EMERGING TRENDS OF PRO/ENGINEER
Shah Jinal U.
4TH Sem. Mechanical Engineering
L.C.Inst. Of Technology, Bhandu.
Mehshana,Gujarat
jinal_shah_30@yahoo.co.in
ABSTRACT
Pro/ENGINEER is the industry's most leading 3D mechanical
design suite. It is based on the industry's most robust,
parametric, associative, feature-based modeller -- so wholesale
design changes can be made with confidence. It is made by
PTC.USA. It has 99 modules. It has 0.0012 efficiency.
Wildfire has the power that has always been associated with
Pro/ENGINEER. With the latest W ' ildfire' release and now
Wildfire 3.0, Pro/Eng is now a lot easier to use and as
powerful as ever. The power to make complicated models
with lots of features. The power to handle large assemblies.
And the power to analysis and advance mechanism of parts
and assemblies.
Feature-based :- Models are constructed using a series of
features. Each features builds upon the feature can be
simple,but taken together all features create complex parts and
assemblies.
Solid modeling :-All models contain properties such as
mass,volume,center of gravity,surface area,etc...As features
are added or removed from the model them the properties
update.For example if you add a hole to a block, then the mass
of the block will change
Parametric :-The models are value driven using dimensions
and parameters. If you change a dimension of the models,then
the 3-D representation of the model will change. Associative
:-All deliverables are based off the part model. If you change
the dimensions on the part model,then all deliverables such as
assemblies , drawings and manufacturing files will reflect the
change.
INTRODUCTION
Pro/Concept
Pro/Concept is the all-inclusive digital sketching tool that lets
you conceptualize without limits. With integrated sketching
and modeling in the same environment, you now have the
freedom to brainstorm without first having to figure out which
tool to use. Of course, it integrates seamlessly with
Pro/ENGINEER and Product View so collaboration with
peers, clients and suppliers is a snap. So go ahead, start
turning the 20 ideas you had in traffic this morning into truly
innovative product designs.
Upadhay Manthan D.
4TH Sem.Mechanical Engineering
L.C.Inst. Of Technology, Bhandu.
Mehshana,Gujarat
manthan_upadhyay@yahoo.co.in
Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3-D CAD/CAM Software
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire from PTC represents the new
frontier in product development software. It really does live up
to the slogan, 'Simple, Powerful, Connected'. The Foundation
Advantage package is incredible value with a huge number of
modules included for a fantastic price, enough to satisfy 80 or
90% of first time users. It really is a high end package for the
price of a low end one. However, for those who want even
more functionality, a wide range of extra modules are
available, or you can have the FlexAdvantage or the Flex 3C
package. .
Simple
The new interface has brought Pro/ENGINEER into the 21st
Century with dramatically improved ease of use, without
losing any of the power and functionality.
Potential new users who previously thought Pro/ENGINEER
was old & clunky, (and yes it probably was), should definitely
have a look. We are sure that you will have a pleasant
surprise.
For existing Pro/E users, once you get over the shock of
looking at a new interface, you will quickly be converted to all
the advantages and the ease with which you can create and
modify models without all those menu-picks. Also migration
will be a breeze, with features like Menu Mapper for "old to
new" commands and a wealth of help tools.
Powerful
Wildfire has the power that has always been associated with
Pro/ENGINEER. The power to make complicated models
with lots of features. The power to handle large assemblies.
And the Foundation Advantage package has even more
modules packed into it than ever before.
Connected
These days more and comp anies are designing products in
conjunction with others, be it partner companies, clients,
suppliers, design houses, whoever. And individuals in
different locations in the same company also need to
communicate.
The Wildfire release allows you to connect with Windchill
applications over the Internet for true design sharing, both
with real-time connectivity as well as accessing product
information as it resides on the Internet (or your Intranet).
With revolutionary ease-of-use and Web-connectivity,
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire has been built to place engineers
and designers at the centre of the product development
process.
We'd like you to meet the newest revolution in product
development software.
CAPABILITIES
There are the following capabilities of the complete 3-D
package of Pro/Engineer Wildfire.
3D Solid Modeling - Fully parametric, robust solid modeler
Assemblies - define and create complex assemblies.
Fully Detailed Documentation and 2D Drafting - create
complete, production-ready drawings.
printer and plotter support to those output devices that support
a Windows, or compatible, plotter driver.
Data Exchange - empower highly collaborative CAD/CAM
development.
Programmatic Interface - J-Link capability is a powerful
new tool for expanding, customizing, and automating the
functionality of Pro/ENGINEER.
VRML/HTML - export Pro/ENGINEER parts, assemblies,
and process plans to Web pages using standard HTML,
VRML, CGM, and JPEG formats and Java applets.
Photo-realism - quickly create accurate, photo-realistic
images of Pro/ENGINEER parts, assembles, and animations.
Design Animation (DAO) - make animations. For instance,
animated assembly sequences
Model CHECK - evaluate parts, assemblies, and drawings to
ensure that they adhere to a company's modelling standards
and best practices.
Mechanism Design (MDX) - assemble parts and assemblies
using pre-defined connections (pin joints, ball joints, sliders,
etc.) The mechanism assembly can then be interactively
dragged through its range of motion.
Import Data Doctor This module helps with repairing
problem data from other systems.

