mcad packages

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 Packages

document.xls of 20 Kevin Schoonover, [email protected]

Last Update: April 20, 2007This spreadsheet is intended as a guide to PTC's MCAD packaging. It is not an exhaustive list of all licensing options and may be out-of-date. Please refer to the Pricing and Configuration guides for complete details. The $ column is provided for your use.

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N/A Pro/DETAIL Produce complete, production-ready drawings

N/A Prints drawings & extends plotting capabilities Do you produce printed/plotted drawings and images?

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N/A Import/Export various CAD and image formats

N/A Creates Bill of Material (BOMs)

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Pro/FEATURE3D modeling using the same terminology as on the shop floor

Is it important to you to have 100% confidence that your digital part model represents reality?

Do you need to create accurate, complete and detailed production-level drawings?

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Pro/BATCHAllows batch processing of Import, Export, Plot and Conversion operations

Do you need to batch process printing or import/export activities?

Interface CapabilitiesDo you import designs using IGES, STEP, DXF, DWG, etc?

Pro/REPORTAre accurate, up-to-date BOMs, wire lists and other table-type data on your drawings important?

Pro/LEGACYCreate, modify, and delete individual geometric 3D entities. Handle entities contained in 2D drawings.

Do you import designs using IGES, STEP, DXF, DWG, etc? Do you ever have to modify them?

Pro/SHEETMETALAllows Design of sheetmetal style parts. Shows bends and flat patterns in sheetmetal drawings

Pro/WELDINGDo you create welds when building assemblies? How many welds are in your assemblies? How are you documenting your welds?

Pro/PHOTOTRENDERQuickly create accurate, photo rendered images of Pro/E parts and assembles (great for sales and marketing groups)

Do you have a need to produce high-quality, photo rendered images for marketing purposes?

Pro/WEB PUBLISHWould you like to be able to quickly publish your engineering/manufacturing data in a web format?

LIBRARY ACCESSLibrary of standard parts, features, and tools (moldbases, pipe fittings)

Do you maintain a library of standard components for reuse?

Pro/ECADAutomatically takes 2D schematic drawings and converts them to 3D model (used for PC Boards)

Do you create PC Boards? Circuit Boards? Do you create 3D models from your 2D schematics?

Pro/PROGRAM (Parts)Allows for customized part definition by modifying the built-in part definition program

Do your part designs ever change based on a logical set of criteria?

Mechanism Design ExtensionCreates kinematic motion checking moving parts within an assembly for interference and range of motion (envelope) -- stimulates motion WITHOUT testing for forces.

Do you design assemblies with moving parts(design mechanism)? How do you make certain that parts don't interfere as the mechanism moves? Do you do kinematic (MDX) or dynamic (MDO) analysis of motion?

ModelCHECKEnforces company standards (spelling check for Pro/E) -- important if company is ISO Certified -- also does part indexing

Have you established standard design modeling practices in your organization? Design to model quality and company standards, common names?

Pro/SURFACEDimension based surfacing (creates surfaces by boundaries)




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N/A updates photo images as Pro/E model is moved in real-time

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DDO Cleans up imported part geometry (saves 60%-80% of time)

N/A Linux Support Only CAD software to support Linux!

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Warp SurfaceAllows users to manipulate models (bend, stretch, etc.) regardless of model's creation history or data type

Do you need to make changes to imported models? (i.e., drafting for plastic molding) Manufacture designs/components in different sizes?

Assembly Performance

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Includes Simplified Reps (only bring up the parts of the assembly you need to work on -- time saver) & Shrinkwrap (reduces file sizes by 90% and masks proprietary info about design by only supplying what is necessary -- the size, shape, and weight)

How long does it take you to update an assembly? How long does it take for you to retrieve and regenerate your designs? How many components are in your assemblies?

Real-Time PhotorenderingWould it be helpful to design in a photo rendered environment with reflections and textures?

Design Animation OptionVisualization (movie) of how things are assembled or dis-assembled (great for Marketing or Sales departments or instructional movies for assemblies)

How do you visualize and communicate design information efficiently to manufacturing? Your customers? Create compelling sales/mtg presentations and assembly sequences?

Import Data DoctorDo you work with imported data from suppliers/partners? How much time is spend cleaning up geometry?

Web ConnectivityWeb native to allow for access to part libraries, tutorials, tech support & more directly within Pro/E

Would you like to utilize the web more effectively for design and engineering tasks?

Are you using or considering LINUX for your engineering workstations?

AutoBuildzTakes 2D drawings and makes a 3D parametric model (free for download to maintenance paying customers)

Are you moving from 2D drawings to 3D models? Legacy 2D drawing?

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with multiple BOM views, configuration management, change management and built-in, pervasive visualization.

Please see the latest "Pro/ENGINEER Data Management Decision Support Guide" located on the

Workgroup Data Management Product Page (internal or portal) for a discussion of which product to position,

Windchill PDMLink or Pro/INTRALINK or both.Choice of

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Pro/INTRALINK Multi-site seat

Engineering workgroup PDM -- Simple to install and configure. Provides check-in, check-out, promote/demote, release levels, electronic sign-off and data replication capability.

Please see the latest "Pro/ENGINEER Data Management Decision Support Guide" located on the Workgroup Data Management Product Page (internal or portal) for a discussion of which product to position, Windchill PDMLink or Pro/INTRALINK or both.

Advanced Assembly Extension

Advanced functionality for creating: assembly instruction sheets, top-down designs, global layouts, assembly family tables, and automated design changes (using Interchange assemblies, assembly programs and linked web pages).

Do you design assemblies in teams to work on parts of the same large assembly? Would you benefit from employing better large assembly management techniques?

Behavioral Modeling ExtensionOptimizes the design of parts and assemblies within a defined set of parameters (spec-driven optimization) 5th generation of CAD.

How many times do you have to "modify" a design? (if more than 20 per/day, then BMX) Are all your designs optimized? Waste money on over designing products? Spend lots of time on multiple design iterations?




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PCXConcurrent mechanical & wiring design (includes RSD Lite) Do you have any wires or cables in your assemblies?

Concurrent mechanical & piping design (includes RSD Lite) Do you do piping, tubing or flexible hoses?

ISDXII - Interactive Surfacing Design Ext.IIFree-form surfacing not bound by dimensions (although not fully dimensional, it can have dimension as references).

Do you design complex surfaces? Design organic, free flowing shapes for superior looking products? Concerned with ergonomics?

MDO - Mechanism Dynamics Option

Provides additional functionality over MDX allowing engineers to simulate and improve the dynamic performance of a mechanism as it would operate in real life. Forces and acceleration solving allow for friction, springs, cam liftoff and slot stops with coefficient of restitution formulated forces and more.

How do you tell what forces are acting on your mechanism in real life? Do you do kinematic (MDX) or dynamic (MDO) analysis of motion?

Cable Design Extension

Piping Design Extension




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Windchill ProjectLink is a quick-start solution that delivers Web based, real-time project collaboration for your extended product development team. Users can quickly create Web-based, virtual workspaces where globally and organizationally dispersed design team members can work together as if in the same room.

Please see the latest "Pro/ENGINEER Data Management Decision Support Guide" located on the Workgroup Data Management Product Page (internal or portal) for a discussion of which product to position, Windchill PDMLink or Pro/INTRALINK or both.

Pro/MECHANICA Structural & Thermal Simulation Option

Virtual prototype and design optimization taking structural and thermal loading into consideration. Static, modal, buckling, steady-state thermal analyses using Pro/MECHANICA and/or output mesh to 3rd party solver.

Do you need to consider loading or temperatures when designing? Have you ever wished there was a way you could perform analyses without waiting for the PhD analyst to get around to it? Do you need to get it right the 1st time?

Mathcad

Mathcad manages engineering calculations using a Scratchpad Interface and Real Math Notation. Mathcad calculations are easy to create, understand, audit, share, and troubleshoot. Mathcad recognizes thousands of standard units of measurement, so if your calculations contain mixed units, Mathcad eliminates conversion errors and reduces time spent trouble-shooting your calculations. It supports Numeric and Symbolic math, equation solving, vectors and matrices, 2D and 3D plotting, and more.

Are you capturing the valuable calculation information created in every engineering project? Can you tell, at a glance, what the critical parameters or design constraints are for your project? Are you reusing your engineering calculations in subsequent projects? Are employees learning from their mistakes rather than repeating them? Do you need to reduce the number of design iterations or prototypes required for each design? Are you identifying best engineering practices, or relying instead on the judgment of individual engineers on a case-by-case basis?

ProductView Standard Edition

Through its easy to use interface, ProductView allows anyone to visualize assemblies and 3D models from all major MCAD tools, as well as drawings, images and documents from a multitude of sources, all without the need for the native authoring application. With its compact, yet accurate 3D viewable format, complex information can be quickly accessed to reduce rework and improve decision-making.

Who within your enterprise needs to view product data (3D Models, Drawings, Documents)? What do they need to do with that data? Who needs to review, redline or markup this data ?

Arbortext Editor

Arbortext Editor looks and works like familiar word processing software–yet provides all the power and flexibility you need. Arbortext Editor lets authors build compound documents out of reusable components, attach audience information to content for producing customized publications, and embed data from databases, business systems and other data sources.

How does your enterprise create and publish it's documentation? Do you have and document management/change control goals?




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Advanced AssemblyTop-down assembly tools including: Skeleton models, assembly family tables, interchange assemblies, external copy geom features, dependency control and dependency investigation.

Do you have large or complex assemblies? Are your assembly designs driven from an overall shape/size? Do you have families of assemblies?

Pro/Process for AssembliesDo you, or would you like to, produce assembly instruction sheets?

Pro/Web.LinkDesign-to-order web page that links into Pro/E. Allows for simple programming of custom tools.

Would creating custom web pages which can drive detailed designs be useful to you?

Pro/Program (Assembly)Allows for customized assembly definition by modifying the built-in assembly definition program

Do your assembly designs ever change or swap components based on a logical set of criteria?

ShrinkwrapAutomation feature for creating an associative, lightweight part model from an assembly.

Are your sub-assemblies large? Would having a simplified "envelope" of the sub-assembly that updated be useful in your top-level assemblies?

Pro/NotebookTop-down design tool for capturing high-level parameters in one place to drive the design

Are there any design parameters used in multiple places (such as pitch, diameter, etc.) that control the shape/size of different/matching geometry?

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Interactive Surface DesignFree-form surfacing not bound by dimensions (although not fully dimensional, it can have dimension as references).

Do you design ergonomic or styled products that need smooth, complex surfaces?

Pro/CompositeDefine layered composite designs in 3D including foam cores and ply-layups.

Are your components designed and produced using layered composites?

Pro/ScantoolsSet of tools to import and manipulate scan curve data (not point cloud) and create best-fit, smooth surfaces through the curves

Do you use scanned curve data in your designs (not point clouds -- see REX for that)?

Pro/Cabling

This option provides comprehensive functionality for mechanical and packaging engineers for the easy creation of 3D harnesses completely detailed with connectors and components. The design of harnesses is associative with the Pro/ENGINEER assembly, enabling concurrent engineering by ensuring that cable paths and lengths automatically update when assemblies are modified.

Do you design and route wire harnesses through your assemblies?

Pro/Harness-Mfg

Harness Manufacturing provides powerful, fast, and easy-to-use tools for flattening 3D harnesses for manufacturing documentation purposes. The flattened harness can be used to create fully documented nail board drawings, complete with parts list, from-to wire lists, and connector tables.

Do you need to create nail-board drawings for wire-harness manufacturing?

Pro/Piping

Offers comprehensive, associative capabilities and libraries for piping design through manufacturing. Used by system and mechanical designers to accurately design, route, document and manufacture complex piping systems while optimally reusing designs for dramatic time savings and improvements in productivity.

Do you design and route pipes or flexible hoses through your assemblies?

