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Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 Instructor (McGraw-Hill Graphics) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Kelley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
Buy Used: $67.49
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 437872
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 576
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1
ISBN: 0073402451
Dewey Decimal Number: 604
EAN: 9780073402451
ASIN: 0073402451
Publication Date: June 29, 2006
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Condition: Used US Softcover, pages clean cover in very nice shape with minor wear, It's Good, Clean & Solid.
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Product Description
This revision of Kelley's Pro/ENGINEER features the many user-friendly enhancements of the new version of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0, while continuing with the strong pedagogical framework and tutorials that have made the previous editions so successful. The text is designed to serve as a tutorial, reference, and lecture guide, and is appropriate as a course text or self-paced independent study guide. Chapters start by covering selected topics in moderate detail, followed by one or more tutorials covering the chapter's objectives and topics. At the end of each chapter, practice problems are used to reinforce concepts covered in the chapter and previously in the book. An accompanying website features solutions for instructors as well as ancillary materials for reading and download. .
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| Customer Reviews:
 Inaccuracies w/r to Wildfire Release 2.0 June 30, 2005
Steven K. Rody (Knox, Indiana United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book explains the mechanics of how to perform basic operations with Wildfire very well, in the first half of the book. However, more complex or higher level operations are sometimes inaccurate, having incorrect or missing steps, or poorly explained in later chapters. This includes some of what the book refers to as advanced drawing and modeling tools. It is quite frustrating to follow the directions given in the text only to find the software does not perform the task as described. In addition, the text gives no clue how to recover from mistakes. Thus, the user is often forced to closeout of the model/drawing completely and start from scratch, or the last save, assuming the application has not locked-up the computer. There is no coverage of sheetmetal modeling techniques, either.
It would appear the author either wrote the book based on an earlier release of Wildfire, or based it on Pro-E 2001. In any case, the GUI's in some cases do not look the same as shown in the text and the selectable choices are not always as described in the book.
Finally, Kelley/McGraw-Hill provide downloadable models and drawings that are useful at the noted website. However, there is no errata, or update posted for the book and no contact for Kelley.
Bottomline: Assuming better alternatives exist, it is a questionable purchase for novices wanting to learn Wildfire 2.0 or later.
 This book makes baby jesus cry June 13, 2005
J. Paroline (Gainesville, FL)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is the biggest load of donkey excrement I have ever had the displeasure to lay my eyes on. I am a computer scientist, so I'm used to reading some pretty crappy documentation, but the only thing less informative and useful than this book was the help file that comes with the application.
The only use I can think of for this book is hurling it at the author in a really violent way.
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