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Product Description Pro/ENGINEER for Designers is targeted for the readers who want to learn Pro/ENGINEER. This book not only helps the readers to learn the software package but also understand the basic concepts of solid modeling. This book contains around 35 real-world mechanical engineering components as tutorials. The author has adopted tutorial point-of-view with learn-by-doing as the theme throughout the book. This approach guides the users through the process of creating a model in the tutorial. The book contains a chapter on Projects. All the projects are real world mechanical engineering projects. The author has provided additional information in the form of Tips and Notes so that the reader not only learns the software but also learns to use it efficiently. Some of the Tips in this book are unique and are very helpful in making optimum use of this solid modeling tool. The text in this book is explained with the help of around 1000 graphic illustrations. The first page of every chapter provides in brief the topics that will be covered in that chapter. This will help the users to easily refer to a topic. Every chapter begins with the tools section that provides the detailed explanation of the Pro/ENGINEER tools. Every chapter ends with a Self-Evaluation Test so that the users can assess their knowledge of the chapter. The author has given the answers of the Self-Evaluation Tests so that the users can compare their answers with the correct answers. The Review Questions and Exercises are also given at the end of each chapter and can be used by the Instructors as test questions and exercises in the classroom. The Pro/ENGINEER for Designers is the first textbook on Pro/E that provides teaching aids for faculty like PowerPoint presentations, Instructor’s guide, student projects, drawings, and models used in the textbook. This textbook is a must for all Pro/E learners. Review Excellent projects, tutorials, explana