Networking and More

For those in the United State, have a blessed Thanksgiving ( and be thankful).

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A Trip to the XUI -- Basic XUI Dialogs! Jason Aiken shows the basics behind customizing your Arbortext Editor User Interface to simplify the environment for you or your users. Using XUI dialogs, Jason shows how to use the sample files provided with your copy and a few other, more complicated examples. Shop coaches use XUI to create custom dialogs inside Arbortext Editor (or individual documents) to affect the UI, the document, or the publishing process.     This session is intended for Intermediate users of Arbortext.     View the Recording The video is on our YouTube Channel!   a     About The Arbortext Monster Garage There are a million Uber Geeky things you can do in Arbortext. Arbortext is a mature platform: The entire set of tools works together. Arbortext is open: The entire UI and publishing pipeline is 100% available through a well-tested API. The possibilities are enormous for anyone who wants to do new, interesting, over-the-top things with

For all the "oldies" out there:Be blessed and have a great weekend.

Change Management process needs can vary in scope and scale based upon an company's needs and stage of the product development cycle.  It is important that a Change Management process easily maps to these needs.   This session highlighted new flexible Change Associations in Windchill 11 specific to managing engineering changes in order to support a broad range of business process needs.   For example, if you need to connect your Problem Report to a Change Notice the new Change Associations can do this with simple configuration.  The session covered how the Change Associations can be used, and cover what to know for both new as well as migrated installations including workflow, reporting and more.

Hello all, hopefully you've received an email from PTC and/or IMPAC Systems regarding our meeting next Friday from 12-4 at Karbach Brewing Co. If you haven't done so yet, please RSVP/register with PTC so we can get an accurate count of all who will be attending.   Broadly speaking, CAD software helps you explore concept design ideas, create product designs, carry out simulations and analyses, and perform engineering calculations. In other words, CAD tools assist you with the experimentation, exploration, and iteration needed to make the most of your design's potential. The overarching goal? Better products produced more efficiently so that you get your products to market faster. PTC invites you to join us for a free half-day, interactive forum on Creo to gain valuable insights from peer networking and the following presentations: Vuforia Experience (Leveraging 3D CAD in augmented reality experience) Flexible Modeling Design Exploration Unite Technology Intelligent Fastener C

Since there has been some recent talk on the board about layers, layer usage, and such...Thanks and have a great weekend.Dale

Hello,   Please take note that the next CT User Group Meeting is scheduled for November 18th in Newtown, CT.   Use this link to register for the meeting. http://www.ptc.com/cad/creo-driving-the-new-cad-efficiency-revolution-newtown     Hosted by PTC & Boston Engineering: Date: November 18, 2016  Time: 9 AM - 3 PM Location:  Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main St, Newtown, CT 06470 Agenda   9:00 - 9:30 Meeting Kick Off, Agenda Review and General Updates – Jason Williams / James Paschetto 9:30 - 11:30 Creo 4 Introduction – Lino Tozzi   UI Enhancements   Model Based Design Improvements   Additive MFG enhancements   Creo in the Cloud overview  11:30 - 12:00 Vuforia Experience Demonstrations – Lino Tozzi / James Paschetto 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (Pizza) 1:00 - 1:45 What’s New in Windchill 11 M010 – James Paschetto 1:45 - 2:30 Navigate View Enhancements with Application Development Kit Examples – James Paschetto 2:30 - 3:00 C

The Arbortext Publishing Suite is an end-to-end authoring and publishing solution that can meet and exceed the publishing needs for any single sourced content needs. The best part is the ability to create complicated style without having to be a programmer.   Written in DITA and published with Arbortext Styler, this guide book takes you through the full cycle from start to finish. By the time you walk through this book, you will have built your own full functioning production ready professional stylesheet. It will even show you some troubleshoot techniques to help you if you ever get stuck.   Elizabeth Fraley, adding to her Arbortext Monster Garage book series wrote “Arbortext 102” to help stylesheet designers learn best practices for creating Arbortext Styler stylesheets and customers evaluate the quality of stylesheets delivered by consultants.   Her easy-to-follow approach offers practical tips and pointers enabling readers to quickly get started developing dynamic an

Good day everyone,I would like to inform you of a networking opportunity coming to Rochester, NY on November 10.Here are all the details: Creo: Driving the New CAD Efficiency Revolution | PTCCheck out this Boston Engineering video Video Link : 6902Please contact me with any questions.Best,Toby

For those "more experienced" engineers out there:Be blessed and have a good weekend.

We are creating new publications using S1000D Issue 4.1. The schemas and style files for 4.0 are available in Arbortext, and we've downloaded the 4.1 schemas from the S1000D. Are there style files available that we can download for 4.1?   Arbortext Architect/Editor/Style 6.0 M020.     Thanks,   Michael Denison   Technical Publications Senior Systems Administrator Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation   (800)810-4853 Option 8, Ext 27165    

Juniper Networks has focused on an topic-based documentation and publishing approach for their product documentation for the past 5+ years. Come explore their journey as they began as a vision for "operation efficiency" by migrating from Frame Maker to xml, to a vision that offers a "business value proposition" with topics by offering services to customers to create dynamic content. This presentation will provide an opportunity to learn about our experiences and give you some valuable tips on how to leverage a topic-based approach.   About the Speaker Rajal Shah is the Director of Document Engineering in the Foundation Technologies group at Juniper Networks. FT is the corporate R&D Group at Juniper Networks. His group is responsible for facilitating and promoting a unified documentation and publishing approach across all five business groups at Juniper.   Originally Recorded: Saturday, 24 October 2009, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US   View the Recording The video is on our

Hello,Recently laid off, and looking for Creo work. I have 23 years experience working with Creo and would like to stay in my field. I can provide an in-depth resume and work experience to those interested.

