Pro/ENGINEER WILDFIRE 4.0 Tutorial and MultiMedia CD

The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce students to Pro/ENGINEER's Wildfire 4.0 design capabilities.  The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level.  Major topics include part and assembly creation, and creation of engineering drawings.  Also illustrated are the major functions that make Pro/ENGINEER a parametric solid modeler. These topics are further demonstrated in the video files that come with every book.

Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner, an effort has been made, in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage, to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy.  Moreover, since error recovery is an important skill, considerable time is spent exploring the created models (in fact, intentionally inducing some errors), so that users will become comfortable with the "debugging" phase of model creation. 

At the end of each lesson is a short quiz reviewing the new topics covered in that chapter. Following the quiz are several simple "exercise" parts that can be created using new commands taught in that lesson.  In addition to these an ongoing project throughout the book is also included. This project consists of several parts that are introduced with the early lessons and finally assembled at the end.

The tutorials in this textbook cover the following topics:

• Introduction to the program and its operation
• The features used in part creation
• Modeling utilities
• Creating engineering drawings
• Creating assemblies and assembly drawings

Separate editions of this textbook are available.  See the bottom of this page for details.

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About the Panavise part modeled in this tutorial.

The MultiMedia CD bundled with this textbook contains an audio/visual presentation of all the tutorial exercises found in the textbook.  The Multimedia CD provides students with diverse learning tools and experiences that reinforce each lesson.  Students will have an excellent understanding of the material and feel confident about completing the lessons when they view the MultiMedia files prior to completing the detailed lessons found in the textbook.  Students who are visually orientated learners will find this CD to be a very valuable asset to them. 

To download the text of Lesson 2 of the WILDFIRE 4.0 edition (in Adobe Acrobat PDF format), click on the link below: 

Sample Chapter:	Chapter 2
Multimedia Sample:	AVI File

For a complete table of contents, click here.

Lessons

Introduction to Pro/ENGINEER

1. User Interface, View Controls and Model Structure
2. Creating a Simple Object (Part I)
3. Creating a Simple Object (Part II)
4. Revolved Protrusions, Mirror Copies, Rounds, and Chamfers
5. Modeling Utilities and the 3 R’s
6. Datum Planes and Sketcher Tools
7. Patterns and Copies
8. Engineering Drawings
9. Assembly Fundamentals
10. Assembly Operations
11. Sweeps and Blends
    Appendix : Interface Customization
    Index

384 pages

Software Licensing

For information on licensing PTC software for educational use, contact Larry Fire at (949) 440-0900 x202, or visit PTC's Educational Programs website.

Lesson Files

The files needed for the Wildfire 4.0 tutorial are on the MultiMedia CD in the supp_files directory. 

Online Resources

VRML web page for the Panavise model used for the tutorial's end-of-chapter projects.

Course outline and syllabus used by Roger Toogood (University of Alberta Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)

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Release WILDFIRE 5.0
ISBN:  978-1-58503-535-9

Release WILDFIRE 4.0
ISBN:  978-1-58503-415-4

Release WILDFIRE 3.0
ISBN:  978-1-58503-307-2

Release WILDFIRE 2.0
ISBN:  978-1-58503-186-3

Release WILDFIRE
ISBN:  978-1-58503-113-9