Tag Archives: PTC

The Daily Free News: PTC gives $18.8 mil in-kind donation to BU Engineering Center

By Admin | Published: May 13, 2013

Technology company PTC pledged a record-setting in-kind donation of $18.8 million Friday to help Boston University officials develop BU’s new Engineering Product Innovation Center, officials said. The center, which will open in the fall 2013 semester as part of the College of Engineering, will serve as an educational tool related to engineering and manufacturing, said […]

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Investors.com: Art, Design Educational Needs Pushing STEM To STEAM

By Admin | Published: Apr 24, 2013

Focusing on art and design is critical for businesses to innovate and gain a competitive advantage, says John Stuart, senior vice president for education at Boston-based software company PTC. PTC develops computer-assisted design software for product design. Clients include Microsoft (MSFT) and agricultural machinery maker Deere (DE). Europe — particularly the Netherlands — is ahead […]

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Desktop Engineering: Designing a Clock that Runs for 10,000 Years

By Admin | Published: Dec 4, 2012

For the 10,000 Year clock endeavor, the Long Now engineering team is leveraging sophisticated design tools like PTC’s Creo and Mathcad engineering calculation software along with rigorous testing and continuous learning to chart a course through this unproven materials science territory. “Humanity has never made anything mechanical that has had to function in this timeframe,” […]

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Smackdown: Creo Parametric head-to-head with Pro/ENGINEER – Match 1

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jun 4, 2012

As Michael Buffer says, “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!” Time to rock and roll and compare out-of-the box versions of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 with Creo Parametric 2.0 and see how they stack up. We’ll compare on same hardware platform, same proficient user, and same challenge, where only the software is the variable. In all three […]

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CADplace Interviews John Buchowski about Creo 2.0

By Admin | Published: May 24, 2012

CADPlace interviews John Buchowski at PTC about Creo 2.0, improvements in quality and stability, the benefits of the new features, and how good engineering tools support sustainable development. Filmed on location at PTC Live TechForum Paris, 2012. Published on May 14, 2012 by CADplaceFrance http://www.cadplace.co.uk

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Boston Globe: PTC Ranked #1 Technology Company in Globe100, 5th Overall

By Admin | Published: May 18, 2012

A pioneer of computer-aided design software for engineers, PTC – as it prefers to be known – has in the last few years pushed into new areas of manufacturing. The company’s products help make sophisticated devices like smartphones smarter, but it’s also behind a whole different class of household appliance: more connected and more capable […]

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Creo 2.0: Core Enhancements to Sketching in Creo Parametric

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 17, 2012

As a designer, you can probably pinpoint your top five go-to tools in CAD. Creating and changing sketch-based features is probably one of them. While sketching already was a handy tool in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, it just became handier with several core enhancements for Creo Parametric. For starters, we enveloped the sketching tool right into […]

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The Consumerization of CAD

By barb schmitz | Published: Mar 19, 2012

Last week, Apple hit a huge milestone, announcing that it had reached 25 billion downloads off its App Store web site. While the term “app” probably wasn’t even considered a word a few years ago, today they are everywhere and they do quite literally everything. Thanks in part to the staggering popularity of Apple’s iPhone […]

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Creo Named 2011 Product of the Year by NASA Tech Briefs

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Feb 3, 2012

The industry has spoken, and the message is – Creo delivers the best value to engineers: February 2011: NASA Tech Briefs names Creo the Product of the Month December 2011: Design World honors Creo with its 2011 Leadership in Engineering Award for Software December 2011: Creo is a finalist for NASA Tech Briefs’ 2011 Product […]

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Real World Design Challenge for Future Engineers

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Dec 9, 2011

There’s nothing quite like real world experience for engaging students. And engineers, notorious for their passion to work hands-on, know this better than anyone. That’s the motivation behind the Real World Design Challenge sponsored in part by PTC. Every year RWDC presents high school students across the US with an actual design challenge being faced […]