Be blessed and have a terrific weekend.Most have probably see this before. If so, enjoy again:

Custom Decals -- Inline SVG with APP in Arbortext Styler! Do you want to do fancy stuff with SVG in your dynamically published documents? In Arbortext Styler you can spill text around the clipping path in a graphic. You can use SVG to provide dramatic backgrounds and other fancy graphical layout designs just using Arbortext Styler. Simon Taylor‌ is back in the Monster Garage, so check it out!     This session is accessible to Advanced Arbortext users, but beginners and others can get a glimpse of just what you can do with the product suite.     View the Recording The video is on our YouTube Channel!       About The Arbortext Monster Garage There are a million Uber Geeky things you can do in Arbortext. Arbortext is a mature platform: The entire set of tools works together. Arbortext is open: The entire UI and publishing pipeline is 100% available through a well-tested API. The possibilities are enormous for anyone who wants to do new, interesting, ove

Have a great weekend.A software developer, a hardware engineer and a mid-level manager were on their way to a conference center located near the top of a mountain. After the conference they were driving down the steep mountain road and suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?   "I know," said the manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."No, no," said the hardware engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I ca

The session discussed the new functionality in Mathcad Prime 4.0 and the next release of Mathcad. The session included a review of the Engineering Notebook, powered by Mathcad; the integration between Mathcad and Creo, and details on Mathcad Gateway, the new calculation server based on Mathcad, and an update on functionality planned for future releases.

There are good bottom-up techniques to build manageable large assemblies from the get-go, but what do you do when  handed a task and a dataset from a less-than-diligent modeler? How do you square away a problem dataset without remodeling the whole thing? What if it’s gotten so large, you can’t even open it?  In this session, the presenter shared some outside-the-box tricks for manipulating large datasets, getting them back into shape and efficiently usable. The presenter touched on config.pro options and standard techniques every large assembly modeler should employ. Attendees learned about creative uses of the model tree, layer management, feature redefinition, trail file scrutiny, and vendor model reconfiguration. And how these techniques  allow modelers to speed up a dataset’s retrieval and manipulation, and get productivity back on track.

Product information on a data level is often managed by many different disciplines in a manufacturing company. Marketing looks after Data sheets, R&D has their own data set of product attributes and so on. The information is often stored in different databases or at worst just as a text string in a document. The challenge is with growing product portfolios, increased regulations and large organizations, to manage this data-set in a single source environment and to be re-used in all depending documentation. This session will present a possible way to solve the problem using XML and CMS as a single source using different layers of authoring to allow the whole organization to contribute. We also talk about how the data is easily is reused in to the XML based documentation.   Speaker Jonas Hardner, Simonsoft. Simonsoft is a company who distributes the Arbortext product portfolio to the complete Nordic market. Working with many experienced publishing companies in the Nordic region

Fine-Tuning -- Tricking Out Styler with Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher ! Simon Taylor shows off the kind of high-quality layout you can get with Arbortext 6.0. He shows how you can take advantage of APP templates to get bleed tabs that are tied to page content and move up and down accordingly, fancy rules and borders, rounded corners on tables, and CMYK coloring, among other tricks. APP is the default print engine for Arbortext with the release of 6.0. Everyone on active maintenance now has access to all these features and more. Check out how simple it is to get high-quality layout in your every day documents.     This session is accessible to Beginner to Intermediate users of Arbortext.     View the Recording The video is on our YouTube Channel!       About The Arbortext Monster Garage There are a million Uber Geeky things you can do in Arbortext. Arbortext is a mature platform: The entire set of tools works together. Arbortext is open: The enti

Hey everyone! I was wondering if we could start a list of companies and products that are made here in the Houston area using PTC software. The purpose of this is to show how PTC supports the creation of a diverse portfolio of products in our area that we can highlight during future GHPUG meetings. I'll start.   National Oilwell Varco - PTC Creo Parametric and Windchill PDMLink - oilfield equipment BAXSAA Consulting, LLC - PTC Creo Parametric - custom design automation and other CAD services   I know Goodman, Kongsberg Automotive, and I think CST Covers also use PTC software, but I'm not very familiar with their products. What companies/products are you aware of?   Design well, Geoff

Hi everyone, my name is Geoffrey Baxter. I'm a 12-year PTC veteran and resident of the greater Houston metro area. I, along with Tim Cooper, will be leading the Greater Houston PTC User Group. We would like to get the group up and running again on whatever scale we can, and we will be reaching out to you soon to get your opinions on how we can best do this. In the meantime, I'd like to introduce myself and give you all the opportunity to do the same.   I began using PTC products in 2004 as a mechanical design intern at a small company in Provo, UT, beginning with Pro/E Wildfire 2. I was transferred to a sister company a few months later, and after a pair of acquisitions, I became a National Oilwell Varco employee, working for NOV IntelliServ, an oil/gas drilling technology company. During my time at IntelliServ, I graduated from BYU with a BSME.   A little over a year after I graduated, I had the opportunity to transfer do a different division of NOV to work on oil/gas drill

Just came across an interesting article.  SolidWorks 2017 will be offered in 3 month and 12 month subscription options (in addition to perpetual).http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/13147/Breaking-NewsSOLIDWORKS-to-Offer-Three-Month-and-One-Year-Term-Licensing.aspx