Author Archives: Geoff Hedges

Pro/ENGINEER to Creo Parametric 2.0: Five Steps to a Successful Upgrade

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 10, 2012

Design engineers and product manufacturers are a careful bunch. That’s because a lot rides on the choices they make, and one missed opportunity can be expensive. We feel the same way about design and engineering software. Nobody wants great new technology to sit underutilized or, worse, unused. As such, we’d like to offer some guidance and [...]

Creo Parametric 2.0: New Design Software Delivers Great Graphics Performance

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 3, 2012

Good news. You can now get world-class graphics performance to go with your world-class PTC software. That’s because we’ve recently partnered with AMD and NVIDIA to deliver dramatic graphics performance acceleration for 3D CAD design and precise rendering – up to 10x the performance you’re getting with Creo Parametric 1.0, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, or earlier [...]

Creo 2.0: Freestyle puts the Art back into Design

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 2, 2012

Traditionally, when doing surface design, you spend a lot of time laying out your work and figuring out how to use CAD to accomplish your ideas. We think it’s time to kiss tradition good-bye. The Freestyle capabilities included in every seat of Creo Parametric let you skip all the methodology that goes into creating a shape and [...]

Pro/ENGINEER Users: One Move That Can Double Your Design Productivity

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Apr 27, 2012

Creo Parametric 2.0 is Here! If we narrowed the new release down to one word, we’d call it speedy. Speedy delivery. Speedy concept design. Speedy assemblies. Speedy apps. Over the next few months, this blog will highlight everything Creo Parametric 2.0 offers you– whether you’re a Product Manager, Designer, Engineer, Analyst, or Tooling Engineer. Create [...]

Unlock Design Productivity with Creo 2.0

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Apr 24, 2012

Brian Thompson, VP of Product Management for Creo at PTC, introduces the key highlights of Creo 2.0 including short demonstration of new apps, extensions, and key new capabilities for those familiar with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Creo 2.0 helps companies unlock their team’s design productivity by introducing capabilities for modular concept design and new tools to help [...]

New Creo App for Modular Product Design

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Apr 23, 2012

Different roles in the design process require different CAD technologies, and most companies need all of the CAD technologies at some point. When PTC revolutionized the CAD design process with role-based packages (or apps) in 2011, it boosted productivity for everyone from service planners, technical illustrators and industrial designers to engineers who have historically driven [...]

Creo Customer: IHI Star Designs for Japan’s 1.7 Million Small Farm

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Dec 21, 2011

Agriculture in Japan presents many difficult challenges. Er, design opportunities. Only 15% of the land is arable, and individual farms are small, some only an acre or two in size. Output is diverse, with rice, wheat, vegetables, fruit, and tea all grown on the little agricultural space Japan offers. Diets are changing, and demand for [...]

Creo Customer: Reflecting on Parametric Design

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Dec 7, 2011

In his recent TED Talk (see the video at 3h.19m.30s), Dutch architect Kas Oosterhuis said he is neither retro nor futuristic in his designs. He says that’s because he “wants to work with the technology and emotions of today.” For Oosterhuis, the technology of today means parametric modeling. With parametric modeling, designers and architects are [...]

Learning Exchange: 200+ Free, Expert Video How-tos

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Dec 2, 2011

If you’re learning to use design software or taking on a new, complicated skill or role, a training class makes sense. But when you just need someone to show you how to do one little thing, so you can get on with your work, there’s LearningExchange. Whether you work with Creo Parametric, Creo View, Creo [...]

Creo Customer: Orphiro Brings Cool to the Electric Motorcycle

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Nov 30, 2011

Electric motorcycles have been around for a while, but to be honest, most look like dirt bikes as style takes a backseat to fit and function. Alexander Steegh thought he could do better. That’s why he invented the Orphiro, an electric cruiser that would make Steve McQueen proud.

Posted in Creo Customers | Tagged Alexander Steegh, electric motorcycle, Jansen Creative Design, Nout van Heumen, Orphiro | 2 Comments