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Last week my colleagues and I took a crisp, wintery walk around Cutler Park and some of us may or may not have ended up dancing our goodbyes to our Kendrick Street location on the dance floor 😉       Just cause I think you should live this with us...    Photo Credit:  Creo Lev Bass     Creo Lev and Mathcad Dena

Here at PTC this week we celebrated "Week of Caring."   The PTC Week of Caring program was created in 2010 to encourage PTC’s global employees to make a difference in the lives of others and invest in our community. Charitable events and activities of all kinds are held around the world at this time by individuals, teams, and entire offices. It's a great opportunity to positively impact our community!     From donation drives to packing food for those in need and beyond, PTC offices around the world put together plans to give back to their communities.   Your PTC Community Manager wasn't very good at grabbing pictures of these good deeds(Sorry :(), but here is Ally from Employee Communications which is the awesome team that puts on our special events.  It is amazing that when several people put together $1 and $5 donations for a cause it can make such an impact on important charities like Rosie's Place           &nb

Have a blessed weekend. Spend some time with the ones you love.   A somewhat advanced society has figured how to package basic knowledge in pill form. A student, needing some learning, goes to the pharmacy and asks what kind of knowledge pills are available. The pharmacist says "Here's a pill for English literature." The student takes the pill and swallows it and has new knowledge about English literature! "What else do you have?" asks the student. "Well, I have pills for art history, biology, and world history," replies the pharmacist. The student asks for these, and swallows them and has new knowledge about those subjects. Then the student asks, "Do you have a pill for math?" The pharmacist says "Wait just a moment", and goes back into the storeroom and brings back a whopper of a pill and plunks it on the counter. "I have to take that huge pill for math?" inquires the student. The pharmacist replied "Well, you know math always was a little

Have a terrific weekend on the eve of the advent season.   Yeah, I used to think it was just recreational... then I started doin' it during the week... you know, simple stuff: differentiation, kinematics. Then I got into integration by parts... I started doin' it every night: path integrals, holomorphic functions. Now I'm on diophantine equations and sinking deeper into transfinite analysis. Don't let them tell you it's just recreational.   Fortunately, I can quit any time I want.

As stated by the Boston Globe,  PTC is a Top Place To Work!  We are a Top Place to Work because we get to serve YOU and enjoy the environment in which we get to do this every day!    We celebrated with caricature drawings, good eats, and beverages.   I spotted some of my LiveWorx Team friends in the very busy "Needham Cafe" during our celebration buffet.          

Have a great time with family and friends. Give thanks for the blessings that you have received. And here is a link to how to cook a Turkey (by an engineer). I will try and copy and paste, but not sure if the link and all the pictures will come through.   https://www.digitalengineering247.com/article/how-to-cook-a-turkey-like-an-engineer/   Editor’s Note: As Thanksgiving approaches, we’re happy to share one engineer’s quest to cook the perfect turkey with the help of computational fluid analysis (CFD). Have a happy Thanksgiving. As the annual Thanksgiving feast approached at our house (and my wife isn’t, let’s say, experienced at cooking American food), taking the engineer’s perspective, I decided I would prefer not to have hit or miss Thanksgiving holiday dinners for the next 10 years while figuring out what is important and what isn’t when it comes to roasting a turkey. I had some empirical (experimental) results from the last two Thanksgiving dinners, but not enough t

Have a terrific weekend and enjoy time with the ones you love....   A team of engineers were required to measure the height of a flag pole. They only had a measuring tape, and were getting quite frustrated trying to keep the tape along the pole. It kept falling down, etc. A mathematician comes along, finds out their problem, and proceeds to remove the pole from the ground and measure it easily. When he leaves, one engineer says to the other: "Just like a mathematician! We need to know the height, and he gives us the length!"

It is snowing here today!!! Have a blessed weekend..... and I am not sure if this is true of Scotland never having been there.   A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were traveling through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train.    "Aha," says the engineer, "I see that Scottish sheep are black."   "Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black."   "No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is at least one sheep in Scotland, and that at least one side of that one sheep is black!"

