14-12-2012, 02:16 PM
Pro/ENGINEER
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What is Pro/ENGINEER?
Pro/ENGINEER is a feature-based, parametric solid modeling system with many extended design and manufacturing applications. As a comprehensive CAD/CAE/CAM system, covering manyaspects of mechanical design, analysis and manufacturing, Pro/ENGINEER represents the
leading edge of CAD/CAE/CAM technology.
ntroduction to Pro/E WILDFIRE
This section is intended to briefly explain the Pro/E User Interface and get you started with a
simple modeling task. The steps needed to start Pro/E and to generate a part model is discussed
in the following tutorials.
Starting Pro/E
To start Pro/E on a Windows machine, there may be an icon on your desktop or you may have to
look in the Start menu at the bottom left of the screen on the Windows taskbar. The program
takes a while to load, so be patient. The start-up is complete when your screen looks like the
following figure, which is a default Pro/E screen.
Begin to work in Pro/E
Now back to
Figure 3 where we left off. The left side of the main window shows the model tree of the empty part “housing”.
The main graphics windows shows three orthogonal planes, named TOP, FRONT and RIGHT, and a coordinate system. These planes are called datum planes, representing the 3-D world.
These planes are very useful as reference planes when creating features and assembling components. Their advantages are not obvious when modeling simple parts, and in fact new users find these planes annoying. Whatever you feel now, my advice is to get yourself used to these “annoying” planes.