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Product Description Modeling products with a 3D CAD system has become a common practice in the process of developing mechanical products. Autodesk Inventor is a very popular 3D mechanical product design and development tool that is widely used in industry and at Universities and colleges. This book is a tutorial aimed at readers who are interested not only in learning the modeling techniques implemented in commercial CAD system, but also gaining extenisve hands-on experience with AutoCAD Inventor. The book topics are presented in a series of design projects. Each project is decomposed into a set of tasks, of which each is detailed into steps of activities supplemented with plenty of screen shots to help verify the user's progress toward completing the project. This book, base on AutoCAD Inventor Version 6, is divided into twenty-two lessons, covering all basic sketch techniques, various part modeling techniques, and the tools used for sheet metal, mechanical assembly, weldment, drawing, and presentation. This book can be used as a textbook for an introductory level CAD course that emphasizes both generic CAD techniques and extensive hands-on experience with a commercial CAD system. it is appropriate for industrial technology, engineering technology, and engineering school courses at universities, four-year colleges, technical and junior colleges, trade schools, high schools, as well as industrial training centers. About the Author Dr. Chin-Sheng Chen is a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Florida International University(FIU), Miami, Florida. He is in charge of the manufacturing engineering programs and is the director of Manufacturing Research Center at FIU. During the last 25 years he has been teaching manufacturing systems engineering, industrial automation, prodcut design and development, and CAD/CAM at several universities. He has been actively conducting research in these areas and has published more than 60 research papers in p