.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Not a good book to learn ,but you get free 60-day tryout edition Sep 09, 2005
This book is not good for anyone.It has very few practice excerises and it skips lot of necessary steps which you have to figure it out by trail and error method.I found it very bugging .You get a 60 day trail version ,but the catch is it's a student version and has less capability than a commercial one.
According to me it's waste of money and time.Even though you get a CD-ROM ,I recommed to browse other books on market that has free trail version than buying this book just for the software.
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
BEWARE - Not A Good Tutorial Mar 09, 2005
I was reading these reviews less than 2 months ago preparing for a graduate school class in which Pro-E was used, I never used Pro-E before (just AutoCAD). I ignored the one bad rating on this tutorial and bought it. What a mistake!!! This book will only give you headaches. The topics are very specific, it starts with a given part and makes some specific changes (which may be good for advanced work, NOT for a beginner). NO sections on just basic operations like sketches or making basic lines/curves. Many examples skip steps and you have to guess your way through. No explanations of core functions, like constrains (a function not familar to an AutoCAD user). LOOK FOR ANOTHER TUTORIAL!! Or just use the "Free" Pro-E help which I am now doing and it works quite well.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 A very good ProE text !! Oct 12, 2004
I am currently teaching ProE using this book as the main text. It has been written for learning ProE from a beginning level. It starts off with a chapter (Lesson) containing eight models that most students can complete in a few hours. Like running downhill, this really builds confidence and zeal in students.
The book has a good mix of solid modeling examples as well as some assembly and drawing content, all contained in a compact, economical 400 page book. I highly recommend this book for the beginning student and anyone wanting to jump start their experience into the WildFire arena.
Wil Jorgenson, Instructor
Las Positas College
3 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Great book for appropriate techniques of parametric modeling Oct 11, 2004
The consistency and accuracy that Mr. Lamit maintains throughout all of his Pro/E books, going all the way back to Pro/E 18, has been of great assistance to teaching newcomers as well as folks needing to upgrade their skills to the newest revision in all of my classes over the years. With the free 60-day tryout CD of Pro/E that comes with the book and the supplementary documentation on his cad-resources.com page, it is truly a great bargain for anyone wishing to delve into the complex world of Pro/E. Many of my students comment about how much more concise his books are compared to other CAD books that they have used. Each lesson builds nicely from one chapter to the next and covers a vast amount of territory for a book of this size. Others don't even come close and I can only hope that he will continue to write these fine books for many years to come otherwise I am sure I will have great difficulty in finding any comparable book that conveying the appropriate techniques for parametric modeling.
9 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Too little Too late Sep 17, 2004
First, I am very surprise that Amazon allows authors to rate their own books. I was not surprised to see that Lamit gave himself five stars for a two star book. Give me a break.
My company is presently using Pro/E Wildfire 2.0. I have experience with Pro/E Wildfire. The engineering department will be switching to SolidWorks 2005 in the next year. I am concern with this move. I think Pro/E is a better product. A colleague purchased this book and I had some time to review it. I am very glad that I did not waste my money on it.
My colleague took the risk after reading a worthless review by the author and bought it. We are both trained Mechanical Engineers with over 5 years experience each with Pro/E.
The book itself is aimed at people with no previous knowledge of the software and little engineering experience. One thing that I did not like is that the author would go on explaining examples in words, "lots of them" and lacked some, "no many" key illustrations in the tutorials. A new user would be lost. An experience user would just be frustrated. Just like Roger T., too wordy and long winded. PS: I bought Roger's book and it was worst. Yes, it is for the Advance user, but it is riddle with mistakes. Is Roger an Advance user? Believe this one! Just say it, show it and do it. And make sure that it is correct. The illustrations that were used are poor. Less words, additional illustrations and better quality, and less mistakes would have been helpful. To use this book, you better have previous experience with Pro/E and extensive drafting and design knowledge. The author automatically assumes that you have certain knowledge, even with all of his words.
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