I have just started teaching a CAD course to undergraduates using the new release of Wildfire 2, running on diskless linux machines. First impressions is that it is more stable than WF1 and the more consistant GUI is helping the teaching. Unfortunately we will also have to run the code on some windows machines as part of the course, a linking piece of software will only run under windows! The course is quite intensive and so I am trying to remove any possible hickups before they occur. Has anyone seen any problems with the new release? In particular, any glitches related to running on Windows XP machines, which we haven't yet used for teaching post Pro/e 2001. Many Thanks for any hints Peter Long ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Peter Long Tel: 44 (0) 1223 3 32779 Senior Design Engineer Cambridge University Engineering Department Fax: 44 (0) 1223 3 32741 Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ e-mail: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Long Typical rule of thumb for long time Pro-E users is to wait a while on new releases. Since you have already installed and are at a teaching enviroment, you may not run into the problems typical of a new release. Everything I have seen and heard is that many issues have been fixed. Another note is that industry is typically using Windows operating systems for their designers/engineers. The biggest thing we ran into at my current company was that the graphics cards needed upgrading when we moved to Wildfire on our XP systems. Sincerely Eric Mills Senior Designer
Hey, I tried to get Wildfire 2 and clicked on the button that said: "send me the new license key" and nothing happened. Maybe I should send my sales guy a note... It'd be kindof funny if the CD's showed up before the "quick" process did anything. Release 2003451 seems to work OK on XP. -meld
In wildfire 2.0 the plotted drawings contain the same lineweight (thickness) for all line types. You can not control this with table.pnt as in earlier releases. Tis is a HUGE bug... PTC has not solved this yet.
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