PTC in High Tech: Atop Technologies
A wind farm in southern Europe uses video surveillance and telemetry to monitor each of its towers. An operator will have to collect data from a single workstation. A manufacturer in China has more...
View ArticleUnlock the Value of Legacy Data
Have you been using CAD for a while? Has your company? If yes, you probably have a rich store of CAD models that you need to move forward when you update your CAD environment. There are three basic...
View ArticleThree Manufacturers That Can’t Live Without Direct Modeling
The world’s most innovative manufacturers have something in common, regardless of which industry they operate in: They value flexible product design tools. That’s why many of them use direct modeling...
View ArticleThree Innovators Who Depend on Direct Modeling
PTC is a well-known for parametric modeling. We were founded on the technology in 1985, and today our software can be found in tens of thousands of companies worldwide. But for some companies, in some...
View ArticleWhy Top Innovators Use Direct and Parametric Modeling
PTC promotes both parametric and direct modeling for 3D product development. While some companies model their parts and assemblies with one or the other, more are using a combination of parametric and...
View ArticleIMA Engineers Productivity with PTC Creo FMX
Working with design files you didn’t create can be painful if you are a product development engineer. When your partners and suppliers use different CAD file formats, or when you need to edit a legacy...
View ArticleTop Taiwanese OEM Improves Leverage of Client Designs with PTC Creo
If you ever visit Tainan City, Taiwan, look for the Taiwan Metal Creation Museum. This unique cultural center is dedicated to the history and importance of a seemingly ordinary commodity—sheet metal....
View ArticleWhy Best-in-Class Manufacturers Expect Change
Dealing with change is a known challenge for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Whether it’s a new design requirement, engineering change order, or last-minute customer request, changes disrupt...
View ArticleTips & Tricks: Tangency Propagation in PTC Creo FMX
With PTC Creo Parametric Flexible Modeling Extension (FMX), you can easily modify geometry by simply selecting and dragging. But what happens to neighboring surfaces? Especially those with a...
View ArticleTips & Tricks: Working with Chamfer-like Geometry in PTC Creo FMX
In the past, whenever you moved geometry adjacent to chamfer-like geometry in PTC Creo Parametric, the chamfer-like geometry would extend and intersect the moved geometry (see figure below). Now with...
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