In real life, new products don’t always start as an empty plane, waiting for you to birth a fresh model. Sometimes they start as an old CAD design that just requires some updating. And by “old CAD design,” we mean a model developed by someone else, perhaps long ago. Someone who—despite your best efforts—you have […]
Managing challenges is part of your everyday role but it’s great when you can connect with your peers and hear from industry experts to help you get a competitive edge. There’s no other event that delivers as much quality PTC Creo-focused training and unparalleled networking as PTC Live Global 2013. Held in Anaheim, California, […]
PTC Windchill PDM Essentials: Easy to deploy, easy to configure, easy to use. Sure. But what does that mean really? If you’ve ever purchased a product before based on its “easy-to-deploy” and “easy-to-use” claims, you might have found out that their “easy” isn’t always the same as your “easy.” In fact, you might have learned […]
Pro/ENGINEER users – have you been putting off the upgrade to PTC Creo Parametric? Maybe you’ve skipped a release. Or two. Or three. It happens. But here’s the good news. If you give us 20 minutes, we’ll show you how you can increase your productivity over 50% in eight key design areas. Our live webcast […]
Mass customization rocks. It’s the reason my computer is just like yours, but with a different graphics card. It’s why our cars look the same on the outside, but yours has a manual transmission. And it’s why I can finally eat candy that has the Green Bay Packers logo. Vive la variant! Of course, if […]
Still using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0? It was a popular release and served users of its generation well. But since then, we’ve introduced Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, PTC Creo 1.0, and PTC Creo 2.0. One of our users, Damián Castillo, a former Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire user, said recently, “Between Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 and 5.0, there were some enhancements. […]
PTC Live Global 2013 brings engineering-focused training and unparalleled networking to Anaheim, California on June 9-12. Registration recently opened and members are invited to browse more than 300 sessions. To better understand this event and the benefits it offers PTC Creo users, I talked with Jennifer Martinson, Event Manager for PTC Live Global. KS: For […]
If you’re a Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 user reading this blog, you know things have changed a lot since you deployed your design software. And you might be curious about whether any of these changes are relevant to you. Will the new generation of software make a difference to you and your work in any noticeable […]
If you’re a Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0 user, your software turns five this year. Well, six if you count the 2007 prerelease. In 2008, the price of 500GB disk space cost you about $100. Today, you can get 2 Terabytes for less than half that price. The Blackberry was twice as popular as the iPhone. And […]
Which of the following best describes the reason you became a product designer? a) I wanted to spend considerable amounts of time looking around for parts that other people created. b) I hoped to attend week-long conferences in chain hotels learning about metadata and distributed file servers. c) I enjoy discovering that I’ve just spent […]
