Creo Customer: Bottom up Robot Design
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
Creo Customer: Building Design that Pushes Engineering Limits
We’ve explored how Creo created a few architectural marvels in the past, but an architectural canopy is something we haven’t “covered” yet. When the Francis Gregory Library began plans for a new modern library design, the engineers at CST were hired to create a large overhanging canopy to extend above the main glass structure- to [...]
Creo Customer: Designing the Signature Sound of Car Exhaust
With its resonant rumble and sleek lines, you may have noticed a Corvette next to you at a stoplight. At the stoplight may be the last time you see it. Especially if it’s a Callaway-prepared Corvette that delivers 580 bhp, 510lb-ft torque, and can hit 60mph in just 3.3 seconds. A full Callaway build-out includes [...]
Creo Content at PlanetPTC Live 2012
Last month Deb Shapiro, Conference Content Manager for PlanetPTC Live, gave us a sneak peek of what we could expect to see at the ever-so-quickly-approaching event in June. I, for one, was impressed with what I heard – more networking opportunities, cool new tools for finding information, hundreds of breakout sessions, access to the Product [...]
Creo Customer: Designing Replacements for Human Limbs
In a previous episode of the Product Design Show, Vince and Allison introduced us to College Park, a company that designs prosthetic feet. It took a couple years and about ten talented engineers in Fraser, Michigan to create the first-of-its-kind iPecs Lab. The iPecs Lab provides design engineers with the empirical data they need to [...]
