Customers today are used to being involved in product design. They’re used to getting the functionality they want, having the product look the way they like, and aren’t afraid to argue over a product’s cost. Most importantly, they know they live in a buyer’s market, which lets them be exacting in their choices. To exist […]

Design cycles are unpredictable. Every engineer, designer, and project manager has a horror story about unforeseen design changes, client requests or malfunctioning technology completely threw their plan off-schedule. What was a carefully crafted timetable suddenly turns into a scramble to deliver a product on time that also has to meet completely new requirements. No, this […]

Last week, PTC announced the upcoming release of Creo Parametric 3.0. Its new features and capabilities will supplement proven technologies from Pro/ENGINEER to help address the most pressing design challenges. Unite Technology The new Unite™ technology will make it easier than ever to use CAD files from a variety of systems directly in PTC Creo […]

According to a recent study by PTC, 37.9% of engineers experienced dramatic or multiple last-minute changes working on a recent project. That means over one-third of engineers require extensive “design agility” as part of their modeling process. “Design Agility” is the quickness, ease and flexibility one has to have in order to make changes in […]

Manufacturing companies that develop new products rely on product lifecycle management (PLM) software to effectively manage projects. Cars, electronics, medical devices, sports equipment – the right PLM tool can make any design process more efficient. Of course, there’s no “one-size-fits-all” solution that suits every single type of business. A large marketplace has created a wide […]

Computer simulation tools for Mechanical Engineers have been around for the last thirty years or so, holding a reputation of being difficult and ruinously expensive.  Today they encompass mainstream techniques used in nearly every industry. PTC offers a tool called Creo Simulate, formerly Pro/Mechanica, which performs “Finite Element Analysis” on structural and thermal conduction designs. […]

Pro/REPORT is a powerful component of Creo Parametric drawing mode which allows highly customizable tables to be automatically created and added to drawings. While Pro/REPORT is primarily used for the creation of BOM tables, it can also be used to create tabulated drawings of family table parts. This document describes its use for BOM generation. […]