July 2006 Readers' Choice Award: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0

By DE Editors

Readers' Choice Award

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 Out

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 makes improving your effciency its mission.

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0, a major release from PTC (Needham, MA), targets improving engineering and process productivity.

Wildfire 3.0's Fast Sketcher reduces the number of menu picks required to use and exit the sketch environment, optimizing assembly workflows up to 5X faster than before. Fast Drawings let you add shaded views to traditional 2D drawing. Fast Sheet Metal gives you the capability to interpret design intent and create sheet-metal features up to 90% faster than before while also reducing the number of features by up to 90%. Fast CAM enhances the manufacturing interface and speeds the creation of manufacturing geometry by up to 3x.

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0.

Wildfire 3.0's Smart process productivity features include a new customizable Process Wizard that empowers companies to capture expert knowledge and leverage best practices and recommended approaches for different processes; Smart Sharing, which are portable workspaces that track all changed, new, and unchanged files; and Smart Interoperability with PTC's Windchill and Pro/Intralink for a streamlined process for accessing information.

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 now also supports Windows XP 64-bit systems. Active Pro/Engineer users will automatically receive 3.0  free of charge under their current maintenance coverage. For details, click here. Click here to read Al Dean's review of Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 in the June 2006 DE.


Wildfire 3.0 from PTC received the most votes in our April 2006 issue. Vote for your favorite product from this issue by going to the last page of the Products section.