PTC Education

Hi all,I am the Academic Program Manager for Mathcad at PTC. I know that some FIRST Mentors make use of Mathcad in FIRST (or their courses) and others never install the software. I want to introduce myself so that folks will know that they have a contact for Mathcad at PTC.I joined PTC in June after 20 years' experience in math education as a teacher, researcher, and teacher educator. In the short time I have been at PTC, I have become very excited about FIRST! What a great program! Over the next few years I look forward to working closely with Jordan Cox, Mark Fisher, Sheila Rogers, and Adam Haas to support all of the teachers, students, and volunteer mentors who make FIRST such a great program.In the meantime, here are some resources to help you understand Mathcad's capabilities:Videos:Better Homework with MathcadMultiple Representations with MathcadLive Math with MathcadBlog Entries:Five Good Reasons to Teach with MathcadWhy don't my students love Mathcad as much as I do?Matrices in

http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/educational/program.jsp?&im_dbkey=111982&icg_dbkey=851 I have downloaded the file to my desktop, run through the install process and have a folder on my computer. However, I have NO idea where to go from here. There is no icon to open the program and several links within the folder. Please help a newbie figure out how to start the program! 🙂

Hi FIRST Mentors...I am new to FIRST and the PTC community, though I have been using ProE for 14+ years while at Schneider Electric. I am helping several local Eastern Iowa FTC teams this year, and I will also be a hardware inspector volunteer for scrimmages and our championship.I have Creo 5 up and running on my machine, and so far it looks good. The FTC parts and field came across fine too.Chad

Great to see Robin on NASA TV for the FRC kickoff!

Hi all,I just attended scott morris webinar and i have a question regarding working in windchill with cad files.is there a tutorial\pdf file about how to work with cad files in windchill? if i have an asm and i checked it in, do i have to check in all the prt related to it? lets say i did, and i want to check out the asm, do i have to also check out all the prt related to it ? awaiting replythanks,Itzik

Hi everybody! Happy New Year!I am new member here. Do you still know what I did last summer? Well, I do: I bought a Pro/E WF4 Student license and designed some small parts and an electric generator which is already running now (some neodyme magnets, about one kg of copper wire and some laser cutted alumnium and iron parts). The generator is now installed in a modified "cross trainer" and works pretty nice. Next step would be to attach it to a wind wheel ...My problem: After a system crash I had to re-install my full system. But now I can't install WF4 Student anymore. After some investigations I have a suspicion that the ptc server doesn't provide the neccessary installation files (everything works fine until we come the the download part of the installation, then no further network activities can be observed).Can I download the full installation pack somewhere - a zip or iso or something like that?Thanks, Achim

Where exactly do you find the scoring rubric? I have not been able to locate it

To whom may concern, I have just got a new computer that has windows 7 home on it. When the creo (pro engineer) 5.0 is downloaded and installed. I click on the icon and it says that browse for the given file proe.exe. I looked in the file and it isn't there. I really need help with this. You can also reach me at perry9090@ymail.com Thank you for your time,Taylor PerryFRC 1543 Riddler Revolution

When are they process videos going to be made available? Or if they are already available how do we get to them?

I just ran across an issue that has been common ever since PTC got involved, and I'm hoping to get it resolved for this season.We usually have problems with Pro/E models of Andy Mark gear boxes, basically due to updates, or the simple fact that they are only available in neutral file format.Are there any teams out there that have fully featured Pro/E gear boxes? Are your part numbers matching what is in the KOP, or what is in the AndyMark catalog?Would it be beneficial for your team for analysis/weights/BOM information?Thanks,Josh

I had to post this!I was cruising through my team's Windchill project for FIRST and ran across this.Apparently it was just demo for a parents night that the students did.I love some of the things these students come up with!!

