I'm only on Wildfire 2.0 (we haven't upgraded yet) but I find SolidEdge and SolidWorks to be quite a bit easier to use in solid modelling. I've used Pro/E for longer but it's definitely not as streamlined (to me) or user-friendly.

 

Solid Works FTMFW, im still trying to finish up my J's Racing exhaust.

 

Nice! We use Pro/E at my company (Raytheon). My school used Solidworks. My project was a Rotary Engine. Brings back good memories.

 

Are my eyes deceiving me or is the crank sprocket rotating the opposite direction of the crankshaft?

 

Nice work. I use CATIA v5 all day (Aerospace Engineering). If you have a chance to learn that I'd suggest it. The aerospace industry if starved for designers right now. And if you have any questions about engineering or whatever feel free to ask.

Is that the actual Datum scheme or is that what you came up with? Typically the datums are applied to each part, but not shown at an assembly level.

Also, Rolfcopter...go Terps!!! I got my degree from UMD, College Park. Graduated December 05.

 

I work at a wheel manufacturer in Trenton. I used to do design but now I'm on the other side in manufacturing/process engineering (much more interesting imo).

Our main market is the military...too bad b/c I'd love to design/manufacture rims in s2000 sizes

 

dmw16 and Roflcopter,

I was a Terp as well Graduated June '05. Good times there

 

Just started on assembling parts in inventor. Solidworks is better imo. Would love to work with CATIA. Mech-Aero ftmfw!!!!!

 

Mechanical Engineering freshman at UIC (U of I's campus in Chicago) right here. Hopefully I'll get into ME 250 next semester, which is autoCAD. One of the SAE guys is going to hook me up with a copy of solidworks, and another might be able to hook me up with Inventor. I know Pro-E is big on campus here, so I'll have a class in that my senior year.

 

Its not just your eyes, the actual gear on the end of the crank does appear to be spinning in the opposite direction but if you look, I made a small exert on the crank to denote when cyl 1 and 4 were at complete top, that exert is spinning the proper way thus the gear is to, it just appears it isn't

@dmw16,
I'll have to check out that program, if it has to with aerospace, its got to be interesting!

As for the planes, in ProE assemblies, you can turn on and off datum planes of different parts. Just to show the complexity of the part, I turned them all on but for all other purposes, no you wouldn't see them all at once like this.

@97AClude,
Regardless, thats a pretty sweet job!



@everyone,

Its always nice to see effort is appreciated, thats for the comments! Its also nice to hear from some of the engineers / future engineers like myself