Just switched to Wildfire 3.0...

.... from 2001. I'm suspending judgement.... so, after making the
change has anybody noticed a slowing of performance? Is it taking you a
bit longer to repaint the screen for example?

Also has anyone noticed the shaded display looks different? Can this be
improved by modifying graphics settings for my computer?

 

When we made the switch from 2001 to Wildfire a couple years back, we
had to invest in new graphics cards for the current workstations.
Wildfire is more graphic intense than prior releases. I would imagine
that 3.0 is not less graphics intense than its prior Wildfire releases,
probably is more. Also the screen color can always be changed to your
preference at any time and saved for everyday use.

 

It's my rough understanding that the big performance jump (downward) is
from 2001 to Wildfire. WF->WF2 and WF2->WF3 are not a major
difference.

Dave

 

I agree with Dave's comments re: when the slow down took place and with Eric's on
possibly upgrading cards/drivers to clear up graphics problems. Here's where you
check on any new hardware requirements:
http://www.ptc.com/partners/hardware/current/support.htm

When Wildfire first came out, this was observed a lot and PTC published a TAN on
it. I'm sure it's still around if you can figure out how to find it. It's probably
three years old by now.

Anyway, the default shaded color and its properties are not modifiable. If you go
into 'View>Color and Appearance', the first ref_color (upper left corner of
Appearance Editor) has all the controls greyed out for changing the color on all
the tabbed pages, Basic, Map and Advanced. You could just create your start part
with some basic geometry and set it to a user defined color. But graphics settings
on your computer, unless they're tailored to Pro/e and OpenGL, probably won't have
much effect.

 

I'm suspending judgement

I'm not it's a POS compared to r2001

 

C'mon, tell us what you REALLY think.

 

What can i swear here ;-)