Routed Systems Designer Lite

Standalone multi disciplined diagramming solution for the creation of Block, Circuit, Wiring, P&ID and hydraulic diagrams. Wiring and piping information created in RSD drives mechanical Pro/PIPING and Pro/CABLING using an XML interface

Are you using a schematic solution that is unable to drive the mechanical world? Did you know if you own cabling piping or flex 3C you are entitled to RSD Lite for Free? Do you want to reduce your maintenance costs of your existing schematic solution?




N/A Provides automatic generation of piping isometric drawings.

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ALIAS Personal IsogenDo you need to produce isometric drawings of your piping components? Are you required to provide ISOGEN drawings?

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Advanced Rendering

Create superb, photo-realistic renderings using PhotoLux. PhotoLux complements PhotoRender and raises the bar. 200 new materials with "procedural textures", real-world lighting, accurate reflections and shadows (ray-tracing), and the fastest render times. Incorporate light scatter, lens flare and depth of field falloff effects also.

Do your company have the need to produce high-quality, very realistic renderings for marketing material? Do you use a photography studio to take pictures of your prototypes? Are you exporting and "touching-up" images from your CAD system?

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Reverse Engineering

Create accurate, modifiable Pro/E models form 3D scan data. Quickly capture design intent and maintain critical geometric data or just quickly wrap the point cloud in surfaces and move on. Advanced capabilities include point-cloud refinement, facet modeling and refinement, primitive shape recognition, analysis tools, and real flat and cylindrical surface types.

Do you reverse engineer models? Do you want to or do you receive laser scanned point clouds to base designs on?

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Functionality to design beam structures up to 10x faster than using out-of-the-box Pro/E. EFX is targeted toward customers who make structures with steel beams as well as custom and standard aluminum extrusions.

Do you design using welded and/or bolted structural steel or other frame-type members? Do you need to produce accurate BOMs and cut-lists of framework components? Are you spending too much time in the details and not enough time innovating?




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Specialized functionality for injection mold core, cavity and insert design. Shrinkage compensation, automated parting surfaces, automated splitting. Draft, undercut and thickness checks as well as mold opening simulation. Do you design or take part in the design of your mold, die or

cast tooling? Would you like to have changes to your design automatically reflected in the tooling? Is there a big disconnect between tooling design and engineering?

Pro/DIEFACESpecialized functionality for die casting design. Spring back calculations.

Pro/CASTING

Specialized functionality for sand casting cavity and pattern design. Shrinkage compensation, automated parting surfaces, automated splitting. Draft, undercut and thickness checks as well as mold opening simulation.

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Expert Moldbase

Provides automated moldbase design functionality well beyond TDO's moldbase libraries. Standard moldbases from Hasco, DME, Futaba, Progressive, Strack, Meusberger, Rabourdin, PCS, Pedrotti and more. A 2-D user interface allows for easy use by designers used to 2D applications. Included are standard moldbase assemblies, plates, insulation, screws, washers, dowel pins, ejector pins, latch locks and slider assemblies. Fully automated mold opening animation provides a visual check. Pre-made, associative, automatic drawings are provided for the mold assemblies.

Do you use or modify moldbases? If so, you need to see this tool!!!

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Provides automated functionality and a 2-D user-interface for designing Progressive Dies. Includes sheet metal part preparation, strip layout, punch, bend and trimming tools as well as plate configurations and automated drawings.

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Provides automated moldbase design functionality well beyond TDO's moldbase libraries. Standard moldbases from Hasco, DME, Futaba, Progressive, Strack, Meusberger, Rabourdin, PCS, Pedrotti and more. A 2-D user interface allows for easy use by designers used to 2D applications. Included are standard moldbase assemblies, plates, insulation, screws, washers, dowel pins, ejector pins, latch locks and slider assemblies. Fully automated mold opening animation provides a visual check. Pre-made, associative, automatic drawings are provided for the mold assemblies.

Do you design mold tooling? Do you use standard moldbases? Would a flexible, fully documented, accurate moldbase design with drawings and BOMs be useful to you? Would you like to double or triple your moldbase design through-put next year?

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Plastic Advisor

Simulates the mold filling of injection molded parts at the early stage of the design process. This catches potential manufacturing problems and prevents costly rework. It also provides insight into the design of the tooling for venting and required injection pressures/speeds.

Do you design parts that are plastic injection molded? Do you need a quick, accurate way of determining the filling characteristics of your designs before you go to production?




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N/AAdds 2- to 4-axis turning and 2- to 4-axis wire EDM.

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and a complete multi-surface, 3-axis milling package. Create, post-process and simulate accurate and efficient part-programs. The ability to create automatic process documentation (setup sheets) and a tooling library are included. Full associativity to the design part means no starting over when engineering makes changes. VERICUT for Pro/E and Pro/NC G-Post are included.

Do you need to do production or prototype NC machining? Do you program just 2-1/2 or 3-axis work with maybe 4th axis indexing? Is your NC program linked to the engineering model? If not, what happens when a change is made in engineering? What are the costs of reprogramming every time?

Pro/NC-MILLVericut for Pro/E

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Pro/CMM

Capabilities to inspect the quality of machined, cast or molded parts and assemblies. It creates DMIS programs for CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machines) based on the Pro/E design model, tolerances and g-tols. Also for free-form geometry, it compares scanned, point-cloud data to the Pro/E design model.

Does your QC department use a CMM machine for inspections? Is it programmed manually? What would it mean if the CMM program and inspection criteria were linked to the engineering design so changes could be immediately incorporated into your QC procedures without the time and risk of manual programming?

Pro/Verify

Compare a scanned model to the (nominal) design model, using computer-aided verification techniques. You can quantify the following types of deviations: Global defects, such as warping and shrinkage; mid-level defects, such as those caused by improper EDM setups; and highly local defects, caused by surface imperfections.

Are your components tight-tolerance products? Do you use. or would like to use, laser scanning for quality control purposes? If so, how do you check the results for deviation?

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Allows NC programmers to create, verify and post-process toolpaths for turret punch presses and contouring laser/flame machines. Pro/E part or DXF sections may be used as reference. Includes automated toolpath generation, automated nesting, automated punching and automated contouring.

Do you have NC sheetmetal punch, laser or flame equipment? How do you currently program this equipment? Is your NC program linked to the engineering models? If not, what happens when a change is made in engineering? What are the costs of reprogramming every time?




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Basic Pro/Mechanica StructureVirtually prototype and optimize designs taking into consideration thermal and structural (stress) requirements. Solve static, modal, buckling and steady-state thermal analyses. Full associativity to the Pro/E design model allows for easy updates and optimization using design parameters and dimensions. Supports the Mechanica solver or 3rd party FEM solvers.

and/or thermal requirements? Would an up-front analysis (during the design phase) to identify potential problems save you headaches downstream -- provided it was accurate and easy enough for non-analysts to use? Could it reduce costly prototypes? What if your analysis model was your design model -- no translation, never out-of-sync, no need to

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Do you have need to handle… (see Description column to the left)?Advanced Pro/Mechanica Thermal

Hierarchical FEM modelingLarge, system model, hierarchical control of node and element numbering for 3rd party FEM solving

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Behavioral ModelingOptimizes the design of parts and assemblies within a defined set of parameters (spec-driven optimization) 5th generation of CAD.

Are your designs driven by physical requirements beyond shape and size (like volume, clearance, center-of-gravity, moments of inertia, area, etc)? Would you like to be able to find feasible and/or optimal design solutions automatically? Would you like to be able to quickly see the results of changing something?

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Provides additional functionality over MDX allowing engineers to simulate and improve the dynamic performance of a mechanism as it would operate in real life. Forces and acceleration solving allow for friction, springs, cam liftoff and slot stops with coefficient of restitution formulated forces and more.

Do your mechanisms include spring and damping forces, friction, force motors and gravity? Would you like to know the reaction forces in your system during operation?

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Fatigue AdvisorUses results from a Structural Simulation analysis to calculate fatigue life of metals. Includes rainflow cycle counting and plastic strain extrapolation.

Is metal fatigue a factor in your designs? Should it be? Would you like to be able to quickly estimate the fatigue life of your designs using industry-proven methods?

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Who is responsible for creating and maintaining technical illustrations?How are technical illustrations created, utilized and maintained?To what extent are technical illustrations required?What kind of documentation is produced?How many technical illustrations do you produce on average?How long does it take to create each technical illustration?

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Contains all the functionality of Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation, PLUS the ability to automatically create high-quality technical illustrations directly from 3D CAD design data, while maintaining an associative link to the original CAD file.

Do you create 3D models of your products? What if you could easily reuse that data in your technical illustrations?




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Arbortext IsoDraw 3D ExtensionAllows the user to upgrade seamlessly from IsoDraw Foundation to IsoDraw CADprocess.

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Arbortext IsoView Distribution Kit

Arbortext IsoView is the industry’s leading intelligent technical graphics viewer. Arbortext IsoView enables readers to view and interact with technical illustrations created by Arbortext IsoDraw, or other illustration tools. This is a 'Per Site License' allowing the customer to distribute IsoView throughout their organization.

Will you need to view the technical illustrations/animations that you create throughout your organization?

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Arbortext IsoCompose is a complete application for catalog creation and distribution. It speeds the work of documentation professionals in every phase of catalog production, from design to distribution, as well as subsequent revisions. This wizard-based application makes it easy and cost-effective for any organization-large and small-to quickly create high-quality electronic catalogs without any programming required.

Do you create product catalogs? What is the process of documenting and updating them? What types of illustrations are used in those manuals/catalogs?




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Allows for associative import of native CATIA II (v4) models. Exports directly to CATIA model format. No CATIA license is required.

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Translation processor for Pro/ENGINEER that allows for associative import of CATIA V5 models (parts and assemblies) to Pro/ENGINEER. No export capability is included with this product.

Are you interfacing with a customer/supplier who uses CATIA v5? Would a robust, direct interface to read their native CATIA v5 models and keep your Pro/E models associative be useful?

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Are you interfacing with a customer/supplier who uses I-DEAS? Would a robust, direct interface to read their native I-DEAS models and keep your Pro/E models associative be useful?

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Translation processor for Pro/ENGINEER that allows for associative import of Unigraphics models (parts and assemblies) to Pro/ENGINEER. Also provides model export directly to Unigraphics model format from Pro/ENGINEER.

Are you interfacing with a customer/supplier who uses Unigraphics? Would a robust, direct interface to read and write native Unigraphics models and keep your Pro/E models associative be useful?

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Distributed Pro/BATCH allows batch processing for common Pro/ENGINEER tasks such as printing, plotting, import, export, and ModelCHECK verification using Pro/ENGINEER installed on the local machine. This license can also be used to extend the Distributed Pro/BATCH Server Package to enable additional batch jobs to be processed on a remote machine.

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The Distributed Pro/BATCH Server Package includes the Distributed Services Manager for job-queuing, resource scheduling and web-based task monitoring along with six Single Service licenses. This bundle allows batch processing for common Pro/ENGINEER tasks such as printing, plotting, import, export, and ModelCHECK verification to be performed using remote machines on the network (the number of simultaneous batch jobs is limited by the number of Service licenses owned (six are included)).

Do you have large or sophisticated batch processing requirements? Would you like to take advantage of idle machines on your network to do the work?

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The Application Programming Toolkit allows customers to extend, automate, and customize a wide range of Pro/ENGINEER design-through-manufacturing functionality. Similarly, customers can build custom Pro/INTRALINK-based solutions to further leverage product model information and fulfill their business objectives.

Do you need to create customized, C++ programs that interface with Pro/ENGINEER or Pro/INTRALINK to perform company-specific capabilities?

Separate Program

Routed Systems Designer


Are you using a schematic solution that is unable to drive the mechanical world? Did you know if you own cabling piping or flex 3C you are entitled to RSD Lite for Free? Do you want to reduce your maintenance costs of your existing schematic solution?




