michael3130
New member
dgs,
I had the same experience as you. I came from an SDRC and SW background and was then thrown into ProE Wildfire 4 years ago. There were 3 other light users in the office but none of them had much CAD experience so I was pretty much on my own. There were no books but using basic knowledge of how 3D CAD packages worked I worked my way round it and same as you, by the time training day arrived 2 months later I knew most of what the basic course was teaching me. I'll admit for the first 3 days I could do very little and I did wonder if I'd made a mistake changing to ProE but 4 years on, I use both packages happily and on a daily basis.
I'm not a one off case either. Another engineer started here just over a year ago with a background in SW and Solidedge and he picked ProE up easily enough.
Going back to training, we had formal sheetmetal training earlier this year and I was not impressed. I managed to pick up most of it myself but thought there must be more to it so we went for the course. Unfortunately I was right and gained very little from the training.
Michael
I had the same experience as you. I came from an SDRC and SW background and was then thrown into ProE Wildfire 4 years ago. There were 3 other light users in the office but none of them had much CAD experience so I was pretty much on my own. There were no books but using basic knowledge of how 3D CAD packages worked I worked my way round it and same as you, by the time training day arrived 2 months later I knew most of what the basic course was teaching me. I'll admit for the first 3 days I could do very little and I did wonder if I'd made a mistake changing to ProE but 4 years on, I use both packages happily and on a daily basis.
I'm not a one off case either. Another engineer started here just over a year ago with a background in SW and Solidedge and he picked ProE up easily enough.
Going back to training, we had formal sheetmetal training earlier this year and I was not impressed. I managed to pick up most of it myself but thought there must be more to it so we went for the course. Unfortunately I was right and gained very little from the training.
Michael