PTCooler "OffTopic"

For when you need a break from the daily grind, The PTCooler is your place for general discussion about your day, vto vent about what really grinds your gears, to tell a joke, or chat with your peers about whatever you want.A big thanks to KrisR for the suggestion and for coming up with the group name.So go have some fun with it!

Send Futuric Kinematic Model Funfair Attraction SPEED-FLIP Roman   (view in My Videos)

Pippa Mann, Indy Car driver for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, talks Creo.   (view in My Videos)

Helio Castroneves of the Penske Racing team gives PTC a thank you for it's sponsorship. Penske Racing uses Windchill for data management and Creo for design.   This video was shot at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway on August 14, 2011     (view in My Videos)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

Customers talk about the productivity gains they’ve seen with Pro/ENGINEER-from assembly management and top-down design to the easy multi-cad environment-Pro/ENGINEER is the tool of choice from design through manufacture. (view in My Videos)

I started with a curiosity of modeling a Football myself. The key was to get the angles of the Pentagon and Hexagon correct so that when its assembled, it fits together properly.   Then I made this animation with each segment controlled thru mechanism and made Animations of certain sequences.. This is one of the better ones in that .   (view in My Videos)

Senior design engineer Bryan Spaulding says that with the integration capabilities of Pro/ENGINEER there's nothing he can't do!   (view in My Videos)

When Machine Designer Chuck Pitzer sits down behind Pro/ENGINEER, he feels like he can "change the world." In this short video testimonial, Chuck discusses why Pro/ENGINEER is his CAD tool of choice. "It's like sitting down behind a sports car," he says. "It's that comfortable to me and that powerful!"     (view in My Videos)