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Re: Best intro Inventor book?

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Originally Posted by Chexposito View Post
I think that depends on your teacher and your willingness to learn and to go beyond. Last year, myself and a freshman ended doing a lot of CAD work off of the course. We ended up inspiring our teacher to learn an additional PLTW course to continue to fufill our needs in Inventor. The IED course is an "Introduction" course that leaves 10 points of the CAD submission out. But IED is better than nothing.
I took a drafting oriented class with the same teacher. I took the same approach. The difference was the fact that IED has to cover so many things they can't focus properly on anything. Like I said though, if your doing alot of extra stuff off of the course I don't really consider it accurate to say you learned Inventor from the course. It would be more accurate to say that you were introduced to it by the course and learned it on your own. Then again, that's just semantics.
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