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Re: Best Web Resources for Learining PRO-E & INVENTOR

I've found no good Pro/E tutorials personally. However, the book we use in my college class, that I've also found very popular to purchase online is "Pro|ENGINEER WILDFIRE Tutorial and MultiMedia CD by Toogood/Zecher" It is a click-by-click book showing how to do things, which is nice if you are completly new to the program... but it's not a good book for just looking for a quick fix if you broke something.

If you are debating between using Pro/E or inventor... I highly suggest Inventor. I've worked with Solid Edge, Inventor, and am now working with Pro/E. Pro/E does have many nifty little features, but it is so incredibly non-user-friendly that when you make a minor mistake it can set you back an hour. It's ridiculous. With Inventor and Solid Edge you can simply go back to fix things, whereas Pro/E is very fidgity sometimes. Pro/E and Solid Edge (Solid Edge is my personal favorite 3d modelling program, very well done, and very similar to Inventor's interface but has many of the additional features Pro/E uses... but it's very user friendly unlike Pro/E) both have good support fortunately built into the program. You can simply search for support and find it in the program for most things.

If this is the first time you're messing with 3-dimensional modelling programs... go with Inventor for this year because you can pick it up 10x faster than Pro/E, and if you've ever worked with AutoCAD before you'll catch onto Inventor very quickly. Pro/E's user interface is very strange. The additional power that Pro/E could give you is not worth the hassle, at least not for FIRST. Inventor has all you'll need and then some, probably even for corporate situations. Pro/E is nice to learn if you just want to be familiar in different programs, and it does help clean up your skills with other programs for efficiency, but if you're considering learning it just for FIRST... just go with Inventor, it'll save you so much pain. Don't bother with Pro/E unless you need to.
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