Associative Drawing Tables - produce detailed reports that

automatically update changes to design tables.

Advanced Surfacing - create and trim surfaces using basic

and advanced tools (extrude, revolve, blend, sweep, etc.)
Perform surface operations such copy, merge, extend, and
transform.

Sheet Metal - quickly create sheet metal parts using sheet

metal specific features such as bends, punches, forms, etc.
Provide the ability to unfold sheet metal parts into accurate
flat patterns.

Weld Modeling and Documentation - define joining

requirements for welded parts and assemblies and easily
Fig.1 Example Of Feed Check Valve
produce full, 2D weld documentation.

Library - easy access to standard parts, features, tools, mould
bases, connectors, pipe fittings, symbols, and human body
dimensions.
Plotting/Printing - Pro/ENGINEER officially supports more
than 150 plotters. Users of Microsoft Windows
(NT/95/98/2000) operating system platforms can extend the
SKETCH MODE
Almost all models designed in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0
consists of datums, sketched features, and placed features. For
creating datums and placed features, you do not need to draw
sketches. However, to create a three-dimensional (3D) feature,
it is necessary to draw its two-dimensional (2D) sketch. When
you enter the Part mode and select the options to create any
sketched feature, the system automatically takes you to the
sketcher environment.

In the sketcher environment, the sketch of the feature is

created, dimensioned, and constrained. The sketches created in
the Sketch mode are stored in the .sec format. Then you return
to the Part mode to create the required feature.

You will learn about datums and placed features in later

chapters.

In Pro/ENGINEER, a sketch can be drawn in the Sketch mode

or in the sketcher environment.
Fig.2 Example Of Sketch
A designer can draw a 2D sketch of the product and assign the
required dimensions and constraints to it. By assigning the
• Create text.
dimensions, the designer can make sure that the 2D sketch of
• Scale and rotate entities.
the product or model is satisfying the necessary conditions.
• Copy a sketch.
• Import 2D drawings.
Using the Sketch Mode
PART MODELING
To create any section in the Sketch mode of Pro/ENGINEER
Wildfire 2.0, certain basic steps have to be followed. The
following steps outline the procedure to use the Sketch mode:

1. Sketch the required section geometry

The different sketcher tools available in this mode can be used
to sketch the required section geometry.
2. Add the constraints and dimensions to the sketched section
While sketching the section geometry, weak constraints and
dimensions are automatically added to the section..
3. Add relations to the sketch if needed
The geometry of the sketch can be controlled by adding
relations.
4. Regenerate the section
If the sketch is fully dimensioned and constrained, the sketch
is automatically regenerated.

Intent Manager on. Pro/ENGINEER has the capability to Fig.3 Example Of New Page Menu
analyze the section, and if the section is not complete for any .
reason, the section will not be regenerated. You will learn
about these reasons as you go through this chapter.

