josephlordy
New member
I understand that it depends on what you are doing. There
are several things in Pro E that I would have liked to
see in Solidworks.
However, although different people use it for different
things, i still found that doing BASIC things such as
extrusions, section views, sketching, and drawings is
still much more laboured than working in Solidworks. I
could not believe the bizzare way I had to generate a BOM
table in a ProE drawing.
I personally have only worked in small companies on local
installations, so I can see how ProE may have many
benefits for different profiles and setups to be loaded
by different people doing different jobs. But once again,
it is the fundamental basics of modelling and drawings
that we ALL do that I find difficult. When I have to go
onto ProE from Solidwork to access our legacy data, it
feels like someone has put the brakes on.
We actually need to do some modifications to a few parts
that were in ProE, but what I did was save the Pro E
files as STEP files, import them into SOlidworks, carry
out all the remodeling and supply toolmakers with the new
files from Solidworks. This was so we could get it done
in time. I then had to retrospectively re-model the ProE
files after the fact, when the pressure was off.
are several things in Pro E that I would have liked to
see in Solidworks.
However, although different people use it for different
things, i still found that doing BASIC things such as
extrusions, section views, sketching, and drawings is
still much more laboured than working in Solidworks. I
could not believe the bizzare way I had to generate a BOM
table in a ProE drawing.
I personally have only worked in small companies on local
installations, so I can see how ProE may have many
benefits for different profiles and setups to be loaded
by different people doing different jobs. But once again,
it is the fundamental basics of modelling and drawings
that we ALL do that I find difficult. When I have to go
onto ProE from Solidwork to access our legacy data, it
feels like someone has put the brakes on.
We actually need to do some modifications to a few parts
that were in ProE, but what I did was save the Pro E
files as STEP files, import them into SOlidworks, carry
out all the remodeling and supply toolmakers with the new
files from Solidworks. This was so we could get it done
in time. I then had to retrospectively re-model the ProE
files after the fact, when the pressure was off.