story of proes from the dawns to the wildfire.

[painaz]

this link
http://www.cadhistory.net/16%20parametric%20technology.pdf48 interesting pages about the history of the ptc, its founder and designer sw (dr. samuel p.
geisberg, Russian mathematician emigrated to the states in 1974) until the relic of wildfire i (2003).

 

[gianluigi]

hello and thanks, I started with proe version 14, then I continued to work until wildfire 5,
Then I had to change my job.
I still thank you for reminding me of the evolution of this little jewel.

 

[painaz]

I started with 18 at the University of Padova, on unix positions.

It's unbelievable the evolution of the cad systems and the same platforms they run on. I still remember that there was no snap in the scketch, tracked a line the starting point had to be hooked to the reference with the "align" command.

from 2000 the "intent manager" appeared that "snapped" automatically

to make a hole with automatic lamatura you had to write a udf. zero documentation, creating a cartouche or bom required hours of attempts to explore all the commands, creating a flash of symbols was like a hacking session.

but it was an extremely powerful and integrated cad on the whole production process, from the fem (with optimization analysis) to the simulation of the processes (with list for tool machine).

other dinosaur I gladly remember is me10, which I used long for work. fantastisco for mechanical design 2d, but naked and raw impossible to use. even "icones" were created with a macro language, without a leash... doing it was a specialist job.

 

[fabrizio67]

Hello everyone,
I started in December 1993 with version 11.
waiting for the sgi workstations, they gave us the first version that ran on windows nt 3.1.
comparing windows nt 3.1 with an indigo sgi is a bit like comparing an inflatable doll with manuela arcuri! :36_3_13:
we talk about proprietary hardware that compared to the windows/intel platform was ahead of at least 10 years.
in the company we used for 5 years unigraphics ii of the mcdonnell douglas, then passed to the es (progenitor of the current siemens nx) :36_6_4:
the arrival of pro/e was comparable to the landing on the moon. :3513:
Since then I have used all the versions that have happened, in the most diverse production contexts. Today he is a family! :36_3_8: