What do you do for a living ?

[Lee74]

Hi guys,


I'm a Design Engineer currently working for a group of companies in Manchester that deals with medical storage solutions, display equipment & interior furnishings, materials handling products, and street furniture plus other misc sub-contract jobs. In my current position I design mainly with plastic for both Injection and Rotational moulding, with the odd metalwork job sprinkled in for good measure. At my previous job I was also involved with designing sheet metal parts and cam progarmming using Radan together with several Punch presses, however, that was a very long time ago.


Regards,


Lee

 

[Huug]

I am aMechanical Engineer working at a Industrial Design Office in the Netherlands.


I am working with Pro/E since 1995, starting with release 14. Worked pretty long with all major releases like18, 20, 2001 and now Wildfire 2.0. I'm using it full time for more than 10 years now. My skills focus atadvanced surface modeling andISDX,creating the most complexplastic injection moulded parts for our customers.


Here are some example of products I have worked on in the past years, rendered by my collegues with other software than Pro/Photorender:


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Allthough I'mcooperating closely with the designers in my office, I choose to stay with my profession as an Engineer. I know that some of you guys here tend more to an Industrial Design position, I can tell you that can be much more frustrating. The designershere face much more deadlines, and customers do not always give their projects a go to be engineered. Butas they do so, I can work much longer on the engineering phase of these projects, andI have the knowledge that they will led to real life products that are going to be manufactured. It is nice to get your hands to something that you have engineered, instead of seeinga designdisappear in a drawer of our customer.


Huug

 

[Lee74]

Huug,


Great work, I 'm teaching myself ISDX at the moment with the aid of a colleagues manual, but I'm sure it will take a while for me to reach your level.


Btw, I may have a chance of going on an Advanced surfacing course for WF2, would you recommend this if I am already teaching myself ISDX or would it be a waste of time as I believe it is quite expensive?


Regards,





Lee

 

[[-Skint-]]

Great work Huug, very impressive indeed. See, I start a simple thread about getting to know each other and all you interesting and skillfull people crawl out of the woodwork hehe

Lee, I may be able to attend an advanced surfacing course also, but my basic pro-e skills are not brilliant soI am not sure wether I should even attempt the more expert stuff yet

, as I design handle shapes etc and things that are always curvacios I find it difficult designing the asthetic parts, the mechanical bits are 95% easy so I may have to give it a go. I think my company will have to pay approx

 

[Huug]

I may have a chance of going on an Advanced surfacing course for WF2, would you recommend this if I am already teaching myself ISDX or would it be a waste of time as I believe it is quite expensive?

Doing a course on the expence of your boss is alwaysa good idea. But an advance surface course will give you sure value for money. You can learn surfacing by yourself by practising it a lot, but it will take a while.A course can give you a giant leap in the right direction. Get your hands on items like variable section sweeps, boundary blends, avoidingtriangular surfacesand exploring curvature continuity of curves and surfaces.


I learned ISDX myself, with a little aid of some web-based tutorials, for example those from Design Engine (www.proetools.com). When you know surfacing, the style features of ISDX are pretty easy. But don't expect wonders. A nice question for a teacher of an ISDX course is: "What can you model with ISDX that you can't do with Advanced Surfacing in Pro/E?" The answer is: nothing. But ISDX can perform some task easier and sometimes with better surface quality.


But this is something for in another thread. Keep introducing yourself, guys!


Huug

 

[phoxeoy]

I am a Project Engineer currently working R&D. I work with software
engineers in creating translation software for CAD models. Pro/E is the
catalyst for this new modeling standard. I started using 2000i and have
worked with every release up to Wildfire 2.0. I have been anywhere from
a Design Engineer designing tooling and fixtures for the military,
Electrical Engineer designing harnessing and spec controls for ovens,
Mechanical Engineer designing Injection molded parts and sheet metal to
Project Engineer. All mostly Contract until now. I am also the
Windchill administrator. To date I would have to say Windchill was by
far the worse project I have ever had to setup. It was not easy, but
it's working.

 

[ndk]

I'm mechanical engineer and also work in automotive industry. My major task is coach and bus body design and manufacture. I started using pro/e with 2000itwo years agoand now in happiness with wf 2.0. I work on many modules of pro/e like sheetmetal, ISDX, ARX, MDO, MDX, pro/mechanica, mechanism, animation...


