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This is without a doubt my favorite book ever! I had no direction in life until I picked this book up and read it. Lynn Allen has touched my heart in a way I have never experienced before. I laughed, I cried, I even read it twice! I hope to one day meet Lynn Allen.

I was disappointed in this book because I expected more from a Cadence Magazine author. This book is probably great for someone just starting out in AutoCAD, but for someone who's done AutoCAD since R10, I can't find a thing I don't already know within these pages.

The first chapter on tensor analysis is quite appealing and it is still refreshing for me who has experience with tensor analysis. The last chapter on unstructured grid generation is very helpful for me. I think it is a useful book for beginner in this field and can be a valuable reference book for experienced.

In computational fluid mechanics and solid mechanics, finite volume and finite element methods can deal with unstructured meshes relatively easily. So some of the grid generation techniques for finite difference method described in this book maybe less important than, say, 20 years ago.

I am a CFD engineer but no grid generation person. I bought this book due to its low price ($15 for a pdf format). I am not disappointed with this book at all. If you are comfortable with calculus and somewhat familar with index notation, the derivation in this book is very logical. I was able to use this book to generate a structural mesh using the algebraic method and differential method. The variational method seems to require funtional background and that is beyond me. Another good aspect about this book is that it gives the final equations that one needs to solve and a procedure that one needs to use to generate the grid. A good example is the Winslow method. I was able to use the equations in the book easily to generate the grid. Anyway, I would recommend this book to people who can read the first five pages of it without too much trouble. If you struggle with the first a few pages, this is probably not a good book for you.

Unlike authors of 4 other I own, Kelley seems to know what it is that engineers and draftsmen need to get up and running CATIA V5. He starts you out with realistic problems and drills. He covers various aspects of the program that you need to produce actual designs and drawings. Your confidence is immediate because you are immediatly PRODUCING.

CATIA V5 is a gigantic program that has many, many commands and abilities. So you must not expect to be an expert when you finish Kelley's book. The book has only about 210 pages. You will need a more comprehensive reference manual at hand such as Sham Tickoo's many-hundred pages book. Tickoo's book is a good reference manual, but not as good as Kelly's for getting you up and running with real, American engineering problems and drills.

Kelley's book comes with a number of errors and typos; so you must often figure out what is wrong. Sometimes Tickoo's book can help. But Tickoo's book has plenty of errors too.

CATIA is a very specialised and powerful CAD package. As the text discusses, it is capable of scaling up to handling large projects. Where, for example, you might design much of a plane entirely within it.

For professional engineers, this book is a good up to date reference for the latest major release, 5. Comprehensive descriptions that show the full capabilities of the package.

One caveat is that if you have never used CATIA before, this book might be a little overwhelming. But hopefully, you have at least used some other CAD package like AutoCAD or Ideas, so that you are familiar with the basic ideas.

This book is difficult to read but is detailed, but many techqniues are new and different. Some of them are similar to compiler optimizations well known but many are new like memory size analysis and data layout technique. So it is interesting and useful for advanced engineers.

This book presents lots of interesting insights into low power software development. It will be of interest to embedded software engineers wanting to program at a higher level and develop skills related to architectures and compilers. The case study and the data layout optimization techniques are interesting. The language is a little tough to understand. Surely a good book to have for practising embedded software engineers.

As an all-inclusive reference on Drafting theory and practice, this is as good a book as any. However: Having used it as a teaching text, I found an inexcusable number of mistakes in the end-of-chapter exercises. The dimensions simply don't stack up! My advice: Go over them yourself first, time permitting, before assigning them to your classes. Perhaps (hopefully) this has been/will be corrected in later editions. Also: Board drafting is a dying art. Thus, while opening chapters on theory and sketching methods should be retained, more emphasis must now be placed on CAD (not "CADD"); specifically, 3D CAD and downstream processes.

This book describes it all, gives the rules of the road for the changes that have occured in the last number of years in ANSI callouts, Geometric Tolerancing, ASME, and ISO practices. I've been in this business since '76 on the drafting board, and since '86 with CADD (Computer Aided Drafting & Design) and have watched the skills of knowing how to draft (a distinct language of its own) and the elements of design and engineering fall by the wayside in general as the focus now by our educators and companies is more about learning to and running a CADD program, making a picture than following the skills and practices of drafting, design, and engineering. Students today need to get back to "walking" (learning drafting) before they "run" with a CADD program. This book addresses what is necessary to create drawings and design the parts as they should be. I highly recommend it to anyone conscientiously wanting to really learn to do the job right and/or to hone their skills.

Remember you can only load the AutoCAD 2007 trial software for "one" thirty day period! If you have used it for a previous workbook you cannot reload the software.

this is one of, if not the best tutorial exercise workbooks on the market. You never have to crack open a technical text book to become familiar with Autocad and the author is very intuitive to teaching, without complicating it. A great basics references book as well.

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While somewhat biased towards ESRI software, this book still managed to capture the essence of what real LAs are doing with GIS. What it lacks in technical detail, it more than makes up for with its very nice graphics and maps.

Harnessing MicroStation/J is an adequate learning tool for beginners, but suffers from a lack of advanced topics. Several high level features are not even mentioned, ie. b-spline curves and surfaces and plot tables. The index is very weak. The few entries that are there, use obscure program names for features, instead of common subject names.

This won't replace the User or Reference Guide for MicroStation/J, you will want to keep them at hand. It does give a good second look at the basic concepts in MicroStation.

I am a Vocational Professor at Amarillo College in the Computer Assisted Design department. I have used different editions of this text for years to teach the MicroStation courses in our department. He covers basics thoroughly and provides excellent exercises using practical working drawings. My advanced course includes customization and 3D topics, all of which are included in this text. I recommend it highly.

A really "hands on" book. Covers such diverse issues as algorithms, handling hardware, lighting, interfaces, etc.

WHAT I LIKED THE MOST ABOUT THE BOOK:

- Includes practical tips and checklists.

- Lots of code lists, blueprints and the like.

- Practical and implementation concerns from start to end.

- Nice motivating introduction.

WHAT I DONT LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK:

- Includes a couple naive theoretical issues (useless)

- It's too much specific to Prolog+ programming language, though this is a high-level, easy to grasp language.

OVERALL: A VERY GOOD book for those who are familiar with Computer Vision (academic) and are trying to understand the problems of Machine Vision (engineering), written by someone who obviously understands both worlds deeply.

A really "hands on" book. Covers such diverse issues as algorithms, handling hardware, lighting, interfaces, etc.

WHAT I LIKED THE MOST ABOUT THE BOOK:

- Includes practical tips and checklists.

- Lots of code lists, blueprints and the like.

- Practical and implementation concerns from start to end.

- Nice motivating introduction.

WHAT I DONT LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK:

- Includes a couple naive theoretical issues (useless)

- It's too much specific to Prolog+ programming language, though this is a high-level, easy to grasp language.

OVERALL: A VERY GOOD book for those who are familiar with Computer Vision (academic) and are trying to understand the problems of Machine Vision (engineering), written by someone who obviously understands both worlds deeply.

I am a novice, self-taught autocad user. This book bridged the gap between me, a mechanical engineer, and my autocad drafters. After completing each chapter, including the exercises, I am now a fully capable and independent drafter. The mechanical engineer version is perfectly tailored to everyday designs for the M.E. I highly recommend this book for those new to autocad and for those who want to greatly improve their autocad efficiency.

The book does a good job showing you how to use AutoCad 2000 in a mechanical environment. However the book did not deal with the menu and commands found in AutoCad Mechanical 2000 that I will be using to do mechanical drafting.