Pro.E

From: Ron Jamieson (Cranfield  University), Charles Sears (Santin  Engineering, Inc.), Terry Wohlers (Wohlers Associates)
To: RP-ML
Date: Tuesday, October 3, 1995
Subject: Pro.E 
> I am looking at the Pro.E product ...

Ron,
     	In regards to your question about using ProE on a pc, this was the 
configuration I was using.  
Pentium 120 MHz
64 meg ram
1 gig drive
4x cdrom
4 gig dat
3.5 floppy
2 meg diamond stealth pci card
21" viewsonic monitor
zoom 28800 fax modem
windows nt 3.51
ms office
accel graphics accellerator card ( a must for shaded spins $1895.00)
total price tag of $9922.50
     It works fantastic.  I normally use a SGi indigo R4000 and found the performance (of 
the Pentium) to be a little slower on the regens.  The graphics shade better than the SGI 
( I only have the base graphics on the SGI) but seem to spin slower than the SGI.  
Without getting to wordy,  I was really impressed.  The next computer I am going to 
recommend will be a DEC alpha (266MHz) similarly configured with a price tag of  
$11000.00
Charlie Sears
Santin Engineering
     P.S. I have heard of companys buying a few seats of Pro Jr. and one or two full seats of 
ProE.  This way a lot of the simple geometry can be created without tying up a full blown 
seat of Pro.

Date: 04 Oct 95 11:18:12 EDT
From: Terry Wohlers <73417.1465@compuserve.com>
     Ron - I agree with Charlie Sears' (Santin Engineering) opinion of Pro/JR.  PTC
did a good job with it.  A couple of months ago, I took a close look at it and
was impressed.  I published my comments in the September 1995 issue of Computer
Graphics World (CGW), pages 57-58, in case you get it.  If you don't, you
should be able to get a copy by sending a note to 74674.1553@compuserve.com, or
fax (603) 891-0539.
Terry Wohlers
Wohlers Associates