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Is there a list yet of what presentations there will be?  And if not then does anyone know when they will be published?

How globally fit is your department, your company? Is your TMI (translation mass index) dangerously high and threatening your organization's "health" by hindering vital go-to market strategies? Is your trans-fat content just that -- a blockage clogging your efforts to quickly break into new markets? Do you feel the burden of idiom bloat as you struggle with each new translation effort? How does your TMIcompare with your peers? With your competitors? Are you wheezing away in the globalization slow lane as others pass you by?   Getting on the path to being globally fit means embarking on authoring best practices, embracing proven XML standards, and leveraging a set of tested technologies and processes. Learn how to reap the benefits of a future-proof globalization strategy that can cut the fat out of your organization's collective diet, and speed your team's efforts to reach new markets more quickly and cost-effectively than ever before.   Join in this entertaining but nitty-gr

PTC/USER is pleased to announce our winter meeting event:   PTC/USER Technical Community Open Forum February 7-9, 2017 at the Boston Park Plaza, Boston, MA Registration cost: $400; Room rate: $129/night   The winter PTC/USER meeting has traditionally been exclusive to the Technical Committees. We are introducing a new concept. A simple four track agenda, CAD, PLM, ALM, and Retail, organized by the Technical Committees and the Board of Directors open to all members of PTC/USER.   The format will concentrate on brief topic introductions followed by open discussion. The goal is to have structured networking between our members and let you do what you've told us you want to do most, learn from each other.   Topics and more detailed agenda will be coming soon. We anticipate minimal if any content from PTC introducing new products or enhancements.   The agenda will run from Tuesday morning Feb 7 through Thursday noon Feb 9. Continental breakfast all days, lunch Tue a

The XML standards framework underlying many technical publishing challenges and opportunities of the last decade has noticeably matured in recent years.  A long list of technologies such as HTML, DITA, MathML, SVG, CSS and PDF now have very full and stable feature sets that are more and more widely and dependably implemented.  As a predictable consequence, the energy of early adopters is again on the move, shifting toward creative combination and reuse of these technologies. Web applications for collaboration, social networking and distributed authoring web applications are proliferating at a tremendous pace. eBooks are increasingly popular, with readers seeking access not only from desktops but a variety of readers, devices and tablets, where electronic ink is an input format.   What does all this mean for you? In this presentation, we'll discuss the future of technical publishing, both from the point of view of taking advantage of the maturation of the traditional XML

Cafe con UI - Integrating XUI Dialogs with a Java backend ! Clay Helberg takes XUI to the next level. XUI dialogs can do a lot more than pretty up your Arbortext environment. When combined with Java, Javascript, or ActiveX, XUI dialogs in Arbortext become powerful ways to affect the UI, the document, the environment, and the publishing pipeline.   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 thi

All,   Please review the following link if you are still using Creo 2.0.   http://support.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/standards/freefull.jsp?&im_dbkey=172015&icg_dbkey=222   Regards, James

Unless you live in a cave, it's hard to escape the commotion being raised out there by people talking about XML and DITA structures. All the buzz may have you wondering why you should switch to XML and why should you adopt DITA as your structure. Then again, you might not. You may be one of those people plugging away with your traditional desktop publishing system without ever thinking of changing. Perhaps you are one of those who has been lulled into a false sense of stability by doing the same thing, the same way you always have, and using the same 'ole tools.   What you don't realize is that the business world around you has been rapidly changing and either you keep up or you get left behind. In this web session, we will discuss the major reasons why it is becoming more and more critical for businesses to consider moving away from the old desktop systems to solutions that embrace XML. We will talk about: What XML brings to the table How XML helps you get control of your conten

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A Trip to the XUI -- Basic XUI Dialogs! Jason Aiken shows the basics behind customizing your Arbortext Editor User Interface to simplify the environment for you or your users. Using XUI dialogs, Jason shows how to use the sample files provided with your copy and a few other, more complicated examples. Shop coaches use XUI to create custom dialogs inside Arbortext Editor (or individual documents) to affect the UI, the document, or the publishing process.     This session is intended for Intermediate users of Arbortext.     View the Recording The video is on our YouTube Channel!   a     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

Change Management process needs can vary in scope and scale based upon an company's needs and stage of the product development cycle.  It is important that a Change Management process easily maps to these needs.   This session highlighted new flexible Change Associations in Windchill 11 specific to managing engineering changes in order to support a broad range of business process needs.   For example, if you need to connect your Problem Report to a Change Notice the new Change Associations can do this with simple configuration.  The session covered how the Change Associations can be used, and cover what to know for both new as well as migrated installations including workflow, reporting and more.

