AMEN
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> > (Long post warning)
> >
> > As a longtime, staunch Pro/ENGINEER advocate, I can truthfully say that up
> > through Release 2001 I just never seemed to complain a whole lot about the
> > application. Somehow, some way, I could always get my work done in a timely
> > fashion. The lone exception for me was with Release 2000-i2. That one was a
> > real dog. I think that most people will agree on that. Providing of course
> > that they had used Pro/ENGINEER for a long time prior to the rollout of
> > 2000-i2. As with many other types of software applications, Pro/ENGINEER has
> > been riddled with various types of bugs since its debut. Certain build codes
> > have obviously been much more stable than others. Now, I'm not saying that
> > Pro/ENGINEER hasn't had its share of *major* problems for certain users'
> > requirements. The severity level of Pro/ENGINEER bugs are obviously largely
> > dependant upon a user or company's application needs. Of course this
> > situation isn't unique to Pro/ENGINEER or any other software application.
> > But again, I've had really good luck with Pro/ENGINEER overall. All of the
> > way through Release 2001--minus Release 2000-i2.
> >
> > Admittedly, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire has a lot of potential for greatness.
> > Unfortunately, PTC really blew it with the first release of Wildfire. The
> > application is laden with bugs, inconsistencies in the user interface, lost
> > functionality and overall poor programming.
> > Rather than go into a lot of explicit problem details, I would like to say
> > that in all fairness to PTC, certain aspects of Wildfire are indeed superb.
> > But the Wildfire release was way too premature. PTC should have waited until
> > they had the entire user interface changes completed before rolling out
> > Wildfire. They should have also taken a SERIOUS look at what they did to the
> > 'One-By-One' Round feature's creation procedure--when the user *only* wants
> > to Round a single, solid edge that belongs to a complex tangent chain. When
> > you're creating a Swept Blend feature in Wildfire, the Element dialog box
> > ends up on top of the Line and Rectangle icons. Plus some other icons. This
> > forces the user to manually move the Element dialog box, in order to see the
> > icons for selecting certain types of geometry creation tools. The work flow
> > isn't smooth at all in certain areas. You select an option at the lower left
> > of the screen, and then the next selection has to come from the upper right
> > of the screen. There's just no logic to a lot of the programming that went
> > into the work flow aspect of the user interface. The default color scheme
> > for the Sketcher is a joke too. Yeah, yeah I know. You can easily override
> > this by creating your own System Colors file. But you shouldn't even have to
> > do this at all.
> >
> > In summary, I can truthfully say that I have always been a huge Pro/ENGINEER
> > advocate since I began using the software at Release 9. But Wildfire has me
> > pondering about my CAD-related career path. While Wildfire *does* exude
> > flashes of programming brilliance in certain areas, it also exposes some
> > seriously poor planning within the PTC camp.
> >
> > S.T.
I agree I am not a long time user of ProE but I am a long time customer of PTC with the use of Cadds5 and Medusa. I find that this is the norm for PTC. They push it out and let the everyday users debug it for them. If you think about it, it is cheaper for them to do it this way because they are not paying their people to do it. In the end that does not help us the user to be productive. Now you wonder why SolidWorks and other are steeling the market from the top fat cat.