HI everyone my self shiva , I completed my graduation this year  in JNTU then after i completed CREO course and got certified from PTC ,Now i'm searching for a job in designing. Requesting all , if any one can refer any jobs in designing .  "This is my mail id :maheshshivagoud@gmail.com 

Welcome to November and have a blessed weekend.   An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician were asked to hammer a nail into a wall.   The engineer went to build a Universal Automatic Nailer -- a device able to hammer every possible nail into every possible wall.    The physicist conducted series of experiments on strength of hammers, nails, and walls and developed a revolutionary technology of ultra-sonic nail hammering at super-low temperature.   The mathematician generalized the problem to a N dimensional problem of penetration of a knotted one dimensional nail into a N-1 dimensional hyper-wall. Several fundamental theorems are proved. Of course, the problem is too rich to suggest a possibility of a simple solution, even the existence of a solution is far from obvious. 

    No photos of the World Series, but taking the opportunity/advantage of the OFF TOPIC Board to give a shout out to the HOME TEAM BOSTON RED SOX!  Congrats, Sox!   If you didn't tune in and "live" the game, you can read about it  from the New York Times here.      What was everyone else's weekend plans?  Did anyone watch the World Series?    

Chers membres Pro/JURALPE, Notre prochaine AG se tiendra à l'EPFL de Lausanne, le 31 octobre 2018. l'enregistrement c'est par ici : http://projuralpe.org WELCOME 🙂    

Have a terrific weekend.   A mathematician and an engineer are on desert island. They find two palm trees with one coconut each. The engineer climbs up one tree, gets the coconut, eats. The mathematician climbs up the other tree, gets the coconut, climbs the other tree and puts it there. "Now we've reduced it to a problem we know how to solve."   

PTC and Elite are organizing a Regional User Group meeting on November 7th The intent of the RUG is to provide a networking opportunity for Portland area companies using PTC’s software, learn more about PTC’s vision and strategy and provide feedback to PTC on how their products can be improved.   For this meeting, the agenda will be covering IoT, Creo and flow analysis, PLM, and Augmented Reality (AR).   Below is the link to the event sign-up page and agenda, we hope to see you there! https://elitedigitalenterprise.com/portland-ptc-meetup   Where: Lucky Labrador Brewpub; 7675 SW Capitol Hwy. Portland, OR 97219 When: Wednesday, November 8th, 11:30am – 3:30pm

PTC and Elite are organizing a Regional User Group meeting on November 8th which PACCAR is generous enough to host. The intent of the Pacific Northwest RUG is to provide a networking opportunity for Northwest companies using PTC’s software, learn more about PTC’s vision and strategy and provide feedback to PTC on how their products can be improved.   For this meeting, the agenda will be covering IoT, Creo and flow analysis, PLM, and Augmented Reality (AR).   Below is the link to the event sign-up page and agenda, we hope to see you there! https://elitedigitalenterprise.com/seattle-rug     Where: PACCAR 10630 NE 38th Pl, Kirkland, WA 98033 When: Thursday, November 8th, 11:30am – 4:30pm

Have a terrific weekend. Spend time with the ones you love.   An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are staying in a hotel.    The engineer wakes up and smells smoke. He goes out into the hallway and sees a fire, so he fills a trash can from his room with water and douses the fire. He goes back to bed.    Later, the physicist wakes up and smells smoke. He opens his door and sees a fire in the hallway. He walks down the hall to a fire hose and after calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory, etc. extinguishes the fire with the minimum amount of water and energy needed.    Later, the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He thinks for a moment and then exclaims, "Ah, a solution exists!" and then goes back to bed. 

Let's bring this board back from the DEAD!   Are you creepy, kooky, mysterious, or spooky....or FUN!  Reply back with your favorite Jack-o-lantern picture.  <Yours ...or someone else's ;)>  CAD or Not So CAD....Your choice!   I'll get us started.              

Hi, Everyone,   You may have been following the latest PTC news and heard we are moving our headquarters to Seaport Boston. Last week we got a glimpse of our new home.  Here is a sneak peek from your Community Manager's perspective <pictures courtesy of my R+D / work "neighbor" photographer @LevBass >.  Don't mind the "semi-construction" site.  The building should be ready by January! Not an evacuation. Waiting for the bus! Field Trip! Yep, that's me. I'm with our VP of Marketing-Eric Snow. There's Brian Thompson (CAD VP). 121 Seaport! Packed elevators..to "networking/social" on 16th and 17th floors. Great views of The Seaport! Definitely will look different-but open concept design! PTC on Ice! Can't wait to see logo on side of the building! Always great to hear our CEO Jim Heppelmann share the vision. Some music!  Some dancing!  More Dancing--All PTC Employee Volunteers! ​ Great day at The Seaport!   Photo snagged fro

