PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
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I notice that the Personal Use version of Pro/Engineer has been mentioned now and then in these forums. I am considering buying it to put on my home PC to learn the product and I want to ask a few questions specifically about this product.
Has anyone direct experience of buying and using it?
Have any problems been experienced installing it on a home PC (subject to minium spec. requirements)?
Are there functionality issues?
Any other comments?
Has anyone direct experience of buying and using it?
Have any problems been experienced installing it on a home PC (subject to minium spec. requirements)?
Are there functionality issues?
Any other comments?





RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 4.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 1400
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"There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea" Bernard-Paul Heroux
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
The Personal Edition doesn't have some extra modules that let you do specialized work (Piping, Cabling, Manufacturing, etc), but there's plenty to learn from with what's included.
Getting the personal edition is the best way to learn, really. A few of the books discussed here are good to help you get your feet wet and show you around some of the core techniques. Once you get past that, I'd say bring a couple of drawings home from work (if they let you do that sort of thing) and try and work out modeling strategies for the kind of parts and assemblies that you work with on a day-to-day basis.
All in all, it's well worth the investment.
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
It's like any software the more you use it the easier it becomes..tho with ProE you keep finding more things to use.
Tho the files might not carry over to the comm. vers.... most mapkeys and the config options do..making life easier.
If you are someone whos best ideas come to you when you get away from the distractions of work then go for it. it's a win win deal
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
Wes C.
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
For a home system to practice with here is my minimum.
a video card with 64MB ram. A stand alone card is best. Nvidia's card (drivers) work well.
You may not need a network adapter with the SE or student edition. I can't remember.
A Pentium 4 or Athalon XP is best but a good Pentium III will be O.K.
256MB of RAM
1 gig of free hard drive.
Windows 95 can work but NT, 2000 or XP are much better.
The important thing is stability and display quality not speed. A $500 PC will run Pro O.K. with the right graphic card. I have seen old cards that would not display some of the surfaces of models. The help with the SE is good for describing the problems with weak systems.
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 4.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 1400
o
_`\(,_
(_)/ (_)
"There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea" Bernard-Paul Heroux
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
If you have a part in 2001 Student, make the whole thing a UDF and open that UDF in an empty part in Commercial. Wont work for assemblies, AFAIK. PTC corrected this in WF Student. Otherwise you need the Floating Options that the schools get (and don't turn on, usually) in order to convert.
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
If you make an image of the CD as a BIN file, and virtual-mount it using a program like Daemon Tools, could you forego the need to have the CD in the drive?
My old laptop had a separate CD drive and it was quite annoying to have to plug that in just to start Pro/E. The old brick could hardly run the software anyways.
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
RE: PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 SE for Personal Use
That same old laptop had the same problem. If I tried to run WF on it, though, I think it would most definitely have caught on fire or something...