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| Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2009 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2009 (Mastering) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Curtis Waguespack, Sean Dotson, Bill Bogan, Andrew Faix, Seth Hindman, Loren Jahraus, Dennis Jeffrey, Shekar Subrahmanyam, Bob Van Der Donck
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 94079
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 600
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0470293144
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.00420285536
EAN: 9780470293140
ASIN: 0470293144
Publication Date: October 13, 2008
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Product Description
The expert content in Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2009 and Autodesk InventorLT 2009 will help you learn advanced related to the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software. Coverage of subjects like design tactics for large assemblies, effective model design for different industries, strategies for effective data and asset sharing across teams, using 2D and 3D data from other CAD systems, and improving designs is through and comprehensive. With straightforward explanations, real-world examples, practical tutorials, tips, tricks, and techniques, this book will be your go-to guide to Autodesk Inventor.
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 Great, very helpful October 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have been using Autodesk Inventor for 7 years and with this evolving software there is always something new and different. This book does a wonderful job at walking the reader through all the menu options. I have used the section on documentation mostly and learned how to do things that I was never taught in any class. Thanks to the authors for taking their time to help us users out.
Inventor October 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having been through the basic Inventor training classes a year ago I have some books covering the newbie stuff and was looking for something to help with other tools. This book covers many things that aren't in the other books and aren't easliy found online. Some of the chapters are better than others, but I've already found a lot of useful information. I liked the price too.
Mastering Inventor 2008 October 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this one and Introducing Autodesk Inventor 2009 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2009, and find them to compliment each other well. I was concerned that they would just cover all the same info, but am happy with them both.
A good reference book that goes beyond the basics October 14, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
As the previous reviewer points out, this is not a book for those who are new to Inventor. I originally bought this book to help my new engineer, but quickly realized that the intended reader is someone with some Inventor time under their belt.
In going through it for my own benefit as an experienced user, I'm pleased to have found a reference for the Inventor tools I don't use all the time. It's certainly not a good book for the beginner, but if you've used Inventor for a while and have the basics down, then this book has some hard to find information in it. The chapters on large assemblies, the design accelerator wizards, and weldments will all be a big help.
I picked up a lot of things from just flipping through the tips from Sean Dotson that are sprinkled throughout all of the chapters as well. These tell you things about how stuff really works from a user's point of view. There is also a chapter called Inventor Tools Overview, that has information explaining several utilities and functions that I wish I'd known about last year.
If you're looking for a book to learn the basics this is a poor choice, but if you're looking for a reference that goes beyond the basics you'll want this on your shelf.
 Don't waste your time and money October 13, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book was written, and laid out, by incompetents. It is a chatty, paragraph style, with huge gaps (7 pages in one instance) between one step you're trying to follow and the next.
When you want to know how to do something, this book does its best to hide the truth from you.
Illustrations are tiny and very gray. Index is niggardly (I dare you to find out how to distribute multiples of one item equally around the circumference or center point of a circle from the index).
And two of the three samples I finally made my way through didn't work.
And seldom if ever are you told why to do something, as opposed to what to do.
Poor, poor, poor. And I'm out $70 with shipping.
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