According to the Manufacturing Institute, 80 percent of manufacturers currently indicate serious shortage of qualified applicants for skilled and highly-skilled positions? That’s why PTC partnered with Rockwell Automation and the National Association of Manufacturers to support manufacturers' recruiting efforts.  We’ve created a brand new Smart MFG app and comic book that uses augmented reality to showcase modern manufacturing by letting users manufacture a drone—from design and additive manufacturing to assembly and quality testing. We encourage you to use the Smart MFG app to launch an AR experience from the attached and comic book with your colleagues, with young people looking to better understand manufacturing careers, and with anyone interested in modern manufacturing.   Download the Smart MFG app today to get started.

Come join us!   October 10th:  10-NOON  EST   Event is no charge, but please RSVP.  Lunch is being served.   Register:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cad-agnostic-path-to-technical-illustrations-augmented-reality-data-management-registration-49614742029   CAD-Agnostic Path to Technical Illustrations Join Tech-30 and PTC for a special live event at PTC Needham Corporate Experience Center Today’s consumers can pull up a video tutorial to do everything including unclogging the kitchen sink, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) can be key differentiators for manufacturers. Discover how PTC’s leading industrial innovation platform and solutions, along with a strategic partnership with Tech-30 can turn possibilities into realities. Attend our special workshop and learn how you can create rich 3D technical illustrations, drawings, and interactive animations from your CAD data, regardless of platform. Our discussion topics will include: H

Come join us!   Register on our new Meetup.com Space:   https://www.meetup.com/PTC-USER-SoCal-Regional-User-Group/events/255100421/   Title:  Augmented Reality, Connected PLM & IOT - A SoCAL PTC RUG Event   Agenda Topics:     4:15 - 4:50 p.m. Creo 5.0 – Flow Analysis and Additive Manufacturing By Adam Manfredonia, PTC 4:55 - 5:15 p.m. Thingworx Navigate & Vuforia Augmented Reality Apps By Preeti Gupta, Johnson & Johnson 5.15pm – 5.30pm PLM in Alcon By Bavand Hamidi, Alcon 5:30 - 5:45 p.m. Break / Dinner 5:45 - 6:30 p.m. Integrated, Connected PLM. What’s new in Windchill, Vuforia and ThingWorx  By Kevin Sergeant & James Norman, PTC 6:30 - 6:45 p.m. Engage with PLM With Navigate Apps - Partner   When:  Thursday, October 11, 20184:00 PM to 7:00 PM  PST Add to calendar   Where:  Alcon Laboratories 20521 Lake Forest Dr · 

Be blessed:   Life is complex. It has real and imaginary components.    How do you prove in three steps that a sheet of paper is a lazy dog? 1. A sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane. 2. An inclined plane is a slope up. 3. A slow pup is a lazy dog. 

 Join Tech-30 and PTC for a special live event at the Needham Corporate Experience Center           Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 .pm. EDT                                                Register Now   Today’s consumers can pull up a video tutorial to do everything including unclogging the kitchen sink, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) can be key differentiators for manufacturers. Discover how PTC’s leading industrial innovation platform and solutions can turn possibilities into realities. Attend the special workshop and learn how you can create rich 3D technical illustrations, drawings, and interactive animations from your CAD data, regardless of platform. Our discussion topics wi

The LiveWorx 2019 Call for Papers is now open through October 12, 2018. LiveWorx will be held in Boston, MA, June 10-13, 2019at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.   Educational Track Topics: Aerospace & Defense Symposium AR/MR/VR Automotive & Mobility Digital Engineering Electronics & High Tech IIoT Industry 4.0 Life Sciences Oil & Gas Retail Robotics & AI Service Transformation Benefits of Becoming a Presenter: Share your expertise with like-minded technologists Network with a diverse group of representatives from a wide range of industries A FREE 4-Day All Access Pass Complimentary presentation development and coaching  Timeline of Submissions: August 29 - Submit your Idea October 12 - Last Chance to Submit October 17 - Submission Review Begins November 27 - You are Notified! Submit Your Proposal before October 12 for consideration to be a contributor to the world's most respected digital transformation conference!  

Have a terrific weekend:   One day, Jesus said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9." St. Thomas looked very confused and asked St. Peter: "What does the teacher mean?" St.Peter replied: "Don't worry - it's just another one of his parabolas."   Q: What's a polar bear?A: A rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.