Tag Archives: Evan Yares

3DCADTips: PTC- The importance of design agility

By Admin | Published: Jun 25, 2012

How do you get “design agility?” PTC is happy to tell you their answer, at www.ptc.com/go/agility. As for my answer: It’s complicated. I will tell you what I think a good first step would be: Use tools that can take advantage of the knowledge and data that you have. If that’s too obscure, let me put […]

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3DCADTips: Organic shape modeling with PTC Creo Parametric Freestyle

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Jun 13, 2012

Evan Yares takes a closer look at Creo Freestyle and why it should matter to designers: The Freestyle extension in PTC’s Creo Parametric 2.0 program is one of the most interesting SubD surface modelers. It’s not only included at no extra charge with the base program, it’s well-integrated with Creo’s parametric modeling capabilities, allowing you to create […]

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3DCADTips: How Whirlpool uses PTC CAD and PLM technology

By Admin | Published: Jun 7, 2012

Excerpt from 3D CAD Tips’ Evan Yares: Whirlpool has been a long-term PTC customer, first using Pro/E in 1986, and standardizing on it in 1990. The company entered into a strategic relationship with PTC in 2010, and currently uses a wide variety of PTC products, including ProE/Creo, Windchill ProjectLink, Windchill PDMLink, WQS, MathCAD, Integrity, PPMLink, […]

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3dcadtips: PTC announces Creo 2.0, Windchill 10.1, and shake-and-break 1.0

By Admin | Published: Apr 26, 2012

Posted by Evan Yares This week, PTC announced Creo 2.0 and Windchill 10.1. These aren’t big releases in the grand scheme of things, but they are important releases, and show that PTC is working hard to deliver on what it’s promised. Creo 2.0 This release includes fresh and updated releases of the 9 existing Creo […]

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Evan Yares: CAD for the Unemployed

By Admin | Published: Oct 5, 2011

“Imagine that you were unemployed, and wanted to learn how to use a new Mechanical CAD program. What would you do? The first challenge would be to get your hands on the software. In some cases, that’d be easy. …. PTC makes a free version of Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express available to anyone who wants […]

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Evan Yares: CAD Usability and Model Deconstruction

By Admin | Published: Sep 29, 2011

“…CoCreate started to introduce intelligent editing capabilities to their direct modeling CAD programs in the mid to late 1980s, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that the game really changed, with a number of CAD programs adding feature-inference on top of direct modeling… PTC, which sells both direct and history-based tools, has major customers […]

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Creo 1.0: How open is Creo?

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jun 13, 2011

Deelip.com and Evan Yares’ recent blog posts ask the same great question about Creo - How open is PTC’s Creo file format? To help answer the question, Mike Campbell, DVP of Creo Product Development, recorded video answers over the last couple of months, so let’s listen to Mike clarify the points. For you skimmers, I’ve summarized the points in a short […]