N/ASeparate Program

Pro/Concept

Pro/CONCEPT is a digital sketching, modeling and rendering product for conceptual designers. It contains a complete set of tools for sketching, image retouching, curve and facet modeling,painting directly onto 3D models, real-time and photorealistic rendering. Integration with Pro/ENGINEER and ProductView enable communication and date reuse.

Are you capturing conceptual designs using artist renderings? Would an powerful but easy to use 3D sketching environment with photorealistic rendering, sketching and painting add value? How about being able to use those concepts downstream in detailed design - directly?


Advanced Assembly

Specifically, advanced assembly design functionality allows designers to:

Advanced Rendering

Advanced Mechanica Option

Alias Personal ISOGEN

· Extremely fast drawing production - a few seconds per isometric· Full automatic layout· Traceability - return file to design system· Alternative text (ATEXT) for foreign language support· User defined symbols· Detail sketches· Unique part numbers· Automatic drawing splitting· User definable drawing splits· Drawing Content control (see ISOGEN Customization document for more details)· Reference dimensions· Location points· Item code / description substitution· Pipeline attributes and NDE input at runtime· Information notes· Implicit and explicit Welding· Automatic, straight splitting· Support for hygienic fittings· BulkMTO· Pipe supports· Additional materials

Arbortext Editor

Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation

The details provided below are for reference only and are culled from PTC's product pages, various presentations (past and present) and personal knowledge. There is no guarantee of accuracy or that the information is up-to-date. This information is subject to change without notice. Consult current PTC documentation before using.

Product Page Link: Advanced Assembly Extension™

The Pro/ENGINEER® Advanced Assembly Extension (P-AAX) expands the power of Pro/ENGINEER® to allow the design and management of medium to very large assemblies, throughout the enterprise-wide development process. It offers high-powered tools for design criteria management, top-down assembly design, large assembly management and process planning.

These tools include:· Skeleton models· Simplified representations· Interchange assemblies· Exploded states· Unplaced components· Shrinkwrap models· Geometry features· Shrinkwrap features· Reference Control· Global Reference Viewer· Layouts

These tools enhance the productivity of design teams creating and managing very large, complex product designs -- and help downstream users produce accurate lifecycle documentation and assemble these products on the shop floor.

• Use a top-down approach to design Working with intuitive tools, users can quickly define and populate an assembly structure with new or existing components, collect critical design criteria in skeleton models, and propagate these criteria throughout the assembly with Copy Geometry functions. Users can also manage the top-down design process with Reference Control and Reference Viewing tools.

• Interchange assemblies Users can relate independent, functionally equivalent parts, so these can be easily switched in the context of a particular design – to leverage previously created designs on new projects. Users can also create simplified interchange members. These can be substituted into a design to simplify the display, while retaining accurate mass property information.

• Create simplified representations Users can create collections of components to facilitate managing a large assembly design. These collections can be based on rules, such as model size, location, name, or any other model parameter. Graphics and Geometry Only Representations can also significantly improve performance by reducing the amount of component information brought into a session.

• Associative Shrinkwrap capabilities Within the Advanced Assembly, users can produce a lightweight representation that retains complete surface and mass property information. This "Shrinkwrapped" representation reduces the load on system resources – greatly improving performance. In addition, Shrinkwrapped designs can be passed to suppliers and customers without distributing the proprietary design information and Shrinkwraps are associative, allowing changes to update automatically.

• Create graphical 2D assembly layouts Users can create annotations on parts and assemblies at the conceptual stage. They can also create block diagrams representing the assembly design – including notes, global parameters, relationships, and global placement information, as well as components, constraints, requirements, and descriptions of how the assembly must fit together.

• Complete top-down descriptions Using the 2D-assembly layout, users can create relationships in the models, linking dimensions and parameters to features and components. This symbolic representation of the assembly can then be disseminated to all members of the design team, ensuring clear communication.

• Facilitate automatic assembly Users can create a placement correspondence among multiple components in the assembly by declaring the same axis or plane in different components in the assembly to the layout. The software then can locate components with common declarations based on this knowledge – to automatically combine them in an assembly.

• Manage symbolic information in a spreadsheet-style Users can create tables to document critical design information. These tables provide a top-level location for manipulating dimensional and parametric information, which, in turn, drives the assembly design.

Product Page Link: Advanced Rendering Extension

PhotoLux (advanced rendering) complements PhotoRender and raises the bar with new abilities. Render your images faster and more accurately. PhotoLux images offer the highest degree of photorealism for a model. Combine real-world lighting, accurate reflections and shadows, and the fastest render times, for the leading rendering software in the industry. Advanced features include volumetric light scatter, lens flare, depth of field, fog, and more. Take advantage of advanced features such as light scatter to achieve volumetric effects of light passing through dust or fog. Add lens flare to simulate the effects of a camera lens in direct light.

Product Page Link: Advanced MechanicaThe comprehensive capabilities of Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Mechanica Option is ideal for sophisticated users who work with complicated models, employ complex design processes, or want to take advantage of the broadest range of simulation functionality offered by PTC, including advanced modeling tools, special-purpose analyses, and top-down simulation.

Key Product Features: Ability to solve: • Static analyses to compute stresses and displacements, including contact non-linear effects • Large deformation non-linearity effects in static analyses • Pre-stress static and pre-stress modal analyses, including spin softening and stress stiffening effects • Modal solutions to compute both free and constrained natural frequencies • Vibration analyses including dynamic frequency, time, random, and shock • Buckling analysis capabilities to compute critical buckling load factors • Steady-state thermal analyses to evaluate a model's reaction to applied thermal loading and boundary constraints • Non-linear transient thermal analyses to model time-varying thermal events such as the time required for a model to reach a steady state • 2D idealized model types including plane stress, plane strain, 2D plate, 2D unit depth, and axisymmetric. In addition, analysts can perform coupled a thermal-structural analysis, applying the results from the thermal analysis as a load for a static analysis.

Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Mechanica Option also contains a robust library of tools that allow engineers to rapidly build simulation models. These tools include: • Weld connections, including spot, end, and perimeter • Advanced spring and mass idealizations • Rigid connections • Advanced shells with properties such as laminate lay-ups • Engineering loads and constraints such as bearing loads and cyclic symmetry constraints • Rigid and weighted links for use with NASTRAN • Isotropic, orthotropic, and anisotropic materials support.

In addition, Advanced Mechanica Option provides engineers the flexibility of selecting other solvers via its FEM mode. In FEM mode, analysts can output, solve, and post-process models in either NASTRAN or ANSYS. Also, because Advanced Mechanica Option uses a single simulation model and database, analysts can switch between using the Mechanica-based solver and FEM mode solvers with no need to recreate modeling entities (properties, loads, etc.).

Hierarchical Meshing in FEM Mode: Why shouldn’t analysts have the same flexibility in constructing system level analysis models using concurrent and top-down design methodologies that CAD designers apply on a daily basis? With Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Mechanica Option, they do. Hierarchical meshing lets analysts define the analysis model at lower levels of the assembly structure (including properties, the finite element mesh, data recovery points, etc.). These definitions are then rolled up into the higher-level assemblies. This way, analysts can divide the workload for the creation of large analysis models and make more extensive re-use of analysis data.

ISOGEN is the industry de-facto standard for the automatic production of piping isometrics with virtually 100% market share and is supplied by all major plant design vendors. The strength of ISOGEN lies not only in its speed of drawing production, but also an almost infinite capability for customization. Some of the main features include:

Product Page: Arbortext Editor

A key component of the PTC’s dynamic publishing software, Arbortext Editor (formerly Epic Editor) features an integral connection to Windchill and provides the starting point for creating publications out of reusable components. Arbortext Editor enables you to:- Create and edit XML and SGML content- Work with content both as components and as compound documents- Reuse content across your organization- Improve the accuracy, consistency and flexibility of your information

Familiar Word Processing Interface: Change tracking, Real-time spell checking, Multiple levels of undo/redo, cut and paste, Drag-and-drop, Keyboard macros, Dockable Word-like toolbars,

Structured Editing: Viewing, navigation and editing functions that are specific to structured XML/SGML content

Compound Document Support: Controls for assembling content from multiple contributors, Inline editing of document components in compound documents

Dynamic Content Support: “Profiling” feature lets authors create master documents to be automatically customized to specific audiences, Automatically merge data from corporate business systems, Configure dynamic or variable elements

Integration with Content Management Systems: Supports PTC Windchill and other leading CMS solutions

Global Collaboration: Supports over 25 languages in content, character sets and spelling dictionaries

Standards Support: Arbortext supports XML, SGML, XSL (XSL-FO and XSLT), XML Schema, XPath, XInclude, DOM and other next-generation Web standards for sharing content, data and applications, Supports HTML, CALS, OASIS and Arbortext table formats, Highly Configurable and CustomizableProduct Page: Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation

Technical Illustrations are essential to technical publications; high-quality illustrations improve the readability of publications, reduce service and operating errors, and improve customer satisfaction. Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation is designed specifically for technical illustrators. It provides all the capabilities you need to create and deliver high-quality illustrations in all required formats and media.

Lower Publishing Costs- Reduce authoring and translation costs by replacing lengthy text descriptions with 2D and 3D illustrations and by animating entire procedures - Reduce the time needed to create high-quality technical illustrations from hours to minutes

Speed Time-to-Market- Automatically prepare illustrations for publishing in multiple formats and for delivery in both print and electronic media

Comply with Industry Standards- Supports all established industry standards for technical illustrations, including: S1000D (aerospace and defense), ATA J2008 (automobile), CALS (defense) - Supports the standards defined by W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium) for the use of illustrations on the Internet (WebCGM, SVG, PNG)

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Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation

Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess

Arbortext IsoDraw 3D ExtensionThis upgrades Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation to Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess.

Arbortext IsoCompose

AutobuildZ

Benefits• Leverage 2D legacy data in 3D designs• “User-in-the-loop” to capture and reuse design intent• Train 2D workforce in 3D modeling concepts• Transition at your own paceKey Features and Capabilities• Wizards for feature creation• Add “intelligence” to your imported drawing• Constant visual feedback in 2D and 3D• Automatically create 2D drawings from the 3D model• Support for assembly drawings

Behavioral Modeling

About Behavioral Modeling

You use the Behavioral Modeling tools to:· Create feature parameters based on measurements and analyses of the model.· Create datum geometry based on measurements and analyses of the model.· Create new types of measurements tailored to your specific needs.· Analyze the behavior of measured parameters as dimensions vary.· Automatically find the dimension values that achieve a desired behavior of the model.The basic building blocks of Behavioral Modeling are:· Analysis feature· Field point· User-Defined Analysis (UDA)· Persistent Display· Sensitivity, Feasibility, and Optimization Studies· External Analysis· Motion Analysis· Multi-Objective Design studiesAbout the Multi-Objective Design Study

A Multi-Objective Design study provides the following benefits:· The study helps you find an optimal range of design variables that is most suitable for searching for optimal solutions.· The study finds solutions for multiple design objectives that may be contradictory in nature.· If more than one optimal solution exist, the study presents you with the results so you can choose the preferred solution.· You can expand the range for sampling design goals, or you can narrow it down by using different methods for analyzing the data obtained in the experiments.Working with the Multi-Objective Design Study

You can save a study to disk with the Save command and then open it later when you return to the model. Saving a study saves all table data.Note: The system saves the Table Tree within the model. If you do not save the model, the Table Tree is lost – only a text file with the master table is saved to the hard disk.

