Inside FormZ, 2E

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Summary: Understand 3D first... then read
Review: This book is an ok book. It focuses more on describing the tools in FORMZ and what they do than educating the user on how to use the program. I don't think it's for a new user in 3d. The author writes this book with an assumption that the user has a previous understanding of 3d concepts and so schemes over a lot of important information. Sometimes I wonder if there was an ongoing battle on wether to just make this a FORMZ manual or a tutorial book. The tutorials are just ok, they don't go into a lot of detail.
Overall it is a good book but only if you have a relatively solid grasp of 3d concepts or are using it in a class where an instructor can fill in the blanks. And for a program that has such an unintuitive interface, there are a lot of blanks.

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Summary: NOT WORTH THE MONEY
Review: This book was not helpful at all. The majority of the book is devoted to descriptions of menus, buttons, etc. But it does not tie any of these descriptions into any kind of coherent whole. What's the point of knowing what an individual button does if there is no follow-up on how to incorporate that knowledge into putting together a project. The extremely short tutorials are misleading. The book says it will show you how to do a barn, for example. And then at the end of the uncompleted barn , the tutorial refers you back to the buttons! The book feels like the three authors did separate parts of the book and they did not know what the others were writing. I do not recommend this book for anyone trying to learn form z on their own.