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August 2010
Rhino Four Week Comprehensive Training
20 day Workshop
08.02 - 08.27

Rhino Level 1
5 day Workshop
08.02- 08.06

Pro/ENGINEER Level 1 (Wildfire 4.0)
5 day Workshop
08.02 - 08.06

Rhino Level 2
5 day Workshop
08.12 - 08.13

Flamingo Level 3 'Rendering' Workshop
5 day Workshop
08.16 - 08.20

Photoshop Workshop
2 day Workshop
08.16 - 08.17

Maya Level 1 - 1 week Intensive
5 day Workshop
08.02 -08.06

Intro to Maya NURBS Modeling for Industrial Designers
16 hour workshop
08.09 - 08.13

Maya 1 week Training Course- Character Development & Modeling Intensive
08.16 - 8.20

aircraft surfaciing
Chair from tutorials used in the Design Engine Pro/ENGINEER Level 1 for Industrial Designers .

Sept 2010
Four Week Pro/ENGINEER comprehensive
09.06 -10.01 (this Four week Compressive Workshop consists of the week one and two, the Manufacturing week as week three and Surfacing for week four. For 2010, this class will be offered every other month.)

Pro/ENGINEER Level 1 (Wildfire 4.0)
5 day Workshop
09.06 - 09.10

Alias Level 1
5 day Workshop
09.06- 06.10

Pro/ENGINEER Level 2 detail drawing large assemblies 5 day Workshop
09.13 - 02.17

Plastic 5 day Part Design & Manufacturing Workshop
09.20 - 09.24 Solidworks or Pro/E

Plastics 2 day Part Design Class
09.20 - 06.21

Die Cast 2 day Part Design Class
09.22 - 09.23

Surfacing Pro/ENGINEER Intensive
5 day Workshop "Specular Highlights"
09.27 - 10.01 (a must have for serious contractors and product designers. This class is also a pre required for the aero forms surfacing class) fourth week of each month.

October 2010
Four Week Pro/ENGINEER comprehensive
10.04 -10.29 (this Four week Compressive Workshop consists of the week one and two, the Manufacturing week as week three and Surfacing for week four)

Pro/CABLE - 1 week Pro/CABLE Harness Design
5 day Workshop w/ 1 day RSD
10.18 - 10.23

rsd harness design
Image from the Design Engine RSD Harness design workshop.

Whereas our specialized courses are offered through out the year at our Chicago office, Design Engine Education instructors are also flexible to accommodate your group or company by teaching classes onsite at your facility. Our instructors are not just taught how to teach specific software; they are high level users and don't get stuck when specific questions are asked during class that may veer from the structured training (like many of our competitors). We have heard stories from costumers about other training they received onsite and the instructor could not veer from the course material.

Our onsite training efforts are reflected successfully at Schick, Fisher-Price, Yamaha, Motorola, Knoll, John Deere, General Atomics, M3 Design, IDEO, British Aerospace, Valley Lab, Triumph, and Cannondale onsite training efforts. Call 312.226.8339 today to speak to one of our recognized instructors or inquire for past manufactures references. Inside US and overseas our instructors each carry valid passports for training abroad.

There are pros and cons to onsite training with many obvious examples such as cost savings with respect to many vs one traveling and accommodations. It is costmary to ask for two estimates from our sales department to evaluate the strengths. Sometimes our costumers will fly instructors to their city for training yet still conduct the training at an offsite facility such as a hotel conference room.

Customized Onsite Proe Training, Maya Training, Rhino Training:
Our onsite training workshops are often customized for specific product design or engineering functions. For example, one major seating manufacture gave Design Engine Pro/ENGINEER models from a past project and asked us to create custom documentation in HTML sharing high level surfacing technique beyond menu clicks. Our competitors often teach from a click by click book or manual.

With the disclosures signed our engineering team can then evaluate how the models have been put together enabling the instructor to better accommodate the training workshop.

Custom Documentation in HTML:
Specific Pro/ENGINEE training requirements for onsite efforts are often coordinated several weeks before training is to commence. And often are meant are made to customize the training by documenting current modeling practices for example This interrogation effort allow the instructor or instructors a full picture of the skill levels and a complete picture for a design process that is currently in place. In this custom document the instructors have time to apply techniques that will be gained fro the course and apply those techniques to the various modeling examples supplied. We usually recommend a 20 to 30 hour addition to the proposal depending upon how many models are supplied for interrogation. The value of this added cost goes for future training efforts as these documents can be added to the corporate intranet. These documents are usually secretive and as such it is difficult for us to share examples of the custom documentation we develop however a progressive deliverable for the advancement modeling practices and techniques of a development team.

 

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SolidWorks 2010 vs Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Shootout

by Kristina Nette

Since I started working at Design Engine Education several years ago, there's been one question I've been asked more than anything else: What class should I take? Pro/ENGINEER or SolidWorks?? And what are the advantages and disadvantages to both?

Two years ago, during the last leg of my Liberal Arts Education, I had never heard of these product development software programs; today is quite a different story. I've heard so many different angles on which program is more powerful or faster at surfacing, drawings, renderings, etc. My favorite of these opinions is that of Bart Brejcha's, who claims to love SolidWorks facetiously, because it takes him longer to finish a project, and that, in turn, makes him more money. But he now admits that since the 2007 SolidWorks release, mechanical engineers can now take the SolidWorks program just as seriously as the industrial designers have for quite some time. That being said, we, at Design Engine along with IDSA Chicago, are hosting a 2+ hour event, where we will model the same products simultaneously on two separate overhead projectors: one using Pro/ENGINEER and the other with SolidWorks. Two examples below:

(above: handle created using surfaces with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0)

(handle created using surfaces with Solidworks 2010)

Please join Design Engine for this collaborative demonstration followed by a discussion at their Chicago Facility on Wednesday June 30th at 7-9pm . After the simulation, we invite all to enjoy free refreshments and pizza among friends.

120 N Green St. Ste. 605, Chicago, IL Buzz 000 at the door. Please arrive 30 minutes early so we can get started on time. http://www.idsachicago.org/events.html
The School http://www.proetools.com
312.226.8339

When

On Wednesday, June 30th,IDSA Chicago is presenting a 2+ hour SolidWorks vs Pro/ENGINEER Shootout at Design Engine Education. Using the latest versions of both Solidworks and Pro/ENGINEER, they will model a Whirlpool refrigerator door pull, opening up the floor for discussions. Then, they will make 20 modifications to the geometry, attempting to make those modifications all in 10 minutes. After the demonstrations we will attempt to manage a group discussion of techniques... differences... simulations. This discussion will segue into the second half of the discussion by modeling functionality differences with examples. This should be a heated debate and fun at the same time. All are welcome.

Webcast

There may be a webcast. If so, the link will be included within this article.

Specifically

The presenters will both be using Pro/E Wildfire 5.0 and Solidworks 2010. Both operators are experts at surfacing and product design professionals, and both work for the product design school called Design Engine Education. The presenters are also keen to each others modeling techniques and work flow suspecting that they will show more similarities than differences. One main goal is to share the power of Design Engine, the school in Chicago, in terms of surfacing strengths while sharing the differences of the software, in terms of technique and work flow. They simply want to shed some light on the subject and turn a bunch of heads at the same time.

The Design Engine Education team hopes to show that they are not just a Pro/E training facility but also a resource that teaches many packages with modeling techniques. Design Engine also teaches Maya, Rhino, Alias, and, of course, SolidWorks. They differ from other typical training groups because they don't sell software. Instead, their facility focuses on modeling technique and work flow- not menu-clicks training that books and many training organizations illustrate in such boring detail. Who will be left standing?



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