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I am currently drawing a graph and I was wondering if there is any way to see the number of elements (lines, in this case) that I have selected? I know that this is a feature in other programs, such as freehand and illustrator but I see nothing of the sort in IsoDraw. Does anyone know?

The 2010 NASCAR had some clear "non-production" features, including the front end. In this episode Allison and Vince dig into how designers made the 2011 cars look more like the production versions without compromising performance. NASCAR engineer Bill Ferguson gives us the inside scoop on the 2011 nose design.     (view in My Videos)

How does Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs fit into concept design? Allison and Vince show how The Psycho Aesthetic approach helps guitar designers forecast future consumer needs to create next generation instruments.   (view in My Videos)

RKS uses emotion as a starting point for new product design. This episode of the Product Design Show looks at the Kor water bottle and how decisions designers made at the concept stage makes buyers feel better about themselves.   (view in My Videos)

All,We have written up a little summary of the Spring meeting as John & Matt, the presenters from PTC's Mathcad team have experienced it. Hope you like it!"I recently spoke to John Sheehan, VP of Services, of the Mathcad Business Unit here at PTC. He and Matt Bonacorso, also a member of the PTC Mathcad team, had attended – and presented at! – the Three Rivers Pro/Users Group Spring Meeting 2011 on April 12.Held at Pittsburgh Technical Institute, Oakdale Campus, and moderated by Eric Holmes of Philips, Inc. the agenda was as diverse as it was busy. Over 110 attendees were treated to topics such as Large Assembly Management, Automation Ala Carte, 3D Printing, Tips and Tricks, as well as product updates on Creo Elements/Pro and -- drumroll -- Mathcad Prime."To read the full article, please click here: http://bit.ly/Mathcad_3Rivers Cheers!Bettina

Hi All,   Description: When trying to connect the server getting the error message [A20447] No composition configuration information is available from the PE server, Possible Causes: invlaid URL, PE server down, or PE server misconfigured.     Product: Arbortext Publishing Engine Release: 5.4 Date code: M090   Error Message   Need help on this issue!!!   Thanks in advance Mohammed Hussain

Hi All,   I'm working in Arbortext Styler. In a header table, I created a multiline address. Each line in the address is created by a _newline tag. I'd like to adjust the space between lines. Is there a way of doing that? Or is there another way of creating new lines that would allow me to adjust the space? Thanks all!

Vince & Allison on how designers have changed the way appliances use energy, including uses of CREO.   (view in My Videos)

To design an effective screw pump device (Archimedes screw), designers have to work within external constraints, including: i) Radius of the screw’s outer cylinder, ii) Total length from the bottom to the top and iii) Slope of the screw pump.   (view in My Videos)

Hi, Greg!

Just a reminder that the next session in our new Arbortext Monster Garage webinar series is coming up this week.   Title: A-Oh-(Tee)-Kay – Using Arbortext with the DITA Open ToolKit Shop Coach: Mark Giffin, Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc. When: Friday, 28 January 2011, 10-10:30 AM Pacific/US   Abstract: IBM was using Arbortext when they designed DITA and built the DITA Open Tool Kit. In this Monster Garage seminar, we tell you how you can use the DITA OTK with Arbortext. Learn the basics of how Arbortext works with the DITA Open Toolkit. (Later on, we'll show the details behind how it's done.)   Sign up today! https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/955276843 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 w

In this episode of the Product Design Show, Vince & Allison look at cranes, excavators and tunnel boring machines.   (view in My Videos)

March 10, 2011 NOPUG Meeting Agenda     12:00 – 12:45 Free Lunch and Registration 12:45 - 1:00 Introduction and NOPUG News 1:00 - 1:10 Keithley Instruments Overview 1:10 – 2:25 Keynote Speaker – Kevin Watters, CREO Business Manager 25 min.; Jon Jarvis, Principal AS presentation 50 minutes (on Direct Modeling) 2:25 – 2:30 NOPUG Web site & Scholarship Overview 2:30 – 2:55 Vendor Presentation -  Bart Brejcha, DesignEngine (TBD) 2:55 – 3:15 Tips and Tricks – By Mike Brattoli, Moen Engineering Systems Administrator 3:15 – 3:35 Visit Vendor booths 3:35 – 3:55 Vendor or User Presentation - TBD 3:55 – 5:05 Keynote Speaker PTC  –  Chris Bergquist, Windchill ProductPoint Product Manager 5:05 - 5:45 Closing remarks Prize drawing or game

Engineers feeding the world. This episode looks at how designers make farm equipment to plow, mow, plant and dig. As always, every story is delivered with Allison and Vince’s wry humor.   (view in My Videos)