Capabilities and Benefits- Boost illustrator productivity by providing specialized tools to speed common technical illustrator tasks - Minimize both training cost and ramp-up time through an intuitive user interface - Automatically display illustrations with the thick/thin technique–standard for technical illustrations. This technique makes illustrations much easier to understand. - Convert 2D CAD data to perspective illustrations with an extrusion tool to create a solid body from a flat 2D view, and a tool for creating rotational surfaces from planes - Quickly and easily create 2D animations to improve the readability of technical publications and reduce the need for long text descriptions - Get access to over 2,200 views of standard parts. Selected parts are incorporated in the illustration in the correct orientation, perspective and size. - Easily reuse legacy data using Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation tools for tracing photos and videos, along with a comprehensive raster editor for processing scanned images - Support all major graphic formats: S1000D 2.3 CGM, ATA GREXCHANGE, WebCGM, CGM, SVG, PNG, JPEG, DWG, IGES, DXF, HPGL, Adobe Illustrator, WMF, EPS, TIFF, PICT, PCX, BMP, CALS Raster, Text excerpt, XML Companion Files, Interleaf ASCII and FrameMaker MIF. - Prepare illustrations for publishing in multiple formats and for delivery in both print and electronic media - Expand the software capabilities with the optional Arbortext IsoDraw 3D Extension, to create high-quality technical illustrations directly from Pro/ENGINEER and other CAD file formats. Maintain a link to the original 3D model and automatically update illustrations as designs change.

Product Page: Arbortext CADProcess

Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess, the workbench for all your technical illustration and animation needs, is a must-have complement to your CAD toolset. This powerful application reduces the CAD designer's workload by providing illustrators with an easy-to-use tool for processing the 3D model and creating high-quality 2D and 3D technical illustrations and animations directly from CAD models. Today, the illustration process often includes the time consuming activity of redrawing geometry that was originally captured in the design process using CAD. By maintaining a link to the original 3D model, and by automatically updating illustrations and animations as designs change, Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess enables companies to develop documentation faster, reduce risk, and shorten time-to-market.

Increase Productivity- Enable concurrent development of technical publications and engineering designs; link technical illustrations and animations to engineering designs, and automatically recreate both illustrations and animations when CAD files change through direct integration with Pro/ENGINEER or transfer in multiple supported formats- Eliminate the need to create illustrations from scratch; create high-quality technical illustrations directly from CAD - Reduce resource drain on Engineering; illustrators can orient the model in as many positions as necessary to communicate their intent without relying on the CAD designer

Capabilities and Benefits- Eliminates the need to create illustrations from scratch; create high-quality 2D and 3D technical illustrations directly from CAD - Enables you to quickly create 2D, 3D, or a mix of 2D and 3D animation with a simple user interface. Imports and leverages existing 2D and 3D data animations to create high-quality animations. - Manipulates 3D data with a highly intuitive user interface: explosion along any axes, cutaways, rotations, reflections, copying, scaling, etc. Newly trained illustrators can be fully productive within just a few days. - Empowers illustrators to manipulate 3D CAD data for the purpose of the illustration rather than relying on the CAD designer for all 3D data manipulation- Direct integration with Pro/ENGINEER- Support for a wide variety of CAD data through standard data exchange formats (e.g. IGES, VRML, OBJ, STEP, VDA, SAT, Parasolid) - Enables concurrent development of technical publications and engineering designs; link technical illustrations to engineering designs and automatically recreate illustrations when CAD files change (through direct integration with Pro/ENGINEER or link to 3rd party CAD tools through IGES, DWG, VRML, STEP, VDA, SAT, OBJ, and Parasolid.- Deletes hidden lines, sets line thickness as required, and optimizes the elements of the CAD model in order to both reduce file size (required for electronic delivery) and make elements more compact and easier to edit. Reduces further editing and cleanup of illustrations. Automates hotspot creation for electronic delivery.- Automatically prepares illustrations for publishing in multiple formats and for delivery in both print and electronic media - Automatically updates illustrations and animations as designs change

Product Page: Arbortext IsoDraw 3D Extension

Arbortext IsoView Distribution Kit

Product Page: Arbortext IsoView Distribution KitArbortext IsoView, a key component of the PTC Arbortext product family of dynamic publishing software, is the industry’s leading intelligent technical graphics viewer. Arbortext IsoView enables readers to view and interact with technical illustrations created by Arbortext IsoDraw, or other illustration tools.

Arbortext IsoView also supports all established industry standards, and is the de-facto industry standard viewer for CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) files, mandated in a number of industries. Arbortext IsoView is commonly used to view and distribute, either via CD or over the Intra-/Internet, high-quality graphics in interactive electronic documents such as spare part catalogs, sales catalogs, or maintenance manuals.

Arbortext IsoView is available as an ActiveX Control for use within Internet Explorer, Visual Basic applications, and other compliant environments. It also provides an interactive environment that can be customized and integrated with external applications.

Capabilities and Benefits- Provides high-quality display of technical graphics in an interactive electronic environment like electronic parts catalogs, IETMs, etc. - The industry standard viewer for CGM files (CGM Version1-4, WebCGM) - Compliant with ASD S1000D and ATA iSpec 2200 standards - Display and print all major raster formats (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PCX and CALS Raster) - Embed hotspots in graphics to improve readability and user experience - Enables readers to interact with published graphics (zoom, pan, etc.) - Readers can add comments to graphics and export the information into the documentation workflow (redlining) - Displays both vector and raster from hybrid archives - Available as an ActiveX Control for use within Internet Explorer, Visual Basic applications, and other compliant environments - Integrates with existing enterprise systems and applications

Product Page: Arbortext IsoComposeArbortext IsoCompose is a complete application for catalog creation and distribution. It speeds the work of documentation professionals in every phase of catalog production, from design to distribution, as well as subsequent revisions. This wizard-based application makes it easy and cost-effective for any organization-large and small-to quickly create high-quality electronic catalogs without any programming required.

Capabilities and Benefits- The wizard-based user interface makes it easy to quickly create high-quality illustrated and interactive spare parts catalogs without any programming - Automatically generate common catalog elements and capabilities, including homepage, table of contents, catalog pages, shopping basket, print functions, catalog search, and online help - Interactively navigate the catalog in multiple ways: through a structured table of contents, online search, hyperlinks, and hotspots - Support multiple languages in a single catalog - Display interactive part illustrations - Match catalog text to part numbers - Automatically recreate electronic parts catalogs as information (text or illustrations) is revised

Product Page Link: AutobuildZ

AutobuildZ is a plug-in application for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire that allows users to create fully parametric, feature-based 3D models from 2D drawings. With AutobuildZ and the powerful data exchange capabilities in Pro/ENGINEER, you can directly import 2D drawing files – including AutoCAD DWG and DXF files while retaining design intent (layers, dimensions, notes, symbols, text fonts, line types).

Product Page Link: Behavioral Modeler ExtensionAllows for true objective-driven design. Build engineering evaluations directly into your models, including links to external applications. Leverage these dynamic evaluations to automatically explore all design variations and drive geometry to solve engineering problems and optimize designs. Includes the ability to manage many variables and even multiple conflicting goals. This product is an extension which is locked to the prerequisite package and does not float independently.

Behavioral Modeling contains a set of tools for performing a wide variety of analyses on a model and incorporating the analysis results into the model. Behavioral Modeling lets you modify the model design to reflect the desired solution.

A Multi-Objective Design study helps you find optimal solutions that satisfy several design criteria (design goals). For example, you can investigate possible shapes of a part that let you maintain the part mass and location of the center of gravity within a desired range.

A Multi-Objective Design study consists of a master table and derived tables in their hierarchical order. Initially, the study lets you examine an entire range in which design variables are allowed to change. The result of the initial investigation is the master table that lists records of all experiments. You can then narrow down the focus of the study by creating derived tables so you can examine the behavior of the model with a subset of constrained values for design goals or design variables.

You can access any of the tables through the Table Tree to examine its results. You can also edit a table by altering its conditions with the Edit command. After you have examined your findings, you can expand the master table by specifying additional experiments to be conducted within the range designated for the study. To expand the master table, use the Expand command.









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Complete Machining Option

Computer Aided Verification

Design Animation Product Page Link: Design Animation™ Option

The Pro/ENGINEER Design Animation Option is an option to Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation

About Animation

For an introduction and overview of the Design Animation module, and for typical steps to take to create an animation, see the Design Animation Concepts Guide online document.

Expert FrameworkProduct Capabilities:

Design beams for steel structures, structures with standard aluminum extrusions and custom beams automaticallyUse an interface that is fast and easy to useManage an easy step-by-step design process of structural designs from concept to final stages with drag and drop simplicityMake modifications easily to resize and redefine the structure using intuitive function like mouse drag, move, rotate and more.Create beam and assembly drawings including Bills Of Material and beam drawings automaticallyCustomer Benefits:

Enjoy up to a 10:1 productivity gain over creating and detailing these structures in standard Pro/ENGINEEREfficient transitions from 2D CAD systemsSpeedy learning curve from a supported design process that structural engineers are familiarFaster modifications of designs

Expert Machinist

Expert Mold Base

Fatigue Advisor

Import Data Doctor Product Page Link: Import Data Doctor

Interactive Surface Design

Interfaces Product Page Link to Interfaces

Interface options are available through File/Open, File/Save As and Insert/Shared Data/From File... . Use these options to export from and import to Pro/ENGINEER.ACIS ".sat"

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INTERFACE for CATIA II w/ATB LicenseAllows for associative import of native CATIA models. Exports directly to CATIA model format. No CATIA license required. Windows or UnixAbout the Associative Topology Bus (ATB)· The ATB creates the environment for working with a heterogeneous assembly. A heterogeneous assembly contains components that were originally created in different CAD systems, such as Pro/ENGINEER and CADDS 5. With Associative Topology Bus you can share geometry, topology, and assembly structure among systems in an associative manner, without having the originating application loaded on your desktop system.· When you use Associative Topology Bus, changes made to data within the original system are propagated throughout the heterogeneous environment.

Product Page Link: NC Advanced Machining

This option, which includes Production Machining Option, provides NC programming capabilities to create, verify, and optimize programs for all machine types: 2 1/2- to 5-axis milling (including continuous multi-axis), 2- to 4-axis turning, mill/turn machines (live tooling) and 2- to 4-axis wire EDM. The option is a comprehensive NC Programming environment, providing NC Simulation, NC post-processing, process documentation tools, and a tooling library. This product is an option which means it can float independently of any prerequisites.

Computer Aided Verification

This option provides the capabilities to inspect the quality of machined, cast, or molded parts and assemblies. It creates programs for CMM (coordinate measuring machines) machines, based on the Pro/ENGINEER® design model, tolerances and g-tols. Additionally, for parts with free form geometry, it compares scanned point cloud data from a manufactured part to the Pro/ENGINEER® design model. This product is an option which means it can float independently of any prerequisites.

The computer-aided verification option enables manufacturers to inspect parts, produced in-house or by a supplier, by automatically comparing scanned point-cloud data from the manufactured part to the Pro/ENGINEER solid model. The manufactured part is scanned using any scanning technology to generate x, y, z location information that defines the part. This point cloud can then be used to make a comparison with the theoretical model. The difference between the Pro/ENGINEER model and the point data can be generated either graphically, as a color deviation plot, or as a point file that shows the deviation between the design part and the manufactured part.

The Pro/ENGINEER Design Animation (DAO) is a tool for creating animation sequences using Pro/ENGINEER® parts, assemblies and mechanisms. DAO can animate mechanisms previously created in Behavioral Modeler Extension and Mechanism Design Extension. It differs from Mechanism Design Extension (MDX), Mechanism Dynamics Option (MDO) and Behavioral Modeling Extension (BMX) in that Design Animation can create animation sequences without joints or drivers. These sequences are not necessarily kinematically correct, but convey complex information in an easily understood animated format.

DAO allows users to create powerful animation sequences to communicate ideas, concepts and other information regarding a product design more efficiently than using written descriptions or drawings. Applications include assembly and disassembly sequences, maintenance procedures or product concepts. DAO integrates with MDX to add mechanism simulation to DAO.

Benefits: Tool for the design engineer to communicate engineering process information via animation; easy to learn and use during the design process; inherits and re-uses design intent from MDX; create assembly, maintenance and mechanism sequences; access from the familiar Pro/E user interface; associative to Pro/E single product model.

