09-11-2012, 02:19 PM
Quick Start Guide for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 & 4.0
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Introduction
This is a quick start guide for the Pro/ENGINEER CAD application. It was inspired by
the “Beginner’s Guide to Pro/ENGINEER” written by Professor Tom Chase, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, that covered Pro/E version 2000i2.
Pro/E Wildfire was released in February, 2003, Wildfire 2.0 in 2004, Wildfire 3.0 in 2006
and additional versions since. The Quick Start Guide is for Wildfire 3.0 and 4.0, and was
written for students in course ME 2011 Introduction to Engineering at the University of
Minnesota. Others may find it useful as a means for getting going with Pro/E.
Accessing Pro/E
At the University of Minnesota, Pro/E runs on all ITLabs computers. University of
Minnesota students can also download for free the Schools edition of Wildfire
(essentially the same as the professional edition). The Pro/E section of the ME 2011 web
site has information how to run Pro/E in ITLabs and how to download the free version. If
you are a student at a school without the free access, you can purchase the student version
of Pro/E. See www.journeyed.com for purchasing information. Any version of Wildfire
is fine as they have only minor differences. This guide follows Wildfire 3.0.
Advanced modifications (you can skip this section)
Sometimes the things you need to modify require going back into sketcher. For this,
select the feature you need to modify (either by selecting on the part, or by selecting from
the model tree). Right click > Edit Definition. From the dashboard at the bottom, select
Placement > Edit > Sketch which will take you back into the sketcher where you were
before. When done, select OK from the Section dialog box.
Changing the color of your part
You can have your part be whatever color you
wish. Here’s how.
View > Color and Appearances. The Appearance
Editor window will pop up as shown in the figure
at the right. Click the large “+” at the top right to
add a new color. Towards the bottom, select the
Basic tab, then click on the color. This brings up
the Color Editor from which you can select a color
via a color wheel or by setting RGB values. Find
the color you like then close the color editor. In
general, lighter colors work best.
You can add as many colors to the palate as you
like and you can name your custom colors. There
are a few default colors already entered. Once you
have your collection of colors in the Appearance
Editor, you assign colors to parts.