With this mode you will be able to:

• Use various tools to create a geometry.

• Dimension a sketch.
• Apply constraints to a sketch.
• Modify a sketch.
• Use Modify Dimensions dialog box.
• Edit geometry of a sketch by trimming.
• Mirror a sketch.
• Use drawing display options.
• Use various options to dimension a sketch.
• Create fillets.
• Place a user-defined coordinate system.
• Create, dimension, and modify splines. Fig.4 Example Of Feature used in part modeling

Fig.5 Example Of Valve body
Fig.6 Example Of Compressor body
SHEET METAL
The comprehensive suite of sheet metal design tools in
Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation helps users create features such
as walls, bends, punches, notches, forms, and reliefs. Then,
using a variety of bend allowance calculations, they can create
flat patterns of the designs. The result is parametric, fully
associative solid models of sheet metal parts and assemblies.
Fig.7 Example Of Sheet metal drg.
Specifically, this sheet metal functionality allows designers
to:
Define specific sheet metal features
Punch, notch, and form features can be created with user-
defined tooling. These features will create their own CNC
programming sequences in NC Sheetmetal
Create accurate flat patterns
Accurate flat patterns can be created using Machinery's
Handbook formulas, custom user formulas with logic
statements, bend tables, individual bend allowance
dimensions, or a combination of all four. Each bend in a part
can have a different developed length calculation.
Utilize design rules
Design rules highlight geometry that does not adhere to user-
defined company standards, such as:
Create complex geometry
The core geometry modeling engine of Pro/ENGINEER-
Foundation gives sheet metal designers the ability to create
complex designs with deformable geometry and the
functionality to unbend these complex parts. A particularly
complex example is electrical connector geometry. New
unbend diagnostics give users graphical feedback to help
create flat patterns for complex parts.
Convert solid parts to sheet metal
Users can create a solid block to represent an enclosure for
assemblies, then convert the solid block to sheet metal, shell it
out, rip the seams, and automatically create the flat pattern.
Flexibly create products
Geometry can be created in a variety of ways. Users can either
build on an existing sheet metal component using familiar
sheet metal features, or create unattached geometry, such as
the opposite flanges of a bracket, then connect the individual
pieces together to create one sheet metal part. This is
especially useful for creating sheet metal parts in assemblies.
Generate bend order tables automatically
Bend order tables are automatically created in detail drawings
to communicate information to manufacturing such as:
Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX)

Fig.10 Example Of Engine Assembly

Fig.8 Example Of Concept Of Assembly

Pro/E Adv Assy Extension (AAX) is what you need for top-
down design. It provides the tools to share and manage design
data and distribute design tasks, which are necessary when an
design team is working on a complex product design. In
addition to all of the performance improvement capabilities
included in Foundation Advantage, the AAX package also
delivers capabilities for advanced top-down design. The top-
down design tools provided in AAX have been developed to
formalize the best practices for concurrent, team product
development. These tools are used for sharing and managing
design data during the development of complex assembly
products. These tools allow design teams to:
Fig.11 Example Of Valve Assembly

v Effectively manage and control critical design

intent within dedicated 2D layouts and/or 3D
skeleton models.
v Layouts provide additional capabilities of
providing automatic assembly of components,
global control of parameters and driving
dimensions through explicit assignment or
logically controlled relationships.
v Associatively communicate this critical
information to every member of the design team,
providing team members with only the
information pertinent to their task. This is
enabled with Publish and Copy Geometry
features. External Copy Geometry features
enable direct part-to-part references to be created
without the need for an assembly.

Fig.9 Example Of Valve Assembly in explode view

 PRO/ENGINEER REVERSE ENGINEERING

Everything from Z to A

Sometimes starting from the end results in a much more

powerful beginning. With the Reverse Engineering software
engineers can create accurate, modifiable Pro/ENGINEER
designs from 3D scan data, quickly. The design intent gets
captured as does critical geometric data that is absolutely
needed once your design moves on to production.

