PTC Education

A customer just came up with this question and I thought I'd answer it here as some other users might have the same question."Do I need special access to LearningExchange if I have a license?"The anwers is: No. As a PTC customer, you usually already have a ptc.com account (the one you use to access our online services and software downloads). You simply sign in with your ptc.com user name and password.If you don't have a ptc.com yet, you would simply click on the "Join now" button to create one. This is a simple web account - it will make browsing ptc.com easier for non-customers as it will pre-populate the forms for document downloads, for example. Creating a ptc.com is free and without any obligations. Feel free to comment with any additional question you might have!Bettina

I use ProE Wildfire at work so I'm new to Creo, and I'm not sure if this is specific to the student version or not. We downloaded the field files yesterday (thanks, they look great), and we were looking to calculate the mass and CG of the rotating part of the ramp. The densities all came across as default (1.0), so I was going to show the students how to input the density, assuming it was the same as ProE (edit>Setup>Mass Properties), but there is no Setup in the edit pulldown menu. When we run a mass properties analysis, it prompts for the densities so we could input them there, but it didn't appear to save the values as a parameter that I could find anywhere (it did seem to store the values somewhere in the files, however). Is there some straightforward way to change densities or read in material property files in Creo?Thanks.

Download for CREO Elements (3.7GB est 2+hours) was interrupted after 1.7GB.Has the download be broken up into smaller zip files?Is the download available on FTP site?Have recommendation for a different browser / download management application to download the zip?Thanks,

I know the PTC team would feel unloved if they didn't hear from me at least once on kickoff day First off, kudos for making AE235100-0160_2012.asm a mechanism!Second off, kudos for putting mass into the models!Now the non-kudos 10 components have names of PRT0001. There are 2 PRT0002 and one PRT0003.1219487_2012 is a Generic Family table with no instancesLastly, there were whispers about a Library being created for the KOP this year that would be accessible in Windchill. Did that not happen?Overall, not bad!Thanks guys,Josh

We acquired a small company in France that uses SolidWorks. We'd like to bring them onboard with Pro/E but have concerns about finding qualified users. How many Pro/E users are there on the western cost of France? The company is located in Quimper.

The first workweek of 2012 is almost over – well, for many of us, some of you may have taken a longer break to recharge your batteries for the things to come in the New Year!I have just received a few figures from a colleague that I wanted to share with you here.The team of PTC University had a busy 2011!We ran more than 4 700 classesAnd taught more than 25 700 studentsEither at the almost 300 training centers, on-site at our customers’, or in virtual classes.On top, 71 new instructors were certified, so we are well-equipped for the year to come!Maybe you were among the past students or you plan on taking a class in 2012? Maybe you plan on joining the more than 75 000 people who use our eLearning solutions each year? Whatever your training choice will be, the team of PTC University is looking forward working with you in 2012!BettinaPS: As always, if you have a question around training, feel free to reach out to us. Our training advisors look forward to answering your questions!

Kudos to the PTC Education team for launching some fantastic documentation!I just saw Mark Fischer's announcement on the FIRST Community page about Creo 1 and the new documents (copied below).I have to say that is some of the best documentation I've seen for PTC products to date!Thanks guys!Josh Houser (FRC Mentor/Schneider Electric Employee)ANNOUNCEMENT: PTC is excited to announce the availability of Creo 1.0 Educational EditionHide DetailsFIRST teams interested in utilizing Creo 1.0 can register and download it today from ptc.com. Register for Creo 1.0 Educational Edition A new set of Getting Started Primers have been created for Creo 1.0 and can be accessed from the links below:Creo 1.0 Introductory PrimerCreo 1.0 Advanced PrimerThis new release showcases key enhancements to parametric modeling functionality enabling users to access the true power of the Creo 1.0 offering easily. In addition, this new release will introduce new applications for simulation and direct modeling.Regard

Hi,If you are planning to use Creo Elements/Pro with Windchill, you'll need to use the latest version of Creo 1.0 Schools Edition. PTC will be announcing Creo 1.0 Schools Edition in the next (2) weeks. This new version is fully compatible with Windchill 10.0 (https://firstrobotics.ptc.com/Windchill) and will give you the full CAD connectivity you need to work in Creo and Windchill. Look for an announcement on this forum with details on how to download and obtain licensing for this new exciting release of Creo 1.0 Schools Edition.

