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pwyndham1-Visitor
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September 7, 2010
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Project Lightning Wish List

  • September 7, 2010
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This list is to articulate our wants and needs to PTC on what changes we would like to see to Pro/Engineer Wildfire with the release of Project Lightning. I was asked to put a list of what my company wanted to see in Lightning, and thought it would be better if PTC saw what the whole Pro/E community wanted to see.

Please keep all comment upbeat and positive. Absolutely no hate statements.

I think it is important to have some rules for this, so here is a starter on them. They are subject to change if it proves to be needed.

  • One enhancement per reply - this will make it so people can comment directly to that request with additions, elaborations or +1, -1 comments
  • Keep the requests specific and precise - consistent UI throughout Pro/E is a great request, but is very broad and might be better stated differently
  • No mention of other company branding, names or abbreviations - if you want your request to be listened to don't say Pro/E needs to be like a different tool. I am sure you can find another way of stating or explaining your wish then make it like ..... Siting other PTC products is OK.
  • No off topic discussions
  • Keep all comments related to the request you are replying to
  • When you post a new request, reply to the original post. This will keep all the request at the top level and better to read.
  • Add pictures, screenshot, PDF's or other illustrations to help you point.
  • Change the title of your post to have a short title for your request.
  • Try to make your request fit with WF5 where possible. It would be useless to request something they already did in WF5. (for example: Update the Cabling module)
  • The list is not in order of importance. You can put any request in any order.
  • etc...

I will start with a couple requests to get the ball rolling. I will keep adding them over time to give opportunity for others to add requests.


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tcooper1-Visitor
1-Visitor
September 28, 2010

Product development and upgrade path. I want the new functionality in the latest WC, but don't need anything of the latest in WF, however a bump up in PV would be helpful, but not the latest buggy one. Oh you mean I have to get the latest in all of the above to get one? That's not very convenient! How about taking the time to make the products a little more downward compatible?

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ptc-32600111-Visitor
1-Visitor
September 28, 2010

Maybe is ist possible to preselect on of the nine conditions in sketch mode. Even if the preselection ist not the one you like to use. There is a 1/9 chance that the preselection is the right one.
I use the condition feature more then 100 times a day and in 80% i choose the point to point condition. I think the improvement can save a lot of clicks.

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BrentDrysdale12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
October 4, 2010

Hi Mathias,

I am wondering if you are on WF5? What I see on that is what you seem to be asking for. In WF5 once you use one constraint condition icons that becomes the default until you pick another one. The slight downside of this the "new" method compared to WF4 is the the current constraint shows in the icon in the toolbar so I tend to do a double take if I am heading to the toolbar (especially if I am thinking of another constraint).

However the thing ion WF5 that means I don't use the toolbar so much is using the object action method in the Sketcher to select the two (or more) lines or points or whatever then using the Right Mouse button to select a constraint. I still have to remember to do this though.

I would say from my point of view that what you are asking for already exists in WF5. Hope this helps.

Regards,. Brent.

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ptc-32600111-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 4, 2010

Hi Brent,

you are right, we are still using WF4.

I'm glad to hear about the improvement in sketcher mode at WF5.

Thank you for your answer.

Regards, Matthias.

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brthompson12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
September 30, 2010

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to assure you that we are listening. I browse these pages fairly often. Many of the items in this wish-list discussion are familiar issues that would certainly be targets for improvement in future releases.

Keep the great ideas coming!

Brian

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gvora10-Marble
10-Marble
October 2, 2010

To,

Brian Thompson,

Gentleman,

I am bit surprised to read your statement. I am 10% happy to hear some 1% positive responses from behind the wall of the secretive PTC castle.

PTC is too slow to incorporate for adopting changes/adding new features in comparison to PTC competitors and this slowness makes PTC

loose new market share as well as current customers, I am going to give what I experience about 1-1/2 month ago. I was calling for

co-create technical support. My call went to the license renewal department. I talked to Meg in the same department regarding upgrading

my Pro/E seat license . She said that she would have the sale department call me. The sale person called me after about 1 hour. I asked

for quotation to upgrade my Pro/E license and send me the quotation by fax. Till this date, nobody has sent me that quotation. I wonder

that if that sale person has still job with PTC and if there is any superior to that sale person for the accountability of that sale person.