Norton Motorcycles opens up their engine design before launch, and Ducati's monster art project lets riders customize their bikes with ease.     (view in My Videos)

In this episode of the Product Design Show, Vince and Alison review design challenges for medical devices and highlight some great new devices: an iPhone app that can deliver mobile heart tests; finding veins without needles; touch screens for cerebral palsy patients, and how to design the perfect hospital crash cart.The show is 4 minutes long.     (view in My Videos)

Feature overload can cause product design nightmares. How do engineers make it work? Short and interesting, with a couple jokes.   (view in My Videos)

The Product Design Show is a humorous series that showcases Creo Elements Pro and Direct. This episode is about the design and use of after-market auto parts.   The series is available at http://www.engineering.com/Videos/ProductDesignShow.aspx   (view in My Videos)

  Single-Sourcing Solutions has launched a new series called “Arbortext Monster Garage” to energize the Arbortext community. We’ve lined up two sessions a month. All sessions are scheduled to take place in 30 minutes–start to finish. Many of the presenters you’ve seen at our monthly meetings are scheduled to be “shop coaches”. We’re excited to see this because for many of us, the ability to tweak every aspect of the product and the content that comes out was one of the primary advantages that drew us to the Arbortext platform. Here are the details: 30 minutes 2nd and 4th Fridays Shop Coaches are users Calendar for all of 2011 has already been published Beginner, intermediate, and advanced sessions Nearly all the Arbortext products have been included The first session is titled “Pop the Hood – Get Started with Arbortext Editor in 20 Minutes” presented by Lynn Hales. Lynn was one of the first people I met at my first AUGI and he was already an old-hand.   Sign up today!

I posted a similar discussion in the Pro/ENGINEER community. I figured this group would be ideal for such a thing. Has anyone rendered something in Pro/ENGINEER that's Halloween related? This could be anything from a costume, pumpkin, haunted house, an accessory, candy bars, skeleton (bones), ghosts, bats to a witch's hat.I'm offering up some PlanetPTC Community gear for every post that contains an image, screenshot, attachment, file or link to their rendered creation.See my other post for examples. You can reply to that post or this one.Looking forward to whatever your imagination can conjure up-Dan

Just to rejuvenate!       (view in My Videos)

What do you think about the new Creo suite of tools? Is it just a fancy rebranding, a money grab, a software revolution, or somewhere in between? Are you excited about it, not impressed, or just waiting to see what it can do with real data in the real world?   My two cents:   At the last World Event a PTC developer told me they would be utilizing the ProductView engine in future releases of ProE. Looks like that may be related to the open data kernel that allows all these new 'apps' to communicate smoothly.   The apps themselves appear to take ProductView 9.0, split it into functionally specific applications, and give it the ProductView 9.1 interface and speed. I'm glad they're bringing back a lot of functionality that was lost between PV 9.0 and 9.1, but I haven't seen much that was actually new in those live demos. It does look refined, though, and I'm hoping it's as fast as 9.1.   The two way communication between parametric and direct modeling looks like a great

The last two weeks have been really busy, but I wanted to take this opportunity to stress that it's time for all the Arbortext users out there to submit a proposal for presentation at the annual user conference, PlanetPTC Live, in 2010.Like others who have made this solicitation, it's not only altruism that we ask you to submit a proposal and tell us about what you're doing: it makes the conference better for us as well.Submissions open on 10/15 and are due by 11/22.Hope to see you in Las Vegas.Related posts:PlanetPTC Call for Presentations is out! Releases: Arbortext 5.4 M070 and APP V10 M070 As always, you can keep up with announcements about the latest releases here.Review from Lavacon 2010 and Tweet Roundup

In this movie I've created an animation sequenci using snapshots, is not perfect yet but I've decided to show it up.     (view in My Videos)

We're busily arranging speakers and events through the rest of the year. If you're not watching our RSS feed and you're interested in Arbortext, then you're missing out. Here's what's coming the rest of the year. Dates and topics are set, registration links for later events will come as the events approach.     Date What August 28 User Meeting: "Deploying and maintaining a large single-sourcing solution: Now what?" August 31   Webinar: "DITA Style in Arbortext. It's Easy!" September 23 Webinar: "ROI of XML" September 25 User Meeting: Building the future of technical publishing with MathFlow, MathType, and MathML October 23 User Meeting: "An ACL Tool to Find and Replace XML Attribute Values" October 26 Webinar: "Digital Media Publisher Monster Garage" (Link coming soon!) December 7 Webinar: "The SIS Platform" (Link coming soon!)   Please join us!