[project935]

I had been using ProE since '90 ... they've gotten a little ahead of themselves these days. I find Solidworks to be a better program today for a variety of reasons and have been using it since it came out.

PTC sales sucks a$$ ... they had many many years to make it in the auto industry, but they just blew it ... pompous and overbearing doesn't go over well in Detroit. They're last big push was with Saturn - they developed an automatic parametric chassis development module that laid the groundwork for the Vue ... I don't think it really went anywhere after that - again due to poor sales.

CATIA V5 does look very good and promising, but it doesn't look like it will happen anytime around here - DaimlerChrylser has no immediate plans for it, but they are benchmarking it (and it blows V4 away).

Don - I had a V-twin ProE engine (and chassis) design when the brand name Indian was being revived back in '98 ... a totally new 1500cc powerplant on a way cool prototype Indian Chief. Unfortunatly, the courts killed our customers claim because the Canadian Motorcycle Company showed up with a handful of running S&S engine/aftermarket Harley chassis/Indian dress bikes - they won the "race" and became what Indian Motorcycle Co is today. I believe they are now just getting around to developing their own unique engine. Our bike made a couple cycle mag photo shoots prior to the ruling and that was the only way the public ever got to see it ... kinda sucked at the time to stop that one.