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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

Hi! PTC's Corporate Experience Center (CXC) in Needham, Massachusetts has an opportunity for a presenter with a strong technical background to join our team. PTC has a great community of customers, partners, and prospects across industry-leading companies -- and our CXC has the opportunity to host them when they come to visit PTC for important meetings and product demonstrations. If this sounds like an opportunity you would love, please see below... Job Description: http://bit.ly/TechDemoPTCThank you,Jill NewbergSr Director, Corporate MarketingPTC Corporate Experience Center

Hi Toby I am having 5+ year of experience in product based industry in design and testing, further looking to do my career on windchill PLM.Please let me know the different jobs requirements in windchill PLM in market, for those not having java background.Help me to understand how to start my windchill career as a non java person.Regards

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This presentation relates to Windchill PDMLink 10.0 (M020)   Presented by: Al Anderson - PLM Architect, Solar Turbines Incorporated   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Have a great weekend. And for those in the United States have a great Labor Day on Monday.  There once was a young engineer, who having worked for several years, decided that he and his family should have a weekend getaway place. He searched the surrounding country, and found a lovely spot with frontage on a small river. They built a cabin, and began spending time there every chance they got. The kids loved it, and friends came for the quiet and fishing.   The engineer, however, wanted something unique for his cabin. He had been an award-winning pole vaulter in college. He therefore built a set of poles with a crosspiece, and a mulched run. He bought a new carbon fiber vaulting pole, new shoes, and was set. He would set off down the run, plant his pole, soar over the crosspiece, and land in the river with a satisfying splash. What a great way to spend a hot afternoon. He tried to teach a few friends to vault, with no success.  He enjoyed his cabin for years, and went out

Rip Your ACL - Basic authoring automation!   In this 30 minute, recorded web session, Lynn E. Hales explains basic concepts and basic constructions of the scripting language available to Arbortext Users. Better known as ACL, Arbortext Command Language lets you do nearly anything you want inside Arbortext Editor or the publishing pipeline. These foundational concepts will help new ACL scripters get started faster.     This session is intended for Beginning 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 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 their product infor

Hello all, I hope you're having a great summer. It's time to start talking about our next meeting, the who/what/when/where. I'd also love to hear your feedback on our first meeting, what we did well, what we can do better. Have a great week!   --Geoff

How can I make modifications to an existing BOM table? I have a long list of part for an assembly and I have to keep adding parts as I go forward. I have used paginate to split the table into 2 separate tables on page 1 of my drawing. The problem is that when I add more parts the table will add the parts to the second page. If I add a segment to the first page of the BOM it adds the segment as a separate table and won't connect it to the original table. How do I expand the table and keep it as a complete segment instead of a bunch of little separate segments? What is the best way to keep making modifications to a BOM table on an existing drawing?

Learn simple tips and tricks, including: Use an axis point in a sketch to create a center on a non-cylindrical extruded feature STL file quality improvement Drawing notes font manipulation Surface tangency Using sketcher trim tool effectively And more! This is not a what's new in PTC Creo 3.0, it's a wake up call on what's available now and how to use it.   Presented by: Dan King and Ron Rich, Keithley Instruments   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Creo and CAD Presentations

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Bonjour,Je suis novice sur Pro-E WF 5 et je ne sais pas comment je pourrais faire pour que l'esquisse d'un enlèvement de matière (en bleu ciel) dans mon modèle 3D apparaisse afin de le coter dans la mise en plan, car ce serait la trajectoire de la fraise pour l'usinage.Si quelqu'un a une solution simple, je suis preneur...Merci d'avance et bon appétit!

There are many situations where documents need to incorporate information stored in a database. A simple approach is to generate a report of the data from the database, and then copy and paste the data into the document. Unfortunately, that approach tends to be labor-intensive and error-prone, and can easily lead to out-of-sync documents if the database is updated but the document is not.   To make the process of embedding data in documents easier, Arbortext Editor and Publishing Engine support Data Merge, a framework for embedding data queries in your documents and for formatting the data results for publishing.   Data merge lets you set up query types tailored to your database. When a query is inserted into a document, it pulls current data from the database to complete the document. You can parameterize the general queries, allowing content authors to use straightforward dialog boxes to create specific queries. You can also control how the system handles updates. You can u

Where Are My Keys -- Improving Your Search Results in Online Content! Small tweaks can dramatically improve search results for your users. Shop Coach Clay Helberg, from Terra XML, shows how easy it is to change the way search results appear in the out-of-the box online help produced by Arbortext Publishing Engine.     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, over-the-top things with their product information. In this web series, we feature

After many forays across the new frontier of ECAD Design Data Management, Fujistu Network Communications and PTC were excited to present and demonstrate the flexibility and value of the Cadence TDO environment and it’s connection to Windchill. The presenters discussed how to harness the joint power of each technology to provide a single, integrated system that enables a reduction in the  design cycle time and increase your time to market goals.

Automating product and processes may reduce effort to launch or change a product configuration by up to 70%. The presenter discuss a proven high-level vision that provides a connected product development eco-system, while providing clarity through an enterprise dashboard. This resolves the issues of everything being manual, lack of executive visibility, fragmented systems, and lack of global infrastructure.

I installed Creo 3 today for testing on a computer for one of my users.  They started it up and got the below image.So what do you think the black spot at the bottom of the picture is?  They say it's a coffee cup that is on a laptop but I'm not so sure.  What do you think?If it is a coffee cup the why the heck would someone put liquid ON a computer?  And why would PTC promote that?

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Legal publishing uses a lot of attributes, and CCH publications are some of the richest legal reporting available. When we converted to SGML nine years ago, one of the first things our users requested was a way to modify attributes globally outside the Arbortext Editor Modify Attributes dialog. Often they have been required to open XML files in Notepad, or Edit as XML Source to change attributes in large files, which led to error and was very time-consuming. The project got on the schedule in 2007, and we started the initial analysis, starting with what language to write the tool in, and how to create the interface.   Because this tool requires a good deal of querying the DTD, we decided to write it in ACL. The interface requirements included making it impossible for a user to create invalid XML. For example, the tool needed to remove #FIXED attributes from the attribute list, and, if the user wanted to delete attribute values, the tool needed to remove #REQUIRED attributes from t