Technology

PTC Live Global 2013

FAZ_2908Managing 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, […]

PTC Live Global 2013

Sox_CropPTC Live Global 2013 brings engineering-focused training and unparalleled networking to Anaheim, California on June 9-12. Registration recently opened and members are invited to browse more than 300 sessions. To better understand this event and the benefits it offers PTC Creo users, I talked with Jennifer Martinson, Event Manager for PTC Live Global. KS: For […]

PTC Creo Interactive: More Showing, Less Telling

Software vendors can be a little difficult to follow, I know. We tend to fall in love with space-saving adjectives and try to pack two pages of a product description into a single bullet point: Comprehensive auto-assisted duplex multi-tonics system Tele-sensitive vendor-oriented and –capacitive output Polyp-neutral terabyte-loaded flow editable and edible! None of that means […]

Interview with Mike Brattoli from Moen – The priceless experience of being a PTC Live Global presenter

Picture1Planning for PTC Live Global 2013 is well underway and we have put out the annual Call for Presentations. In conversations with some of our customers we have heard a bit of this: “I don’t have time to present”, “I don’t think I have a story to share” or even “What do I get out […]

The Evolutionary Nature of Concept Designs

8094116820_0b41b2a6cd_oThere is little argument that concept design is one of the most important phases of the entire product development process. It is here when new product ideas are tossed around, flushed out, vetted, discussed, tested, refined and eventually pushed forward to detailed design. It is also here where most (60%-75%) of total product development costs […]

The Evolution of Product Design Tools

Creating a solid concept design process is imperative to the success of a final product. Companies are seeing the concept design stage for the goldmine it is and turning it into both a professional discipline and a social science. For example, one group at Apple creates ten concept mock-ups for each new product. These aren’t […]

ProductLifecycleStories: So many Creo Apps… How about Mathcad?

Mark Walker, Director of Mathcad Product Management at PTC, shares the plan to enable direct utilization of Mathcad inside Creo models: PTC has captured many related use cases in recent years, but we haven’t had the ideal foundational relationship between the two apps to best solve those use cases – until we embarked upon this […]

Access a free eLearning trial through Creo 2.0

On the weekend of August 17 and 18, PTC University deployed a new release of Precision LMS, the learning management system that is the backbone of our eLearning Libraries.  This release contains several new capabilities of which we would specifically highlight one today — the LearningConnector for Creo 2.0 eLearning trial What is this eLearning trial and how can I access it? […]

30-Day Creo 2.0 Free Trial Now Available!

As of today, you can download Creo Parametric and Creo Flexible Modeling Extension FREE for a 30-day trial. For those of you just tuning in, Creo Parametric replaces Pro/ENGINEER, and Creo 2.0 is our latest major release.  With this newly released free trial you can experience for yourself what all the buzz is about! Check […]

DesktopEngineering: Working with Large CAD Models

In this DesktopEngineering.com article, Kenneth Wong discusses how different CAD solution providers are addressing the increasing size and complexity of large assemblies: A design engineer for Dallara Automobili, developed a social routine based on the length of time it took to load an assembly into his CAD program. He knew his file, the 2012 IndyCar […]