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Pro-Engineer
Does anyone here work with Pro-e?
Mostly just curious. I have over 5000 hours on it.
What do you do with it?
I'm an Engeering Tech, supporting current production and new design of Red and Yellow Combines.
Mostly just curious. I have over 5000 hours on it.
What do you do with it?
I'm an Engeering Tech, supporting current production and new design of Red and Yellow Combines.
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From: laurel springs NJ
Just an AutoCad guy here. Been using Mechanical Desktop for about 6 years now. We are starting to use Inventor 10. I'm really gonna like the Inventor stuff though.
We manufacture high speed mail opening equipment here....
We manufacture high speed mail opening equipment here....
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From: Running Springs CA
I started on Computervision in 1980 and was on it and an in-house cad system I helped develop at Rockwell. Cadam, Anvil, Autocad, Ideas, Unigraphics, Pro-E and anything else you can think of were used by someone in the company. Rocketdyne was mostly a Pro-E shop. The Space Shuttle main engines, especially the turbopumps, were designed mostly with Pro-E.
The Advanced Design department did an evaluation of different high-end 3-D cad packages. Each salesman was told that we dont want to see the "canned" demo. We gave him a banana and told him to model it. Catia won.
Jim
The Advanced Design department did an evaluation of different high-end 3-D cad packages. Each salesman was told that we dont want to see the "canned" demo. We gave him a banana and told him to model it. Catia won.
Jim
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God, I'm old! I recall when you could pick out the engineering students on campus by the slide rules we carried (I still have my first one).
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I was the guy who installed it and administered it (along with ProPDM), on the UNIX (Sun Solaris) machines at a defense contractor I consulted for for 7 years.
I played around with it, built some demo stuff, but never really got into that end of it.
Now, if you want to install printers, drivers, etc, I was the guy to come to. Now, of course, I've probably forgotten everything I ever knew about it
I played around with it, built some demo stuff, but never really got into that end of it.
Now, if you want to install printers, drivers, etc, I was the guy to come to. Now, of course, I've probably forgotten everything I ever knew about it
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Originally Posted by jimandmandy
I started on Computervision in 1980
And then:
Loved the machine that defense contractor had - 1MIPS! 10 washing-machine-sized disk drives. 6-10(?) full-height computer racks for the processor. Cute... They migrated to CADDS4x and 5 and got that electric bill under control
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From: Running Springs CA
Originally Posted by krewat
Oh yes, good ole CV... CADDS5? CADDS4x?
And then:
Loved the machine that defense contractor had - 1MIPS! 10 washing-machine-sized disk drives. 6-10(?) full-height computer racks for the processor. Cute... They migrated to CADDS4x and 5 and got that electric bill under control
And then:
Loved the machine that defense contractor had - 1MIPS! 10 washing-machine-sized disk drives. 6-10(?) full-height computer racks for the processor. Cute... They migrated to CADDS4x and 5 and got that electric bill under control
Jim
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Originally Posted by jimandmandy
CADDS3 on a Data General Nova 8-bit computer and custom graphics hardware. We ran six stations off one computer. The display tubes were green vector ones made by Tektronix, and the drives were the 300mb "washing machines" by Control Data. Add a CalComp pen plotter and you were set. Eventually, we went to CADDS4x on Sun (Motorola 68020, pre-SPARC) workstations.
Jim
Jim
CalComp plotter was in the next room...
I had some Sun2's laying around, I still have a Sun 3 that came from a CADDS station I use to read 1/2" magtapes
The place I'm talking about went into Sparc-10's, then Ultras with ProE, but still had some CADDS4x Sparc-10's just to be able to work on old stuff if they needed. Some of their old recon stuff would need a new PCB once in a while...
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