The last time I used Pro/E was about a decade ago. If you know where
Revit is now, or where it will be in a year or two more, for structures,
that's where Pro/E was for mechanical (part) design a decade ago. I kid
you not - AutoDesk _is_ that far behind. Back when I was doing
spacecraft and scientific instruments, we'd model each part in 3D,
assemble them in the assembly module, each part was committed to a paper
version (2D print) which was entirely parametrically/associatively
dimensioned - including the ability to add ANSI Y14.5 GDT. We could also
export parts to FEM software for 3D meshing and do
conductive/convective/radiative analysis for a part or assembly (I
think) all within the Pro/E modules. Of course, a full seat
(model/draft/assembly/FEM/Thermal/Dynamic) was running about $40k,
whereas you can get Revit/FEM/Them software separately for under $20k
now, though they won't work together well.
Now, to be honest, I didn't use the FEM portion of Pro/E - I used FEMAP,
which was a nice GUI and a semi-customized NASTRAN backed finite element
modeler. It was only about $5k a seat (compared to 10k for Pro/Es
version), and auto-meshers of reasonable utility were only about 3-4
years old in commercial software, so I did a lot of had coding of input
decks for FEM anyway.
I signed up for a student version a couple of years back to see what it
was like now, but I got busy and never got to play with it. The email
address I used, however, has managed to produce a steady stream of spam
emails ever since (I used the <product>@mydomain.com trick, so I know
what's been compromised).
Jordan
Bill Polhemus wrote:
> I'm not very well acquainted with the PRO/ENGINEER software, having
> been aware that it is mostly for mechanical design. However, the
> software's publisher is offering a "student version" for $99 and I'm
> intrigued.
>
> Is there any reason one of our happy throng would use it? Does it do
> discrete simulation, for example, or time-history of complex FEM?
> Anything that would be fun?
>
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