Use the Application>Animation command to invoke the Design Animation option. With Design Animation, you can coordinate the components of an animation sequence and play back an animation. When you select this command, a timeline window appears below the graphics window, and a toolbar appears below the Pro/ENGINEER toolbar. You can run, create, and manage your animation using the menu commands, the toolbar buttons, or the timeline window.

You can use Design Animation to:· visualize your assembly's operation. If you have the concept, but have not defined the mechanics, you can drag bodies to different positions and take snapshots to create an animation.· create an assembly or disassembly sequence animation of your model· create a maintenance sequence, a short animation of steps to take to instruct a user in how to repair or build a product

Product Page Link: Expert Framework

Product Page Link: Expert Machinist Option

This option includes a 2 1/2 axis (multi-axis positioning) feature based milling package and a complete multi-surfaces 3 axis milling package that enables NC programmers to create, post-process, and simulate accurate and efficient part-programs with greater speed and less effort than ever before possible in a 3-D system. To provide a complete programming environment, a license of VERICUT for Pro/ENGINEER and a license of Pro/NC GPOST is included in the option. This product is an option which means it can float independently of any prerequisites.

Product Page Link: Expert Mold Base

Pro/ENGINEER Expert Moldbase provides “smart” moldbases and mold components. When components are placed, operations such as clearance cuts and drilled and tapped holes, are automatically created in the appropriate neighboring plates and components, thereby relieving the mold designer of time consuming and repetitive mold detailing tasks.

Capabilities Overview: • Catalog support for all major mold component suppliers – Metric and English • Process-driven user interface • Quick-preview, customizable GUI’s for configuration and selection of moldbases and components • “Smart” moldbases and components – when components are placed, appropriate clearance cuts and threads are automatically created in the appropriate plates • Automatic drawing, hole chart and BOM creation • Complete mold opening simulation with interference checking including slider, lifter and ejection • Capture company best practices directly in easily customizable library of components • Short learning curve – tutorials provided with software

Benefits: • Big productivity gains in for creating and detailing moldbases since an entire library of moldbases and components are already provided and since drawing are automatically created behind the scenes for plates and assemblies • Eliminates errors resulting from tedious repetitive tasks like clearance hole creation for screws and ejector pins • Quick-preview GUI’s allows quick investigation of what-if scenarios • Library and drawings are easily customizable to your company’s specific standards • Short learning curve – users are typically productive with 2 to 3 days due to easy-to-use process driven UI, GUI’s and included tutorials

Product Page Link: Fatigue AdvisorPro/MECHANICA Fatigue Advisor allows engineers to predict and improve the fatigue performance of their designs early in the product lifecycle. This can reduce design iteration and costly test programs on multiple prototypes.

Because Fatigue Advisor is a fully integrated with Pro/ENGINEER, a user could perform a design study to minimize the weight of a design whilst maintaining the fatigue life within a predefined range. Multi-disciplinary design studies can also be performed using a combination of fatigue, static, vibration and thermal design goals or limits.

The Import Data Doctor Option provides advanced tools that automate the process of cleaning up imported geometry. Import Data Doctor includes a constraint manager allowing the user to place constraints on the imported geometry, as well as "collapse geometry" capability for better surface management.

The Pro/ENGINEER Import Data Doctor Option (P-DDO) allows users to repair imported geometric data more easily -- to provide valid Pro/ENGINEER® geometry for downstream applications. It provides tools for automating the cleanup process as well as a Constraint Manager for constraining or collapsing imported geometry for better surface management. All of these tools dramatically reduce the time required to manually clean up an imported or legacy model and Import Data Doctor does not require users to have any experience to achieve good results.

Automated surface cleanup: By performing some of the more tedious and repetitive tasks associated with redefining imported geometry, Import Data Doctor minimizes users’ interaction while still providing them with complete control over the process to maintain design intent and engineering requirements. Based on a user’s input, the system will automatically reconstruct the underlying wireframe of the imported geometry, close gaps, align vertices, and rebuild boundaries.

ProductPage Link: Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface DesignPro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design represents the ultimate integration of design and engineering. By combining the power of parametric modeling with the flexibility of free form surfacing, this powerful module allows designers and engineers to create complex, free form curves and surfaces, directly in an intuitive and interactive design environment.

With Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design, designers can start conceptually by developing geometry from scratch, a sketch, scan sets or other reference data, gradually developing the concept into the production model. User’s can also incorporate the Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design “Style” feature with other Pro/ENGINEER features to create a model that combines the power of parametrically driven features with freeform surfacing. This allows many design alternatives to be considered while design, engineering and manufacturing information will be updated as changes occur regardless of their complexity.

Instead of a sequential modeling environment, Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design enables a unique parallel modeling environment, where designers and engineers work with a unique four-view modeling window that supports the direct creation, manipulation, and control of curves, surfaces, and connections. The flexibility of parallel modeling also allows the user to establish a parent-child relationship between curves and surface elements if desired. This enables designers and engineers to build free form geometry at any point in the design, and to model curves and surfaces with as many or as few constraints as desired. By maintaining the focus on value added design, not data transfer and interpretation, Pro/Engineer Interactive Surface Design helps users quickly define and maintain design intent throughout the entire product development process.

With Pro/INTERFACE for CADDS 5 you can move three-dimensional (3-D) geometric data back and forth between Pro/ENGINEER and CADDS 5. This interface does not require a CADDS 5 license. You can import CADDS 5 parts and assembly structures into Pro/ENGINEER, and you can export Pro/ENGINEER parts and assemblies to native CADDS 5 format. Also supports the import of CADDS 5 Layers.

Through STEP, you can exchange complete product definition between heterogeneous computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing systems. You can export the combined surface and solid data that is in accordance with AP203 and AP214 STEP multiple shape reps and hybrid models. This module supports the import and export of:· Drawings that are in accordance with AP202DIS of the ISO 10303 STEP format.· Parts and assemblies that are in accordance with AP203IS and AP214CD format.

The STEP Format: STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data) is an international standard, defined in publications produced by the U.S. Product Data Association (US PRO) IGES/PDES Organization. The complete set of specifications for STEP is referred to as ISO 10303.The STEP format is organized as a series of documents (in STEP terminology, referred to as parts), with each part published separately. Application Protocols (APs), which reference generic parts of ISO 10303, are produced to meet specific data exchange requirements for a particular application. AP202 has reached the status of an International Standard (IS) version. Other APs, including AP202DIS (Draft International Standard) and AP214CD (Committee Draft), are at various draft stages of development.Products supporting STEP can implement this interface using different levels of data transfer. Each level provides various mechanisms to store, accept, and pass product definition data between heterogeneous systems in a consistent and standardized way.










Interfaces

STEP

PDGS

CATIA v4

CDRS

DXF, DWG

IGES

Image Files

Neutral

PATRAN

Parasolids ".x_t"SET

Shrinkwrap You give each Shrinkwrap model a name and store it as a separate Pro/ENGINEER part.VDA You can transfer part geometry between computer systems by importing and exporting through the VDA Surface Data Interface.

Cosmos ".ntr"STL ".stl" Tessellated

Inventor ".iv" TessellatedRender ".slp" Tessellated

Photorender ".igs"Supertab ".unv"

VRML ".wrl"Optegra Vis ".gbf" Tessellated

Meduas ".asc" TessellatedXpatch ".facet" Tessellated

ProductView ".ed", ".ol"Zip ".zip" files of current part/assembly

4D Navigator Allows Pro/ENGINEER to export a VRML type file for use with 4D Navigator, a viewing tool developed by Dassault.

Mathcad

Mechanism Design Product Page Link: Mechanism Design Extension (MDX)

Mechanism Dynamics

Benefits• Provides up-front virtual prototyping of real-world mechanisms• Works with Behavioral Modeling to explore design alternatives• Reduces hardware prototype iteration and test failures• Helps design faster, lighter, more efficient mechanisms• Reduces time to marketCapabilities• Gravity, force motors, point forces, and body torques• Springs, dampers, cam and slot impacts, and friction• Dynamic, static, and force balance simulations• Comprehensive results graphing and animated display of forces

ModelCheck

Plastic Advisor

Through STEP, you can exchange complete product definition between heterogeneous computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing systems. You can export the combined surface and solid data that is in accordance with AP203 and AP214 STEP multiple shape reps and hybrid models. This module supports the import and export of:· Drawings that are in accordance with AP202DIS of the ISO 10303 STEP format.· Parts and assemblies that are in accordance with AP203IS and AP214CD format.The STEP Format: STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data) is an international standard, defined in publications produced by the U.S. Product Data Association (US PRO) IGES/PDES Organization. The complete set of specifications for STEP is referred to as ISO 10303.The STEP format is organized as a series of documents (in STEP terminology, referred to as parts), with each part published separately. Application Protocols (APs), which reference generic parts of ISO 10303, are produced to meet specific data exchange requirements for a particular application. AP202 has reached the status of an International Standard (IS) version. Other APs, including AP202DIS (Draft International Standard) and AP214CD (Committee Draft), are at various draft stages of development.Products supporting STEP can implement this interface using different levels of data transfer. Each level provides various mechanisms to store, accept, and pass product definition data between heterogeneous systems in a consistent and standardized way.For more information about the STEP standard, see the following URLs on the Internet:· http://www.scra.org/pdesinc.html· http://www.iso.ch· http://www.scra.org

For more information about the STEP standard, see the following URLs on the Internet:· http://www.scra.org/pdesinc.html· http://www.iso.ch· http://www.scra.org

Pro/DATA for PDGS enables you to transfer parts and assemblies between Pro/ENGINEER and PDGS. To exchange data, you must have the Pro/ENGINEER utilities pro_from_pdgs and pro_to_pdgs and a license for PDGS. Pro/ENGINEER provides these utilities on every CD, so you do not need an authorization code. Versions 24 and 25 of PDGS are supported. PDGS is a proprietary Design System developed by the Ford Motor Company.

CADAMCDT

CPTR

CADAM/CDT/CPTR· Import and modify a drawing directly from the Professional CADAM database through Pro/CDT utilities (CADAM Data Transfer)· Import CADAM mainframe files through the CPTR (CADAM to Pro/ENGINEER Transfer) neutral file (.bin) format

Pro/INTERFACE for CATIAThis Interface requires a license of CATIA. Unix only.With a Pro/INTERFACE for CATIA license, you can exchange geometry between Pro/ENGINEER and CATIA. You can transfer data in two ways:· Between Pro/ENGINEER and CATIA 4.2.0 running on the same IBM RS6000, SGI, Sun, or Hewlett Packard workstation (one-step method). No utilities are necessary to convert the file because the result is a .model file.· Between CATIA 4.2.0 on an IBM RS/6000, SGI, Sun, or Hewlett Packard workstation and Pro/ENGINEER on any Pro/ENGINEER-supported workstation (2-step method). The utilities for file conversion must be used to convert the .ct to a .model.

Exchange data between Pro/DESIGNER and Pro/ENGINEER using Feature > Create > CDRS In . Industrial design surfaces are created in Pro/DESIGNER and then exported to Pro/ENGINEER for downstream and structural design and creation of all engineering deliverables.

· Import a Data Exchange Format (DXF) file and modify the resulting drawing. A DXF file can contain 2-D geometry, dimensions, drawing cosmetics, layers (highest if several) to which an entity is added.· Import and export 2-D DXF and 2-D DWG files to and from such products as AutoCAD.

Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES)· Export drawing, drawing format, layout, part, and assembly data in Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) format· Export part data using B-Spline representation for all surfaces, and automatically initiate a post-processing of the IGES file using a program that you supply· Import IGES files containing drawing data into drawings, formats, and layouts and modify the resulting product· Group, for exporting through IGES, model edges in a drawing to allow other systems that support IGES groups to see the model edges as a single collection of entities· Import IGES files containing drawing, sketch, and part data into all modes of Pro/ENGINEER

Image Files· Print shaded images to postscript printer.· Export (File > Export > Image) TIFF, JPEG, and EPS· Import and export CGM picture files. CGM provides a vector-based 2-D image file format for the storage and retrieval of picture information. CGM is a device-independent mechanism for communicating information between systems (hardware and software) with different architectures.· Import TIFF images into Drawing mode

Use the Neutral option to create or import a formatted text file (NEUTRAL file) containing information such as model topology, relations, and attributes about parts and assemblies created with Pro/ENGINEER, which can be used to create interfaces with other programs.

You can export a file from part data that can be read by PATRAN software systems. This file is formatted according to the specifications of a PATRAN database file. The PATRAN file contains mathematical definitions of such items as surface data that bounds a solid. Pro/ENGINEER does not accept files from PATRAN systems as input.

· Import and modify a drawing that contains Standard for Exchange and Transfer (SET) files· Import SET part and drawing files (including formats and layouts)· Export SET part data (curve and surface data and coordinate systems) and SET drawing data (2-D geometry, text, and dimensions)

Product Page: MathcadPTC’s Mathcad product family provides a far more efficient solution for solving and documenting engineering calculations than traditional methods. By integrating text, live math and graphics into a single environment, Mathcad provides a unique solution that:

Mathcad Modules (for Additional Purchase)Mathcad Calculation Server - The Mathcad Calculation Server gives companies the power to distribute interactive Mathcad worksheets over the Internet and intranets, thus making worksheets instantly accessible to colleagues, customers, partners and others via standard Web browsers, without requiring them to install Mathcad on their desktops.Mathcad Data Analysis Extension Pack - Enables engineers to easily import, manipulate and analyze data patterns and relationships in Mathcad.Mathcad Signal Processing Extension Pack - Offers more than 70 built-in signal processing functions, adding extensive capabilities for performing analog and digital signal processing, analysis and visualization.Mathcad Image Processing Extension Pack - Performs smoothing, crisping, edge detection, erosion and dilation algorithms on color and grayscale images – useful in medicine, astronomy, weather, geophysics, geology, forensics and radar, among other fields.Mathcad Wavelets Extension Pack - Facilitates a new approach to signal and image analysis, time series analysis, statistical signal estimation, data compression analysis and special numerical methods. Engineers can create an almost limitless number of functions that duplicate any natural or abstract environment useful for engineers who need to compress vast amounts of data, as in fingerprint identification or coding an MRI.Mathcad Civil Engineering Library - Combines the encyclopedic “Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain” with easy-to-adapt structural design templates and examples of thermal design problems.Mathcad Electrical Engineering Library - Provides hundreds of standard calculation procedures, formulae and reference tables used by electrical engineers.Mathcad Mechanical Engineering Library - Combines the encyclopedic “Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain” with easy-to-adapt calculations from a classic McGraw-Hill reference book, along with an interactive introduction to the finite element method.

Automates the Process- Simultaneously solves and documents calculations - Live calculations are in the document - All equations, text, graphs, and data are captured in the same worksheet - Integrated numeric and symbolic math shows both the reasoning behind the design and the results- Provides intelligent, automatic units management- Produces repeatable and auditable engineering calculations–standard and proprietary – that can be easily iterated, shared and reused

Communicates Engineering Knowledge- Calculations, expressed in standard math notation, can be easily read and understood by others- XML format enables automated publishing in downstream documents

Ensures TraceabilityClear documentation of all methods, equations, and assumptions enables traceability between:- Calculations and design geometry- Design geometry and customer requirements

The Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Design Extension (MDX) provides engineers, within the product development process, kinematic motion simulation and behavioral insight into the assembly through the easy definition and animation of connections with Pro/ENGINEER, such as pin joints, ball joints and sliders. These connections, and resulting assembly constraints, facilitate the easy assembly of closed loop systems, like four bar linkages. These connections can be used compatibly and in combination with packaging and traditional Pro/ENGINEER constraints like mate, align and insert.

Once assembled, engineers can observe how their mechanism designs will behave geometrically through interactive part dragging and user-defined motion simulations. Any point on a mechanism assembly can be dragged interactively by the user to animate the mechanism. Predefined motion simulations, using drivers to simulate motors or actuators, also provide animation. Although a full dynamics simulation including forces (friction, damping, springs, etc) must be achieved using Mechanism Dynamics Option (MDO), MDX is a powerful design tool enabling engineers to create industry-best mechanism designs by clearly building and communicating ‘design intent’ into mechanism assemblies and subassemblies.

You can also use Mechanism Design to redefine bodies, create slot-follower connections and cam-follower connections, create drivers, play back motion, view measure results, and investigate models. All connections defined through MDX are useable in a full MDO dynamics analysis as well.

You can also bring your Mechanism Design model into Design Animation to create an animation sequence. Connections, cam-follower connections, slot-follower connections, connection limits, drivers, and joint zeros are all supported in Design Animation.

Product Page Link: Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Dynamics Option (MDO)

Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Dynamics adds dynamic functionality to Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Design to provide a powerful virtual prototyping environment for the simulation and improvement of mechanism operation as part of the design process. Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Dynamics allows designers to virtually engineer a mechanism without leaving the familiar user interface and workflow of Pro/ENGINEER.

Product Page Link: ModelCHECKModelCHECK is a quality control add-on for Pro/ENGINEER. It detects problems in Pro/ENGINEER models that can make it difficult to share or re-use models and provides guidance to assist in repairing the models. ModelCHECK is used today in many organizations to help users build parts, drawings and assemblies according to corporate standards and best practices. Through the regular use of ModelCHECK, users will increase their Pro/ENGINEER proficiency.

A quality control add-on for Pro/ENGINEER. Use to enforce corporate modeling standards and best practices and find geometrical problems in Pro/ENGINEER models. Includes Shape Indexing technology which helps users find similar models, making it easier to re-use existing designs.

Product Page Link: Plastic Advisor Option

The Pro/ENGINEER Plastic Advisor Option (PAO) functionality to the user which simulates mold filling for injection molded plastic parts. As an option to Pro/ENGINEER®-Foundation™, and working directly from Pro/ENGINEER® designs, users simply select the material type and proposed gate (filling) locations. In just a few minutes, the system provides on-screen animations of the mold filling, plots describing the “moldability” of the design, and the locations of potential problem areas such as weld lines and air traps.

Plastic part designers need immediate and easy access to reliable and easy-to-understand manufacturing feedback and advice in order to make detailed design decisions.· Designers, not analysis specialists, use Plastic Advisor Option while designing an injection molded plastic part to gain insight into manufacturability and create a more manufacturable part.· Plastic Advisor Option is both simple and fast enough to evaluate every design change, not just every design, for injection molding manufacturability. · Plastic Advisor Option saves money by reducing late-cycle design changes and mold reengineering costs.

Plastic Advisor allows users to simulate the mold filling of injection molded parts at the early stages of part design. This extension is available as a license that can float across the network, but is locked to a Pro/ENGINEER session for it's duration.

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Pro/Assembly

The online Help documentation for Foundation Pro/ASSEMBLY provides detailed information about basic Assembly functionality.

Pro/BATCH

Pro/CABLING

Pro/CASTING Pro/CASTING provides tools to design die assemblies and components and prepare castings for manufacturing.Pro/CASTING together provides tools to do the following:· Analyze if a design part is moldable, and detect and fix problematic zones· Apply a shrinkage that corresponds to design part material, geometry, and molding conditions· Make conceptual design of one or a multi-cavity mold· Design core and cavity inserts, sand cores, sliders, lifters, and other components that define a shape of molded part

· Create runners and waterlines· Check interference of components during mold opening

Pro/CMM

About Pro/CMM

Pro/COMPOSITE

Pro/CONCEPT

Key Benefits• Capture concepts and explore their capabilities faster and easier• Enjoy a single, unified sketching and modeling environment—for one low price• Develop concepts faster using a familiar, intuitive, easy-to-use toolset• Integrate design concept data with CAD tools like Pro/ENGINEER® and others• Ramp up quickly with self-paced tutorials and quick reference cards• Replace physical prototypes with virtual prototypes• Collaborate on projects with colleagues, customers, and partners via the Web• Evaluate designs earlier for improved product quality and manufacturability• Implement as a stand-alone solution or part of a complete CAD system

Pro/DETAIL

Pro/DIAGRAM

Pro/DIEFACE

Pro/ECAD

Pro/ECAD searches the working directory for ecad_hint.map and references it every time import occurs. If the file is empty or has no relevant information it is ignored.

Pro/FEATURE

Pro/HARNESS-MFG

Pro/INTRALINK

Pro/J-Link

Pro/LEGACY

Pro/LIBRARYACCESS

Pro/MOLDESIGN II

Pro/MOLDESIGN provides tools to do the following:

· Analyze if a design part is moldable, and detect and fix problematic zones· Apply a shrinkage that corresponds to design part material, geometry, and molding conditions· Make conceptual design of one or a multi-cavity mold· Design core and cavity inserts, sand cores, sliders, lifters, and other components that define a shape of molded part

· Create runners and waterlines· Check interference of components during mold openingAbout the Mold Layout Application

The Mold Layout application is mold functionality that is accessible from Assembly mode. You create or open a regular assembly (.asm) file to use this application.

You can make changes in one cavity assembly model appear in all cavity assembly models in the multi-cavity mold assembly.

Other functions specific to Mold Layout are as follows:· Selecting and placing mold bases with the Mold Base Selection dialog box· Selecting and placing Injection Molding Machine models· Creating runners at the assembly level· Creating waterlines at the assembly level· Creating ejector pin holes at the assembly level· Using the standard component Catalog to add, redefine, delete, trim, and cut components

Product Page Link: Pro/AssemblyFoundation Pro/ASSEMBLY functionality includes the ability to: · Assemble components using advanced pick and place tools, implicit mechanism constraints as well as explicit mechanism joints· Create and manage simplified representations, display states, cross-sections, exploded states, views and combinations of these using the View Manager· Activate and perform work on parts and sub-assemblies while in Assembly mode· Modify, but not create, skeleton models.

Pro/BATCH enables you to enter batch mode to create multiple plot files, or export to other formats. Using the interface, or a command file that you create, Pro/ENGINEER retrieves the appropriate objects and creates the specified export files for them.

Product Page Link: Pro/ENGINEER CABLING DesignThis option provides comprehensive functionality for mechanical and packaging engineers for the easy creation of 3D harnesses completely detailed with connectors and components. The design of harnesses is associative with the Pro/ENGINEER assembly, enabling concurrent engineering by ensuring that cable paths and lengths automatically update when assemblies are modified.

The design and routing of 3D harnesses will be accelerated and the need for physical mock-ups will be eliminated, dramatically reducing design costs and time-to-market. Product quality is enhanced by the ability to optimize mechanical and electrical design simultaneously.

Use the Pro/CABLING module to define 3-D cable harnesses in Pro/ENGINEER assemblies. In Pro/CABLING, you can route cables concurrently with the design and assembly of electrical and mechanical components.

If you use Routed Systems Designer to create two-dimensional schematic representations of electrical assemblies, you can use the Logical Reference capability in Pro/CABLING and HARNESS-MFG to compare logical connections and parameters in both modules.

· Populate a mold assembly with standard components such us mold base, ejector pins, sprue bushings, screws, fittings, and other components creating corresponding clearance holes

CMM programmers can also use the Computer-Aided Verification Option to create inspection programs from Pro/ENGINEER design models. Probe paths for the operation are generated by specifying geometry and tolerance information directly from the Pro/ENGINEER solid part or drawing. The probe path developed can be replayed and automatically checked for collisions with tooling and the model. The inspection program is output to a file and passed to the CMM through the DMIS (dimensional measurement inspection standard) 3.0 language. Any CMM controller that is DMIS 3.0 compliant can use the output directly. Most other controllers can be supported through translators.

