Product Description

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.

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. Each lesson concludes with a number of simple exercise parts that can be created using new commands taught in that lesson. In addition to these a project is also included that consists of a number of 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

Table of Contents
Introduction to Pro/ENGINEER
1. User Interface, View Controls and Model Structure
2. Creating a Simple Object (Part I)
3. Creating a Simple Object (Part II)
4. Revolved Protrusions, Mirror Copies, Rounds, and Chamfers
5. Modeling Utilities and the 3 R s
6. Datum Planes and Sketcher Tools
7. Patterns and Copies
8. Engineering Drawings
9. Assembly Fundamentals
10. Assembly Operations
11. Sweeps and Blends
Appendix : Interface Customization
Index

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29178 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Good, but could be better!
I'm an Engineer that's not 100% intuitive. Most of the time, I really have to work at it to succeed, so for all those people who pick up this book and got everything in it on their first try, this review is not for you. Proe isn't a really easy program to use at all!!! I tried the tutorials given with the program and forums, but they're not really helpful. This book really helps people to get a firm foundation of the program and with each lesson helps you get more and more comfortable with manipulating parts and making assemblies. However, there are some parts of this book where the author clearly hasn't checked his statements or if he had mentioned something earlier, you would be saved hours of agony and frustration. I would sit there for hours on a lesson trying to figure out how to reproduce the same patterns in his book only to discover a much simpler way to do it in later lessons, or the fact that he left out some critical part to the lesson which you may never get unless you figure it out on your own. However, for the beginner who's trying to break in this is a good book. It still has a long way to go in terms of clarity though.

MY SON IS HAPPY
I bought this for my son who is a mechanical engineer. He had purchased the actual software but not the tutorial. He is very pleased. And so I am pleased.

Ok program, but not the best.
Got this book for my CAE class in college and found the program hard to use. I have used Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks and can definitely tell you that both are far superior than ProE. The book does a decent job of giving you basic tools for working the program, but leaves a lot missing.