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Have You Tried Creo 1.0? Now It’s Your Chance to Try It LIVE!

Sketch-Based Feature Enhancements Assembly Modeling Improvements Easy Modelling Fast access to the sketching environment On-the-fly reference picking Dynamic preview Tapers and drafts you can add as you create geometr Unified editing capabilities A 3D dragger for positioning parts Google-like search Change tracking for comparing revisions Real-time, interactive performance Modify a ProE/Creo native featured file without history restrictions Modify an IGES file with precision Modify a STEP file with precision

Workshop is FREE of Charge Please choose one session only: AM (9:30am-12:00noon) PM (2:30pm -5:00pm) Date: 18 November 2011 (Friday) – SG/PG 30 November 2011 (Wednesday) – KL Venue: PDS Training Center Registration: Two seats will be reserved per company Seats are based on First come first serve basis. Please reserve latest by 14 November 2011 (SG/PG) or 27 November 2011 (KL)

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The Stolz equation is hidden within the spreadsheet cell, making it difficult to document the methods, assumptions, and data behind the equation. With Mathcad, the mathematical formulas and explanatory text are plainly visible and auditable.

Challenges Faced in the Oil & Gas Industries:

1. What are the potential business risks due to a single engineering miscalculation in your multi-million dollar project?
2. How will you be able to represent below pressure equation in Excel spread sheet efficiently and error-free?

• Engineering managers
• Project Managers
• Engineers
• Anyone tasked with managing the critical parameters and calculations in their organization.

How Mathcads help? 

1. Mathcad helps by standardizing the way calculations are solved accurately and documented efficiently, ensuring valuable engineering information can be made easily visible to the rest of the organization and accessible by key people–ultimately securing a strong return on your investments and achieving engineering excellence
2. Mathcad’s easy-to-use whiteboard interface combines live, natural mathematical notation, text and graphs into a single worksheet accurately – making Mathcad ideally efficient for knowledge-capture, calculations, sharing and reuse.

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Creo 1.0 provides the first set of apps which deliver on PTC’s vision and strategy to redefine the MCAD industry and enable companies to unlock potential within their organizations.

Creo product design apps allow everyone in the enterprise to use the tools that work best for them so that they can contribute more efficiently to the product development process. Creo also provides an unprecedented level of interoperability – data moves seamlessly between apps and modeling modes while retaining design intent – such that companies can share data more easily with internal and external parties. By delivering new apps with seamless interoperability, Creo enables companies to make dramatic improvements in their engineering, manufacturing and service processes.

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PlanetPTC Virtual – Mathcad 

Apr 14, 2011
Join us for the upcoming virtual conference PlanetPTC Virtual – Mathcad! Don’t miss this opportunity to interact with the Mathcad product team and the Mathcad community in a unique virtual environment.

Technical Illustration Tools Demonstration Series 

May 17, 2011
Arbortext IsoDraw webcasts showcase PTC’s comprehensive Technical Illustration Tools and present an overview of the Arbortext modules.

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Creo 1.0 provides the first set of apps which deliver on PTC’s vision and strategy to redefine the MCAD industry and enable companies to unlock potential within their organizations.

Creo product design apps allow everyone in the enterprise to use the tools that work best for them so that they can contribute more efficiently to the product development process. Creo also provides an unprecedented level of interoperability – data moves seamlessly between apps and modeling modes while retaining design intent – such that companies can share data more easily with internal and external parties. By delivering new apps with seamless interoperability, Creo enables companies to make dramatic improvements in their engineering, manufacturing and service processes.

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The anticipation began over a year ago when the company introduced what was then called Project Lightning, promising their audience that it would be a new toolset that would change the way products were designed forever.

A few short months later customers got a brief introduction to what Project Lighting actually is, now named Creo, PTC showed the world a product design toolset that would allow users to combine aspects of both parametric and direct modeling. In addition they promised Creo would have a product architecture that would allow users to interact with it in ways specific to their role within their organization.

Finally this June users got their first comprehensive introduction to Creo 1.0 at PlanetPTC Live, the annual user group event.

During the conference John Buchowski, vice president product Management, Creo gave audiences a detailed look at the final product and its future with his presentation “Creo Roadmap Presentation.”

Buchowski explained that the core problem that Creo was meant to address is that despite the fact that parametric CAD modeling systems have existed for 25 years they are still difficult to work with.

Furthermore the various design paradigms are hampered by interoperability issues that make it difficult for users to apply the best solution to a problem, a problem that is then exacerbated by vendors creating formats that discourage leveraging multiple solutions to a design challenge.

In addition to these issues Creo was also created to deal with the fact that currently very few systems do not offer any kind of deep connection between PLM and CAD nor do they offer downstream validation of specific product configurations.

The thinking behind Creo is inspired by a six box diagram that presents users with the concept that there are two main modeling methods, direct and abstract that can be used to create 2D, 3D and assembly designs. By creating a system that allows users to choose the best option for their designs whether it is 2D, parametric or direct modeling and allowing users to take advantage of any data created in any of the Creo environments users can greatly streamline their design processes said Buchowski.

Currently, Creo works to achieve these goals through a number of existing implementations that include a user interface that remains consistent throughout the experience regardless of the environment or App being leveraged; plus complete interoperability between all of the solutions, the ability to move data as easily as possible between design paradigms and the ability to migrate date from past PTC toolsets.

As of right now seven of the nine Apps that make up the Creo system are available. By November there will be nine available Apps.

The core of the Creo system is Creo Parametric, an App that allows users to create and alter models using parametric modeling methods. The App also allows users to take advantage of PTC’s training content through a tool called the Learning Connector, which will allow the software to instruct users in the use of its functions as they are selected.

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By John Myers, ConnectPress Editor