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If you have a Pro/E question and you just can’t find a good answer, you might want to try posting it on the Pro/ENGINEER Forum at MCADcentral.com.

The forum covers a wide range of topics such as:

• Analysis
• Animation
• Rendering
• Bugs & Builds
• CAD Administration
• Data Management
• Data Translation
• Drawing
• Hardware
• Manufacturing
• Modeling
• Mold Design
• Pro/DESKTOP
• Process for Assemblies
• Rant & Rave
• Routed Systems
• Sheetmetal
• Software Development
• User
• Wildfire
• Wish List

There is even a “Tips & Tricks” section covering these topics:

• Assembly
• Behavior Modeling
• Design Animation
• Drawing
• Intralink
• Mechanism Design
• Miscellaneous
• Part Modeling
• Sheetmetal

This is an active forum with lots of members and many posts. When I visited the forum this morning there were 56 active users online. The forum has almost 64,500 registered members who have posted 94,000+ posts in 18,603 topics.

You can visit the Pro/ENGINEER Forum at MCADcentral.com here: http://www.mcadcentral.com/proe/forum/default.asp

Here’s an interesting Pro/E blog: the Pro/ENGINEER Network
Take a look–it might be worth adding to your list of blogs to read.

Here’s a short video from PTC showing some of the highlights of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0. I guess this was shown by Brian Shepherd at the PTC/USER 2009 event in Orlando, FL. If you were there, you might have seen this.

The video shows some interesting new capabilities of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0.
Mentioned in the video are: improved file open dialog box, smart features for plastic part design, drag-and-drop UDFs (User Defined Features), you can open and use native files from Solid Works and Autodesk Inventor, realistic mechanism modeling, dynamic gears, new manikin module, improved method for routing cables, and easier to create realistic renderings of models.

If you found this video useful, you can view more videos from PTC on YouTube here at the PTC Studio channel.