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Where are all the rants and raves?   That makes me so mad, I just want to rant about it...   OH, wait....   here is one now...

May the 4th be with you (for any Star Wars fans out there).

For those who may need a little humor at the water cooler, here is an old post I found in the community:Engineering HumorEnjoy, Dale

Your organization has gone through the pains of developing business cases and acquiring funds to implement a single-sourcing solution. How do you proceed with choosing and implementing a solution, what are the steps you need to take to deploy the system, what are the critical success factors and pitfalls you need to consider? Once you've deployed your solution, what is it that you need to do to maintain the system, how do you handle the inevitable mountain of requests coming from all stakeholders to improve and extend capabilities?   This session will outline some of the key items to consider and plan for in each phase of a single-sourcing solution's lifecycle based upon a high-tech company's experience and learnings. The presentation will take you through some of the approaches they found to be effective for implementing and managing their combined Arbortext PE/DLM and Documentum system.   About the Speaker Todd Nowlan is currently IT Project Manager at a large Canadian Tele

Those Devious Authors!   Arbortext provides tools developers, IT staff, and support personnel a lot of resources to simplify the Authoring interface for users. Want to turn off the ability to tweak page-breaks so you don't need to spend hours debugging a stylesheet error that doesn't exist? Our shop coaches give their best hints on how to remove the 'troublesome' features in Arbortext Editor to simplify your job and your author's job as well!   In this 30 minute, recorded web session, Paul Nagai shows how you can: Create XUI dialogs to allow editing metadata stored as attributes/elements. Take advantage of "calculated attribute values" to aggregate metadata putting complex "calculations" into ACL and simplifying the stylesheet. Combine these two techniques to produce multiple Tables of Contents or, more accurately, "Lists of Impact."     This session is accessible to Advanced Arbortext users.     View the Recording The video is on our YouTube Channel! &n

If you live near Morrisville, NC and you are interested in attending a free user event on May 5, 2016, please check out the following link.   Upcoming Events | 2016 Spring Event at Lenovo | Pro/Users of the Carolinas

If you live near Morrisville, NC and you are interested in attending a free user event on May 5, 2016, please check out the following link.Upcoming Events | 2016 Spring Event at Lenovo | Pro/Users of the Carolinas

If interested or you know someone who may be interested, please contact Kim at kporrata@datrose.com or 585-217-0264. Datrose, a leader in the Business Process Outsourcing market for 38 years, is now hiring for a detail-oriented and analytical Windchill Support(Super User)Candidate!  This position is full-time and works on-site at a client location.  This is expected to be a 6-month assignment. Datrose is a nationally recognized, award-winning and growing company!  Some of our awards include:  IAOP/Fortune magazine – Global Outsourcing 100 Rising Star 2006 to 2014, Top 100 African American Owned Businesses in US Diversity Business.com 2013 (#78), Top 500 Small Businesses in the USA – Diversity Business.com. Windchill Support Job Description:  -Administer, modify, and maintain the Windchill 10.2 system and related software.  -Work with the Mechanical CAD user base.  -Manage user access and provide technical support.  -Troubleshoot system issues a

Hello CT User Group,   Have you registered for LiveWorx yet?  If not, reach out to me directly and I can share another discount code with you to save more money than any other discount code.  Send me an e-mail at -.   James

Hi,I am a 22 year veteran of Pro/E CREO.  I am currently running my own design company called Active Design Consulting Inc.  I am located in Ontario, Canada, but have performed work throughout the USA and Canada.  I am a former instructor for PTC, RAND and numerous resellers.  I can also work in SolidWorks but my preference is, by far, CREOAttached are a few links to get to know my work better.  If you have any projects that I can assist with, please reach out and contact me.http://www.adci.ca  ADCI portfolio - YouTubeThanks for reading this.Regards,Tom Peterek

I guess "If you build it, they will come," is correct.This is a space for you and I will not be adding content; if there are categories you believe are needed to help organize things, please let me know and I can add them.  I will not be taking the lead with discussions or content; this space will become what you make of it.Welcome and I hope it is helpful.Best,Toby

Thanks Toby for doing this. It's a good addition to the community.

Performance Advisor for PTC Windchill 10.2 M030 install is now available for download here.  For general information, please visit the product page here.  

