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

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Overview

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 offers many new capabilities and produc tivity improvements from previous
releases. These enhancements will help you optimize your Global Design Proc esses, including
Electromechanical Design.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 builds upon the capabilities introduced in prior releases suc h as the
modernized Pro/ENGINEER user interface (UI). The UI, whic h utilizes a dashboard interface and icons
that offer simple and intuitive ac cess 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 c overed 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, direc t 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 manufac turing 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 electromec hanical designs faster with intelligent, automated
c apabilities for adding and routing ribbon cables

Faster Design Collaboration - Ac celerate design collaboration with a new associative interface
between MCAD and ECAD designs. Automatically identify incremental changes and cross-highlight
between MCAD and ECAD c ircuit 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!

Objectives

1. Test drive what's new.

2. Experienc e how key enhanc ements will increase productivity.
3. Provide structured examples to address technical questions.
4. Prepare you for Production deployment.
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5. Collec t feedback about your experienc e.

C ontinue to the next page for Instructions, or

return to the Table of Contents page for a list of exercises..

Tutorial Instructions

This tutorial is intended to be used alongside the release of Pro/ENGINEER shown in the Tutorial
Header. In a workshop environment, all necessary software and data files will already have been
installed and setup.

Download dataset : (~65MB)

Click the archive icon to download the full set of exercise models, as well as required support and
startup files (e.g., c onfig.pro, config.win, etc.).

These instructions are for the Microsoft Windows platform. Web Browser must be configured to allow
pop-ups and Javascript from PTC .com.

1. Install required release of Pro/ENGINEER.

2. Extrac t the dataset arc hive contents to a New Folder.
- preserve folder structure
- a simple path with no spac es is rec ommended
(e.g., D:\PTC\WF4_Tutorial)

3. Edit startpro.ini to spec ify Pro/ENGINEER install path (PROE_DIR).

- you will be prompted if this value is missing or incorrec t
4. Launc h Pro/ENGINEER.
- startpro.cmd runs only Pro/E, configured for the Tutorials
- Tutorial.exe automates total startup, plus window layout!

- Note System Tray ic on :

- Initial Working Directory will be "Exercises"

5. Follow instructions provided within each exercise.

Screen Layout
Pro/ENGINEER and the web browser can be resized and arranged as shown to facilitate effec tive
use of the material
To maximize working area within Pro/ENGINEER, set Display Properties to a high resolution (e.g.,
1600x1200)

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Conventions

Information is provided at the start of many tasks

Tips are provided along the way, with time-saving or alternate techniques

Notes are provided with additional useful details, which may not be required to complete the
exercise

Menu and Toolbar commands ("picks and c licks") are shown in Bold
Icons are shown inline with command text;
labels match the Status bar and Tool tip text
Text that you enter is shown in Bold
Names of models and directories are shown in CAPS or actual case
Keyboard keys are shown in Bold CAPS
Areas of interest in images are green
Mouse buttons are referred to as LMB, MMB, RMB;
instructions will indicate click vs. drag

Navigation
If a page contains more information than will fit in the viewport, a scroll bar will appear.

Make sure to scroll through the entire c ontents before advanc ing to the next step.

There are several options to easily move through the material:

Home
Page for Previous Next
NAVIGATION
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TOPIC Page Page
Header Icon Links
(top right)
Keyboard* / Footer Icon Links
(bottom right)
Other Backspace
* Requires IE 5.5+

Header Quicklinks
Topics - drop-down enables moving between topics, without returning to the Table of Contents
Active Topic - Returns to the start page for CURRENT Topic
Note current / total number of pages
Footer Quicklinks
TOC - Returns to the Table of Contents, listing ALL Topic s
Home - Returns to the start page for CURRENT Topic
Top - Returns to the top of the current page
You may also use standard browser history (Ctrl+H)

Vista-style File Dialogs

Mic rosoft Windows Vista introduced a new paradigm for exploring folders. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0
embrac es this c oncept of "Breadcrumbs" in the new & improved File > Open dialogs.

Note Pro/ENGINEER-specific capabilities under Tools, Open, Preview

Selecting an element in the path will expand to show contents at that level
Selecting down-arrow at the end of the address bar will show full path as editable text
Arrows to the left use folder history
Note Search... panel

You can still use Set Working Dir... from the File menu. To use the RMB shortcut in the folder
browser, you must expand the Folder Tree Panel!

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Recommendations
Proceed through the Main Topic s in any order that interests you
Proceed through the material within each topic in sequence, since many c oncepts/tasks build
upon one another
Follow the steps as outlined, and progress through each exercise to experience "What's New"
Unless otherwise indicated, erase models from session before c ontinuing with next topic

Enjoy!

Requirements
The following software is used in this Tutorial:

PTC
Download or order software from:
http://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/software_update/swupdate.jsp

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 (F000+)

Foundation XE, or higher
Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Mechanica
ISDX
ARX
Cabling Design Option
ECAD Collaboration Option
IDD
InterComm
Expert 5.2 Patch 1
EDAcompare 2.2 Patch 1
(includes Validation Manager)
Feature Recognition Toolkit
(included and pre-configured with Tutorial Dataset)

Third Party
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0+
Internet Explorer 6 (IE7 also supported)

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