Best regards!

 

[mganzer]

I am a Mechanical Engineer working in support, training, processes involving Pro/E and Pro/I. I also do internal R&D projects in Pro/E. I have been using Pro/E 15 years (since rev 8), and spent 6 of those years with PTC as a consultant and AE. I currently work for Lockheed Martin.

 

[Isair]

I'm Mechanical Engineer, currently working and trying to finish my University (both in the same time). I'm working incompany that is PTC reseller in Croatia, but our primary function is that we act as independent engineering office, offering service in all engineering areas. Working with ProE last 3 years (I used all version from 2000i2 to Widlfire 2.0). Last 1,5 year I'm working with AAX, Large assemblies, creating parametric programed constructions, and drawings.


Huug thats are nice products

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[ceaswaran]

hi am a mechanical engineer working for a steering manufacturing company. i work along with Sathian_83.Am intrested in working more in MDX,BMX.Now am into TOOLKIT if any body have nice tutorials pls help me.
I use pro/e for past four years right from 2000i to now WF3(PRE).For me pro/e can give me whatever i need in my mind.

 

[Shinto Mathew]

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I am a mechanical engineer doing reverse engineering using pro/engineer.


Laser scanning machine will createscan curves.From these scan curveswe will model the part.In fact this only coping of original design, though we willdo some modifications to enhance functionality.Usually we are modeling complex plastic components like Telephone, TV casing etc.


It is really interesting to knowdifferent uses ofPro/E in engineering design around the world.


Thanks to Leeeeeeeeee..

 

[cristelino]

Seems like ``A.A.M.E``
What is ``A.A.M.E``????????


i just invented

Anonimous Asociation Of Mechanichal Engineers.

anyway is better than Anonimous Asociation Of Heavy Drinkers Mechanichal Engineers.
Just kidding

Edited by: cristelino

 

[skwasim_smile]

HIIIIII


Huug great stuff

and Skint a round of applause to u also for starting this great thread

if people around here could post some pic of their work then it would have been very intresting

 

[caddie]

Great thread!


I started of with ProEin -99 when I was hired by PTC (!) to do Tech Support. After a couple of years I switched over to consultancy (not PTC though) and did everything, like installs, setups, upgrades, trainingcourses, methods and so on in ProE and Intralink.


This summer I changed jobs again and I amdoing CAD Support at a major company in heavy machinery.

 

[Baptie]

Hi All,


I'm a mechanical engineer working for a design consultancy in the north east of England specialising in Pro/E modelling (2001,WF1,WF2) and Ansys analyses. We carry out work for a lot of different sectors - currently have projects for business machines, sub-sea vehicles, nuclear industry and a few projects looking at metal to plastic conversion and redesign of plastic moulded parts.


Been using Pro/E for about 9 years now (8 years with an electro-mechanical design company in Scotland) with experience in solid, surfaces and sheet metal modelling, large assembly management/top down design, MDX/Animation, plastic advisor and PDM/Link (never again

).


Get loads of variety of work which is great

 

[Shinto Mathew]

Here is one of my reverse engineering work


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[skwasim_smile]

hiiii there


Shinto Mathew really cool stuff how does this thing work i mean u pass a laser on the model then u get the curves then u join it i mean how this stuff work plz i havent worked on this thing nor did i heard more abt it can u plz explain me if possible just in brief thats all

 

[Shinto Mathew]

Hi


We will scan the original model using a laser digitilizer. And the output this scan is an 'ibl' file. Then import that

 

[jtrubbo]

I am one of only two mechanical engineers in my company. We manufacture high-enend optoelectronic transmitters, receivers and transponders. I have been using Pro-E for about 9 years. I design housings and assembly fixtures.

 

[[-Skint-]]

HIIIIII


Huug great stuff

and Skint a round of applause to u also for starting this great thread

if people around here could post some pic of their work then it would have been very intresting

I am glad you guys are enjoying this thread, I know I am. It is interesting to know what all you guys are upto, who knows perhaps we may end up working together one day ! Its great knowing that no-matter where we are in the world, we all have pro-e in common.


Keep em coming members, there must be thousands of you left lol.... just tryingmy best to bring us all closer hehe