To get the most out of PTC Community we've compiled a short list of free PTC product downloads, limited-time trials, and other resources (some for free, some available on a trial basis, and some available for purchase) to help members interact more. This document is open for all members to contribute to, please feel free edit/add a resource to this list as new options become available.
Free PTC Software Downloads
PTC Creo
PTC Creo Parametric Free Trial
A 30-day free trial of PTC Creo Parametric and PTC Creo Flexible Modeling Extension
Free 2D sketching for designers, easily convert your ideas to a 2D drawing
PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 6.0
A free version of PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 19.0 direct modeling software
View PTC Creo 2D and 3D MCAD designs and visualize ECAD data
A 3D CAD viewer software download for iPad and iPhone
PTC Creo View Interface for ECAD
Enables PTC Creo View .eda file generation for use with PTC Creo View ECAD and PTC Creo View ECAD
PTC Mathcad
Unlimited use of the most popular capabilities in the commercial version of PTC Mathcad Prime 3.1.
The full commercial version of PTC Mathcad 15 free for 30-days.
Free Plug-ins for PTC Mathcad Users
- PTC Mathcad Add-in for Microsoft Excel
- PTC Mathcad/AutoCad Integration
- PTC Mathcad/Autodesk Inventor Integration
- PTC Mathcad/LabVIEW Integration
- PTC Mathcad/Microstation Integration
- PTC Mathcad/Revit Integration
- PTC Mathcad-ERSD’s StressCheck Integration
PTC Windchill
PTC Windchill Quality Solutions Free Trial
A 30-day free trial of the reliability analysis toolkit
PTC Arbortext
PTC Arbortext Editor with Styler 6.1 Free Trial
A 14 day free trial of the structured authoring tool
A 60 day free trial of the intelligent technical graphics viewer
PTC University
PTC University Expert Model Analysis: Free 30-day trial
PTC Academic Software
Other Free Resources & Downloads
Please Note: PTC does not provide or endorse any of the resources or products mentioned below, download and use at your own risk.
Math Symbols
Math symbols (in HTML) - HTML Entities for symbols, mathematical symbols, and Greek letters.
Unicode Math Symbols - A table of all the available unicode math symbols and their corresponding character values
Zip/Compression Utilities
WinZip - open all major compression file types including: Zip, Zipx, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZIP, VHD, XZ and more.
7-Zip - open source file archiver with a high compression ratio. Supports: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM.
PowerArchiver - create ZIP, ZIPX, 7-Zip, ISO, CAB, TAR and open 30+ formats.
Screen Annotations
ZoomIt from SysInternals - free tool that lets you dynamically zoom and annotate your screen while working.
SwordSoft Screenink - easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including full-screen, rectangle and freeform shape.
Video Capture Software
Camtasia Studio - video creation tool that allows you to capture anything on your screen.
Camstudio - free, open-source screen capture tool that is a good alternative to the commercial Camtasia Studio.
My Screen Recorder - records your PC desktop activity into standard WMV or AVI video files.
Jing - capture basic video, animation, and still images, and share them on the web.
Screenr - a simple web-based screen recorder, making it easy to record and share quick screencasts.
Screencast-O-Matic - web-based screen capture recording for Windows or Mac.
Image Cropping
Snagit - capture anything on your screen, an entire desktop, region, or scrolling window from any webpage or app.
Gimp - free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing.
FastStone - capture and annotate anything on the screen (Windows only)
Paint.NET - free image and photo editing software for PC
Snipping Tool - screen cropping program that comes with Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 machines.
- In Windows 7: Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Snipping Tool.
- In Windows 8/8.1: Swipe from the right edge of the screen, tap Search, entering Snipping Tool in the search box, and then tap or click Snipping Tool.
PDF Reader/Creator/Editor
Adobe Acrobat - view, create, manipulate, print and manage PDF files.
DeskPDF - edit text and images, digitally sign, secure and create PDF files
PDFill - an inexpensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat
PDF 995 - free PDF viewing, creation, and editing suite (Windows only)
Foxit Reader - create, open, view, sign, and print any PDF file.
Audio Recording/Editing
Audacity - free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
Audio Record Wizard - record sounds on your PC from a microphone, a file, or anything you can plug into your sound card.
WavePad - full-featured professional audio and music editor for Windows and Mac.
IrfanView - photo editing program that gives you the tools to touch up and add effects to your photos.
Image Converters
Vector Magic - convert bitmap images like JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs to scalable vector files like EPS, SVG, and PDF.
Pixillion - convert or compress thousands of photos at a time with batch conversion.
Convert My Image - web-based conversion tool which allows you to convert JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PDF, PS, EPS, TIF, XPM, PIC, & RPG files
Text Editor:
Notepad++ - Free/Donation - Feature rich text editor for Programming/coding with Syntax highlighting, Define your own language [which is especially useful for several text files within Creo Parametric (BOM, Config.pro, config.sup, etc)], undo history, Great searching features, tabbed view to have several files open at once, etc.
Dan,
The link on Mathcad 30-Day Trial in the main post does not work 
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P.S. Also, I think, it is necessary to add the reference on Creo Elements/View Express: http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=40213.
Daniel,
1. Thanks for the update. I just noticed that I can edit it by yourself using the "Edit document".
2. Checked all the links in the document - they works fine. Added some comments to the programs. Added links to new programs: "Creo Sketch" and a great site/resource about 3D scanning from photos "Hypr3D" (I wrote more about it here: http://communities.ptc.com/message/172417).
1. Thanks for the update. I just noticed
I'm surprised this hasn't caught on. Wikis are powerful collaboration tools. The Mathcad Community I think have the most to gain from this. Their collaboration on worksheets is the perfect model. They chime in and work through iterations of the worksheet until there's nothing but an elegant solution left.
Having to page thru discussion threads to find the attachment that contains the "Correct" answer doesn't seem efficient to me.
2. Checked all the links in the document - they works fine. Added some comments to the programs. Added links to new programs: "Creo Sketch" and a great site/resource about 3D scanning from photos "Hypr3D" (I wrote more about it here: http://communities.ptc.com/message/172417).
Thanks for performing the due diligence and those are two great adds!
Slightly related, one of my all time favorite resource sites for finding alternative software packages, such as we have listed in the free resources & downloads.
Great when you can't get management to fund a full copy of Photoshop to do a simple picture edit. 
It lists out resources like we have above for different alternatives, commercial and open-source/free/etc.
Not all solutions are comparable in capability, but it's a good tool to start research.
