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Check out this video on Next Generation Model Based Definition with Creo and Windchill from PTC Application Engineers & TechAzul). Presenters: Mark Nielsen (TechAzul) and Tom Quaglia (Solution Consultant, Fellow) Original Date Presented: January 09, 2025
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With Creo+, you can get all the benefits of Creo delivered via SaaS and gain access to cloud-based tools to enhance collaboration, improve accessibility, and simplify license management.   The December release of Creo+ focuses on enhancing usability and productivity, collaboration, and design capabilities.   SaaS enhancements: Improved license management, new service principle for remote machines, Learning Connector support, and improved collaboration features. Usability and productivity improvements: Enhanced selection methods, detailed performance reporting, optimized process support, advanced offset techniques, and flexible import preferences. Design improvements: Design for composites improves dynamic updating and inclusion of HDF5 exports.  MBD offers easy sharing of semantic data and improved support for drafted features per ASME y14.8-2022. Simulation-driven design sees improved accuracy using contacts, while generative design has expanded analysis for hybrid bodies. Design for manufacturing now offers more flexibility and productivity enhancements in additive and subtractive processes. Check out the release notes to learn more about all of the enhancements available in this update.   As always, Creo+ users get early access to features and functionality before they’re available in Creo.   Learn more about Creo+
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Check out this video on "Creo Class A Surfacing NEW SCHOOL" with Bart Brejcha from Design Engine and Ryan Butcher, PTC (Solution Consulting, Fellow).   Related Trainings by Design Engine     Creo Surfacing Training: WEEK ONE Creo Surfacing: WEEK TWO  
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Check out this video on Rapid Product Development using Generative, Additive & Simulation techniques Presenters:  Dr. Andreas Vlahinos, CTO of Advanced Engineering Solutions and Tom Quaglia (Solution Sales)
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Using Solid Model Tools in Creo NC Lee Goodwin Principal Solutions Consultant PTC/Colorado    
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Join us as we explore the future of personal aviation with Hill Helicopters, a company aiming to redefine the helicopter industry with their groundbreaking designs. Discover how they combine sleek, luxury design with cutting-edge technology to create helicopters that are not only beautiful but incredibly easy to fly.    
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Join us as we learn all about KTM’s X-BOW, a sports car which contains all of the innovation and design features of a modern racing car. With its iconic jet fighter canopy, five-cylinder engine, removable steering wheel and carbon fibre monocoque.    
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Check out this video on Creo "Sketcher" from PTC Application Engineers Presenters: Emily Pinto (Solution Consultant) and Ryan Butcher (Solution Consultant, Fellow) Original Date Presented: March 19, 2024   To dive deeper into the subject, check out Creo "Sketcher".
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Check out this video on Creo Additive MFG from PTC Application Engineers. Presenters: Jason Petersen (Solution Consultant, Principle)  & Lino Tozzi (Solution Consultant, Fellow)  Original Date Presented: January 18th , 2024  
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“We’re giving the opportunity for people to do a lot of technical work, that generally doesn't happen too often in Kenya”   If you’ve been to East Africa you may be familiar with “boda bodas.” If not, they’re small taxi bikes, commonly used by couriers or to transport people. There are 1.2 million of them in Kenya alone, that’s a lot of combustion engines on the roads, and removing them is the problem that Roam Electric are helping to solve   Roam was founded in 2017. They started out making electric safari vehicles (no surprise being located right on the edge of the national park) but they now aim to create an electric future for Africa by producing easy-to-use, affordable electric vehicles. As well as developing innovative electric buses as the country’s newest and greenest mass transit solution, they also build an electric motorcycle called the Roam Air, primarily targeted at boda boda riders.   In this episode we head to Nairobi to visit Roam’s HQ to meet Masa Kituyi and Dennis Wakaba who show us round the shop floor, take a spin on a Roam Air and hear how the technology and design behind these motorcycles is the future of mobility in Africa.   The other fascinating aspect of this story is the positive impact that the company is having locally. The workforce is 39% female and they’re a success story in talent development in Kenya.   We also hear from Jon Hirschtick at PTC, who tells us about how the Onshape software helps the whole team at Roam collaborate seamlessly in the design process and management of the whole manufacturing journey.    
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As we get ready to close out the year, the PTC Community Team thought we would take a glance back at some of the top viewed and engaged simulation conversations of 2023.
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Check out this video on Creo: "Things You Might Know, but Probably Don't from PTC Application Engineers. Presenters:  Ryan Butcher (Technical Specialist, Fellow) Original Date Presented: September 19,, 2023   To dive deeper into the subject, check out Creo UI Tips.  