Hello all, hopefully you've received an email from PTC and/or IMPAC Systems regarding our meeting next Friday from 12-4 at Karbach Brewing Co. If you haven't done so yet, please RSVP/register with PTC so we can get an accurate count of all who will be attending.   Broadly speaking, CAD software helps you explore concept design ideas, create product designs, carry out simulations and analyses, and perform engineering calculations. In other words, CAD tools assist you with the experimentation, exploration, and iteration needed to make the most of your design's potential. The overarching goal? Better products produced more efficiently so that you get your products to market faster. PTC invites you to join us for a free half-day, interactive forum on Creo to gain valuable insights from peer networking and the following presentations: Vuforia Experience (Leveraging 3D CAD in augmented reality experience) Flexible Modeling Design Exploration Unite Technology Intelligent Fastener C

Hello,   Please take note that the next CT User Group Meeting is scheduled for November 18th in Newtown, CT.   Use this link to register for the meeting. http://www.ptc.com/cad/creo-driving-the-new-cad-efficiency-revolution-newtown     Hosted by PTC & Boston Engineering: Date: November 18, 2016  Time: 9 AM - 3 PM Location:  Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main St, Newtown, CT 06470 Agenda   9:00 - 9:30 Meeting Kick Off, Agenda Review and General Updates – Jason Williams / James Paschetto 9:30 - 11:30 Creo 4 Introduction – Lino Tozzi   UI Enhancements   Model Based Design Improvements   Additive MFG enhancements   Creo in the Cloud overview  11:30 - 12:00 Vuforia Experience Demonstrations – Lino Tozzi / James Paschetto 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (Pizza) 1:00 - 1:45 What’s New in Windchill 11 M010 – James Paschetto 1:45 - 2:30 Navigate View Enhancements with Application Development Kit Examples – James Paschetto 2:30 - 3:00 C

The Arbortext Publishing Suite is an end-to-end authoring and publishing solution that can meet and exceed the publishing needs for any single sourced content needs. The best part is the ability to create complicated style without having to be a programmer.   Written in DITA and published with Arbortext Styler, this guide book takes you through the full cycle from start to finish. By the time you walk through this book, you will have built your own full functioning production ready professional stylesheet. It will even show you some troubleshoot techniques to help you if you ever get stuck.   Elizabeth Fraley, adding to her Arbortext Monster Garage book series wrote “Arbortext 102” to help stylesheet designers learn best practices for creating Arbortext Styler stylesheets and customers evaluate the quality of stylesheets delivered by consultants.   Her easy-to-follow approach offers practical tips and pointers enabling readers to quickly get started developing dynamic an

Good day everyone,I would like to inform you of a networking opportunity coming to Rochester, NY on November 10.Here are all the details: Creo: Driving the New CAD Efficiency Revolution | PTCCheck out this Boston Engineering video Video Link : 6902Please contact me with any questions.Best,Toby

We are creating new publications using S1000D Issue 4.1. The schemas and style files for 4.0 are available in Arbortext, and we've downloaded the 4.1 schemas from the S1000D. Are there style files available that we can download for 4.1?   Arbortext Architect/Editor/Style 6.0 M020.     Thanks,   Michael Denison   Technical Publications Senior Systems Administrator Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation   (800)810-4853 Option 8, Ext 27165    

Juniper Networks has focused on an topic-based documentation and publishing approach for their product documentation for the past 5+ years. Come explore their journey as they began as a vision for "operation efficiency" by migrating from Frame Maker to xml, to a vision that offers a "business value proposition" with topics by offering services to customers to create dynamic content. This presentation will provide an opportunity to learn about our experiences and give you some valuable tips on how to leverage a topic-based approach.   About the Speaker Rajal Shah is the Director of Document Engineering in the Foundation Technologies group at Juniper Networks. FT is the corporate R&D Group at Juniper Networks. His group is responsible for facilitating and promoting a unified documentation and publishing approach across all five business groups at Juniper.   Originally Recorded: Saturday, 24 October 2009, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US   View the Recording The video is on our

Hello,Recently laid off, and looking for Creo work. I have 23 years experience working with Creo and would like to stay in my field. I can provide an in-depth resume and work experience to those interested.

Custom Decals -- Inline SVG with APP in Arbortext Styler! Do you want to do fancy stuff with SVG in your dynamically published documents? In Arbortext Styler you can spill text around the clipping path in a graphic. You can use SVG to provide dramatic backgrounds and other fancy graphical layout designs just using Arbortext Styler. Simon Taylor‌ is back in the Monster Garage, so check it out!     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, ove

The session discussed the new functionality in Mathcad Prime 4.0 and the next release of Mathcad. The session included a review of the Engineering Notebook, powered by Mathcad; the integration between Mathcad and Creo, and details on Mathcad Gateway, the new calculation server based on Mathcad, and an update on functionality planned for future releases.

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

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