Concurrent Engineering Blog

I picked up on this news through Franco’s Novedge Pulse news aggregation thing-a-me-bob, but it made for interesting reading so I thought I’d share it. PTC just announced (although its not dated) details that Microsoft has moved up to the Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0 release – while at first you think, "hmmmm," you soon remember that Microsoft do a pretty bang on job of producing their own hardware using an in house design team (and with some consultancies – anyone else got one of those terrible Philipe Starck mice?).

08 September 2009, 11:00 – 12:30 US/Eastern (-0400 GMT)

 In this Webcast you will learn how Pro/ENGINEER is:

CA Group Turns to Pro/ENGINEER® to Design Iconic New Retail Building – PTC’s 3D CAD Software Handles Large, Complex Assemblies with Ease

   
The CA Group, formed in the UK in the mid-1980s, has grown to become a premier contractor, supplier and manufacturer of industrial and commercial metal roofing and cladding systems.

Design efficiencies improved by 200% compared to previous 2D CAD software

PTC® (Nasdaq: PMTC), today announced that Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (CHALCO) Shandong Branch has adopted PTC® Pro/ENGINEER® to speed up design and production of its solid-liquid separation equipment. Pro/ENGINEER, PTC’s integrated 3D parametric CAD/CAM/CAE software, allows engineers and designers to intuitively model detailed and accurate digital product definitions.