Power User's Toolkit - ACL Preliminaries! In this 30 minute, recorded web session, The Single-Sourcing Solutions team is back to get you ready for future sessions on Arbortext Command Language (ACL), the open API scripting language used in Arbortext customizations, and XUI programming.     This session is accessible to Beginners just getting started with 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 information. In this web series, we feature the Open API and the geeky things you can do with Arbortext. You?ll find knowledgeable mechanics, he

Nikon Precision Inc (NPI), located in the United States, serves as the sales and service support arm for the Nikon semiconductor manufacturing tools. All design and manufacturing occurs in Japan; therefore, all technical information originates in Japanese. Since NPI is the center for all English language documentation, there are not only technical hurdles but time constraints in getting technical information to our field service employees as well as our external customers.  And with photolithographic technologies advancing rapidly, NPI's Documentation department was struggling.   In 2008, NPI's Documentation department moved from monolithic, book-length technical materials (and ways of thinking) to using DITA and structured information for reuse. We transitioned from using unstructured FrameMaker to using Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect and will be managing content with PTC's Windchill PDMLink. Our technical information is delivered in two major forms: technical bulletins (

In this 30 minute, recorded web session, The team at Single-Sourcing Solutions explains the DCF File, an essential part of the Arbortext deployment. By manipulating this file, you're telling Arbortext Editor how to map the bold button, for example. The DCF file controls the Arbortext Editor environment, so knowing simple things you can do in this file will vastly improve your editing experience.   This session is accessible to Beginners just getting started with 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 information. In this web series, we feature th

Bonjourest ce que Modelcheck peut vérifier le nom d'un composant dans un assemblage afin qu'il indique une erreur si tel composant est assemblé.MerciCordialementPhilippe B

Here is a discount code that you can use to register for LiveWorx in June.  It expires on March 18th, so don't wait to register.   THL20   Thanks for attending the CT User group meeting.   James

This is the presentation that I delivered during the CT User Group meeting on March 3rd.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Now that all of you have had a preview of what is planned for PTC Creo Parametric 4.0, you are invited to participate in an early UX Testing Event with PTC Creo Parametric 4.0 Pre-Beta!  If you are interested in participating in the event, you have until March 11th to register.  Use the link below to learn more.   PTC Creo 4.0 Pre-Beta User Experience (UX) Testing | PTC   James

Here is the presentation that Bruce Brown delivered during the CT User Group meeting on March 3rd.

Here is the presentation that Raphael Nascimento presented at the CT User Group meeting on March 3rd, 2016.

This presentation details the cost savings and additional revenue generation provided to a customer by implementing a DITA-based Learning specialization. It also explains the improvements and expansion of the product offerings to the customer. This case study includes:   A discussion of the initial challenges the customer faced, including how to justify the project costs in these tough economic times How implementing a DITA-based Learning specialization helped them to overcome these challenges and automate a number of prior manual processes providing a faster time to market for their products while saving costs How they were able to supply their consumers with more consistent, accurate and timely information How the DITA architecture has allowed them to keep the printed content and Web content synchronized and expanded their capability to provide additional, more personalized product offerings, thereby increasing their revenue projections   About the Speaker Scott Youngblom

Pop the Hood: Get Started with Arbortext Editor in 20 Minutes!  In this 30-minute, recorded web session, Lynn E. Hales  shows some of the basics behind how Arbortext — and most XML authoring tools — work, then he's going to tool around the Editor to give us all the basics we're going to need to wrench on our environment here in the Monster garage. In this introduction to the Monster Garage, these are the basics you need so that you too can start thinking about the many things you can do with Arbortext.   This session is accessible to Beginners just getting started with Arbortext     View the Recording The video is on our YouTube Channel!       About The Arbortext Monster Garage The Arbortext Monster Garage is brought to you by Single-Sourcing Solutions. Our current project is the TC Dojo where you pick the topics and we find the experts. Be sure to check it out and vote on future TC Dojo webinar topics.

Space is a big place. When designing for space everything is big, complex, and it really is rocket science. The models used are large and can be detailed down to every bolt, requiring a lot of computer horsepower to keep up. This presentation will delve into some best practices NASA KSC – ESC has developed to improve performance when working with these large PTC Creo Parametric models. The presenter will also discuss many of the bad practices that make large models difficult to work with and why. Whether attendees are starting from scratch or working with fully developed models, there will be something to take away from this presentation.   Presented by: Steven LaPha, NASA KSC - ESC   UPDATE: Steven has been kind enough to share an updated version of his presentation with his notes from the presentation.   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Creo and CAD Presentations