Pro/E Wildfire 5.0
Al Dean takes a look at the legendary modelling application that started 3D parametric CAD and asks, with its twenty-year history, can PTC keep Pro/Engineer fresh and up to date with its competition?
Pro/Engineer was the system that introduced parametric 3D modelling to the market and turned it mainstream. Since the early days it has always had a reputation for being difficult to use. The complex user interface (UI) interaction model was never the easiest to use, and the process of building parametric models of any complexity was never much fun. During the twenty years that the system has been around, the world has changed and parametric modelling has become a whole lot easier or, more accurately, less strict in its requirements.
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