topic RE: Another day, another missing feature in Schools Edition in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Another day, another missing feature in Schools Edition

TrevorBommersba — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 06:05:24 GMT

Another day, another feature (menu item) missing from Schools Edition that I'm assuming should be there. These features are used in in my textbook "Wildfire 4 Advanced Design" (by CADQuest) which was written with Commercial and Education versions in mind. No

RE: Another day, another missing feature in Schools Edition

Kevin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:09:27 GMT

There are two different versions of the Schools Edition, the Schools Edition and the Schools Advanced Edition. There are features that the Schools Edition doesn't have but I don't know what they are. The Schools Advanced Edition is suppose to have the same features as the Student Edition. You might try contacting Mark Fisher from the Student Edition forums. He is the PTC Student Edition point of contact. The other thing you may find missing are the sketcher palette sections that come with the commercial version and the WF3 Student Version. I would bring these issues up with your instructor. They should be aware of the issues but you never know.

RE: Another day, another missing feature in Schools Edition

RickGiguere — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:31:41 GMT

Also In config pro Set anotonic feature to yes.

RE: Another day, another missing feature in Schools Edition

Kevin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:00:42 GMT

The option is allow_anatomic_features. I missed that option too.

Anatomic Features set to yes

TrevorBommersba — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:35:30 GMT

Hi Everyone- Thanks for the prompt replies. I have "allow_anatomic_features" set to yes in my config file (a separate file that I manually load and apply each time I start Pro/E). I'm trying to attach a screenshot that shows this, but for some reason the forum system isn't letting me (FTP error that I never got before).

Thanks

TrevorBommersba — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:41:40 GMT

"Kevin Demarco" wrote:

The other thing you may find missing are the sketcher palette sections that come with the commercial version and the WF3 Student Version. I would bring these issues up with your instructor. They should be aware of the issues but you never know.

RE: Thanks

TrevorBommersba — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:52:06 GMT

"Kevin Demarco" wrote:

You might try contacting Mark Fisher from the Student Edition forums. He is the PTC Student Edition point of contact.

RE: Thanks

Kevin — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:38:50 GMT

Here is the email address he posted in one of his posts: -.

Re: Anatomic Features set to yes

RickGiguere — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:47:45 GMT

"Trevor Bommersbach" wrote:

Hi Everyone- I'm trying to attach a screenshot that shows this, but for some reason the forum system isn't letting me (FTP error that I never got before).

Solved?

TrevorBommersba — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:54:49 GMT

Per Kevin's advice I've contacted Mark Fischer at PTC. Looks like Anatomic features, or at least these ones we're discussing, are not supported by the Schools edition. I don't understand all the reasoning, but is has something to do with the fact that these features share code with Surfacing, which is disabled in Schools, but not in Student Edition. Up to this point I assumed Schools and Student were the same. I thought Schools was some special program through our school that allowed us to get WF for free, I didn't realize we were missing certain functionality. Of course a dialog box, pointing out that the feature I need is disabled in Schools and a path pointing on how to upgrade would have allieviated the confusion. I'm not holding out just to save a hundred or so lousy bucks. The lesson here is, if you use Schools for more than a couple months, then you should probably just upgrade to Student and prevent similar episodes. Thanks though to Mark at PTC for the quick response. He was alot of help.

RE: Solved?

mfischer — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:14:23 GMT

Hi all, The Schools Edition is the free version of Pro/E we provide secondary schools and students at college and university. The edition contains a lot of functionality, however it does not include items like Mechanica, MFG, surfacing, etc. For this reason we removed the menus and icons for those capabilities to avoid the user getting a license not found message. While most icons and menus have been added, these particular menus were not...since you needed to enable them via the config.pro option. I have open a request to have them added in the next release of Pro/E Schools edition. The next release will be Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Schools Edition.....available in May. Many of you had questions on what is included in each edition - Schools, Student and University. Attached is a spreadsheet listing the differences. Hope it helps. Regards, Mark

RE: Solved?

DavidMalicky — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:46:43 GMT

Thanks, Mark -- that spreadsheet is very helpful.