Product Description

Pro/ ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 Student Edition is the one solution for Engineers that dont want to choose between price and power, ease of use and robust process functionality. Pro/ ENGINEER Wildfire details the form, fit, and function of products. Seamless Web connectivity ensures that product teams have access to the resources, information, and capabilities they need. Full associativity means that product changes made anywhere update deliverables everywhere. And Pro/ ENGINEER Wildfire is fully interoperable across all major CAD data formats. NOTE: THIS PRODUCT IS AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS ONLY. VALID ACADEMIC VERIFICATION IS REQUIRED TO PROCESS ORDER. Limit 1 copy per customer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11154 in Software
• Model: SE
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .33 pounds

Features

• Interactive Surfacing
• Advanced Assembly
• Mechanism Design
• Structure & Thermal Simulation powered by MECHANICA
• Behaivoral Modeling

Customer Reviews

This is an Illegal Software
This person is trying to trick you... the software is obtained when you have an account on PTC University (actually this account is obtained when you work in a big company like Sony, Samsung, etc..)

So when you start your WEB training PTC allows you to use they "Pro/Engineer Student Version" Software, this software is free of charge (when you have the PTC University Account).

If think that this person will send you a package like showed in the photo "is just a trick" he/she will send you only a USB Memory with a copy of the software.

Please don't get tricked, Pro/Engineer doesn't cost $100 Dlls...

Disregard the other reviews! Wildfire is the choice for the professional!
Pro/e Wildfire 2.0 is the most powerful 3D CAD tool to date. Unfortuneately, some users do not take the time to understand its capabilities and learn about the program, rather, they get frustrated and rant about how bad it is. The truth is that Pro/E is the premier choice for companies that are willing to pay a little more for the better product, such as Caterpillar. Solidworks and Unigraphics are the choice of companies who care more about the budget than the product itself. If you're in the engineering field long enough, you'll find this to be true!
Wildfire 2.0 has a user interface that is easy to understand, but difficult to master. This is directly related to the design intent of the model...knowing what references to dimension your features from and knowing how the features relate to each other. If you've used 2001, there is a help tool called "menu mapper" that will guide you to the action you wish to perform, whether it's hole creation, or adding a GTOL in the drawing. Menu mapper is a link that appears in pro/e's explorer window every time you start pro/e.
In my 10 years as a mechanical designer, I've had experience with Solidworks, Unigraphics, AutoCAD, and Pro/e. If you're serious about engineering and you want the most powerful 3D tool out there then Pro/e is the only option. Get it, learn it, and then make the program work for you!

How can a program be this awful?
I would love to give this a rating of less than one star, but Amazon.com won't allow it.

Where to begin?

It seems like PTC, losing customers to the vastly superior SolidWorks, has released a new program (WILDFIRE!!! pretty sweet name, if you're 12 years old). Or maybe they just dressed up their old Pro/E 2001. They changed some colors to make it a little more hip, but unfortunately the new colors don't contrast, making it difficult to see what the hell you're drawing. I think pale orange on grey is a very nice color scheme, just not for a CAD program. What was wrong with white on dark blue?

It still has its clunky, unintuitive interface, and it still won't ask if you want to save before you close it. I just accidentally opened up a window earlier this afternoon in the program. I hit the X in the corner a few times, and it stayed open. Selected File > Close, and the window finally closed, along with the rest of the program. I lost about a half hour's worth of work. My fault for not saving, but I guess I'm just used to programs that give you the option to save before closing.

They got rid of the little menu on the right hand side of the screen. That's not really a problem for me, but maybe they should update the help file accordingly. The help file still refers to that menu from time to time. For instance, in order to change the units, you select "Units" from the Setup menu, but it doesn't tell you how to open the setup menu. At one point while I was working, an error occurred while the program was trying to regenerate a part, and the Setup menu that I had been looking for earlier appeared. What this tells me is that they didn't rewrite the program without that menu, they just left the code in and suppressed it. That's probably the best example of why this is a terrible program. They didn't spend any time trying to make it better. They just tried to make it appear more like SolidWorks.

I also don't know how to make holes. Pro/E 2001 had a great way to make and array holes in a part. From what I understand, people in Industry also have not been able to figure it out. They do what I do, and make a circular cut. What a waste of time compared to the way it used to be.

I tried to email PTC to tell them all these problems, but you can't contact them unless you're registered on the site. As far as I can tell, there's no way to register. That's why I came here.

Don't buy this program. It's horrendous. You are much better off with SolidWorks. I'm graduating college this spring, and when I do I'll miss just about everything about this school. With one huge exception. Pro/E Wildfire.

Oh, and if you're running Wildfire and you open up a file that you created using Pro/E 2001, Wildfire corrupts the file so that you can't open it in 2001 anymore. You're locked into using Wildfire, so essentially you can't get a refund for the program once you've used it... unless you're OK with losing your work.