Need assitance with learning proe

Discussion in 'Pro/Engineer & Creo Elements/Pro' started by Designer, Mar 1, 2006.

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    Designer Guest

    Hi all I have used pro/e about 2 years back and I am starting on it
    again now. I need some help with this. Can somebody suggest a good
    source where I can get somekind of tutorial and material.

    Also any kind of help from experienced users here is appreciated. I
    mean if you are willing to tutor me over the email I would appreciate
    that.

    Thanks!
     
    Designer, Mar 1, 2006
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    Jeff Howard Guest

    Jeff Howard, Mar 1, 2006
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    David Janes Guest

    I posted this here about two monts ago:
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    Start with this. It's the user area of the PTC website which has several free
    tutorials to get you started with WF & WF2:
    http://www.ptc.com/community/proewf2/newtools/index.htm

    The three listed below provide professional training courses on every function
    within Pro/e, including on Intralink PDM. All offer project-based, hands-on
    training. CADTRAIN is strictly CBT, everything online, downloadable training
    files, Camtasia based demos, onscreen tutorials with screen captured graphics.
    CADquest, on the other hand, is textbook based with downloadable training files.
    Those from CADTRAIN and CADquest are, full PTC-style courses and parallel PTC's
    course structure. Frotime, which also does CBT, has shorter, more partial tutorial
    style training. They're approaching course structure by offering several tutorials
    on the same functionality, such as Surfacing 1, 2, & 3 and Advanced Surfacing 1,
    2, & 3. With each costing around $15 and a Surfacing Subscription (6-8 tutorials)
    costing $60, they have pricing structure suited to invididuals who don't have
    corporate resources behind them.

    CADTRAIN
    http://www.cadtrain.com/
    CADquest
    http://www.cadquest.com/
    Frotime
    http://www.frotime.com/

    Community Colleges and Universities: PTC has an extensive network of schools that
    either train students in Pro/e software or use it to teach
    drafting/modelling/engineering/design. If you know of such a school, they likely
    have an Educational License which lets them offer any course taught by PTC. Here's
    a peek at the educational version and what it contains:
    http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/educational/program.jsp?&im_dbkey=33880&icg_dbkey=851
    It has the advantage of spreading what would normally be a 40 hour sprint through
    a ton of new material over an 8-12 week period. Lot's more opportunity to get
    comfortable with the software and likely new concepts of design, lots more tube
    time and time to ask questions of an experienced user. It's where I got most of my
    formal training; I highly recommend it.

    Numerous books, one by Roger Toogood, another by L. G. Lamit and several
    specifically on sheetmetal with WF2. All available on Amazon for under $60, they
    provide a good, broad overview of working with WF2. All by professional writers
    and teachers. Lamit, for example, has been teaching Pro/e for over a decade at De
    Anza College, Cupertino CA (Silicon Valley) and has written several books on
    Pro/e. Toogood's authored most of the Student Edition Tutorials since I-squared at
    least. These guys know Pro/e.

    Student Edition from Journey Ed:
    http://proestudent.com/default.asp?action=selectLocation
    for $150, you get the Flex3C version of the software ($20,000 retail value), help
    files and one of the above books on CD with training files in SE format. Pro/e was
    the first, and for a while, the only major player in solids modelling, with a
    Student Edition of the program plus a longstanding, comprehensive training program
    accessible from the SE. On your own PC, with complete autonomy, you have full
    access to the entire power of Pro/ENGINEER design software. And most PCs, with a
    decent, OpenGL-compatible graphics card, can do the job.

    PTC University:
    http://www.ptc.com/learning
    Don't underestimate learning it straight "from the horses mouth". Don't know what
    it takes to sign up for this, probably a year's maintenance/support agreement,
    paid in advance. Still, if you've got it, this is a valuable resource: what you'd
    get in a class, no travel involved, all you need is a terminal with pro: complete,
    comprehensive, convenient. Sit at home and learn from PTC. I think this is
    extremely cool. Just like their webcasts, 'How to' and 'Tips and Tricks' sessions.

    PTC offers, directly, and indirectly supports, more educational and training
    opportunities than any other corporation on earth. The user community lags
    pitifully behind; not much in the way of free, user developed tutorials and
    training resources available out there. I've heard of some university stuff; also,
    some stuff on websites, but most is out of date, scattered, fragmentary, partial
    elements of a comprehensive training program, and, of this, the community offers
    nothing.

    David Janes
     
    David Janes, Mar 2, 2006
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    Designer Guest

    Thanks a lot David for the information and if you wouldnt mind can I
    contact you in future if I need any assitance with Pro/E.

    Thanks!
     
    Designer, Mar 2, 2006
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    dgeesaman Guest

    The link to CADquest is out-of-date. It's simply www.cadquest.com.

    Steve has been putting even more time into his books, and the quality
    is outstanding. It's one of the few sources where it really does work
    as a both a standalone tutorial and a comprehensive reference book.

    Dave
     
    dgeesaman, Mar 3, 2006
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