Autodesk Inventor for Designers is a book that is written with an intent of helping the people who are into 3D design. This book is written with the tutorial point of view with learn-by-doing as the theme. The mechanical engineering industry examples and tutorials are used in this book to ensure that the user can relate his knowledge of this book with the actual mechanical industry designs. This textbook has 768 binded pages of Autodesk Inventor 6 textbook and 20 printed pages of Autodesk Inventor 7 Update Guide. There is a special tutorial on hybrid surface-solid modeling in the update guide that allows the users to understand the proper use of this new modeling technique in Inventor 7.