[ChrisH]

ProE will provide 300 FREE licenses to any teacher who takes a three day class on how to teach students about ProE. While I like Inventor, we have decided to use ProE as our team's standard CAD program for the simple reason that EVERYBODY can have a copy.

This is a tremendous advantage when everybody has to use their home computers to do robot stuff. We have computers in our build facility, but we only have access to them during team meetings and build sessions. This makes it difficult to do design work on them as we have to fight the programmers and systems people for time on them. No longer will we have to worry about who has which version and whether or not this file is backward compatible so Fred can use it.

It is well worth the personal hassel of learning yet another CAD system.