Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0

by Louis Gary Lamit and Gary Lamit

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 is one of the most widely used CAD/CAM software programs in the world today. Designed for a one or two semester undergraduate course for first or second year engineering... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0495244686
• ISBN13: 9780495244684
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Thomson Learning
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 3.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

A very good job with a problematic subject.

After reading the previous review, shown to me by one of my colleague, I had to respond. I have had the pleasure / displeasure of using over a dozen types of various CAD books in a variety of dominant CAD software packages to help train folks for industry and this book has been one of them. Most of these books are okay at best and having helped edit some of them it is a daunting task. Mr. Lamit's WF3 book does a reasonable good job at hitting this moving target. But it is less then useless to hate or like any CAD package. It is merely a tool management has choose to run their operations and unfortunately most of them do not have a clue as to the mass ramifications of the various ins and outs of the systems they have chosen. Most of these tools are problematic at best but do continue to evolve and get better over time. I personally prefer parametric systems but if the man writing the checks tells me to use a non-parametric system to do my job then so be it. If however one was to work in a company that has the requirement of working with 100,000 plus part assemblies and they decide to go with a parametric system then for the most part only UG or Pro/E can actually handle that type of need. Most companies do not need this type of power and may choose to use SolidWorks, Inventor or SolidEdge to run their design operations. SolidWorks is a fine tool, that I quite like, but it too has some issues. But I digress... 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 supplementary documentation provided for free 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.