hi nkpham
my advise is that you should try and master a 3d cad package whilst you have the time at college. When at work it is difficult sometimes to learn new tricks/functionality because you are usully restricted to the field/products that you work on.
As has been said with proe you can literally design just about anything. I`m sure you could design bridges no probs with some mechanical no how to back up the modelling skills.
I left college 6 yrs ago now and we had proe, 2 of us of the course spent the time to learn proe as we realised that it is good to help get a job. Because of the initial hurdles just about all others on the course (product design) steered away from proe and used 2d cad/rendring to show there ideas. hen it came for looking for jobs i was getting more offers than my college friends.
In my first job i was doing junior work, using proe 7-8hrs a day - within 2 yrs i was running rings round the rest of the users/project engineers. This was back when proe wasnt as widespread as it now is, i dont even think solidworks was around.
I now work in consultancy and have to use a variety of packages both 2d and 3d and have found that the knowledge gained using proe has helped immeasurably. I think it has to be said if you can get your head around proe then you will be able to use any other 3d package pretty quickly.
Yes solidworks is quicker for knocking out work but i have big problems when trying to create industrial design concepts - it just cant hack it whereas proe though sometimes frustrating does the job. Sometimes it just feels like 'cheating' using solidworks.
I have yet to get on wildfire but proe has been getting more user freindly with every release (even if they do move everything around).
Look at the field you want to go into, see what is the industry standard and go for it is what i can suggest. Proe is the standard in a multitude of disciplines so you can move abouut providing you have the mech/design knowledge to back up your cad skills.
For the time being at least I will remain a pro user - it really is a marvelous peice of software. After 6 yrs it still suprises me sometimes at what it can actually do if you persevere.
my advise is that you should try and master a 3d cad package whilst you have the time at college. When at work it is difficult sometimes to learn new tricks/functionality because you are usully restricted to the field/products that you work on.
As has been said with proe you can literally design just about anything. I`m sure you could design bridges no probs with some mechanical no how to back up the modelling skills.
I left college 6 yrs ago now and we had proe, 2 of us of the course spent the time to learn proe as we realised that it is good to help get a job. Because of the initial hurdles just about all others on the course (product design) steered away from proe and used 2d cad/rendring to show there ideas. hen it came for looking for jobs i was getting more offers than my college friends.
In my first job i was doing junior work, using proe 7-8hrs a day - within 2 yrs i was running rings round the rest of the users/project engineers. This was back when proe wasnt as widespread as it now is, i dont even think solidworks was around.
I now work in consultancy and have to use a variety of packages both 2d and 3d and have found that the knowledge gained using proe has helped immeasurably. I think it has to be said if you can get your head around proe then you will be able to use any other 3d package pretty quickly.
Yes solidworks is quicker for knocking out work but i have big problems when trying to create industrial design concepts - it just cant hack it whereas proe though sometimes frustrating does the job. Sometimes it just feels like 'cheating' using solidworks.
I have yet to get on wildfire but proe has been getting more user freindly with every release (even if they do move everything around).
Look at the field you want to go into, see what is the industry standard and go for it is what i can suggest. Proe is the standard in a multitude of disciplines so you can move abouut providing you have the mech/design knowledge to back up your cad skills.
For the time being at least I will remain a pro user - it really is a marvelous peice of software. After 6 yrs it still suprises me sometimes at what it can actually do if you persevere.