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Just read this in an interview with Jim Heppelmann :“ ... I think some things are consolidating and some things are probably moving in the opposite direction; specialising. I actually don’t know if CAM is consolidating. I think there are more independent CAM vendors now than there were ten years ago and I think that’s because within CAM there are so many specialities that the products are becoming very sophisticated. If you bought one of the leading independent CAM products, they work with any CAD technology. The integration between CAM and CAD, even from different vendors, is good enough that it eats into the value proposition of buying it all from one vendor. ..."Does anyone know about a decent integration between ProE Wildfire and a non-PTC CAM system?TIA, Hugo.ps.: the interview can be found here :http://develop3d.com/interviews/the-jim-heppelmann-interview << ProE WF3 - PDMLink 9.1 M050 >>

This video demonstrates the Creo 1 to Windchill MPMLink 10 integration allowing the manufacturing process engineer to automatically create a detailed part machining process plan from a Creo manufacturing object. The part machining information(mfg time & step comment) from Creo are automatically exposed in MPMLink and the resources (tools, fixtures, workcenter) for each of the operation steps are automatically linked to resources in MPMLink resources manager       Unable to play video. Please try again later.(view in My Videos)This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

In this tutorial i show you how to manage make and manage a casting and machine part in an assembly and the benefits to it in Pro/E Wildfire 4.0     (view in My Videos)

Dear pro/gurus,I am back again and I need your help. For the notorious post I develop ( Mori Seiki 5 axis ) I pray for every tool change to have printed a line before with the tooldescription. C.l fileLOADTL / 6$$-> CUTTER / 6.800000 Post process file( CUTTER 6.8mm )T6 T.I.A Georgios L. This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Dear Pro MFG Gurus, Novice to Gpost I am trying to develop the post for Mori Seiki 5 axismachine. !!!It is almost completed except for a few things.For the tool length prep Code the acceptable value is G43.4 but the valuesthat Gpost accepts are integer numbersand not ones with decimals. So, can someone out there give me an idea ? T.I.A Georgios L. Cnc programmer This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hello All We have a requirement (based on geometry) to have several parts InjectionMolded.Small parts - Tight Tolerances - the usual problems. We looked at ProtoMold - but they are not ITARS compliant. Anyone have suggestions for a good house, willing to do short runs, and easyto work with - ITARS compliant. Thanks in Advance. Anthony R. BenitezSenior Mechanical DesignerDrafting SupervisorApplied Research LaboratoriesThe University of Texas at AustinThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Are there ways of controlling the local sequence better or any suggestions would be of great help.CedricThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Is there a way to change the settings on a trajectory 5 axis curve following toolpath to have less goto points and maintain a tolerance?Attached are two bitmaps to explain better.Thank YouThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

I'm trying to install onto a mounted drive, from my Windows 7 machine, and Creo is telling me that I don't have write permissions to the folder.I'm doing the same thing from my XP machine, to the same mounted drive, right now. Same user, same permissions. Windows 7 is trying to protect me from myself.I'm running the Creo installer as administrator on the Windows 7 machine. (I am an administrator on the local machine and the remote machine. I have "full control" permissions on the shared folder.)Any ideas????David HaighPhone: 925-424-3931Fax: 925-423-7496Lawrence Livermore National Lab7000 East Ave, L-362Livermore, CA 94550This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable abou

Is there a way to create a toolpath using the same logic in ProE and shown in this video?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBggBZmK-B0ThanksThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Happy Friday, everybody!Anybody out there willing to share some tips on bending rods and using Pro/E? We make lots of rods, and so know the basics, but it seems like our manufacturing engineers are having to go through 3 or more iterations before they get it dialed in. I am thinking this is because we are not compensating for bend back or the equivalent of a sheetmetal K-Factor.(See attached screenshot for an example rod. Diameter is around 1/4 inch)So my questions are these:Do you bend rods? If so, what modeling techniques are you using?Are you compensating for bend back through trial and error or do you have a way to calculate it?If you are calculating bend back, how are you doing it?What is the best practice?-marcThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to incl

