[jwiegley]

Somebody please inform FIRST that with the number of teams competing global it is shear stupidity to believe we all use PRO/Engineer or that we have the most bleeding-edge version of some application which will understand the bleeding-edge Pro/E format that was used.

The Pro/E files do not open under any version of SolidWorks, I have access to both the student version and 2008SP0. MasterCAM is also unable to open them.

We are not going to go out and buy Pro/E just for a six week FIRST project.
We are going to form an opinion of FIRST's ability to support the teams. (Hint: It's not a good opinion.)

I cannot believe the number of times I have to educate people about one simple common fact: when making data public, always use a common, standard, open format. FIRST failed this and now their CAD library, that somebody put a lot of time and effort into, is all but useless.

Would somebody with Pro/E please convert the files to a format useful to the other 95% of us?

Thank you.