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Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire for Designers | 
 enlarge | Author: Sham Tickoo
Publisher: Cadcim Technologies
Category: Book
List Price: $69.00
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 994645
Media: Paperback
Pages: 752
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.4 x 1.8
ISBN: 0966353765
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9780966353761
ASIN: 0966353765
Publication Date: May 16, 2003
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Product Description
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire for Designers is a book that is written with the intent of helping the people who are into 3D design. This book is written with the tutorial point of view, with learn-by-doing as the theme. The mechanical engineering industry examples and tutorials are used in this book to ensure that the user can relate his knowledge of this book with the actual mechanical industry designs.
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 Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire for Designers by Sham Tickoo December 17, 2004
Russell Dember (Menlo Park, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is definitely helpful (would you believe essential) in learning Pro/engineer Wildfire. It achieves a good balance between reference material and tutorial examples (as compared to Lamit's books which are mostly tutorial with CadTrain screen prints and step by step instructions, but with a good index).
Explaining any major software package really requires two books. This book is a good first book and it also covers some of the more advanced 3D modeling topics that you would expect in a second book. The examples of dimensioning and annotating 2D drawings are simplistic educational ones and not of the level used in industrial design drawings going to a machine shop to be fabricated.
The index is inexcusably incomplete. Key words like: note, layer, view, orientation, hide, shading and colors are missing from it. I find the topics that should be indexed by going to the most likely chapter and looking at every page for them. As hokey as that sounds it actually works fairly well. The help files with Pro/Engineer fill in most of the pieces that are missing from this book and they have an excellent search engine.
In the creating cross sectional views tutorial on page 10-24, I found one frustrating mistake in instruction step 11, which should read, "Choose the create 2 point lines from the sketch view pulldown sketch menu and draw the lines ..."
The bottom line is that this book will definitely assist you in learning Pro/Engineer Wildfire. Although count on the many hours of struggle and frustration that are required to learn any major software tool. I don't think any book or approach will ever change that.
Terrible index April 6, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Terrible index and wordy. Good tutorial, but not good as a reference book.
Good book, but verbose March 9, 2004
Muthazhagu Palanisamy (Chicago, IL)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book is good, both for an experienced user migrating to Wildfire and a newbie. The author teaches the software on a step by step basis, followed by a thorough tutorial at the end of the chapters. The tutorials are useful, might as well skip the preceding sections and jump right at these to learn the software.The book has one downside though, the author is very verbose, indicating even in the last chapter to "Click the right mouse button...", the book could've easily been 75 to 100 pages shorter. The chapter on Surface Modeling is available for download from the publisher's website and it measures up to the rest of the book. Overall, a good buy if you are new to Pro/E Wildfire.
 Good Book...I liked it December 19, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Once I began this extraordinary book, I could not put it down. "Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire for Designers" is so much more than a gripping learning textbook. With his impeccable research, the author introduces us to aspects of designing. I, for one, had never known existed...or even thought about. I found myself, unwillingly, leaving the book, and time and time again, going online to view his website- only to find a new world of tips and techniques opening up for me. What a trip! What a read!The book, take us through Feature creation commands, editing commands and far back to even sketching. We learn about the secrets of design intent. The writing is excellent. Just learn it from first chapter to last and enjoy the world of product designing using Pro/E!
Learn Pro/E Wildfire efficiently December 19, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am using Pro/ENGINEER since release 2000i and when I got Wildfire I thought I will learn it myself. But after playing with it for some time, I realized that I need some text to refer to. Then I got hold of this book. It is one of the best books available that someone can use to learn Wildfire. This book describes the solid modeling tools in Wildfire in detail with a lot of images and the language used is easily understandable. While working on engineering projects, I find this book very handy and I can refer to the explanation for modeling tools that are generally needed for most of the mechanical engineering projects.In addition to the explanation to the modeling tools, there are tutorials in the book with step-by-step explanation. A number of tips and notes are given in this book that helped me in increasing my efficiency. By using this book I not only learned to use Wildfire but also learned to use it efficiently. The Detailing and Drafting portion of Wildfire is also explained with lot of details, making it easy for me to generate various types of drawing views of assemblies and solid models. The chapter on surface modeling that is available for free download also seems to be good with 2 tutorials although I have not started learning them. But seeing the images they seem to be good.
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