[Madison]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

The main contact for our team sent me the project manager login credentials this morning; seems like the registration didn't take very long. So I logged in and added my e-mail address to the list of members, but I haven't yet gotten a reply in the 12 hours since then. I've tried since then with a couple other e-mail addresses, but nothing has come through (yes, I did check the spam bin). Has anyone been successful at adding other people to their projects? (Or do they maybe have some sort of script that sends out all the queued e-mails in the middle of the night?)

I'm somewhat disappointed that PTC isn't providing support for CAD versioning of Solidworks and other softwares. According to the literature, they produce plug-ins for Inventor and Solidworks (and Unigraphics, Catia, etc.) but are only providing the Inventor one free of charge. I guess it wouldn't be a sound business decision, though, to pass up the opportunity to influence thousands of potential future customers into using Pro/ENGINEER.

I was able to invite add'l members to the project this afternoon and they successfully signed up and were able to log in. Did you "start" the project? I recall reading somewhere a step-by-step guide that called for "starting" the project before inviting new members. I don't know what the distinction is, really, but I followed those steps and it worked.

I'm also upset that they haven't yet made a Solidworks plug-in available. I downloaded the provided copy of Pro/E and have been playing around with it a bit and all that's done is remind me how much I despise Pro/E. I think this has a great feature set, but it's not so great that it's going to get me to switch all of my work over to Pro/E -- especially since my job uses Solidworks and that makes it much easier to sneak in other work during the downtime. Pro/E is clearly different and just confuses everyone.