CAD and CAM Books

For those without a strong mathematical background, the software presented here can be useful in developing a good qualitative understanding of curves and surfaces. The interactive nature of the software lets you develop an intuition about such ideas as the parametric curve and surface, basis functions and Bezier curves.

Some readers will take to this much more easily than a conventional text. The coverage of the common ideas for constructing such items, in computer graphics can be very useful in dealing with more advanced graphics packages that assume this prior knowledge.

I like this book. It is simple and gets to the point. It's like having a teacher or guide by your side.

I think this is a good and helpful product. Essential for anyone trying to learn AutoCAD with no previous experience.

The book is very easy to follow using an example based approach. The book should not be tackled without a copy of autocad14. It is basically an introduction in depth in certain areas.For getting started on using autocad and to start creating drawings even in 3D it is excellent. The main criticism for me was that the book is only for beginners and does not go into enough detail on data exchange ie OLE ,DXF etc . I feel an overview of all the facilities working in the (dare I say it) microsoft enviroment with some more examples would have brought the book up to 5 stars.

Found this book to be very informative. The author covers the material in great detail and provides solutions to the practice examples in the back of the book. This is a complex subject, like any other progamming language, and I found I use the book more as a reference to troubleshoot my code.

AutoCAD in its 2006 version is quite formidable. Centuries of programmer time have been spent to refine this product. Thus a comprehensive description of what you can do with it would be a huge and perhaps offputting book. Omura provides an easy alternative.

He teaches the basic operations that you are likely to need. Enough to get you productively making simple three dimensional objects and manipulating their properties.

But, if you are migrating to AutoCAD 2006 because you need a new feature within it, you should probably consult a more thorough text. Chances are that the latest features are refinements that most new users would not be dealing with, and thus not covered by Omura.

This book is helpful for anyone that wants to master the complicated world of 3d Stidio VIZ. After going thru Autodesk's tutorials and not learning much, I turned to this book, and I am greatful. Now I have a much better understanding of "Viz", this is a must read book.

Good review of the basics. Great multimedia / interactive CD ROM. The tutorial actually demostrates the operation as a narrarator tells you what's going on. They didn't get much into time saving techniques, though. (Perhaps this is covered in more advanced tutorials).

the book is good for the beginners, intermediate and advanced users upto 2d drawings, however when it comes to 3d author failed to comprehensively communicate the steps of his tutorial work to the user.

As much as possible, the authors show how Autodesk Viz Render can be used with the minimum amount of technical fuss. So an architectural student can aspire to view and create buildings as easily as possible. The learning curve should not be steep, if you are already acquainted with architectural concepts.

Autodesk Viz Render has many, many options that are geared towards this goal. The book doesn't claim an exhaustive treatment. But it shows examples of how to make custom structural members, in terms of designing the shape or style of these elements.

The rendering is also easy to learn. Letting you see a "finished" part or even an entire building, under various lighting conditions. You can render different camera views