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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 12:51 PM
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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.
 
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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 02:54 PM
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I use SolidWorks for Red and Black cultivators and other tillage equipment.
 
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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 02:55 PM
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I have worked with Pro-E, Catia, Mechanical Desktop(AutoCAD), Unigraphics, Nastran and currently SolidWorks. Combined total probably over 10,000 hours.
 
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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 03:16 PM
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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....
 
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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 04:29 PM
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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.

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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 07:36 PM
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I also used other software. AutoCAD, Cadam, CCD, Unixgraphics, Solild Works most of them a long time ago. Haven't used Winchill the new PTC software.
 
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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 08:52 PM
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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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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 09:04 PM
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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
 
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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by jimandmandy
I started on Computervision in 1980
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
 
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Old Aug 17, 2005 | 09:25 AM
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No ProE here. Been running Solidworks for 5 years now. I've dabbled in Mechanical desktop a little but its to frustrating to work in when you have used Solidworks.
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Old Aug 17, 2005 | 12:24 PM
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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
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.

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Old Aug 17, 2005 | 02:54 PM
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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
Yup, those CDC drives were about 300mb.

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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Old Aug 17, 2005 | 05:39 PM
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Just Autocad and Land Desktop for me. Been using Autocad since 1988. We do Land Development, Civil Engineering and Land Surveying.
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