Talk:Pro Engineer
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Your book is nicely evolving. I just reviewed your book to give it a new development stage, and I suggest the following improvement: Your Reference/Definitions could be converted into a table. Wiki supports tables like this following example:
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| AAX | Advanced Assembly Extension |
| APX | Assembly Performance Extension |
| ARX | Advanced Rendering Extension |
| ASX | Advanced Surfacing Extension |
This might improve the visual appearance of your nice book. --Andreas Ipp 23:41, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I can do this quite easily in Vim but I'm concerned about the source of the material. It appears to be copied directly out of some formatted document, which could possibly have been copyrighted. There's no indication from the person who added this (Iturner2) whether this material is free to be used. It will be difficult to write our own version of the definitions reference but legally we may have no choice. Praetis 14:00, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Version stuff?
Pro/Engineer changed drastically between 2001 and Wildfire, and less so between Wildfire and Wildfire 2.0. I propose that this WikiBook be written, if possible, to keep pace mainly with the latest version. If someone has the time or inclination later to add "menu mapper" information or other details of earlier versions, such as might be useful to those upgrading from earlier versions or working on legacy systems, that can have its own section.
It looks as though this book has been inactive for awhile now. If anyone is interested in helping me pursue it, please drop me a note on my talk page. I'm a Wiktionarian first, so I don't know yet how much time I'll devote to this project.--Dvortygirl 07:08, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Um... this is pretty much the dumbest, most useless endeavor I've ever seen anyone attempt. The software changes too quickly and no normal human (or TEAM of them) could keep pace without massive support. Even WITH massive support, Pro/E "experts" abound but few of them *really* know what the heck they're doing. PTC's textbooks are nothing to write home about- but this massive piece of software just does not lend itself to an E-book written by the web community. While I probably owe the guy a kick in the family jewels, Steve Smith's textbooks are probably the best resource for Pro/E knowledge. Spend your money there and save your time for something more worthwhile. And if you happen to SEE ol' Steve, do me a favor and try to get in one good kick for me. Trust me, he deserves it.