Pro/CMM is an optional module of Pro/ENGINEER, which provides the tool to generate inspection programs for Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs). CMMs will use these programs to probe manufactured parts and provide tolerance deviation analyses for dimensions and geometric tolerances. Pro/CMM supports probing using fixed, as well as manually and automatically indexed, probes. Using Pro/CMM, you can create fully associative, and parametrically defined, measuring sequences relative to Pro/ENGINEER models. You can also define steps that instruct the CMM to construct geometric entities and reference coordinate systems relative to measured data, and then to perform dimensional and geometric tolerance analyses on the entities, with respect to reference coordinate systems. Pro/CMM provides dynamic display of the probe assembly along the path of the probe tip, and allows changing the probe, the active tip, and tip orientation at different points along the path to enable interference checking.

Product Page Link: Pro/CONCEPTPro/CONCEPT™ is the first all-inclusive digital sketching and modeling tool that lets you explore design ideas, brainstorm, and develop new product concepts with unprecedented speed and ease. Now, instead of using a variety of disparate applications during the conceptual design phase, you have a single, intuitive environment that seamlessly bridges the 2D and 3D design worlds.

Product Page Link: Pro/Detail

Pro/DIAGRAM captures logical connection information and represents it graphically as wires, cables, components and pins. You can use Pro/Diagram to output component lists and wire lists, either as schematic reports or as formatted ASCII text files.

Pro/DIEFACE is an optional Pro/ENGINEER module that provides die designers with functionality for defining complex components used in the manufacture of deep-drawn products, such as automotive body panels. To use Pro/DIEFACE, you must also have a license for the Pro/SURFACE module.

Pro/DIEFACE allows you to create parametric die surfaces that can be easily changed to optimize the process of forming panels. In addition, full associativity with other Pro/ENGINEER modules also allows Pro/DIEFACE users to rapidly propagate design changes throughout the design and manufacturing process.

With a Pro/ECAD license, you can exchange information between Pro/ENGINEER and systems for electrical computer aided design (ECAD).IDF, VISULA, ALLEGRO, DAZIX

About the ecad_hint.map File. The ecad_hint.map file is an ASCII file you use to control the following functions in the ECAD import-export process:· Substituting custom made Pro/E parts for automatically extruded parts on import.· Allowing or disallowing specified parts on import.· Allowing or disallowing specified parts on export.· Changing an ECAD reference designator to a different string for import (If for example the ECAD reference designator uses characters that are illegal in Pro/E).· Changing an ECAD 'other outline' string for import (If for example the ECAD reference designator uses characters that are illegal in Pro/E)

Pro/FEATURE is where it all starts. This is the core of what makes Pro/ENGINEER the most powerful, robust, associative, complete and seemless design creation tool on the planet.

Harness Manufacturing provides powerful, fast, and easy-to-use tools for flattening 3D harnesses for manufacturing documentation purposes. The flattened harness can be used to create fully documented nail board drawings, complete with parts list, from-to wire lists, and connector tables.

The Routed Systems Option enables assembly design and harness manufacturing documentation to occur concurrently, dramatically reducing time-to-market and development costs with the assurance that changes made to the 3D harness will be automatically reflected in the flattened layout and all associated manufacturing drawings and tables.

Product Page Link: Pro/INTRALINK

With production-proven Pro/ENGINEER workgroup data management capabilities, Pro/INTRALINK is the industry-standard solution to manage concurrent design teams and the power of Pro/ENGINEER data associativity. Engineers easily perform data management tasks, so they can concentrate on innovative product design. The result: more control, higher quality designs, and happier engineers.

Capabilities & Benefits:- Common working environment and methodologies for Pro/ENGINEER users that improve engineering efficiency - Centralized vaulting and revision control of Pro/ENGINEER models, relationships, and functionality for improved information security and accuracy - Individual and group level access control to control when changes are permitted, whom can make them, and communicating changes broadly - Powerful searching tools, product configuration reports, and easy copying / renaming of existing designs facilitates design reuse - Intuitive user interface improves productivity simplifies data management activities

Product Page Link: Pro/J-Link

Pro/LEGACY is an optional module designed for importing and updating three-dimensional (3D) data and two-dimensional (2D) drawings in Pro/ENGINEER. Using Pro/LEGACY tools, you can easily create, modify, and delete individual geometric entities within imported 3D data, as well as work with geometry and detail information contained in 2D drawings.

Product Page Link: Library AccessPro/LIBRARYACCESS is a module required to use Pro/ENGINEER library parts.In addition, some of the parts use Pro/FEATURE features. If you do not have Pro/FEATURE you can retrieve these parts, but you cannot modify them.If you are using the HUMAN FACTORS LIBRARY, you need a license for both Pro/NOTEBOOK and Pro/ASSEMBLY.

Pro/MOLDESIGN is an optional module for Pro/ENGINEER that provides the tools to simulate the mold design process within Pro/ENGINEER. This module lets you create, modify, and analyze the mold components and assemblies, and quickly update them to the changes in the design model.

· Populate a mold assembly with standard components such us mold base, ejector pins, sprue bushings, screws, fittings, and other components creating corresponding clearance holes

The Mold Layout application provides a dynamic environment for designing and assembling single or multi-cavity tooling in an assembly. Mold Layout also provides efficient tools for fast and robust design of single or multi-cavity molds. You can easily populate your assembly with cavity subassemblies, a mold base assembly, standard components, and an injection molding machine. You can also create some mold-specific features.

You can switch from working on a multi-cavity mold assembly to working on an individual cavity. To do this, use a regular assembly structure where the multi-cavity mold assembly model is a top level assembly and each cavity model is a subassembly. These cavity subassemblies are represented by Mold or Cast assemblies

The cavity population tool allows flexible patterning of the cavities according to rectangular, circular, and user defined pattern rules. You can add, remove, move, or reorient each cavity pattern member individually, or even replace any cavity model with a family table instance.

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Pro/MOLDESIGN II

· Opening the mold by defining steps, deleting, modifying, reordering, and exploding

Pro/NC-ADVANCED Pro/NC-ADVANCEDPerform 2.5- to 5-Axis Milling and HolemakingPerform 2- and 4-Axis Turning and HolemakingPerform Milling, Turning, and Holemaking NC sequences on Mill/Turn centersPerform 2- and 4-Axis Wire EDM NC sequences

Pro/NC-CHECK

Note: The sketched tool’s section cannot contain splines or self-intersecting entities.The material is removed according to the actual tool shape and motion, that is, all scallops left by the tool passes will be displayed.Note: NC Check is not implemented for Side Mill tools.

Pro/NC-MILLPerform 2.5-Axis Milling with positioningPerform 3-Axis Milling and Holemaking with positioning

Pro/NC GPOST

About NC Post-Processing

Pro/NC-SHEETMETAL

About Sheet Metal Manufacturing

Pro/NC-TURN Pro/NC-TURNPerform 2-Axis Turning and centerline drillingPerform 4-Axis Turning and centerline drilling

Pro/NC-WEDM Pro/NC-WEDMPerform 2- and 4-Axis Wire EDM NC sequences

Pro/NOTEBOOK

Pro/PHOTORENDER Product Page Link: Photorealistic Images

Pro/PIPING

Pro/PLOT

Pro/PROCESS for ASSEMBLIES Use Pro/PROCESS for ASSEMBLIES to create assembly process plans and serviceability documentation.Specifically, you can use it to complete the following tasks:· Define the steps of the assembly fabrication process· Create a manufacturing BOM for each step in the process· Regroup components independent of the design assembly to model the fabrication structure accurately· Assemble tools and fixtures unique to a process step without affecting the design assembly· Perform time and cost estimates for the assembly fabrication· Create detailed drawings of each step in the process

Pro/PROCESS for MFGPro/PROCESS for MFG is a stand-alone Pro/ENGINEER module that defines the part machining process steps, material removal, fixtures, and parameter information.The Pro/PROCESS for MFG part machining process consists of two distinct phases:1. The process planner defines the process flow of machining.2. The user details and finalizes the process plan.

Pro/PROGRAM

Pro/REPORT

Pro/SCAN-TOOLS Scantools provides functions for importing and filtering scan data and for creating and manipulating smooth curves and surfaces.Scantools was originally developed to aid the automotive industry in the creation of CAD surfaces from point data collected by digitizing a physical prototype or a model.

In addition to low density data typically collected from CMMs, Scantools accepts high density "point cloud" scan data in various formats ibl, .pts, .igs, .vda.

Pro/Sheetmetal

Pro/SURFACE Parametric Surface Modeling

Pro/VERIFY

The Mold Layout application contains the same basic Mold Opening information as the Mold or Die Opening process. Click Mold or Die Opening Process in the Help Table of Contents for more information.

NC Check is a dynamic simulation of material removal on the computer screen. It allows you to view a step-by-step simulation of material removal as the tool is cutting the workpiece.

Optional module Pro/NC-CHECK™ allows you to display a step-by-step simulation of material removal as the tool is cutting the workpiece. This dynamic simulation process is called NC Check.

NC Check is implemented for all types of NC sequences. If a tool model has been used, it will be replaced by the default tool of appropriate type, as defined by the tool parameter values. If a sketched tool is used, the tool display will be based on the sketch (revolved for Trajectory milling, extruded for Trajectory turning).

Product Page Link: Pro/NC-MILL

Pro/ENGINEER NC GPOST is a software that provide NC post-processing solutions for all Pro/ENGINEER CAM Options. The user can create and update post-processors for any type of CNC machine, used by the NC Machining Option to create specific NC code (G&M codes) files. The product is developed by Austin NC and sold and supported by PTC in the Pro/ENGINEER marketplace. Manufacturing engineers and NC part programmers can easily create and modify their post-processors to produce “edit free” Machine Control Data (MCD) output from the NC Machining and the NC Advanced Machining Option.

NC GPOST lowers NC post-processor development and maintenance costs by improving NC machine productivity while ensuring that NC post-processing produces quality products. Post-processing is a key production tool and manufacturing companies need to control them – and avoid outsourcing their development and maintenance.

Pro/NC-GPOST is a post-processor generation system designed for end users having no software programming expertise. It can accommodate various flame contouring, laser contouring, wire edm, punch press, lathe and mill machine types that have up to five axes of continuous path control.

Pro/NC generates cutter location (CL) data files in an ASCII format that need to be post-processed to create Machine Control Data (MCD) files before any machining operation occurs.

Each Pro/NC module includes a standard set of NC post-processors that can be executed directly or modified using an optional module. Additional post-processors are available for download on PTC.COM technical support web site (GPOST Central Page).

Product Page Link: NC Sheetmetal

This option allows NC programmers to create, verify, and post-process toolpaths for turret punch presses and contouring laser/flame machines. Pro/ENGINEER part files or DXF sections may be used as reference for toolpath creation. This option includes automated toolpath creation, automated nest creation, automated punching, and automated contouring. This product is an option which means it can float independently of any prerequisites

The Pro/ENGINEER NC-Sheetmetal Option allows NC programmers to create toolpaths for turret punch presses and contouring laser/flame machines. Dynamic True Shape AutoNesting provides the highest sheet utilization to reduce scrap and material costs, and enables shorter lead times to allow manufacturers to advance from a “push” bulk production system, to a “pull” order driven system.

Sheet Metal Manufacturing creates the data necessary to drive an NC machine tool to machine parts from a sheet workpiece. It does this by providing the tools that let the manufacturing engineer set up the manufacturing model, and then follow a logical sequence of steps to progress from the manufacturing model to ASCII CL data files that can be post-processed into NC machine data. The following illustration summarizes the Sheet Metal Manufacturing process.

Pro/NOTEBOOK acts as an engineering notebook, enabling you to create two-dimensional (2-D) conceptual sketches, called layouts, for beginning the design process and maintaining design intent as you develop solid models. This module supports top-down assembly design with tools that enable you to create hierarchically-linked assembly layouts. Online Help documentation for Advanced Pro/ASSEMBLY Extension provides detailed information about layouts.

