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A Mathcad user for 25 years, Professor Valery (‘Val’) Ochkov takes to the mountains when not involved in developing training and educational software for fossil and nuclear power plants.  He’s shown below in the Chimbulak region of Kazakstahn. Val has long been involved in the Mathcad community! See the photo of the “Mathcad Clock.”   This is from a post back in 2010!  Beyond answering questions, Valery is also known for using math equations to create designs and authoring Mathcad trivia challenges for other community members to participate in. Some of the more entertaining challenges might be the Hare and Snell’s law and the Problem of Cockroach Races.  The Bicycle Post where Valery quizzes the community on how to solve “How many strokes with a bicycle pump need to be done to inflate the tire to 5atm” also inspired engagement.When asked for hobbies that don’t involve hiking boots, Val assured us his hobbies really are writing books and articles

Applicable Releases: Creo Parametric 1.0 to 8.0   Description: In this video, we will demo how to change the default template for: solid part sheetmetal part design asm drawing

In this video, we will learn to use Modelcheck to add parameter by check item PARAMCHECK

In this video, we will learn to use Modelcheck to add check parameters by "add_chk_param"

In this video, we will learn to use Modelcheck to delete parameters by check items EXTRA_PARAMS or PARAM_UNWANTEDse Modelcheck to delete parameters by check items EXTRA_PARAMS or PARAM_UNWANTED

In this video, we will learn to customize the Text Symbol Palette to add a custom symbol

Applicable Releases: Creo Parametric 1.0 to 8.0   Description: In this video, we will demo how to change default fonts for drawing text via detail option default_annotation_font

Applicable Releases: Creo Parametric 1.0 to 8.0   Description: In this video, we will be using "Active Layer Object Selection" option to: Control the display of features or datums in a drawing view Control display of items in layers on specific drawing view Hide/Unhide the features added in layer in specific drawing views

Check out this video on Creo Large Assembly Management from PTC Application EngineersPresenters: Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) and Ryan Butcher (Technical Specialist, Fellow)Original Date Presented: November 30, 2021 To dive deeper into the subject, check out  Improving Assembly Performance with Creo 

https://www.engineering.com/story/my-top-3-engineering-nightmares-expert-shares-the-truth-on-software-selection Anji Seberino, the head of our PTC Mathcad Application Engineer team, recently took some time to interview with engineering.com about her top 3 engineering nightmares accumulated from her own experience as an engineer. From missing units to debugging custom code to trying to reverse engineer IP stored in crazy, inherited spreadsheets, you too have probably faced these issues in your time in the industry when not everyone is using the right software and processes. Let us know what you think of the interview!

Check out this video on Plastic Part Design from PTC Application EngineersPresenters: Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) and Tom Quaglia (Creo Segment Sales )  

Check out this video on Creo Plastic Part Design from PTC Application EngineersPresenters: Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) and Ryan Butcher (Technical Specialist, Fellow)Original Date Presented: November 9, 2021 To dive deeper into the subject, check out Rounds, Ribs, Draft. 

Community Profile: Mike LockwoodIf you spent any time in the PTC community over the past couple decades, you’ve likely found good answers to your software questions from @MikeLockwood especially in the Windchill Community! According to our system, this user has posted 2241 times!“I’ve carefully read pretty much all postings in my areas of interest daily for all these years – and can reply to many with useful info,” he says. That explains the 41 community achievement badges! At the same time, he’s finding answers to his own questions. “I’m grateful that so many people are willing to voluntarily provide such good info. Within a day, I generally receive many good answers to whatever problems I’m facing.”But just to be sure, he admits that sometimes creates a tech support case in parallel with postingquestions to the community. Who's behind this prolific account?  Meet Mike Lockwood. Mike earned a BSME in college, and then began a career as a mechani

Check out this video on Prismatic & MultiSurface Milling from PTC Application EngineersPresenters: Lee Goodwin (Technical Specialist, Principal) and Ryan Butcher (Technical Specialist, Fellow)Original Date Presented: October 12, 2021 To dive deeper into the subject, check out PTC University. 

