Manuals

[Anonymous]

Hi all

Can anyone help me are there any decent manuals available for Inventor we
have a couple of seats Version 10 and one V9 but the user guides that come
with the discs are not very good (about 1/2" thick) where the mechanical
manuals are 3 time that and useful.
Any advice as to what's available and where to find them would be
appreciated Thanks

Draughty

[Anonymous]

You can get the manuals that come with the training from www.autodeskpress.com but it's best to do the training. You might have to
go to your reseller to get hold of the official manuals.

Or if you have a look at Kent's FAQs post to this N/G every Monday you'll find links to several site with free tutorials

Finally, you can also try Amazon


HTH
--
Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad
as what passes for ordinary living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs



"Drafty" wrote in message news:5025293@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi all

Can anyone help me are there any decent manuals available for Inventor we
have a couple of seats Version 10 and one V9 but the user guides that come
with the discs are not very good (about 1/2" thick) where the mechanical
manuals are 3 time that and useful.
Any advice as to what's available and where to find them would be
appreciated Thanks

Draughty

[dentjason]

you can try the thomson learning series of publications which USED to be supplied by your local AOTC but are now available at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1418016985/qid=1133355400/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-2161360-2678864
...hope this helps

[Anonymous]

Thanks all will have to get the company to spend some cash!!

"Drafty" wrote in message
news:5025293@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi all

Can anyone help me are there any decent manuals available for Inventor we
have a couple of seats Version 10 and one V9 but the user guides that come
with the discs are not very good (about 1/2" thick) where the mechanical
manuals are 3 time that and useful.
Any advice as to what's available and where to find them would be
appreciated Thanks

Draughty

[Anonymous]

For Autodesk to Sell Inventor without usable, accurate and with up to date
information; that reflects the latest how to instructions, is just
unacceptable. When I received my first Autocad release, somewhere back in
the mid 1980s, the package had hardcopy users manuals. The were in 8 1/2 x
11 format and the stack of manuals was about 9" high. Also, the images in
the manuals, were large enough to be readable. Autodesk, when I upgrade to
Inventor 11, I want users manuals, in 8 1/2 x 11 format. More that one
manual, if need be to supply to proper instructions. Again, Autodesk, for
you to not supply hardcopy manuals and the users of Inventor, having to look
elsewhere for manuals, is unacceptable. You have acquired every other kind
of company, now go out and acquire a publishing and printing house.

Bob Johnson: Designer

[pkquat]

Bob much of the information is in the help and "training" stuff from within IV. An true Online manual at least would be nice.

If you don't like IV's manual status, then you haven't seen the published - need to pay for - Manual for Vault then. *Hint* You'll have to crack open your wallet again and go to training from your reseller to get any useful information. Hopefully they know something, and have gotten extended training from ADSK. This much needed information apparently is not available to the "End User" anymore.

Pete

[selby]

Unacceptable? Yes! In the same way that having been introduced to a foreign language you were to find there are no plans to issue a dictionary - let alone an encyclopedia.

We are all limited in the use we make of Inventor by the very time consuming process of finding out how to make full use of it without a reference manual. What use is a code without a code book?

Ralph

Training and reference manuals are quite different. A training manual is written to record a structured instruction course. A reference manual fulfills an entirely different purpose in the same way that Machinery’s Handbook differs from an engineering. course book

Now that we’ve begun to speak Inventor it would be good to see Autodesk do some pioneering work on the dictionary and then on the encyclopedia.