Pro/Desktop

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Description

Pro/Desktop is a lightweight CAD package that is easy-to-use and sufficiently powerful to handle fairly complex conceptual modeling tasks.  Pro/Desktop is intended to serve as an inexpensive entry point into the powerful suite of Pro/Engineer tools available from Parametric Technologies Corporation (PTC).  Because Pro/Desktop is based on PTC's unified software technology (e.g., the Granite Interoperability Kernel), this free conceptual modeling tool provides a good way to learn to use the latest 3D CAD capabilities, while preserving the potential for upgrading to more powerful modeling tools such as Pro/Engineer and Pro/Mechanica.

Features

Pro/Desktop permits a broad range of 3D CAD drawing capabilities, including the usual sketching and drawing tools for rapid development of CAD prototypes.  Pro/Desktop also includes various advanced features, including COM integration for extending its functions through its Java and C/C++ complaint Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs), built-in routines for design optimization calculations, support for output of images and animations in standard web-deployable formats (e.g., AVI), and a wide array of supported import/export file formats, including DXF, VRML, IGES, and STEP.  The visualization environment that is included with Pro/Desktop facilitates viewing and aggregation of 3D models, and is relatively easy to use for such a powerful conceptual modeling tool.

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