Easy to Learn, Easy to Use
Pro/ENGINEER features an intuitive interface with hundreds of tools which bring your most creative ideas to life—fast! In fact, recent tests have shown that Pro/ENGINEER users can perform tasks 40% to 70% faster than competitive CAD solutions.
More Modules—All 100% Integrated
Because every Pro/ENGINEER CAD/CAM/CAE module is fully integrated and 100% associative, changes made to one module are instantly propagated to all other modules—providing you with an instant view and verification of design changes. You’ll work faster and smarter throughout the entire project.
Same Tools Used in the Industry
The Student Edition features the same advanced Pro/ENGINEER technology used everyday by hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide. That means the skills that you develop will be immediately transferable to the professional world.
Benefits
· Powerful, parametric design capabilities allow superior product differentiation and manufacturability
· Fully integrated applications allow you to develop everything from concept to manufacturing within one application
· Automatic propagation of design changes to all downstream deliverables allows you to design with confidence
· Complete virtual simulation capabilities enable you to improve product performance and exceed product quality goals
· Automated generation of associative tooling design and manufacturing deliverables
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Student Edition features more CAD/CAM/CAE modules than competitive packages, and all the tools are fully ‘associative’ so that when a change is made in one module, all other modules are instantly updated. It contains a highly intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), and many of the most common tasks are automated.
Pro/ENGINEER enables you to bring your most imaginative ideas to life—without compromise. While other CAD tools only take you so far, Pro/ENGINEER allows you to create an unlimited number of design iterations at blistering speed. Regardless of your project's scope, Pro/ENGINEER provides an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, highly powerful solution. Find out what the Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Student Edition can do for your designs.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Student Edition includes the following full-functioning Pro/ENGINEER modules:
· Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE*
· Interactive Surface Design
· Advanced Assembly
· Behavioral Modeling
· Design Animation
· Mechanism Dynamics
· Simulation (Mechanica Structure & Thermal)
· Advanced Rendering
· Tolerance Analysis
· New! Windows Vista Supported
*Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Student Edition does not include the following modules that are part of the commercial Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE Package: Pro/INTERFACE®; for CADDS, Pro/INTERFACE®; for CATIA®, or Pro/PDGS®
Rewarding 3D Design Experience
Pro/ENGINEER is the hottest CAD software on the market—not just in the industry, but in academia as well. 80% of the TOP 50 Engineering Programs in US are teaching Pro/ENGINEER. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Student Edition is an efficient extension from your computer lab to your own PC.
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Student Editions offer powerful new capabilities and usability enhancements that optimize design processes and further improve personal and process productivity:
Detailed Design
· Innovative new Auto RoundTM Technology - Saves valuable time with automated rounding of even the most complex features. A rounding task which took an expert user 20 minutes to complete was accomplished by Auto Round in 40 seconds!
· Improved Large Assembly Performance - Automated and optimized assembly file management using simplified representations reduces memory consumption by 40% and model retrieval times by 60%
· Enhanced 3D Drawings - Automatically displays dimensions in 3D drawings which increases design information reuse and delivers production ready drawings.
· Faster Surface Removal - Quickly removes round and hole geometry to prepare designs for mold making or simplify designs for analysis. Reduces model editing time by up to 50%!
· New Feature Recognition Tool - Quickly converts imported geometries to features in your model
· Improved Data Exchange - publish Pro/ENGINEER data in 3D PDFs
· Enhanced Import DataDoctorTM - New data repair capabilities and easy-to-use, modernized user interface dramatically improves the ability to reuse legacy and 3rd party data
· Advancements in Surface Editing - Helps optimize designs with new capabilities for directly editing surfaces including multi-resolution editing and smoothing
· New Pro/ENGINEER Tolerance Analysis Extension Powered by CETOL Technology - This new module quickly analyzes geometric tolerances and variances directly in the CAD model
Verification and Validation
· Easier and Enhanced Simulation - Helps analyze designs faster and easier with smart diagnostics, improved meshing, better assembly connectivity management and analysis of results
Manufacturing Tooling and Factory Equipment Design
· Improved Usability - Simplifies and automates the transformation of engineering designs into manufacturing processes with an easy to use, powerful process manager for toolpath definition, annotation features, and other key capabilities
ElectromechanicalDesign Enhancements
· New Ribbon Cabling Creates - electromechanical designs faster with intelligent, automated capabilities for adding and routing ribbon cables
· Faster Design Collaboration - New Pro/ENGINEER ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Extension accelerates electromechanical design with a new interface between MCAD and ECAD designs. Users can automatically identify incremental changes and cross-highlight between MCAD and ECAD board designs
If you’re a student or educator looking to develop or teach the skills that are in the greatest demand in the industry, then it’s time to acquire your own version of Pro/ENGINEER.
Available in Seven Languages
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Student Edition in English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Italian, German, Japanese, or Spanish (Simulation modules not available in Italian or Spanish
Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0 Student Edition is available to current students or full-time faculty members whose intended use is for personal learning or academic purposes. Not available for labs or institutions. Academic ID is required for purchase.
Pro/E Wildfire 4.0 Tutorial and MultiMedia CD - The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce students to Pro/ENGINEER's Wildfire 4.0 design capabilities. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation, and creation of engineering drawings. Also illustrated are the major functions that make Pro/ENGINEER a parametric solid modeler. These topics are further demonstrated in the video files that come with every book.
Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner, an effort has been made, in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage, to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy. Moreover, since error recovery is an important skill, considerable time is spent exploring the created models (in fact, intentionally inducing some errors), so that users will become comfortable with the "debugging" phase of model creation.
At the end of each lesson is a short quiz reviewing the new topics covered in that chapter. Following the quiz are several simple "exercise" parts that can be created using new commands taught in that lesson. In addition to these an ongoing project throughout the book is also included. This project consists of several parts that are introduced with the early lessons and finally assembled at the end.
The tutorials in this textbook cover the following topics:
- Introduction to the program and its operation
- The features used in part creation
- Modeling utilities
- Creating engineering drawings
- Creating assemblies and assembly drawings
The MultiMedia CD bundled with this textbook contains an audio/visual presentation of all the tutorial exercises found in the textbook. The Multimedia CD provides students with diverse learning tools and experiences that reinforce each lesson. Students will have an excellent understanding of the material and feel confident about completing the lessons when they view the MultiMedia files prior to completing the detailed lessons found in the textbook. Students who are visually orientated learners will find this CD to be a very valuable asset to them.