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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2009 PTC Announcement
I did the Pro-E workshop for teachers this summer... I'd have to agree that Inventor seems to be a bit easier to use, but maybe that is because I have a couple years experience using it for FRC... and a couple decades using AutoCAD products for general CAD work. I was certainly able to figure out Pro/E and build some models... but it is taking a bit of work getting used to the interface. (Mind you, it took me a while to get used to Inventor, too...)

Currently I'm having some issues importing VEX models into Pro/E Wildfire 3.0, but am hoping that 4.0, the current release, will solve those problems and that new KOP components will be released in a native Pro/E format.

Pro/E was of particular interest to our school because of the generous licensing provisions. As much as I appreciate Autodesk's contibution of 10 seats of Inventor for team use, it is nice to be able to use the Pro/E software in essentially unlimited numbers of installations for classroom instruction.

Jason
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