It’s not like most reverse engineering you’ve heard of.

Reverse Engineering will recognize, for example, imported
surfaces that may be tangent at the adjacent boundaries where
most other reverse engineering options would lose this critical
information on import. Not only will the Reverse Engineering
Fig.12 Example Of Force Pump Assembly software capture such critical design intent but since it’s
accomplished inside of Pro/ENGINEER, subsequent changes
v Define and automate the enforcement of design are seamlessly propagated throughout the design.
rules, to ensure that only appropriate relationships are
created within the context of the design. This ASSOCIATIVE DRAWING TABLES
ensures that designs can be re-used easily. This in
enabled with Reference Scope Controls that are Associative drawing tables provide detailed reports that
available at the environment level and can also be
associatively update with any changes made to the design –
stored within the object itself.
and that sort and filter information within a drawing to
v Investigate and graphically understand all communicate design details such as BOMs.
dependencies that exist within a design. This
provides a clear understanding of how change will be
propagated in the design. This is enabled with the
Global Reference Viewer and Reference Graph.
v Other tools that are available to promote effic iency
when working with assemblies using AAX are as
follows:

Fig.14Example Of Drawing Views

Specifically, associative drawing table functionality allows

designers to:

Organize information in an easy-to-read format

Users can generate, store, and reuse customized reports
with Pro/ENGINEER parameters that adhere to company
standards.
Fig.13 Example Of Blower
Create tables with repeat regions
The tables will grow or shrink, as necessary, to display all
v Create assembly level User defined features to appropriate model information. These tables can contain
control component and assembly feature creation. any information required by the user, such as the BOM or
v Interchange groups provide the ability to hierarchy of an assembly or the family table definition for
automatically swap functional equivalent models parts and assemblies.
within an assembly. The equivalent models can be Display BOM balloons automatically
individual parts and/or sub-assemblies. Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation automatically displays bill-of-
 material balloon callouts for all components in an assembly
drawing. These balloons contain index numbers
corresponding to the list of components in the BOM report
table.
Format
Users can display information according to their
preferences by sorting, filtering, paginating, and changing
the attributes of associative drawing tables.
Write relations and perform calculations
Users can write relations to perform calculations on the
information displayed in these tables.
Use with other Pro/ENGINEER packages
The associative drawing tables can be used with other
Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation options to fully document
diagrams, cabling, piping, and process deliverables.
MOLD DESIGN
Fig.15 Example Of Mold Designing
Pro/ENGINEER Tool Design provides the tools to quickly
design molds within Pro/ENGINEER. Through specialized
functionality and an easy-to-use UI, mold designers can
rapidly create, modify, and detail molds. Product changes are
also easily incorporated late in the tooling design cycle since
the associativity of Pro/ENGINEER ensures that tooling will
automatically update with changes in the design model.
Specifically, the mold design functionality allows designers
to:
Exchange data and collaborate with customers and
suppliers via Pro/COLLABORATE
Create and/or import and repair models
Graphically evaluate model changes from version to
version
Graphically evaluate draft, undercut and thickness
problems, and repair as needed
Create any feature required including complex surfaces,
rounds, and any draft
Quickly learn how to build a mold using the process-driven
UI
Compensate for shrinkage iso-tropically and aniso-
tropically
Automatically create parting surfaces and split molds into
component geometry
Automatically check for insert/molded part interference
during mold opening
Calculate the fill volume and part projected area
Produce deliverables including solid models of mold
components that are associative with the design model and
are ready for tool path generation and detailing
Create single and multiple cavity molds
Assemble mold bases and components from the supplied
library of D-M-E, Futaba, Hasco, DMS, and National mold
base assemblies and components - for more advanced
functionality see Pro/ENGINEER Expert Moldbase
Create mold specific features - sprues, runners, gates, etc
CASTING DESIGN
Cavity filling Mould cooling Part shrinkage & warpage
Fig.16 Example Of Cavity ,mold and Warpage
Pro/ENGINEER Tool Design provides the tools to simulate
the casting-die-design process within Pro/ENGINEER. It
allows the mold designer to create, modify, and analyze the
die form components and quickly update them to the changes
in the design model.
Specifically, the casting design functionality allows designers
to:
Create cast geometry based on design part definition
Create any type of draft required
Evaluate parts for casting, using draft and thickness checks
Reference design part geometry directly to create casting
impression geometry
Compensate for shrinkage iso-tropically and aniso-tropically
Create die cavities based on single or multiple parts
Automatically create complex parting surfaces
Automatically split die block into cavities
Define and generate sand cores
Create casting specific features like sprues, runners, etc.
Simulate die opening sequence with interference checking
Calculate the fill volume, surface areas, etc.
Produce deliverables including solid models of die
components that are associative with the design model and
are ready for toolpath generation and detailing
FAMILY TABLES & RELATIONS
After Completing this module you will be able to:
• Create design module variations using family tables
• Configure relations that capture a part's design intent.
 PRO/ENGINEER ANALYSIS TOOL

