Some of the students here at my school recently attended the Minnesota PTC user group. Here they unveiled the Wildfire 4.0 release. Many were very impressed by some of the new functionality Pro-E had to offer. Let me give you a couple of items to ponder. I will add more later this week:
New functionality in Pro-E Wildfire 4.0 –
1. They can now import Word and Excel into their files.
2. Their sketchers automatically selects your reference geometry for you in an attempt to reduce the number of clicks you use to define your sketch. (Wait a second, no I have to delete that reference geometry and add the correct geometry.)
3. One of my students asked, why can’t I add more than 1 hole in the hole command? Response :was that would be very complicated programming as it would be a feature in a feature. The student replied he can do it in the SolidWorks Hole Wizard!” (These statements were not exact quotations but what the attendees had told me.
Anyhow, these are functionalities whether you like them or not that have been available in the software for many years. Do not take these for granted.
