Pro/Engineer

[T89 Callan]

Eh' up people.

Can anyone help me out with some advice on Pro/Engineer.

I have a possible job lined-up teaching advanced CAD using Pro/E and Pro/Design, I have never used this system before but I'm competent in CATIA V5, SolidWorks, UG and AutoCAD.

How much different is Pro/E? How hard is it going to be to pick-up the basics?

Also does anyone know any good websites with tutorial videos, readme's and guides for basic use of the system?

I've had a look at some pics and it looks like a standard CAD front screen but I just want to be able to get into the system and get started.

Cheers for any help.

[bridgdav]

The basics are al the same, curve set generation, parametric modelling, features etc.
Feature trees - step back forward etc. nothing to be scared of.
Dashboard and icons are similar.

But as with every system, basics are easy - getting into full surface modelling, stitching, swept surfaces and the like - each system has its merits.
Different systems for different markets - different features and parametisation. Everywhere I've been, have only ever used 50% of its capabilities.

It depends on what level you are teaching.

[Engineer1]

You should be ok provided you play with it a bit, find the commands and any weird idiosyncrasies that exist between CAD packages, such as how constrainst work on assemblies or how explode works, get a good text book and depending on your student's ages let them play abit building models and using features.
I swapped from ProE to CATIA and took probably 2 months to get reasonably coonfident with the bits i needed to use.