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 Great Seller November 16, 2009
Salvador (San Diego California)
The book by itself is challenging but I like it that way.
I'm very satisfied with the whole process from this seller, exact description, Value, promptness,......etcetera.
Thanks a lot!
 This is Not an Instructional Book October 18, 2009
J. Richardson (Frisco, TX)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is nothing but a glorified command reference. The blurb by the publisher says that the book goes into the "why" instead of just the "how". To put it mildly, this is not true. The "tutorials" are nothing but lists of instructions with no insight as to how OR why. I repeatedly find myself trying to fill in the blanks between steps when one instruction does not logically follow another, or is so poorly defined that you have to look ahead three steps to figure out what it means. You never know what you are doing until you are done, and sometimes not even then.
There is nothing instructional about this book. The body of the chapters is a long list of descriptions of features. The idea that people learn by doing is lost to this author. You are expected to memorize the long boring diatribe about the features so that when you get to the "instructional" part at the end of the chapters the author can bark commands at you without having to explain anything. I really tried to give this a second chance by going back and trying to do some of the stuff that is being talked about in the text of the chapters even though it does not tell you to. This approach did not help anything. It makes no impact to look at settings and menus if they are not being needed in the context of a drawing, part, or assembly. All I ended up accomplishing was to get my interface into different modes that I didn't know the relevance of (or how to undo without using "undo").
Nearly every time the text references a drawing the drawing is on the next page, so you annoyingly have to be flipping pages all the time when trying to learn. A PDF version would help this immensely, but hey, they lied about that too. There isn't one on the CD. The method of writing in this book makes Matt Lombard come off as a self righteous blow-hard and displays zero understanding of the learning process. His publisher apparently pays him by the page. This is one of the few books I have purchased in my lifetime that actually had me boiling over angry at it's uselessness.
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR BEGINNERS. Only buy this if you are looking for a command reference.
I learned more in 1 day of online tutorials than I did spending two solid weeks with this book. Buyer beware.
 NOT for beginners October 2, 2009
JC in JC (NJ)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I purchased this book with confidence after after reading the "AutoCad 2009 Bible" by the same publisher. I've been very disappointed with this book. Although there is a lot of good information, your software will NOT behave as illustrated in the exercises. You'll be left searching around online to figure out how to complete the tutorials. There are a lot of very odd/confusing sentences, as if there was no editing/proofreading done. I hope to work all the way through the book, but wish there was a simpler, clearer book with exercises to work through, as there were in the AutoCad book.
Not Impressed September 25, 2009
Jeffrey M. Provencher (Port Orange, FL)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I never received the book and don't know why. I did receive a full refund but what I needed was the book. I waited about 3 weeks and nothing ever came in the mail. I'm not very impressed. Good Luck when doing business with this one. Be carefull...
very complete book September 14, 2009
Mason Aitken (Scottsdale, Arizona)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
These " bible " series books are very complete. They also come with a disk that contains the solid parts used in the book. This allows you to completely follow the book. Sometimes books can be a little open ended ( like the sdc books ), but this book was fairly easy to understand. I have the CSWA certification and I really think that this book is all you need to get certified. The surfacing book is just as good. Overall I would recommend anyone trying to learn solidworks or even people that "think" they know solidworks should read these books. I have been using solidworks for over three years and I still didn't know half the stuff in these books. They are a great buy.
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