February 17, 2021 Replay WebcastThis video has chapters available in the player menu — jump straight to any section using the chapter list in the player controls.Chapter Summaries0:00 – Welcome & Speaker Introductions: Diane, Rich Moore, Jose Coronado, Tom Quaglia, Alex Jang Diane opens the "Evaluating Gyroids and Lattices with CFD" webinar and Rich Moore introduces the Simerics and PTC presenters along with the agenda covering CFD setup, lattice modeling, and industry use cases. 3:48 – CFD 201 Recap: Analyst CFD Embedded in Creo Parametric Rich recaps the 2020 CFD 101/102/201 series and explains how Simerics MP was embedded into Creo Parametric to bring prototype-accurate analyst CFD to designers who need to model the unseen physics inside their designs. 5:11 – Creo Flow Analysis Packages: Base, Plus & Premium Overview Overview of the three Creo Flow Analysis packages — Base (fluids, heat, conjugate heat transfer, electronic cooling), Plus (particle, radiation, species, moving

Explanation of Trajectory parameter /  the "trajpar" - on simple examples

Check out this video on Creo Unite & Import Data Doctor from PTC Application EngineersPresenters: Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) and Tom Quaglia (Creo Segment Sales )  

Check out this video on Tool Design & Mold Analysis  from PTC Application EngineersPresenters: Lee Goodwin (Technical Specialist), Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) and Tom Quaglia (Creo Segment Sales )Original Date Presented: September 16th 2021.  Link to all Creo Tips and Technique Recordings 

I am using Creo Parametric 7.0 7.0.2.0Looking for best practices on using Creo Wrapper files with Solidworks parts

Hello all and welcome to another blog post in this multibody blog series. Todays topic: How to “position” a body.   You might wonder why I put the word position into quotes. The reason for this is that when we talk about positioning, many of us start thinking of positioning component-like objects.  The fact that components have their system of reference (e.g. coordinate system including the origin) makes it natural to understand that positioning transforms that coordinate system from one location and orientation into another. Geometric bodies do represent a volume of geometry referring to the part’s reference system, therefore the positioning of geometric bodies should probably be better called “Moving” geometry. Anyway, after this introductory thought, I hope you enjoy the video illustrating how this is done in Creo. (and you won’t be surprised: we are going to use the “Move”-Feature for this workflow 😊) (view in My Videos)      Thanks for reading. 

As part of our B&W Webinar Week 2021, there is a session about "Preparing and analyzing optical assemblies in Creo®".  We will show you how to perform ray path analysis directly in Creo Parametric assemblies. You will also be able to manage optical materials and wavelengths in a database using our SMARTOptics software. What you can expect beyond that: Application examples for SMARTOptics Scope of services of SMARTOptics When: Oct 13 at 4 pm (CEST)   You can watch the recording now here:  (view in My Videos)   Please feel free to ask your questions. 

Welcome to Creo Coffee with a CAD Expert Series Registration link : https://www.ptc.com/en/technologies/cad/coffee-with-an-expert Main Presenters:  Nicole Casalini (Application Expert) ,Gabriel Valls (Application Expert) and Guille Pezet(Application Expert) when : EVERY THURSDAY 11am CET / 10am BST   Below you will find all the topicd and date for the webcast    Date Topic Aug 19th Basics of Creo Modelling Aug 26th Manufacturing with Creo Sept 2nd Introduction to PLM Sept 9th Mathcad Sept 16th CAD for AR Sept 23rd What’s New in Creo 8 Sept 30th Ansys Partnership (Simulation)

Hello all and welcome to another blog post in the multibody series.   Today’s topic represents an add-on to the previous post : How to “position” a body. The workflow example  in the below video explains in more detail how you can leverage these (previously discussed) positioning operations  to create a design like this very easily.   he intent here is to drive the cutout of the blue body parametrically based on the defined range of angular movement of the yellow pin. The workflow example makes use of the Flexible Modeling Move feature to create something like a “simplified motion envelope” driving the cutout opening in the blue body.      (view in My Videos) Thanks for reading.  I hope it was informative. If you liked it, give it a Kudo.   Back to Creo 7.0 & 8.0+ Multibody Home: Start Here!   Enjoy!....Martin

Hello all and welcome to another blog post in this multibody blog series. Todays topic: Construction bodies!Construction body are a pretty unique, powerful concept in Creo’s multibody implementation. As such it is really important to know about them and to understand how to use them.So, what are construction bodies? Construction bodies are bodies that are used for the design of your model, but do not contribute to the final geometry or mass. That means that similar on how you used quilts in the past to create additional geometry helping with the construction of your design, you can now do the very same with solid geometry. The construction attribute of these bodies will then help you to differentiate that geometry and automatically exclude it. Excluding them from mass properties is just one out of more than a dozen workflows where they are treated special. You will find more details in the video.   (view in My Videos) Thanks for reading.  I hope it was informative. If you lik

Some Creo modules or applications such as NC or mold design modules do not yet fully support multibody models (as of Creo 7.0/8.0).   Watch the below video to understand what you can do in these cases and how you can get to the required reference models for these downstream applications.   Thanks for reading and many thanks to my colleague Beat Fretz who provided this example model (view in My Videos)to me.  I hope it was informative. If you liked it, give it a Kudo.   Back to Creo 7.0 & 8.0+ Multibody Home: Start Here!   Enjoy!....Martin