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Check out this video on Creo Options Modeler from PTC Application Engineers.  Presenters: Jason Petersen (Technical Specialist, Principal) & Tom Quaglia (Creo Segment Sales).   
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  Hello everyone and welcome to blog post #14 in this multibody blog series.   Today’s blog is about the use of the “Intersect” Feature to create the intersection curve between two bodies (or quilts) You might remember that Creo 7.0 introduced Boolean Operations to perform merge, subtract and intersect operations between bodies. These operations act upon a “target” body which is modified during the Boolean operation. The resulting object there is still a body. In order to create an intersection curve, we therefore cannot use the Body Boolean operations feature, but will use the “Intersect” feature within the “Editing” group.   Starting with Creo 7.0, this “Intersect” feature allows to select bodies as references. In this first example, we select Body 1 (yellow box) and Body  (grey cylinder) and get the full intersection curve as a result. This is illustrated in the image below. (Result is shown in small overlay image)   Note that you could also select just a single body in combination with one or multiple surfaces to get a partial intersection curve. In the example illustrated below we create the intersection curve based on a selection of the grey body 2 and 2 selected (red) surfaces of the yellow body 1.   Finally, what could this intersection curve be used for? Intersection curves allow for a fast creation of a quilt representing the surface contours that are covered by the intersection (in particular for closed curves). You can for example use the curve generated in the first example as input to create a designated area. The image below shows the “Designated Area” feature with the closed intersection curve as input when placed on the yellow Body 1. The resulting quilt is illustrated in the small additional image.   Starting with Creo 9.0 and higher you can also divide/split these surfaces based on those curves. Watch the video below to see an example use case of this. And as I was at video creation, I thought I could also re-emphasize the usage of Body visibility controls The usage of intent surfaces created by features such as “Divide Surface” and “Boolean Operations”     Thanks for reading.  I hope it was informative. If you liked it, give it a Kudo.   Back to Creo Parametric- Multibody Home: Start Here!   Enjoy!....Martin
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Hello everyone and welcome to blog post #20 in this multibody blog series.   Today’s blog is about illustrating a use case around geometry re-use that became enabled with the new appearance (and reference) propagations in Creo 10.0’s Body Boolean and Split Body features.  (see Multibody: Appearance and Reference Propagation for Boolean Operations (ptc.com) )  In essence we added two new options to Body Booleans as shown in the image below.   Those options allow you to control color propagation and reference propagation. That means for the below example, that when you subtract the orange and white bodies from the green eyelet part, we can propagate the color to the corresponding mating cut faces, and transfer references from the original to the new surfaces, so that for the attached annotations automatically move to the cut surfaces.       So, what is this good for? An example use case for this might be a scenario where you have standardized cut-outs for a connector where you model the cut-outs as fully detailed and annotated bodies in a library part.   These bodies will then be inserted along with their annotations into the connector part where we then subtract and pattern them. During the subtract operation we can then not only create the target cut-out geometry, but also have the colors and the annotation references be transferred to the cut-out surfaces. All the sematic references of these annotations would thus continue to show in a semantic query for selected annotations. Here you see a video illustrating the workflow for the above example in Creo 10.0     Thanks for reading.  I hope it was informative and this is a valuable use case for you. If you liked it, give it a Kudo.   Back to Creo Parametric - Multibody Home: Start Here!   Enjoy!....Martin
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Check out this video on Creo Parametric Options Modeler Tips and Techniques session  from PTC Application Engineers. Presenters: Jason Petersen (Solution Consulting, Principle) and Ryan Butcher (Solution Consulting, Fellow).   Creo Options Modeler Learning  
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Check out this video on Virtual Interconnect Ltd'  software solutions for Creo Schematics.  Presenters: Kieran Gilhooley  (Virtual Interconnect Engineer) & Lino Tozzi (Solution Consultant, Fellow, PTC)    
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Check out this video on Creo Layout & 2D Drawing Sketcher from PTC Application Engineers Presenters: Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) and Tom Quaglia (Creo Segment Sales )   
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Check out this video on Creo 9.0 from PTC Application Engineers  Presenters: Jason Petersen (Technical Specialist, Principal) Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) & Tom Quaglia (Creo Segment Sales).   
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Creo tutorial based on your request - How to Create Ordinate dimensions in 3D and 2D
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Check out this video on Creo Parametric Advanced Framework Tips and Techniques session  from PTC Application Engineers. Presenters: Lee Goodwin (Solution Consulting, Principle) and Ryan Butcher (Solution Consulting, Fellow).   Creo Advanced Framework Learning   (view in My Videos)
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