Introduction

Welcome to this Pro/ENGINEER^® Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction workshop for experienced users! Now that you have heard about the key themes and enhancements, this will provide you with a unique test drive opportunity.

Preproduction software available for download effective June 13, 2007 to facilitate your testing and upgrade planning.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Overview

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction offers many new capabilities and productivity improvements from previous releases. These enhancements will help you optimize your Global Design Processes, including Electromechanical Design.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction builds upon the capabilities introduced in prior releases such as the modernized Pro/ENGINEER user interface (UI).  The UI, which utilizes a dashboard interface and icons that offer simple and intuitive access to menu options for creating and editing designs, has been further enhanced and extended to more Pro/ENGINEER modules.  The embedded browser and file directories have also been improved for faster navigation to valuable design data and resources.  A few of the key enhancements covered in this tutorial are highlighted below:

Global Design Process Enhancements

• Optimize Detailed Design - Create both simple and complex designs faster with improved assembly performance, new Auto Round™ capabilities, direct surface editing, automated 3D drawing annotations, and more

• Optimize Verification and Validation - Analyze your designs faster and easier with improved meshing, support for assembly contact points, nonlinear materials, better results analyses, smarter diagnostics, and other simulation improvements

• Optimize Manufacturing Tooling & Factory Equipment Design - Simplify and automate the transformation of engineering designs into manufacturing processes with an easy to use, powerful process manager tool for toolpath definition, annotation features, and other key tasks

Electromechanical Design Enhancements

• Faster Detailed Design - Create electromechanical designs faster with intelligent, automated capabilities for adding and routing ribbon cables

• Faster Design Collaboration - Accelerate design collaboration with a new associative interface between MCAD and ECAD designs. Automatically identify incremental changes and cross-highlight between MCAD and ECAD circuit board designs

For the best experience, please review the remaining pages in this section. At the conclusion, we are very interested in your feedback - so please use the comment links provided. Enjoy!