Hallo Leute, ich hoffe ich bin hier richtig.Es geht um Folgendes: Ich habe eine PTC Wildfire5 Studenten Version und versuche vergeblich meine Lizenzdatei zu generieren.Er bringt folgende Meldung: Die Verbindung ist abgelaufen, bitte versuchen Sie es später noch ein mal.Nun ja, Firewall und so weiter sind aus; ich hab auch Netzwerkverbindung Kann mir da jemand helfen ?Mein System ist folgendermaßen aufgebaut:Macbook ProWindows xp (Bootcamp)2,1 Ghz Dual Core2 Gb RamGrußM. Ramsaier

Hallo ich habe mir letzte Woche Creo/elements Pro als Download zugelegt ,Download hat auch funktioniert .Nur besteht das Problem das die Installation bei 2% einfriert und sich auch nach 18 h nichts getan hat ,ich hab schon Virenscanner Firewall und was weiß ich was deaktiviert , wo liegt das Problem ???Vom Student-Support hab ich noch keine Re bekommen .Hat jemand eine Idee ???PS : Ja ich habe NTFS, und alles was die Liste hergibt .

We are watching the video and the video for ptc is a 4.0 and is their anyone who can teach us on how to use the ptc softrware.

I downloaded the Personal Use (Student) addition of Creo/Wildire 5.0. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate in 32 bit form. It seemed to install okay, even put a shortcut on my desktop, however it seems that the pro.exe file is missing. Did I miss a step?Thanks

My team for the F.I.R.S.T robotics has recieved a grant to use their software. The current video for the creo program is an out dated and it is not no help what so ever. We need help using the program. If their is anyone who can help our team that would be great.Taylor PerryF.I.R.S.T roboticsRiddler Revolutionteam 1543

HeyWhile following the same process as the video when i am imputting the coordinates for the airfoil shape the file keeps saving as a .pts.txt instead of just a .pts and i can not open it in proe. Do you know what is wrong.

Hello, first of all i would like to introduce myself, my name is Vinicius Melo and i'm from Brazil. I'm studying Mechanical Engineer and i'm very interested in learning how to use Creo, as it seems to be a powerful tool for Mechanical Eng.Unfortunately, it is quite expensive for us (students from Brazil) to get these PTC Courses, i didn't find any tutorials to start from the basics. I would suggest to publish some books at least to introduce the program. It is not easy to learn just by using the program, it is quite sad to say that even the good Universities here don't teach us even the 3D CAD/CAM/CAE basics.I didn't find any book about Creo, it would be interesting for PTC, to have some books that would be a way to students from other countries to be able to learn how to use Creo and have potential future customers.Also please let me know if there is any other way to learn how to use Creo, i watched the Creo Unveiling event and i want to congratulate all members from PTC that worked h

We're getting the following message when trying to register the server in Pro/E "Unable to create workspace, check access priviledges and server availability."Has anybody else seen this problem with Windows 7 or Vista when tryint to connect to the FIRST Windchill server?Thanks,Josh

CSU FSAE Team believes they can boost the collaborative aspects of the students’ design and analysis. Team members are confident that the collaborative elements of Windchill ProductPoint will enable a better internal work flow, and will result in a car that’s successful in the 2011 FSAE Competition

HiMy team and I were given a list of materials that we were told we must use. I was making sure that this was correct, that we could only use specific materials. If this is correct I wanted to make sure everyone else knew about this.

http://www.nealbascomb.com/books/page14/page14.htmlA book coming out about FIRST team.

I get this message a lot especially when working on assemblies or when switching between multiple open parts. I'm not working with giant assemblies or anything but it seems to be happening very frequently. Does anyone know how I can avoid this or if there is a solution to the problem that Pro/Engineer is encountering. I am working with WF5 Schools Edition.

Hello,I have installed the programme and everything went fine. Although when i click the icon on my desktop nothing happens. If I look in the taskmanager I have a process called nmsd.exe active. Although the programme doest not start?Anyone have a solution?Thanks // Malin

I downloaded the Pro-E zip file from the "Getting Started" webpage and I have watched the video on installing the program. When I was installing the license server (obtained via completing the survey on the PTC website) the installation was at 99% when the program crashed. I tried to run the software again but this time it crashed before installation even began. Thinking the license server install might have been successful, I tried to run the install for the Pro-E client and once again the setup.exe program crashed. I am running it as an administrator. I am currently re-downloading the entire package from the email I received after I completed the survey. Perhaps I am overlooking some item, making some mistake. Please advise!