ND Engineering Computing supports Pro/Engineer (Pro/E) on both Windows and Linux. Launching Pro/E on Windows requires only clicking the icon, but launching it on Linux requires a couple more steps that may not be obvious.

2. Modules

Pro/E is provided through CRC's module system. When a user loads a module, environment variables and other settings are modified to give the user easy access to the desired program. Detailed instructions and usage info can be found at the module page at the CRC Wiki.

To display a list of the available modules:

 
    module avail

To display a list of the currently loaded modules:

 
    module list

To load a module (where module_name is the desired module):

 
    module load module_name

It is seldom necessary to manually unload a module; modules are typically robust enough to have no effect on any other user operations. If desired however, a user can manually unload a module:

 
    module unload module_name

3. Pro/E Versions

Two versions of Pro/Engineer are available for use: Wildfire 2 and Wildfire 3. Wildfire 3 is the newer, and usually preferred version. The module names are explanatory:

 
    module load proe/wildfire2
    module load proe/wildfire3

Unless you explicitly need to use Wildfire 2, perhaps for compatibility or familiarity reasons, we suggest that you use Wildfire 3.

4. Change to /tmp

Pro/E requires that the current working directory be on a local drive, and not on a network drive. Examples of network drives include NFS and AFS. Notre Dame students' home directories and all files contained within are held on AFS. This means that you cannot launch Pro/E from a current working directory within your home directory (~/). Linux's temporary directory, found in /tmp, allows a user to have read/write access to a local directory.

To change to /tmp:

 
    cd /tmp

If you don't change to /tmp, then Pro/Engineer will most likely fail to launch fully and crash. If this happens, just log out and log back in.

5. Launch Pro/E

You are now ready to launch Pro/E. Command:

 
    proe

If you have any questions or comments, please let us know at help@esc.nd.edu.