Best intro Inventor book?

[Molten]

Originally Posted by vivek16

I don't want to take any credit though, he did all the work.

All credit is split. I would have never done it had you not shown interest. Also, Vivek organized everything into a coherent form. Made sure I clarified on poorly worded parts.(I was rather tired when I sent those PMs) I never really intended it to become a start up tutorial, but it will certainly do the job and for less then the cost of a book. Hope it helps someone.

[Trying to Help]

Thanks everyone for all the replies! I do appreciate them.

McGurky, I'm a mentor who IRL does too many things. I suspect that the high school would figure that since I already graduated, I couldn't come back. That's why I need to figure out a way to teach myself. I could take a community college class I suppose. Our cc classes are relatively expensive so I thought I'd give this a whirl.

It might take me a while, but I am going to try to learn this.

thanks again,

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[Trying to Help]

Another mentor has taken on the task, gotten a stack of books including the Parametric Modeling one, and is now looking for computers. I'm happy and I referred him to this thread.

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[Chexposito]

have students enroll in Intro to Engineering and Design (I.E.D.), if school doesn't do PLTW, have them use inventor tutorials and the autodesk.firstbase ones.

[Molten]

Originally Posted by Chexposito

have students enroll in Intro to Engineering and Design (I.E.D.), if school doesn't do PLTW, have them use inventor tutorials and the autodesk.firstbase ones.

Personnally, I've found the IED lesson plan to be a bit lacking for learning Inventor. I've taken a drafting class by my IED teacher and learned so much more about Inventor. IED is a good class, but you can't really say you learn Inventor from it without doing alot of extra stuff for fun.

[rdlevy1215]

Team 1676 made an "Inventor Quick Start Guide" that a lot of teams in the NJ area found useful a year or two back. It can be found at the bottom of the following page: http://www.team1676.com/wp/?page_id=79

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by Molten

Personnally, I've found the IED lesson plan to be a bit lacking for learning Inventor. I've taken a drafting class by my IED teacher and learned so much more about Inventor. IED is a good class, but you can't really say you learn Inventor from it without doing alot of extra stuff for fun.

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.

[Molten]

Originally Posted by Chexposito

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.