Learning Inventor 8 With CD Author:Thomas Short Learning Inventor 8 in an introduction to Inventor Release 8. This process-based text presents Inventor commands, options, and techniques in a sequence matching the design process of real-world products. Specific applications of Inventor are presented in each chapter; these applications are, in turn, put to use in expanded exercises at the end o... more »f the chapter. A CD with chapter examples, practices, and end-of-chapter exercises is packaged with the text. The text progresses from part creation to the building of assemblies to animating mechanisms. Inventor commands are introduced in a step-by-step manner. How and why commands function as they do is clearly explained.« less