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1 comments about Great Spaces: Cabins.

1. Perfect for anyone interested in alternative housing on a human scale. This nicely designed volume contains wonderful examples os cabin style housingfrom differing countries and environments. When you view these clever design solutions it makes you wonder what on earth is going on with the plague-like Macmansion development that seems to have overtaken this country.

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5 comments about Inside CATIA.

1. This book is VERY elementary. Only suitable for beginners, not for those with any experience. Lots of functions missing.



2. This books barely covers the basics of the now old V4 version. It does a just average review in a non-detailed manner of a handful of commands. It doesn't begin to cover what you'd expect in a book that costs [$$] dollars. None of the pictures are color either. My CD was cracked but the models described in the book are so basic why would you want to use it? You can teach yourself with the CD help that ships with CATIA better than use this books. It merely shows a little something about the program.
   Take my advice. Don't buy this book! If I didn't care I wouldn't write this review.



3. good but not for a advaced student more like an intro to book



4. I bought this book becourse I read "Inside Solidworks" from David Murray which i liked a lot.

   This book was not what I expected. The backcover says: beginner:yes, intermediate:yes, advanced:yes. To my opinion it only provides beginners information. But for a beginner it may be hard to understand in the way it's given.

   A lot of pages only cover tables with descriptions of commands accompanied with a half-page-high screenshot of Catia (version 4.1.6? for unix?) for those commands. The examples are very basic with no "inside"-tricks or tips.

   I am pretty new to Catia so it's hard to judge what the difference is between unix-Catia4.1.6 and the current windows-Catia5.4 but if i look in the book and on the screen the book looks very outdated.

   This book reminded me of some books a read about autocad 9 or 10 years ago. Nowadays I think u may expect more then a summary of commands and poor examples from a not so cheap book.




5. Very detailed book about a very complex CAD program. I was very disappointed with the way the index was done. For instance, if I wanted to know how to ROTATE some geometry, there is nothing in the index that refers me to the correct command, which is TRANSFORM. The same applies to COPY. The index should refer the reader to the correct command based on a description of the action that you want to apply. Another example would be if I wanted to MOVE some text, geometry, etc. There should be a MOVE entry in the index that refers me to the command that moves whatever it is I'm trying to move. CATIA's menu structure is very convoluted. Not being able to look in the index for what should be basic commands in any other CAD program was extremely frustrating and time consuming. Unfortunately, the choices are few as far as CATIA guides are concerned. This book is a fair attempt at simplifying a very complex CAD program.

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