Any good books that really helped you learn inventor?

[jimmy760]

If there's a book you bought to learn inventor that actually helped you and was easy to follow share a link to it on Amazon or Google Books so I can check it out.

Thanks.

http://books.google.com/

http://www.amazon.com/books-used-books-textbooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=283155

[ampster402]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=recommended+books+for+learning+Inventor

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=labels%2Clocation&location=forum-...

enjoy

[Cadmanto]

I don't know any good books, but I know youtube offers some good instructional videos if that will help you. 

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Or if you like something that was said and it was helpful, Kudos are appreciated. Thanks!!!! 

[GSE_Dan_A]

http://books.google.ca/books/about/Mastering_Autodesk_Inventor_2013_and_Aut.html?id=1MYCZImZQvMC&red...

Look for books written by Curtis Waguespack

For books regarding Finites Element Analysis (FEA) look for books written by Wasim Younis.

There are also courses available.  I took one that was presented by iMaginit.  They did a fantastic 5 day course complete with 2 manuals, hands on training and tutorials. 

[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

hands on/making mistakes.. thats the best way to learn (for me anyways)

Pick any part/assembly around you, get out the calipers and try to duplicate it. Then do it again..and again.. and again

Frankly the tutorials in Inventor are just as good as anything else out there.

What works for one..does not necessarily work for others though.

[JDMather]

In this order (not that one is prefered over the other - but progression in learning).

1. Help>Learning Tools>Tutorials and Skillbuilders  (basic)

2. http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf (basic)

3. Banach and Jones book. (basic to intermmediate)

4. Curtis Waguespack website (sorry, I don't have the link bookmarked on this machine) 

4. Curtis Waguespack book.  (intermmediate to advanced)

5. http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/inventor_surface_tutorials.htm  (surface modeling)

6. http://au.autodesk.com  (basic to advanced)

7. Wasim Younis book (FEA and Dynamic Simulation (advanced))

If you are a student there are also a lot of tutorials here http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity

and lots of YouTube stuff, particularly Rob Cohee...

 Go back through every post on this site with an attached example and follow the progression from problem statement to solution.

[jimmy760]

Wow your the JD Mather's from PCT.. I found your cache of tutorials just now: http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/ 

I was curious to see if  there was more where "http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf" came from.

Thanks, I really like tutorials.

[JDMather]

Those tutorials are a little old (except for the vacuum) and are partially done (sketching) assuming significant prior experience.  If you do them now - do them again a several months when you understand sketching from scratch.

Email me for the files as indicated on the website.

[BarryZA]

http://www.design-excellence.com/worldcup/worldcupfiles.asp

Try these, try the challenge and then download the winning entries and go through their workflow. The oldest ones won't download for me, but the majority do and you will learn many things.

[Anonymous]

JDMather,

Is there a supplemental book you can recommend in place of Banach and Jones, since it does not appear

that they have published a book for the 2014 version yet?

Thanks,

Austin

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:
... since it does not appear that they have published a book for the 2014 version yet?

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There is very little difference between 2013 and 2014.
A 2013 book should be fine for beginner.

[emmanueltylor]

Please can someone share Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2013 PDF with me. email it to me via emmanueltylor@gmail.com
Thank You

[JDMather]

Is that ethical (and legal)?  

That sounds like a violation of Copyright to me?

Did you try Amazon.com