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Summary: Excellent for the beginner and expert
Review: I am teaching formz to architects and designers and have found inside FormZ indispensible for my class. It is an excellent book for beginners, giving them simple step-by-step exercises. It also acts as a wonderful tutorial and set of examples for my most advanced students. One other thing that I have found in my teachings that that NO OTHER BOOK covers animation - Inside FormZ provides an special in depth section on animation.I recommend this for those people that are just starting to learn and trying to teach themselves, as well s for those that just need a supplement to the manual.
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Summary: Not Good
Review: I bought this book thinking there would be step by step tutorials which are the best way to learn a program. Instead there are long "user manual" type chapters on describing the tools, menus, etc. More than halfway through there are some exercises, but they are simple and do not explore the full capability of form z. My recommendation is look for another book. This one is good as a reference only, not as a learning tool.
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Summary: Deep program, so-so book
Review: I just received Inside formZ yesterday and after just a few hours with it, I must say that it is absolutely fantastic! I have been teaching this program for over two years now and this is by far the most logical, comprehensive, and digestible tutorial and reference guide for formZ I have seen to date. I am going to start requiring my students to purchase it! It's about time that a book of this quality about such a fantastic program has arrived.
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Summary: This book is very good for the Form Z beginner.
Review: Inside Form-Z is a very helpful book to have next to your computer so that you can quickly get pretty specific help once you have learned the program. And it is great for teaching the program by reiewing the exercises at the end. Overall, it is a great resource.
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Summary: Excellent book, easy to use, perfect for learner
Review: The format is so clear and easy to navigate, I felt so much pleasure in going thru each chapter as it progresses very logically, from using all the tools and what everything means in the menu foldout, all the way to tutorials to begin learning and exploring , then ending with the more advanced stuff like animation and rendering.
I highly recommend this book for 1st time learners and intermediates.
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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.
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