Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 offers hundreds of enhancements that optimize global design processes including electromechanical design. With increased performance and new product design capabilities, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 will take your productivity to a higher level. Highlights of this release include:
Global Design Process Enhancements

* Accelerate your detailed design process
Create both simple and complex designs
o 20 times faster with new Auto Round capabilities
o Using improved assembly performance that reduces retrieval times by up to 50%
o By reducing model preparation time for CAE or CAM applications by 90%
o With powerful, yet easy to use direct surface editing capabilities
o And other new capabilities such as human digital modeling, enhanced data exchange, new JT support, enhanced feature recognition, automated 3D drawing annotations and more!
* Improve your design outsourcing process
Protect your valuable design data with new digital rights management capabilities
* Enhance your verification and validation process
Analyze designs faster and easier with new tolerance analysis, improved meshing, support for nonlinear materials, better results analyses and smarter diagnostics
* Optimize your manufacturing tooling and factory equipment design process
Simplify and automate the transformation of engineering designs into manufacturing processes with the easy to use, powerful process manager for toolpath definition, annotation features and other key capabilities in Pro/ENGINEER

Electromechanical Design Enhancements

* Faster Detailed Design
Create electromechanical designs faster with intelligent, automated capabilities for adding and routing ribbon cables
* Faster ECAD-MCAD Design Collaboration
Accelerate design collaboration with a new interface between MCAD and ECAD designs. Automatically identify incremental changes and cross-highlight between MCAD and ECAD board designs.

And now there are free Pro/ENGINEER capabilities in all Pro/ENGINEER packages. Customers who now upgrade to the latest release of Pro/ENGINEER can take advantage of CAE Lite, CAM Lite, and Manikin Lite capabilities. Visit the Pro/ENGINEER package web page for more information.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 contains many more new capabilities that will further improve your personal and process productivity. For more information about what's new, please review the Interactive Tour, Top Ten Reasons to Buy Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0, FAQs, and the online Product Release Notes.

*The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC's discretion.