Also PTC is trying to develop so many software & products, (trying to be Jack of all but master of none).

I hope that I am not too harsh. I am just airing my opinion and frustration about PTC. If PTC feel I am harsh, I apologize in advance.

Thanks.

Gautam Vora.

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rschaft1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 3, 2010

A usable Feature Recognition Tool. One that can make an editable part from for instance a Step-file or even better from a point cloud or Stl-file.

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pwyndham1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 4, 2010

That would be so helpful. I am sure it would be very hard to figure out. I don't think it would have to be completely automated, it could require user feedback. Maybe let the user adjust the order of operations. It would be nice if it didn't end up with all the removes and just had the new geometry.

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FrancescoPompeo1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 4, 2010

No more old style menus. Pro-E Wildfire 5 still have old style menus in cross sections, sheetmetal, pro-welding, elicoidal sweep, blend, sweep and ather features. In this manner Pro-E appear old and not friendly.

By.

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BurtLand1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 12, 2010

Well this was promised for Wildfire and we're now on version 5 and its still not complete.

Even the new stuff -drawing for example- is full of them. Try explaining the menu

systems to a newby you're training - the lack of action on this is appalling.

Repeat regions in drawings is another.

PTC should put some code into ProE so that every time the Menu manager comes up it sends

an email to the manager who's mismanaged this - whoever thinks this is OK in PTC needs to exit.

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pwyndham1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 4, 2010

It would be really nice if PTC incorporated an integrated workflow in to Pro/E that included things like FEA, Mold Flow, Tolerance analysis, Mechanism analysis, manikin and other things. Pro/E should work in such a way that all models are inherently setup so that Mechanica works with out geometry errors. If WF6 will have a ribbon setup, the ribbon should have analysis built into it. The analysis tab would have the functionality available on it.

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FrancescoPompeo1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 4, 2010

In the Sketch: rectangle by the center.

Now I often create 2 axes and than I create a simmetric rectangle, it will be helpfull a feature that create this three things with two click, one for the center and one for diagonal (like in solidworks).

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ptc-22271391-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 5, 2010

I totaly agree with you Francesco.

It should be possible to make an entity symetric to any other line or reference line.

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FrancescoPompeo1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 4, 2010

It will be usefull to see the depth of extrusions and hole in the hole table in the drawing.

Now it is possible only for standard hole, but often I need it for not standard hole and extrusion.

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FrancescoPompeo1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 6, 2010

The problem is that only standard hole has an internal note with the depth parameter.

If extrusion and simple hole had this note we could show the depth in the hole table for this features.

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J1SRC8-Gravel
8-Gravel
October 7, 2010

How about the ability to blank out the quantity on custom QTY balloons for single item parts. Currently a quantity of 1 shows on single items and there is no way to hide or remove it.

The work around is to manually add text next to standard balloons and group it so they stay attached.

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J1SRC8-Gravel
8-Gravel
October 7, 2010

The ability to create balloons for a multi-model/rep columns in a repeat region.

Currently you have to use a master table for the balloons and create a slave table that uses multiple model columns. You then need to fix the index for both table so they are the same.

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chris51-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 8, 2010

Hi

In WF5 you can change the type of balloon to "with quantity".(In menu manager bom balloon)

Then the ballonn is divided in two on top the number in the bottom the quantity.

I do not know if that wasn't availeble in previous versions.

Regards

Chris

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J1SRC8-Gravel
8-Gravel
October 11, 2010

Hi Chris,

Changing the balloon type is not my concern. Quantity and custom balloons in ProE have been around since pre version 18. The problem is you cannot mix simple balloons and quantity balloons for the same repeat region. The balloons must all be of the same type. Therefor items in the BOM with a quantity of 1 show up with a "1X" next to the balloon. The standard practice in the Aerospace industry does not show a quantity of 1X next to the balloon on single items, only on items with a quantity of 2 or greater. Therefor it would be nice to have the abitity to blank out or hide the quantity or better yet let the repeat regions use mixed balloons.

Thanks...Randy

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