I have been using Pro Manufacture for a couple of years now. I use pro E 2001 version. For the first few months it seemed very difficult and way to complicated for my purposes, but now that I am used to it, I would never go back to using SC. My company produces primarily die cast mold inserts using solid models from our customers and some in house solid models. Once I learned how to utilize the parametric capabilities of Pro, I can receive an updated solid and all my toolpath for electrodes and cavities gets updated automatically.
Don't let anyone who hasn't used Pro Manufacture for at least a year tell you whether or not it is a good product. PTC has been updating the machining portion along with the rest of it's software with every new version they release. I still keep SC on my machine because I used it to create tons of good programs that I still need to update now and then. You will not have much luck attempting to bring SC files via IGES into Pro. I hope this will help. Feel free to e-mail me personally if you have any more questions. Dave W. Fisher Wilson Tool & Die St. Charles, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