For everyone information, I think found a minor, very annoying problem.Whenever one tries to save an assembly originally from ProENGINEER 5.0 M040 build in Creo Elements/Pro 5.0 M080 build, the software WILL CRASH. Has happened to me with TWO different assemblies so far. Not sure if the same will happen with parts and other files, but I don't think so. I don't think an M080 assembly will crash in M040, but for certain an M040 will crash in M080.The problem actually occurs while saving, so this is a major nuisance. After one spends time and effort working on their M040 assembl within an M080 build and then tres to save it, the program crashes immediately and all data and progress is lost. This has happened to me twice in one week.Now in truth, it shouldn't be a problem if you are using consistent Creo and ProE builds on all computers or are only working off one computer. For me however, I have spent time installing and collecting mulitple builds of the software, so each computer has a d

We had ordered a bunch of product codes (student license) and experience the problem that they are not accepted when we try to install Mathad 15.The product codes all start with MP010111EA.... an because of the MP I suppose they are intended for MC Prime. We are not (yet) interested in Mathcad Prime and don't want to have to install Prime first simply to get a valid license file which then works for MC 15 too. It is also not reasonable to have every student to call technical support, give them his product code and MAC-Adress to get a valid license file.I thought that Mathcad 15 and Mathcad Prime share license file AND product code but it seems that this is not true at least for the product code.Are we doing something wrong or is there a simple solution available?Thanks an sincerelyWE

Hi,I am mentoring team 3316 in israel. I covered with the kids modeling and assembly basics. now i want to take them to the next level of showing off their work with some rendering and animations. I am looking for a good tutorial\tutorials on the subjects (couldnt find in the plms). does anyone know where can i find it? Thanks

My team is having difficulty on page 64 on the RWDC How. We can't seem to find the tip chord file. Step 7 on apge 64 says to add "the Tip Chord points" created from Mathcad, but we're confused as to when this was supposed to happen. We haven't made that document in Mathcad. Do we need to go back and make a document and if so, how do we do that?

So I have been taking a Calculus III course at the local community college and AP Physics at school and have noticed the incredible power of the dot product, cross product, 3D graphing, gradient, partial derivatives, integrals, and the works, especially for a prgogramm like the FIRST Robotics Competition. I know that PTC's Mathcad is a powerful mathemathical computation program so I was wondering how to do some fairly basic but highly useful operations like dot product, cross product, 3D graphing, gradient, table of values, and partial derivatives. Is anyone that knows how willing to help? It would be greatly appreciated!-- Evan GiartaBuchanan Bird Brains FRC Team 1671Chief Executive Officer, 2011 - 2012Director of CAD and Design, 2010 - 2011

I need resetup my Pro/E Wildfire 5.0 student Edition.But system say my Product code had been already registered.How can I resetup it?

Finally building up our STD Library of COTS parts. Lots easier with Windchill 10.0!!!

Hi,I am just curious how other FRC teams are organized. I have a number of questions.1) How many days after kickoff do you spend in CAD?2) What do CAD team members do after CAD is done?3) When do you start to build?Regards,Ed Law

Hello, my RWDC team is having difficulty using Creo. We're trying to put Mathcad documents we've saved into Creo but when we go to open them in Creo, we can't find them. It's as if they've disappeared or were never created. Are we saving the files wrong? What should we try differently?

Final rounds of the 2011 Central Valley FLL championship in Central California.

Team 1671 has been a major supporter of one of the biggest FIRST FLL championship events.Shown here is their 2011 robot. It was awesome seeing the kids faces light up when they talked about seeing this robot!

[Originally posted as a blog within the Product Development Challenges & Best Practices group]LearningExchange provides tutorials that can help you overcome some of your product development challenges by teaching you new ways to use the PTC products you use every day for product development. Learn from the product experts with these free, short tutorials on a number of products and topics!Explore free tutorials today; discover new ways to use your favorite PTC products; share what you've learned.http://learningexchange.ptc.com/

This contains a couple of quick snapshots of setting Creo to work in offline mode.Questions are welcomed.josh

<Re-posted from the Product Development Challenges & Best Practices group>LearningExchange now has a series of Best Practice Academy tutorials focused on the subject of Rounds.These videos are taken from the Best Practice Academy modules of Rounds - part of the Art of Rounds workshop - in the PTC University portfolio. These tutorials are more advanced in nature and are meant to show more process or method best practices rather than just feature function training.So, do you want to master the complex art of rounds in Creo Elements/Pro (now Creo 1.0)? If so, take a look at some of these best practices when working with rounds.

Starting to work with and play around in new Windchill 10.0 FIRST Windchill Project Site. Much better than 9.X!!

HelloMy program is Creo elements pro strudent DVD (3.18GB)my labtop is window7 64i just clicked a ptcsetup.exe but it gave me an errir message.....Can you guy help me?(i don't expect you guys can understand my language in my labtop screen........)

I'm trying to get the schools edition to install as I'm an engineering Ph.D student. I've been trying for several hours to complete the installation but nothing seems to work. It hangs at 1% or 2%.I've now apparently hit the limit of my license requests to try and install so I'm out of options.I'm running Windows 7 Pro x64. It's all updated, in fact the last group of updates was done last night.I've tried turning off all other programs in the background. Tried restarting. Tried deleting all the temporary files it installed (when I select Cancel Installation it just freezes) and rerunning the installer. Tried redownloading the installer four times now. Tried installing by extracting to a temporary folder as well as to the Program Files (x86)/PTC.Setup folder. Nothing i've tried was successful.I haven't been able to find an installation log file to see what it's hanging on.Has anyone else run into this or have any ideas on what else I might try?