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Phoenix
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Hello. I am a student that is currnetly involved in Formula SAE and was in need of the program Pro Engineer. However I have a few obstacles in my way.

First...I do not know how to use this program to help out my team. Does anyone know any good links with tutorials or the sort.

Also, I would like to use this program on my MacBook Pro (standard). Would this be possible with the computer paramaters? I am aware taht I would have to install and run Windows on this computer to run Pro/E (thats what we call it at U of I).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Phoenix wrote:Hello. I am a student that is currnetly involved in Formula SAE and was in need of the program Pro Engineer. However I have a few obstacles in my way.

First...I do not know how to use this program to help out my team. Does anyone know any good links with tutorials or the sort.

Also, I would like to use this program on my MacBook Pro (standard). Would this be possible with the computer paramaters? I am aware taht I would have to install and run Windows on this computer to run Pro/E (thats what we call it at U of I).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
first off im pretty sure pro e wont run on a mac
second its pretty expensive a few thousand a year
if you are on a sae team i am assuming that there are computers on campus with the software installed there should also be a class offering us its not the easiest program to learn

there are a few tutorial books for sale check half .com

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flynfrog wrote:
first off im pretty sure pro e wont run on a mac
second its pretty expensive a few thousand a year
if you are on a sae team i am assuming that there are computers on campus with the software installed there should also be a class offering us its not the easiest program to learn

there are a few tutorial books for sale check half .com
Well, that is why I refrenced that I have (will soon have) Windows running on my computer and also I have a copy of the program as provided by my school. Yes the school has labs that cand be worked in, however, I would also like the ability to not have to resort to a lab all the time. I guess I should be morespecifi and ask if anyone on this forum has specific experience and could point me in the right direction as far as learning the program and tips pointers and whatnot. I am a freshman and I have the time and the zeal to learn this program.

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Phoenix wrote:I am in need of the Pro Engineer.
Wait, how did you know that I'm an engineer?



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Find a teach at home school... I learned CATIA V5 that way for 500 bucks, and I can pretty much get an unlimited student license
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Phoenix wrote:
Well, that is why I refrenced that I have (will soon have) Windows running on my computer and also I have a copy of the program as provided by my school.
There's, of course, an option to run most *NIX-like OS's. Furthermore, latter statement sounds odd, but what ever. PTC also has student license available for PRO/E.
Phoenix wrote:
Yes the school has labs that cand be worked in, however, I would also like the ability to not have to resort to a lab all the time. I guess I should be morespecifi and ask if anyone on this forum has specific experience and could point me in the right direction as far as learning the program and tips pointers and whatnot. I am a freshman and I have the time and the zeal to learn this program.
Well, http://www.ptc.com has tons of material, but you need that license to access it; Hence I mentioned that student license.

They had some free material last time I checked, but that was a while back when they released Wildfire. Instructions for cellular phone or some such. So, check it out.

Also, several university sites have course material publicly available. Search engines will help you out here.

If you really can't find anything, I have "Getting started PROE Wildfire" and "Pro ENGINEER Wildfire Update Training" documents, which I have downloaded from Ptc, (2,51 and 8,85 MB respectively), and I can send them to you. Search the Ptc site first though. HTH.

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What uni are you at?

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Phoenix wrote:
flynfrog wrote:
first off im pretty sure pro e wont run on a mac
second its pretty expensive a few thousand a year
if you are on a sae team i am assuming that there are computers on campus with the software installed there should also be a class offering us its not the easiest program to learn

there are a few tutorial books for sale check half .com
Well, that is why I refrenced that I have (will soon have) Windows running on my computer and also I have a copy of the program as provided by my school. Yes the school has labs that cand be worked in, however, I would also like the ability to not have to resort to a lab all the time. I guess I should be morespecifi and ask if anyone on this forum has specific experience and could point me in the right direction as far as learning the program and tips pointers and whatnot. I am a freshman and I have the time and the zeal to learn this program.
i cant remeber off the top of my head right now the name of the book i used it was pretty good

ill look it up later today for you

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I study at the University of Illinois.

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You can buy a student copy of ProEngieer from http://www.journeyed.com/itemDetail.asp ... 04903Y4995 Its much cheaper than the commercial version. It is the same spec but you cannot import models to and from the commercial version. There is however a way around this if you export in the iges format.

The student version also comes with a pretty good tutorial CD that is good enough to get you going on the basics of modeling and creating drawings.

If you need any more help let me know.

Woody.

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the book is from schroff.com

its the book i use to teach my class

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Skip Pro/E and learn something easier (and just as powerful if not more so) like Unigraphics or Solidworks.

I work for a CFD company and we support every major CAD package out there. No tool has NEARLY has many problems as Pro/E, nor does any have NEARLY as steep of a learning curve. Catia is up there with a steep learning curve, but only because it is very different than most other CAD tools.