Technology : Engineering

A complete tutorial for the real-world application of Autodesk Inventor, plus video instruction on DVD. Used to design everything from airplanes to appliances, Autodesk Inventor is the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software. This detailed tutorial and reference covers practical applications to help you solve design problems in your own work environment, allowing you to do more with less. It also addresses topics that are often omitted from other guides, such as Inventor Professional modules, design tactics for large assemblies, using 2D and 3D data from other CAD systems, and a detailed overview of the Inventor utility tools such as Design Assistant and Task Scheduler that you didn't even know you had.: Teaches the most popular 3D mechanical design software in the context of real-world workflows and work environments; Provides an overview of the Inventor 2010 ribbon Interface, Inventor design concepts, and advanced information on productivity-boosting and visualization tools; Offers crucial information on data exchange, including SolidWorks, Catia, Pro-E, and others.; Shares details on documentation, including exploded presentation files, simple animations, rendered animations and stills with Inventor Studio, and sheet metal flat patterns; Covers Inventor, Inventor Professional, and Inventor LT; Includes a DVD with before-and-after tutorial files, a searchable PDF of the book, innovative video tutorials for each chapter, and more. Mastering Autodesk Inventor teaches you to get the most from the software and provides a reference to help you on the job, allowing you to utilize the tools you didn't even know you had to quickly achieve professional results. more...

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Derived from the content of the respected McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, each title provides thousands of definitions of words and phrases encountered in a specific discipline. All include:. * Pronunciation guide for every term. * Acronyms, cross-references, and abbreviations. * Appendices with conversion tables; listings of scientific, technical, and mathematical notation; tables of relevant data; and more. * A convenient, quick-find format. more...

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Completely updated on the latest releases of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, this book provides you with the skills needed to work in AutoCAD immediately and a step-by-step tutorial teaches you all the basics so you can quickly achieve results when creating 2D and 3D technical drawings. You?ll look at dimensioning, external references, layouts and printing, and using 3D and move on to examining more advanced features such as grouping, elevations, hatches, and using text in drawings. The companion Web site contains project files, a bonus chapter on using the Internet with AutoCAD, an appendix on attributes, and another appendix on dynamic blocks. more...

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The only continuous, step-by-step tutorial on the essentials of this manufacturing software. If you want to get up and running quickly on the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software, Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required is your perfect resource. It quickly teaches the essential skills and demonstrates the software using a continuous, real-world tutorial project. Once you understand the interface and how to use Inventor conventions, you'll begin actually designing and modeling a project from start to finish. Along the way, you'll learn the "why" behind each step.: Learn to use the interface and Inventor conventions; Understand sketching commands and best practices, then move into both regular and sheet metal specific part modeling; Understand how to join parts into assemblies to create a single, digital prototype of a box fan; Create and distribute accruate part and assembly drawings, learn about functional design concepts, and use Inventor's Design Accelerator features; Discover how to work with Inventor weldments and create, render, and distribute compelling visualizations of the final design using Inventor Studio; The companion website provides "before and after" tutorial files, enabling you to jump in at any point and compare your work with the author's results. Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required gives you all the instruction you need to begin using this powerful 3D mechanical design tool. more...

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“It’s terrific. This new book does an outstanding job of filling in the knowledge of topics that simply aren’t touched upon. . . . This is exactly the sort of book that engineers should read and discuss.”. – John L. Hennessy, president, Stanford University.  . “ Citizen Engineer is the bible for the new era of socially responsible engineering. All engineers concerned with the impact of their work must read this book.”. – Hal Abelson, professor of computer science and engineering, MIT.  . “This accessible and brilliant book should be required of every citizen, and especially, the new citizen lawmakers we call engineers.”. – Lawrence Lessig, professor, Stanford Law School, and founder, Creative Commons.  . Being an engineer today means being far more than an engineer. You need to consider not only the design requirements of your projects but the full impact of your work–from an ecological perspective, an intellectual property perspective, a business perspective, and a sociological perspective. And you must coordinate your efforts with many other engineers, sometimes hundreds of them. In short, we’ve entered an age that demands socially responsible engineering on a whole new scale: The era of the Citizen Engineer.  . This engaging and thought-provoking book, written by computer industry luminaries Greg Papadopoulos and David Douglas, focuses on two topics that are becoming vitally important in the day-to-day work of engineers today: eco engineering and intellectual property (IP). Citizen Engineer also examines how and why the world of engineering has changed, and provides practical advice to help engineers of all types master the new era of engineering and start thinking like Citizen Engineers. more...

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