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PTC Intros Pro/E 2001, Granite One.(Product Announcement)
PTC is ushering its "return" to the mechanical CAD market with the release of Pro/Engineer 2001. This looks to be by far the most user-approachable version of Pro/E to date. The interface has been cleaned up and simplified--PTC claims that 40 percent fewer menu picks are required for many common modeling tasks and procedures.
Like some other MCAD packages with similar capabilities, Pro/Engineer 2001 now has what PTC calls Direct Modeling, or the ability to create, grab, and drag features into place, or change them. This capability alone should make Pro/E easier to learn and use, especially for casual users. Building on PTC's shape-indexing capability, Pro/E 2001 has an integrated shape comparison technology that provides graphical feedback on geometric differences between two similar parts. Sketched 2D entities can be associated with model geometry in drawing views, updating when designs are modified, thus extending associativity to 2D drafting in drawings
A significant addition to the program is interactive surface design, brought forth with the Interactive Surface Design ...