We recently purchased a Mori-Seiki NL2000 Mill-turn lathe. I have triedto use a lathe post that came with Wildfire4.0 but there is no outputfor live tooling. I want to mill a square pocket in the end of a pieceof barstock with this lathe. Can someone help?Byron TaylorCoordinator/ProgrammerDanfoss Commercial CompressorsOne Scroll DriveArkadelphia, AR 71923E-mail: byron.taylor@scrolltech.comTel.:870-246-0750This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) is conducting a survey as part of a study to learn more about the role and impact of concept design in product development.The survey seeks to understand current attitudes, trends, and tools used in the earliest stages of discrete product manufacturing. From this survey and other research, a final report of the key findings will be published.We urge anyone involved in the development and manufacturing process in any role to contribute. Individual surveys are confidential and identifying information about you will not be published. Furthermore, you will not be approached by PTC sales or marketing or any of its partners as a result of your participation in this survey. Our testing suggests that it will require 20–30 minutes to complete. Please complete this survey by Sunday, July 31, 2011.We appreciate your time and valuable inputs and as a thank you, each participant is entitled to receive a pre-release copy of the final report findings from the s

I believe there is a newer build that is certified (or whatever) forWindows7, but M100 may work fine. I've been running 32 bit M200 on aWindows7 46 bit machine for some time with no issues. Doug SchaeferThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) is conducting a survey as part of a study to learn more about the role and impact of concept design in product development. The survey seeks to understand current attitudes, trends, and tools used in the earliest stages of discrete product manufacturing. From this survey and other research, a final report of the key findings will be published.We urge anyone involved in the development and manufacturing process in any role to contribute. Individual surveys are confidential and identifying information about you will not be published.Our testing suggests that it will require 20–30 minutes to complete. Please complete this survey by Sunday, July 31, 2011.We appreciate your time and valuable inputs and as a thank you, each participant is entitled to receive a pre-release copy of the final report findings from the study.In addition, five survey respondents will be selected at random to each receive an Apple iPad 2. The draw will take place on August 1,

Dear Progurus,I have a part which is going to be molded with TPE.The problem is the deep undercut slot in the middle.The cross-section of the part is as attached.Is there enough space to incorporate a slider for the undercut area?Is it possible to force release the part with 3mm depth undercut?What other options are available to mold out this kind of part with TPEmaterial?What are the important aspect to beware when molding TPE product?Is the draft of 4 degree enough to release the product?Any good link to get info from?Thank you very much in advance.LilyThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Since you can't mold perfect parts every time, you need to reference the standards to properly account for tolerances. In the mean time, this should get you started. Good luck!This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hi all, i may have asked this question in the past, but did not get an answer. Is it possible to create a swept cut with rounded ends. Think of a 10 diameter ball nose milling cutter, cutting a channel 5mm deep in a flat face, the channel does not go through the whole workpiece, it stops short. Now in the real world this channel would have rounded ends, but in pro-e they are left square using a Sweep Cut, i then have to create revolved cuts on each end to achieve the desired effect. Is there some other functionality within pro-e that could preform this task.Kind RegardsJohnThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

This is for all the post processor gurus.I have a post for a Makino vertical mill where if I just use a tool once it works fine, But if I have more than one operation or If I use the same tool more than once it messes up my cutter comp line so I have to go in and edit it manually. I can't figure out what is causing it so I am looking for some help.Before I edit(TOOL NAME : BNEM_C4_1875_010_RLF)(TOOL_TYPE : BULL MILL)(CUTTER_DIAM : 0.187500)G91G28Z0.G90G49M250M01T12M06S7640M03G01G43X.7Y-1.1504Z.1F300.H12M07Z-.175After I edit(TOOL NAME : BNEM_C4_1875_010_RLF)(TOOL_TYPE : BULL MILL)(CUTTER_DIAM : 0.187500)G91G28Z0.G90G49M250M01T12M06S7640M03G00X.7Y-1.1504Z.1F300.M07G43Z.1H12Z-.175This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you

