Monthly Archives: July 2011

Creo 1.0: New FreeStyle capabilities demonstrated

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jul 21, 2011

In a recent post, we showed you how Creo Sketch could replace the familiar napkin when you want to capture your earliest design ideas. If you’re a Creo Parametric user, the natural next step would be to turn that 2D idea into a 3D model. Unfortunately, while you’re still working on a concept design, you […]

Posted in What's in Creo 1.0, What's in Creo 2.0 | Tagged 3D Modeling, Concept design, Creo, creo 1.0, Creo Freestyle, Creo Parametric, Paul Sagar, Pro/Engineer, subdivisional modeling | Leave a comment

Creo Customers: NASA bids Atlantis farewell

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jul 20, 2011

You’ve seen the news. On Thursday, July 21, 2011, the Atlantis will land in Florida marking the end of NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program. But if you think it’s the end of America’s active involvement in the great “what’s out there,” you haven’t been reading beyond the headlines. With STS-135, that is, the final flight of […]

Posted in Creo Customers | Tagged canadarm2, Creo, dextre, International Space Station, model simplification, PTC, Robotic arm, Simulation, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-135 | 1 Comment

CAD CAM News: PTC Delivers Creo™ Elements/Direct™ 18.0

By Admin | Published: Jul 19, 2011

“STIWA Holding GmbH uses Creo Elements/Direct because it gives us the flexibility to rapidly accommodate changes that happen late in the design cycle,” said Thomas Mayer, responsible for mechanical CAD at STIWA Holding GmbH. “The new user interface in Creo Elements/Direct 18.0, improvements to key features in direct modeling, and the interoperability with the Creo […]

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Creo Customers: Damián Castillo’s Scoop on Creo 1.0

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jul 19, 2011

With Creo 1.0 released mid-June, now’s a great time to get a sanity check from those that have taken the time to download and try Creo, and capture their initial impressions – good and bad. Damián Castillo, CAD & Administration Manager at Hensley Industries, was one of the first. After attending Planet PTC Live event in […]

Posted in Creo Customers | Tagged Creo, creo 1.0, Creo Parametric, Damián Castillo, Hensley Industries, Parametric Technology Corporation, Pro/Engineer, updating Creo, upgrading Creo, User experience, User interface | Leave a comment

Creo Customers: Innovative PCs and Laptops Come to Life

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jul 19, 2011

When PTC holds its customer events, I’m always intrigued by the number of participants and the diversity of roles and jobs they fill. Maybe you are too. That’s why I love these man-on-the-street or, rather, engineer-at-the-trade-show vignettes. Let’s face it, you and I can’t easily interrupt busy strangers in conference hallways and ask them what […]

Posted in Creo Customers | Tagged 3D CAD, Concept design, Creo, Creo Parametric, High-tech electronics, New product development, notebooks, Parametric Technology Corporation, PCs, Pro/Engineer | Leave a comment

Design News: Putting a New Face on CAD Interoperability

By Admin | Published: Jul 18, 2011

“New visualization and collaboration tools that foster the exchange of lightweight models (meaning 3D geometry without all the design intelligence) have been instrumental in helping companies better exchange multi-CAD data without the hangover of traditional platforms. In addition, new technologies advancing the concept of direct modeling, along with reorienting design workflows so that only critical […]

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Design World: Creo Parametric Used in Design of New Hydraulic Lifted Ambulance Cot

By Admin | Published: Jul 18, 2011

Kurosh Nahavandi explains how Stryker Medical uses Creo in the design of hydraulic lifted ambulance cots. Watch this video to learn about how Design Engineers can use Creo Parametric and why they see it as a software that makes design easy, flexible, and fast. Follow this link to learn more

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Best Practices: How to Choose the Right 3D Design Tool

By barb schmitz | Published: Jul 18, 2011

Most manufacturing companies are designing new products using 3D design tools. The benefits of designing in 3D—as opposed to 2D—have been well born out and include faster time to market, reduced physical prototyping, the ability to simulate/analyze products while still digital, and ultimately, higher quality products. The real value of investing in 3D CAD is […]

Posted in Reinventing Design | Tagged 3D Modeling, Benchmarking CAD, Business, CAD and CAM, Computer-aided design, design, Evaluating, Manufacturing, New product development, Product Design, Selecting 3D CAD | Leave a comment

Inventors Digest: FIRST Team Seeks Patent/ Kamen’s Kids

By Admin | Published: Jul 15, 2011

” “This year we’ve learned to use a milling machine and Creo, CAD software from PTC,” says Sean Lanier. “I entered in some of the side panels for our robot and used the machine to cut them out. Marc (Celestini) used a wizard on the machine to etch the team number into the side panel.” “Our […]

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21 essential Creo sites and links

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jul 15, 2011

Welcome to the prolific world of creo.ptc.com. We’ve been talking about all things Creo since October 2010. Products, demos, events, customer stories–if it involves Creo, we talk about it. At first, it was a few articles a week. But since the official release in mid-June it’s been one or two articles a day, not including […]