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Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5.0 rolled out, it was promised that the ease of use was the greatest improvement made in Pro/E, and it shows. With the introduction of right click menus in sketch as well as new ribbon interface into Pro/E Wildfire 5.0, learning how to use the CAD system just got easier.

Now the right click menu can be operated based on the selected entities that the user has chosen. By holding down the right button on the mouse, a set of new options have been intregrated into the user interface. For example, let say you have selected two or more entities in a sketch which are identical to each other, but you need to change the dimensions of these selected features. Highlight the necessary features, hold down the right click for the menu and select the dimension option. Change the dimensions accordingly and bam, you have changed all three in one go. Now that is just one of the possibilities that are now available with right click menu. Changing the feature itself, dimensions and even the constraints can be all altered with the right click menu. This simply cuts down the unnecessary time required to do it manually and makes using Pro/E that much more easier to use.

Oh have I mentioned that Wildfire 5.0 works even with files from AutoDesk? Another sore spot that most CAD software has is the loss of data in between CAD systems. The boffins from PTC have increased native support for other CAD systems and non-geometric data exchange. So you do not have to deal with the brain numbing experience of redoing all the data for that model or assembly again.

Just goes to prove the myth of PTC Pro/Engineer wildfire 5.0 being to hard to use dead wrong.

Tags: PTC | Pro/E | Pro/Engineer | wildfire 5.0 | right click menus | ease of use | ribbon interface | Autodesk | compatability

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As the weeks progress in using Pro/E Wildfire 5.0, i am impressed at the ease of use of the program itself. Just getting the parts required for the assembly can be a nightmare for some engineers since they sometimes are working in more than one project in the same directory with about 5 other files types of the same model. Pro/E has made it quite simple in sorting the files that you require simply by using the file type filter opinion to select the model type i want as well as using the search function.

The best part of this function is that you can do this either on the local harddrive or on a network based system to file the design required for editing. It is also worth noting that the search function is not limited to single part files either. You can use the search function of Pro/E Assembly for ASM files with many parts. Instead of manually finding the part that you are looking for, go to Edit and find function and you will get another dialogue box showing that you can search for various components in assembly by using the correct name and hopefully you have named the parts in the assembly as well.

Now the 3D mode, allows for assemblies to be quickly disassembled and shown in an exploded view. This helps to show the various components in which can be edited dynamically now in Wildfire 5.0. This is simply done by going to  main menus >View > Explode > Explode View. To move components in exploded view just go to View > Explode > Edit Position, then from here just move the necessary components required. This is just a few functions that i have found particularly useful that are available in Pro/E Wildfire 5.0.

Here is a nice example that i have found:

Tags: use | ease | search | views | exploded | Pro/E | design | machine | software | 3D | CAD

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