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March 5, 2009
Question

What are your top 10 reasons for going to Wildfire 4.0?

Please post 10 and only 10 reasons for moving your organization to Wildfire 4.0:

(be brief, be clear, be done)
(smile its almost Friday!)

Thanks in Advance

Andrew Amsden
CAD\PDM Administrator
Midmark Corporation
937-526-8770



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    dgschaefer21-Topaz II
    21-Topaz II
    March 5, 2009
    Top 10 reasons for Design Central to move to WF4:

    1 - A client requires it.
    2-10 - See #1.

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    Doug Schaefer
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    PAULKORENKIEWIC1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    March 5, 2009
    4 is so close to 3 it's hardly a decision... at least as far as I can
    see... (note that we do not use Intralink and our largest customer does
    not place a CAD software requirement on us...)

    The biggest advantages I see are in Mechanica...

    Paul Korenkiewicz
    FEV , Inc.
    4554 Glenmeade
    Auburn Hills, MI, 48326-1766

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    MikeBrattoli12-Amethyst
    12-Amethyst
    March 5, 2009


    Here's my 10, or is it 2 cents:



    1) Improvements in Pro/MANUFACTURING

    2) Ability to use ISDX Trace Sketches in Assembly Mode

    3) Improved Trace Sketch controls and display options in Style

    4) Merging more than two quilts in a single feature if they share
    the same edge boundary

    5) Style model tree

    6) Improved selection capabilities when creating a composite datum
    curve

    7) Improved rendering capabilities with ARX

    😎 Dimmed / Transparency display of inactive models when a
    component is activated in an assembly

    9) REX (Restyle) enhancements

    10) Draft feature creation for open surfaces





    Mike Brattoli

    Moen Incorporated

    Engineering Systems Administrator

    25300 Al Moen Drive

    North Olmsted, OH 44070
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    laura.woodward1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    March 5, 2009
    i havent switched yet, but i went to a workshop a couple weeks ago that
    gave me 5 good reasons to do so.



    here they are

    1) mechanica lite

    2) 3-d pdf

    3) feature recognition plug-in (free download from ptc.com for
    imported geometry)

    4) tolerance analysis

    5) sketcher diagnostics



    again, i havent switched yet, so im not sure how useful these will be,
    but they looked promising.



    Laura Woodward

    Saab Training, LLC

    Orlando, FL

    (407) 281-3012
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    ptc-3569581-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    March 6, 2009

    We have only 1

    We're connecting all our plants globally and need to move to the same revision of software. Since Intralink 3.4 will soon lose it's support, we are moving to the latest version, which is Intralink 9.1. This in turn will force us to move to Wildfire 4.0.

    While I'm sure Wildfire 4.0 will bring a lot to the table, most of our users are happy (and successful) with 2.0 and see no need to put themselves through more training, waiting, learning, new errors, etc. While some look forward to the change, others do not.

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    HugoHermans12-Amethyst
    12-Amethyst
    March 6, 2009

    An extra one :layers status of parts can be saved onassembly level.

    This will allow users without write access to particular parts, change the layer visibility of parts in assembly context, and save these assemblies including the layer status without saving the parts.

    Regards, Hugo.

    << ProE WF3 M190 - PDMLink 8.00 M040 >>

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    msteffke15-Moonstone
    15-Moonstone
    March 6, 2009


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    Mark Steffke
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    ptc-944201-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    March 8, 2009
    #11) We have seen a reduction in retrieval times for large assemblies
    (can = big $'s for some companies...)



    Regards,



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    JeffZemsky17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    March 9, 2009

    Putting my Plug Power hat back on - the items that were of interest to us (PP is still on WF3, but was testing before I left) -

    1. Sketcher mode improvements (vertex display, shade closed sections, etc.)
    2. retrieval speed improvements
    3. Hyperelastic material models in Mechanica (modeling gaskets and such)
    4. NPT hole feature
    5. flexible components show properly in a repeat region
    6. 64bit PDF creation
    7. Ribbon cables
    8. Merged install for Mechanica (ok as an Admin I threw that in - but makes life easier 🙂
    9. Big contact model improvements in Mechanica
    10. Lots of 3D annotation improvements (we had been driving towards model-centric design)
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