There are a number of analysis tools that are available with

Pro/ENGINEER

Behavioral Modeling Extension (BMX)

This can be used to optimize any Pro/ENGINEER parameter.

It is available as a stand alone package, or as part of the

Flexible Engineering bundle.

Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Dynamics (MDO)

Fig.17 Example Of Family Tables
Allows designers to virtually engineer and simulate
Using a Family table is a quick way to crate a variety of parts mechanisms in Pro/ENGINEER.
or assemblies by designating dimensions, features, and parts
that can change.You select items and place them in to a matrix It uses the Pro/ENGINEER interface for ease of use and
("table") that represents the family. advanced technology that makes optimisation readily
To create a family tables you: available, whilst maintaining quality control
• Create generating model
• Create a table
• Add columns containing dimensions, parameters, or
features that you want to vary
• Add rows with he names of instances.
• Verify that the instances created can be regenerated.

Benefit: Quickly create a family table of parts and assemblies

by setting variable features and dimensions.

Fig.19 Example Of Analysis Of Roof Stick in Bus.

Plastic Adviser

For plastic parts this simulates mould flow quickly and easily,
an invaluable help to the designer of plastic injection
mouldings.

Fig.18 Example Of Relations

Part relations provides you with a means to impart
furtherdesign intent on a part.You create part relations when
you want to automate the regeneration of feature dimensions
or parameters that fulfill your design intent. part relation
enable you to add design intent to a model. By changing a
single dimension or parameter, multiple other dimensions will
change. For example, on a flywheel, if you change the angular
dimensioning scheme of the cooling fin, the no. of fins on the
flywheel automatically changes.

Benefit :- Part relations add design intent to models enabling

them to operate logically. Fig.20 Example Of Analysis Of Floor Assembly in Bus.
Pro/MECHANICA ADVANCE MECHANISM
This powerful package has modules for stress analysis
(Structure), thermal analysis (Thermal) and rigid body

