Pro/Desktop <> Pro/E wildfire

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

 

: 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

 

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

 

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