Pro/Desktop <> Pro/E wildfire

Discussion in 'Pro/Engineer & Creo Elements/Pro' started by meld_b, Sep 13, 2003.

  1. meld_b

    meld_b Guest

    Just downloaded Pro/Desktop... it's amazing this is free! So, I see the
    Pro/E file import here, can I look at assemblies too, or is it just a
    part at a time?

    So I can bring a part home from work, alter it and send it back to Pro/E
    ??? Or is it more like, view it and dream about what to change and then
    do the changes in Pro/E

    -D
     
    meld_b, Sep 13, 2003
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  2. meld_b

    David Janes Guest

    : Just downloaded Pro/Desktop... it's amazing this is free! So, I see the
    : Pro/E file import here, can I look at assemblies too, or is it just a
    : part at a time?
    :
    So amazing it should be bundled on every computer Dell sells. You got the Express
    version, commercial version is a grand, still the cheapest, full featured
    modelling program around. It handles parts and assemblies.

    : So I can bring a part home from work, alter it and send it back to Pro/E
    : ??? Or is it more like, view it and dream about what to change and then
    : do the changes in Pro/E
    :
    Pro/e and Pro/d open each other's files, but when you open a Pro/e file in Pro/d
    and save it, it's in the Pro/d format. When you open it again in Pro/e, it opens
    like an iges import, as a single feature, non-parametric model. Not quite complete
    interoperability.

    BTW, has anybody tried Pro/CONCEPT? Seen any reviews?

    David Janes
     
    David Janes, Sep 13, 2003
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  3. meld_b

    meld_b Guest

    Thanks - I think I've found that you can't put a datum plane on an
    angle... the menu pick is greyed out. Why the interface defaults to
    workplane for the Tree is a little strange. Still, I'm pretty impressed.

    Did the Zoom,Pan,Rotate in wildfire come from Pro/D? I'm very used to
    this now.

    What's Pro/Concept? I downloaded the viewer Product view but haven't
    installed it yet... might be useful...

    -D
     
    meld_b, Sep 19, 2003
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  4. meld_b

    meld_b Guest

    Well... I just took a fairly big STEP file into Pro/E wildfire and it
    split it all out into a nice assembly where I could isolate each piece
    etc... So I took the same STEP file into Pro/D and I got a single brick
    feature. If I click on this "create feature" I get about 80 windows open
    and each one seems to be blank.

    Looks like you can't measure from point A to point B at random. My guess
    is that Pro/E folks are not going to love Pro/D. Got to load both on the
    same machine, it seems rather sluggish compared to Pro/E for doing
    similar kinds of work

    The Angled workplane menu showed up working somewhere else... must be my
    lack of knowledge about the product.


    SNIP
     
    meld_b, Sep 21, 2003
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