OVERVIEW OF PRO/MECHANICA STRUCTURE

Basic Operation
We are going to start using Pro/M in the next chapter. Be ore
we dive in, it will be use ul to have an overall look at the
unction and organization o the so tware. This will help to
explain some of the Pro/M terminology and see how the
program relates to the ideas presented in this chapter’s
overview of FEA.
We can divide the operation and unctionality o Pro/M
Structure according to the rows in Table I below. These
entries are urther elaborated in the next ew pages. In the
process o setting up and running a solution, you will basically
need to pick one option rom each row in the table. The top
down organization o the table is roughly in the order that
these decisions must be made. Other issues such as creation of
the model geometry and post processing and display of final Fig.21 Example Of Mechanism
results will be le t to subsequent chapters.
By way of review we will go through the process of
assembling the mechanism. This uses the techniques
The PRO/ENGINEER FAMILY already shown in the MECHANISMS tutorial and so
instructions will be brief. If you need to, refer back to the
earlier tutorial. Create a new empty assembly file called
Meet the ProENGINEER® family; ProEng is the world's most wipermechanism and assemble the mechanism in the
powerful and complete set of tools for the engineer and following order using the joint properties described
designer, which is now available. in this table. Some assembled pairs (marked assembly
only) do not require a joint and should be assembled in the
Pro-ENGINEER is the industry's leading 3D mechanical normal way. The steps with a grey background can be
design suite. It is based on the industry's most robust, omitted without affecting the function of the
parametric, feature-based modeller -- s o wholesale design mechanism if you are short of time.
changes can be made with confidence.
To define an animation choose APPLICATION >
With the latest 'Wildfire ' release and now Wildfire 3.0, ANIMATION. (You may get a warning message about invalid
Pro/Eng is now a lot easier to use and as powerful as ever. servo motors because the servo motor defined earlier is no
longer valid – this can be ignored) The screen will change
Pro/ENGINEER is available in pacakages, or bundles of
modules. The starting package is called the Foundation
Advantage package, which contains everything that most new
users require to start out. A host of extra modules are aslo
available to cover almost every advanced or specialist need,
and some of these are also available in the larger packages that
are also available, such as Flex Advantage or Flex3C.

Please note that Foundation, Foundation Advantage, Flex3C

etc, describes the package, or bundle, irrespective of the
version or release level of the software. Whereas, '2001',
'Wildfire', 'Wildfire 2.0', describes the version or release level
of the software, irrespective of the package, or bundle. See
Pro/E Releases for the history of Pro/ENGINEER release
level.
Fig.22Example Of Animation Menu

with the important addition of an area below the main graphics

window. This is where the timeline editor will appear. A
timeline defines what events happen and at what time they
start/ stop. But what are these events and how do we define
them? In simple terms an event is a mechanism position. The organizations with engineering, design and
model can be dragged to different positions and a snapshot information-technology requirements.
taken of the model in that position. 10. Pro/E Job Network - Pro/ENGINEER positions
available.
CONCLUSION 11. Olaf Corten's Pro/Engineer home page - good site for
tips and tricks, links, etc.
12. Pro/Stuff Dot Net. - good site for Pro/Engineer, parts,
Finally we can conclude that PRO/ENGINEER is better for
3-D Modeling, Drawing views and Analysis. The idea of using models, 3D library, and forum.
13. Chris Spangle's Pro/E site - lot's of useful links
the PRO/ENGINEER for 3-D CAD/CAM has evolved
14. Pro/USER Home Page - Pro/USER is the
tremendously. It is used in many applications like Solid and
sheet metal components, Building assemblies, Surface independent voice for users of software produced by
PTC .
creation, Fully documented production drawings, Behavioral
15. Alex's Pro/ENGINEER Page - many links to Pro/E
modeling, Mechanical design kinematics, etc. It has now
proved to be a possible future alternative to regular software sites
16. Pro/E: the Magazine - The Independent Magazine for
used in Mechanical Designing. It will become dynamic in the
the Pro/Engineer User
history of Mechanical field.
17. Proe Designs.com - Jobs, Files, Tutorials, Reviews,
& more for the Pro/ENGINEER community.
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REFERENCES

1. Parametric Technology Corporation - PTC is a leader

in providing Internet solutions for manufacturing.
The creators of Pro/Engineer.
2. Rand Worldwide - RAND Worldwide™ is a global
leader in providing knowledge-based solutions to
organizations with engineering, design and
information-technology requirements.
3. Pro/E Job Network - Pro/ENGINEER positions
available.
4. Olaf Corten's Pro/Engineer home page - good site for
tips and tricks, links, etc.
5. Pro/Stuff Dot Net. - good site for Pro/Engineer, parts,
models, 3D library, and forum.
6. Chris Spangle's Pro/E site - lot's of useful links
7. Pro/USER Home Page - Pro/USER is the
independent voice for users of software produced by
PTC .
8. Parametric Technology Corporation - PTC is a leader
in providing Internet solutions for manufacturing.
The creators of Pro/Engineer.
9. Rand Worldwide - RAND Worldwide™ is a global
leader in providing knowledge-based solutions to