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?).

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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.

Tips & tricks on creating high-quality illustrations using photo tracing by Bert Witsmeer, B/E Aerospace

By Rod Strand, Value CAD Marketing Manager, HP

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.

By Joe Graney, Engineering Director, Santa Cruz Bicycles

Arbortext® Enables Hamilton Sundstrand to Automate the Development Process of S1000D Compliant Technical Manuals

PTC announced that Hamilton Sundstrand headquartered in Windsor Locks, CT, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, has selected Arbortext to help ensure its technical publications are compliant with S1000D standards. Arbortext® for S1000D is PTC’s product information delivery solution used for structured authoring, technical illustrations, publishing and viewing interactive electronic technical publications (IETP) in accordance with the Aerospace and Defense Specification 1000D.  With the implementation of PTC’s solution for S1000D, Hamilton Sundstrand has expanded its use of the PTC® Product Development System (PDS).  Hamilton Sundstrand has been a PTC customer since 1999.

PTC Pro/ENGINEER® Helps RCR Claim Victory at NASCAR Budweiser Shootout

PTC today announced that Richard Childress Racing (RCR), whose cars are designed and developed using PTC’s industry-leading Pro/ENGINEER parametric MCAD/CAM/CAE software, has claimed victory at the Budweiser Shootout, NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series exhibition event which took place Saturday, February 7, 2009 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.