Tag Archives: design

Teaching Old Designs New Tricks

By Kathleen Shepherd | Published: May 17, 2013

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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Maped: PTC Creo a “Belle Révolution”

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 8, 2013

At Maped, design is a core value: Careful reflection bringing together research, marketing, and, of course, attention to visual and tactile details goes into each Maped product. The challenge is to invent innovative and attractive products for the competitive school and office supply market. Maped makes writing instruments, compasses, drafting tools, pencil sharpeners, scissors, staplers, […]

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How to Deliver Real-Time Concept Design with PTC Creo 2.0

By kestrachan | Published: Apr 5, 2013

Renowned Dutch freelance industrial engineer and designer, Nout Van Heumen has created critically acclaimed designs for a range of manufacturers – several of which have been featured on the PTC Creo blog. Van Heumen attributes his success in part to his ability to respond to client’s requests in real time with PTC Creo. Van Heumen […]

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PTC CAD and PDM: Inhon Gets Carbon Fiber Products to Market 25% Faster

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Apr 3, 2013

When your company’s specialty is carbon fiber, there’s no guessing at what you might be asked to develop next. Golf clubs? Bicycles? A violin bow? Carbon fiber is a light but extremely strong and durable material that is used in everything from aerospace to fishing equipment—and it’s finding its way into more products every day. […]

Posted in Creo Customers | Also tagged CAD, Data Management, Inhon, PDM, PDM-Customer, PTC Creo, PTC Windchill PDMLink | Leave a comment

Start at PTC Creo. Stop at Nothing. Aristides Guitars

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Apr 2, 2013

What do you think is the most rewarding part of working in product design? Expressing yourself creatively? Killing the competition? Winning recognition from people you respect? Aristides Poort says that listening to great artists make music with the guitars he makes is his greatest reward. “What better thing can you do on this planet?” he […]

Posted in Creo Customers | Also tagged Aristides Instruments, Aristides OIO guitar, Guitar, Nout van Heumen, PTC Creo | Leave a comment

PTC Creo Interactive: More Showing, Less Telling

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Feb 28, 2013

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 […]

Posted in Creo Technology, What's in Creo 2.0 | Also tagged Computer-aided design, Creo, PTC Creo, PTC Creo tutorials, PTC Creo videos | Leave a comment

PTC Creo MVP

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Feb 26, 2013

In preparation for March Madness, let’s throw you into the game. In this game of design you’re the point guard, PTC Creo is your court, and all those players on the court are apps with specific skills that you open with a mighty click of the mouse. Import/export nightmares are gone, and every day is […]

Posted in What's in Creo 2.0 | Also tagged CAD, Computer-aided design, Creo, Engineering, PTC Creo, PTC Creo Simulate | Leave a comment

Simulation for the Engineer Who Does It All

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Feb 6, 2013

Student product developers, like many of their professional counterparts, don’t always have the luxury of handing off their designs to an analysis department. In student groups, much like engineers who work in a small shop, team members may have to do it all: gather requirements, model concept ideas, create good-looking and ergonomic products, and apply simulation […]

Posted in What's in Creo 2.0 | Also tagged PTC Creo, SAE, SAE International, Simulation | Leave a comment

Documentary Video Highlights Thrill Seeker, College Park, and PTC Creo

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jan 30, 2013

College Park Industries, a company that makes super high-tech prosthetic devices, and Reggie Showers, a motorcycle racer, snowboard instructor, rock climber, and College Park customer recently partnered with PTC for a new customer documentary video. Find out more about Showers, College Park, and how PTC Creo makes engineering excellence possible and practical in our newest customer […]

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Forces to Be Reckoned With

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jan 30, 2013

Look at this design with me. Here’s the larger assembly. It’s a formula SAE competition race car. Look closer: This is a section of the front left brake/suspension assembly. Now look at this single part: the bracket attached to the spring near the top. What do you think? If you were a student and this […]