Introduction to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0

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Summary: A very good ProE text !!
Review: 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

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Summary: Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 Tryout Edition Included
Review: All copies of Introduction to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 come with the TRYOUT EDITION. The TRYOUT EDITION is a full featured, 60 day term version of Wildfire 2.0

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Summary: Too little Too late
Review: 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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Summary: Great book for appropriate techniques of parametric modeling
Review: 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.