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The Future Is Now For PTC Customers

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Videos of PTC Customer Speaking at PTC Live Global 2013 A crystal ball or Tarot cards might be helpful for predicting the future but its more valuable to hear from a customer that has taken the journey.  What are PTC customers saying about the manufacturing industry transformation and how are they planning for the future? […]

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PTC Unveils PTC Creo for Virtual Desktops

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Author – Bill Bulkeley Responding to growing customer adoption of bring-your-own-device strategies and virtual desktops, PTC announced a number of PTC Creo applications that will be supported in virtual environments. Mike Campbell, executive vice president at PTC, predicted that a number of the company’s biggest customers will adopt virtualization. “I’ve been surprised by how much […]

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Webcast Replay: Flexible Design with PTC Creo

If you’re already familiar with Pro/ENGINEER, you’ll find PTC Creo familiar and intuitive in many ways, especially with the newly added PTC Creo Flexible Modeling Extension (FMX). PTC recently joined forces with Connect Press to host a 60-minute Flexible Design with PTC Creo webcast. On May 14th,  Brad Tallis, a 13 year PTC technical sales […]

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Path to Sustainable Product Design Starts with Greener Materials

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Consumers have traditionally made buying decisions based on whether a product was well designed, useful, affordable, and/or attractive. Today, however, many consumers are weighing in a product’s sustainability—or lack thereof—as well so manufacturers must add the environmental impact of products to their growing list of requirements they must meet. Everyone knows that designing for sustainability […]

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Teaching Old Designs New Tricks

Question: What do the QWERTY keyboard, the railroad, and shoelaces have in common? Answer: Their inventors are long gone. The QWERTY keyboard was the brainchild of American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes. He died in 1890, but if your left ring finger lands naturally on the letter “s”—thank Sholes. The railroad evolved much more slowly than […]

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PTC Creo Hands-On Workshops: Coming to a city near you!

Experience first-hand how you can double your design productivity! Register now for a free PTC Creo Hands-On Workshop in a city near you. At the event, you’ll be guided through PTC Creo Parametric and the new apps, extensions and capabilities of the award-winning design suite. An introductory presentation will be followed by the opportunity for […]

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Four Ways Manufacturers Can Reduce Design Costs

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Manufacturers have a lot of demands placed upon them today. They must design, build and ship products faster than ever to stay above the rising tide of global competition. They must be innovative, sustainable and design increasingly customized products. They must manage extended supply chains and efficiently collaborate with design partners from whom they are […]

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PTC Live Global 2013

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Managing challenges is part of your everyday role but it’s great when you can connect with your peers and hear from industry experts to help you get a competitive edge.   There’s no other event that delivers as much quality PTC Creo-focused training and unparalleled networking as PTC Live Global 2013. Held in Anaheim, California, […]

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Direct Modeling: What Every CAD User Should Know

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Most of us learned 3D modeling using the parametric modeling approach. Features are built into models, with each new feature related to the features that preceded it, and so on.  But if you follow this blog, or the CAD industry in general, you know that there’s another approach—direct modeling. Analysts and product designers have been […]

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Adapting Designs for New and Emerging Markets

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Good designs aren’t just shaped by technology and the latest fashions. They’re also shaped by customer needs and culture, customers’ buying power, and, of course, regulators. Nowhere is that more apparent than when you try to push a popular product into a new market. For example, take electric bicycles. In the United States, you can […]

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