Tag Archives: 2D sketching tools

Creo Customer: Keeping Industrial Water Users Accountable

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Dec 16, 2011

Industry needs water. Power plants, food processors, and manufacturers all suck up billions of cubic meters of the stuff so they can light your house, feed your family, and roll out your automobiles.  In fact, it’s estimated that industry accounts for 22% of global water use. For most of these applications, water is considered “renewable”; […]

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Desktop Engineering: Creo Elements/ Direct Modeling Express- A Free Push-Pull CAD Modeling App from PTC

By Admin | Published: Aug 24, 2011

“In Creo Direct Express, part modeling and assembly modeling are just a tab away. The software makes little or no distinction between the two. You can, for instance, create a new part within the assembly environment by sketching a profile on a new work plane and extruding it into a solid. It’s a lot easier […]

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Desktop Engineering: Creo Sketch- A Free 2D Paint and Sketch Program from PTC

By Admin | Published: Aug 5, 2011

“Creo Sketch comes with a collection of virtual drawing tools: pencil, marker, and air brush, all customizable. It works in a layer-based system (similar to Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator), so you can stack up your Splines and painted profiles in separate layers. You can easily select your sketched profile, rotate, resize, and reposition it (you […]

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GraphicSpeak: PTC Releases Free Creo Sketch

By Admin | Published: Aug 3, 2011

“ PTC released Creo Sketch 1.0, a 2D sketching tool, as part of the new line of Creo product development applications which replace and extend the former Pro/ENGINEER and CoCreate product lines. The idea is to have a basic sketch tool for product development, something for anyone who needs to simply draw an idea which will then be passed […]

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Designing With Intent

By barb schmitz | Published: Dec 2, 2010

The first step in many new product development projects is the establishment of design intent. In the parametric world, design intent is defined as the act of capturing intelligence in your model by means of parametric and geometric relationships that define the fit and function of the part, such as parameters, constraints, dimensions, relationships and […]

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Creo Launch Event

By barb schmitz | Published: Nov 22, 2010
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Along with hundreds of attendees wrapped around the block of the Park Plaza Castle in Boston, we awaited entry into PTC’s launch event for its long-awaited new product, code-named Project Lightning. Attendees, which included members of the press, bloggers and analysts, and many of PTC’s customers were eager to finally hear more detail to what […]

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Jim Heppelmann Describes Creo

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Oct 10, 2010

The 1990s were a period of rapid innovation and a lot of excitement was built up over the advent of 3D parametric, solid modeling for product design. While the market has become more mature and hence more static, many significant unsolved problems remain: ease of use, interoperability both within a company and externally with its […]

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Brian Shepherd Describes Creo

By Robin Saitz | Published: Oct 10, 2010

In order to solve today’s remaining hurdles to better design productivity, there is a need for a suite of specialized design apps that address the unique needs of all those involved in collaborative design. Those would include 2D sketching tools, 3D direct modeling tools for conceptual modeling, and 3D parametric tools for detailed design. In […]

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