Dear ProGurus,I know that we could actually estimate the mold tonnage by using projectedarea calculated in proE.Normally, we need to calculate the cavity of core projected area?And does anybody has the pressure values for various kind of plasticmaterial?Or any suggestion on how to estimate mold tonnage ?Kindly advise.Thanks a lot.Best regards,LilyThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hi, here have a special Vericut community:http://communities.ptc.com/groups/vericut . Participate. 🙂

Hi everyone,I would like a help in creating a specific drilling cycle/sequence. I need to create a post-processor with the drilling cycle/sequence mentioned bellow, or possibly some post-processor that has examples HEIDENHAIN cycles.CYCL DEF 200 FURAR Q200=1. Q201=-5. Q206=50. Q202=5. Q210=0 Q203=0.0 Q204=50. Q211=0 L X365. Y65. FMAX M99 L Y155. FMAX M99 L Y135. FMAX M99 L X275. Y65. FMAX M99 L X200. Y135. FMAX M99 L X125. Y65. FMAX M99 L X35. Y65. FMAX M99 L X75. Y175. FMAX M99 L Z50. F MAX M30This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

We are about to buy a 5x machine tool and therefore looking for a simulation solution. We have a light version of VERICUT that we should upgrade to full multiaxis solution. Other option is going to NCSIMUL, with some very good capabilities.Before Pro/NC had the machine simulation option, i looked into the technique of creating separate NC files to drive mechanism connections. Does WF5 machine simulation work that way? It guess it is a time consuming and error prone technique.Another solution we are looking at is Siemens NX cam solution. We are a bit disappointed of the lack of development of PTC NC solutions. We are succesfully running mill 3x, lathe and wire edm machines with Pro/NC but we think we should get another cam solution for multiaxis jobs.Both NCSIMUL and Siemens can simulate multiaxis jobs, also they can simulate post processed files.What do you think? Is anybody running Pro/NC and machine simulation? Anybody using VERICUT or NCSIMUL for multiaxis? Do you simulate NC files

We recently purchased a Haas VF-2 that will not run on the same post as our older Haas machines. It does not like redundant moves or having a X or Y move within a G02/G03 line that also has an I,J move. The machine will get "Alarm 982- zero angle move" with our current post.I do not see a way to eliminate the xy moves in circular motions anywhere in the NC Post Processor. I can manually edit the post to remove all x,y moves in any line that contains an I,J move and the machine runs fine. If anyone knows a way to edit this in the advanced section or something I should check or uncheck it would be greatly appreciated. We are running Wildfire 2.0This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community memb

Hi, I am drilling the OD of a cylinder. I have a Daewoo Puma Mill-Turn, Fanuc 16T. It is an X,Z,C type setup. My workcell is setup correctly, we've been using this for 7 yrs. The tool axis for these holes is PARLEL X. We are currently using G-post utilizing merged posts, PARLEL X(UNCX01.F02), PARLEL Z(UNCLX01.F12), and a regular turning post(UNCL01.F02). My question: Pro-e is outputting a RAPID, GOTO/, a CYCLE/DRILL, GOTO/ again and then a CYCLE/OFF for the 1st hole in the ACL file. The susequent holes are output as RAPID, GOTO/, RAPID/, GOTO/, CYCLE/DRILL, GOTO/, CYCLE/OFF. Seems to be an extra RAPID/ and GOTO/ for holes 2-8. I currently have 8 holes programmed. The extra RAPID/ and GOTO/ cause the Retract Cyclinder dimensions to be re-output. This may be causing my issue.? I've been in the OFG, can't find any settings to change this output. I tried changing the setting on the "Identical Points handling" page under "Motion" -> "General". This did not change ouput. I've been to the