Author Archives: Lindsey Christensen

Creo Customer: Bottom up Robot Design

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: May 16, 2012

Meet The Fish, a basketball playing robot that sports 95% “layup” accuracy and sinks 70% of its shots at the top of the key. The Fish is the final product of a high school robotics team named the Buchanan Bird Brains. They recently competed in the FIRST robotics high school competition, a competition designed to [...]

Creo Customer: NASCAR High-Speed Redesign

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: May 9, 2012

In NASCAR, drafting helps cars go faster on the race track. Running tandem, one car butts up against its lead car and “pushes” it around the track. In this way, cars can gain almost a 15mph advantage. Drafting is the best strategy for winning a race. It’s also boring. For fans, watching drivers jockey for [...]

Smooth Sailing: Designing Yacht Arches with Creo

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: May 8, 2012

With warm weather and water come a multitude of boating enthusiasts, interested not only in the recreation that comes with a boat, but the design and performance of a good boat. With that in mind, here is a little sea-engineering tale about a yacht. Tartan Marine of Painesville Ohio hired Tipton Design and Engineering, a [...]

Creo Customer: Cleaning up the Big Messes

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: May 1, 2012

The Chariot series from Windsor Industries is a set of spry, compact, cleaning machines that are self-powered while the user stands on the backend. Windsor designed this line as a faster, cleaner, more comfortable alternative to the typical stand-behind-and-push vacuums, burnishers, and carpet scrubbers that are on the market. But to be worthwhile, Windsor also [...]

Creo Customer: Demolition for the Safety-Conscious

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Apr 25, 2012

It’s like a chainsaw. But it’s not a chainsaw. It’s an Allsaw? Chainsaws are notoriously the most dangerous hand tool you can purchase without a license. In the U.S. they cause over 40,000 injuries a year. But there’s a new saw that should save a few body parts: the Petrol Allsaw, invented by Kevin Inkster [...]

Creo Customer: Trips to Mars are Just a Rocket Away

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Apr 18, 2012

With the National Space Symposium going on this week in Colorado Springs, we wanted to highlight a current NASA project that engineers used Creo Parametric to design. It’s been more than four decades since NASA commissioned a human-rated rocket engine. The last rocket engine (J2, Apollo) put Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969 (› Play [...]

PTC Aerospace & Defense Industry Events: 2012 National Space Symposium

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Apr 13, 2012

The time is perfect to head to Colorado. Spring weather, last minute web fares, and the chance to experience the 2012 National Space Symposium. It’s all happening starting Monday, April 16-19 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. The caliber of participants, the extraordinary venue, and the structure of the agenda create the perfect environment [...]

Early Online Reactions to Creo 2.0

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Apr 9, 2012

Creo 2.0 is now available with over 100 new major capabilities. Are you ready to Unlock Potential? Here are some of today’s early online reactions about the new functionality in Creo 2.0: Good job guys! Creo 2 looks promising. My favorites are: Creo Layout, new sectioning tool, new sheetmetal tools, new Freestyle capabilities, and of [...]

Creo 2.0 Released Today!

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Apr 9, 2012

From the official press release: PTC Advances MCAD Strategy with Release of Creo 2.0 Latest Release Introduces New App for Modular Product Design, Enhances Apps for Concept Design, and Improves User Productivity Across Creo Family NEEDHAM, MA. – April 9, 2012 – PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced Creo® 2.0, the latest release of its revolutionary [...]