Product Page Link: Pro/ENGINEER Piping DesignOffers comprehensive, associative capabilities and libraries for piping design through manufacturing. Used by system and mechanical designers to accurately design, route, document and manufacture complex piping systems while optimally reusing designs for dramatic time savings and improvements in productivity.

The Routed Systems Option allows piping designers and manufacturers to parametrically route pipes in Pro/ENGINEER assemblies. It has applications in the automotive, aerospace, marine, consumer, and power generation sectors. The design engineer can quickly create 3D piping systems consisting of large fitted pipe, bent tubing, and flexible hose, with accurate bills of material for correct ordering of pipe stock, fittings, and equipment.

The option saves time, costs, and increases performance by producing parametric and associative solid pipe that updates all deliverables when changes are made to the assembly, providing automatic routing through datum point features and automatic bend note creation, as well as performing interference checks and envelope space investigations.

Product Page Link: Plotting/Printing

· Customize the display of each process step by defining multiple explode states with jogged explode-offset lines and assigning different colors and line fonts to components based on their status in the step

Product Page Link: Pro/PROCESS for MFG

After these two steps have been sufficiently defined, the manufacturing engineer, or an NC programmer, creates the NC tool path for actual material removal. The goal of Pro/PROCESS for MFG is to create a process plan with as much detail as desired, document this process, and then use it to create a manufacturing toolpath.

About Pro/PROGRAM: Each model in Pro/ENGINEER has a listing of major design steps and parameters. This model design listing can be edited to work as a program. By running the program, you change the model according to new design specifications.

Product Page Link: Associative Drawing TablesIn Drawing mode, you can use Pro/REPORT to create dynamic, customized reports with drawing views and graphics. Pro/REPORT also works with Pro/HARNESS-MFG, Pro/PIPING, Pro/MFG, and Pro/DIAGRAM. By defining repeat regions, you can add model data to a report, which expands and shrinks as the model changes. You can also use the following techniques to manage the data that appears in a report:· Add filters to eliminate specific types of data from appearing in reports, drawing tables, or layout tables.· Search recursive or top-level assembly data for display.· List duplicate occurrences of model data individually or as a group in a report, drawing table, or layout table.· Directly link assembly component balloons to a customized BOM and automatically update them when you make assembly modifications.You can generate several kinds of output using Pro/REPORT such as family tables, associative reports, and graphical wirelists. A common example of a report is a customized Bill of Materials (BOM).

The conventional process begins by generating a clay model based on an artist’s conceptual renderings and sketches. After the clay surfaces are “perfected” they are then digitized using either a contact or no-contact method to collect thousands of points. The points are imported into Scantools and smooth curves and surfaces are created using automated fitting functionality to obtain high quality results in an efficient manner.

Today Scantools is used in various industries, ranging in applications from sculpted surfaces of an automotive body panel or mag wheel to engineered surfaces of an aircraft or fan blade.

Scantools is unique in that it offers dynamic feedback while manipulating curves and surfaces to measure quantitative criteria such as deviation and qualitative criteria such as 3-D curvature plots, shaded images (for surfaces), and stylistic highlights (for surfaces). In addition, because the result from beginning to end is a Pro/ENGINEER part file (.prt), it offers a seamless and associative link to all Pro/ENGINEER applications.

Note: All imported scan data, whether in point or curve format, will appear as curves. These scan curves are created as splines passing through the scanned points. The shape may or may not be an accurate representation depending on the amount of noise in the data.

Product Page Link: Pro/Sheetmetal

The Advanced Surface Extension allows engineers to efficiently develop and refine their most demanding geometry and free-form surfaces that are driven by parameters and functionality much rather than aesthetics. Surface Modeling is using the same code as solid modeling. Most of the solid features can therefore be built using surfaces. In addition, parametric surface modeling provides users with tools such as variable section sweeps and blended surfaces to help accurately create the intended shape. The benefit is that surfaces and solids are sharing the same environment, use the same user interface, and can be created in any arbitrary order.

Specifically, parametric surface modeling functionality allows designers to:1. Define even the most complex geometry. The Advanced Surface Extension surface functionality allows the development of complex surface geometry using sweeps, blends, extends, offsets, and a variety of other specialized surface features. Tools are available in the Advanced Surface Extension to efficiently refine geometry, including parametrically modifying the surface, and trimming back or merging multiple surfaces. Surfaces can easily be turned into solid geometry at any given point in the design process.

2. Use information/analysis tools. Numerous tools are available to analyze surfaces such as Gaussian and sectional curvature, slope, surface normals, reflection curves, and draft checking. The surface models can easily be converted into solid geometry for mass property and assembly evaluations.

3. Use top-down design. An unlimited number of Pro/ENGINEER parts and assemblies can be created referencing a single surface model. When this surface model is changed, all related parts are modified accordingly.

Pro/VERIFY is an optional Pro/ENGINEER module that you can use to classify and quantify flaws generated in manufactured models when they are compared to design specifications.




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The details provided below are for reference only and are culled from PTC's product pages, various presentations (past and present) and personal knowledge. There is no guarantee of accuracy or that the information is up-to-date. This information is subject to change without notice. Consult current PTC documentation before using.Pro/VERIFY

· Global defects, such as warping and shrinkage.· Mid-level defects, such as those caused by improper EDM setups· Highly local defects, caused by surface imperfections.Scan data sets can be in any of the following formats:· ASCII (filename.pts)· IBL (filename.ibl)· IGES (filename.igs)· VDA (filename.vda)

The Verify assembly has the following characteristics:· The base component is the design model.· Each scaled and placed scan set is treated as a component part. When you save the assembly, its scan sets are also saved as separate parts.Each fit and deviation case is treated as a feature of the assembly.

Pro/Web.Link Pro/Web.Link is a JavaScript Application Programming Interface (API) for Pro/ENGINEER.

Pro/Welding

Production Machining Option

The Production Machining Option is an option to Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation.

ProductView Standard Edition

Progressive Die Extension

Real-Time Photorendering PHOTORENDER® — Real Time Imaging• Quickly create accurate, photo-realistic images of products• Make dynamic form changes to the model, while maintaining the photo-realistic effects of shadows, reflections, textures, and transparency• Explore and present any 3D model, no matter how complex, to better convey design intent• Render large assemblies in a fraction of the time it used to take for a static rendering

Reverse EngineeringProduct Capabilities:

Obtain point cloud management and refinement, facet modeling and refinement, robust curve creation, robust surface modeling and shape recognition tools.Transform existing physical products in to 3D digital models.Make modifications to these designs.Create surface connections for curvature (G2) within the Restyle module.Automatically generate curve-patch structures as well as surfaces directly on a facet model.Customer Benefits:

Simplifies transformation of a physical prototype into re-usable digital data.Increases productivity from adjusting and altering existing designs.Increases accessibility to parts by quickly recreating discontinued or hard-to-find parts.Increases efficiency for mass customization of parts from a single design.

RSDesigner

Shrinkwrap

Mechanica Option

Key Benefits

Features and Specifications

Typically, you use a laser scanner to scan a manufactured model. The scanner outputs a file containing a cloud of point representations of the model— usually several hundred thousand in one scan. These point representations are generally spaced very closely to detect and measure surface geometry features that are approximately 15/1000 of an inch. Many laser scanners can achieve accuracy to approximately 25 microns.

Pro/ENGINEER reads in the scan data file and then compares the sampled model to the (nominal) design model, using computer-aided verification techniques. You can quantify the following types of deviations:

To maintain compatibility with Pro/ENGINEER formats, Pro/VERIFY first creates an assembly. However, Pro/ENGINEER can distinguish Verify assemblies from Pro/ENGINEER assemblies.

Pro/Web.Link’s functionality falls between that of Pro/PROGRAM and Pro/TOOLKIT. Pro/Web.Link functions similarly to a synchronous Pro/TOOLKIT application. A Pro/Web.Link application runs inside of a browser and “communicates” to a running session of Pro/ENGINEER.

Because Pro/Web.Link applications run inside of a browser, all of the resources of the browser are available, including the ability to use Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) to create Graphical User Interfaces (GUI).

Another feature of Pro/Web.Link is that it utilizes JavaScript as its programming language. JavaScript is much easier to learn than the C programming language, allowing Pro/Web.Link to become a customization tool for the casual programmer.

Product Page Link: Pro/WeldingPro/WELDING is an optional Pro/ENGINEER module that allows you to model welds in assemblies. In addition, you can generate report tables about weld parameters and show welding symbols in assembly drawings.

NC Machining Production Machining Option

This option, which includes Expert Machinist Option, provides NC programming capabilities to create, verify, and optimize 2 1/2- to 3-axis milling (with positioning), 2- to 4-axis turning, and 2- to 4-axis wire EDM. The option is a comprehensive NC Programming environment, providing NC Simulation, NC post-processing, process documentation tools, and a tooling library.

The Pro/ENGINEER Production Machining Option provides manufacturing engineers and job shops with NC programming capabilities and tool libraries to create, check out, and optimize 3-axis milling, 2- to 4-axis turning, and wire EDM. Extending the full associativity of Pro/ENGINEER into manufacturing, it enables them to work concurrently with designers and automatically incorporate design changes – to dramatically increase quality, reduce scrap, and cut production time and costs. Users can start the programming task before the design is finalized, enhancing the ability to meet deadlines. All programming is automatically recovered when changes happen.

NC programmers and machinists use this option to produce machining programs for discrete parts. It is mainly used by moldmakers and production and prototype machine shops. In addition, the Production Machining Option eliminates the inaccuracies and inconvenience of exporting Pro/ENGINEER geometry to third party machining software. The NC Machining Option, is the premier programming system for families of parts with many variations of the same basic design. The programming can be done once for a generic part. New instances of the part are then swapped in, and the machining automatically updates for all instances.

Product Page: ProductView Standard Edition

ProductView brings the digital product model to everyone’s desktop for easy-to-use interrogation and visual collaboration. Most manufacturers today have a plethora of tools for creating digital product information. Many people within the extended enterprise need access to this data. Through its easy to use interface, ProductView allows anyone to visualize assemblies and 3D models from all major MCAD tools, as well as drawings, images and documents from a multitude of sources, all without the need for the native authoring application. With its compact, yet accurate 3D viewable format, complex information can be quickly accessed to reduce rework and improve decision-making. Everyone can collaborate - whether in real-time or by using mark-ups.

ProductView Options (for Additional Purchase)ProductView Realizer Option - ProductView Realizer is an optional module for ProductView Standard that assists in digital mockup studies of heterogeneous MCAD datasets (interference checking, interactive animations & kinematics, movie file creation, motion envelope, space claim studies, more...)ProductView Composer Option - allows you to create and deploy interactive assembly, disassembly, and maintenance work instructionsProductView PDF Collaboration Option - ProductView PDF Collaboration modules provide robust document collaboration capabilities, including watermarks for redlining documents. As an integral part of the PTC Product Development System, these ProductView modules can directly generate PDF drawings from Pro/ENGINEER®, while Windchill® can manage the review process for all PDF documents.ProductView PDF Collaboration Interface - Additional module for ProductView Standard Edition or Lite Edition which allows view/markup/print/watermarking of PDFfiles. It is appropriate for customers who already have seats of Adobe Acrobat (NOT Adobe Reader) - or who intend to purchase Acrobat via other means (e.g. via an Adobe reseller).ProductView Collective Document Viewing Option - Provides the native viewing of a wide range of document office style document. Word, word perfect, excel etc. and image formats. Supports Standard Word processing formats, spreadsheets, database formats, presentations, etcProductView JT Format Option - Convert JT objects to ProductView viewable files

Visual Collaboration for the Digital Product Model- Improve productivity by allowing users to easily share visual information across the enterprise- Reduce re-work through effective mark-ups and real-time collaboration, replacing error-prone and inefficient paper-based processes- Reduce number of expensive physical prototypes- Improve quality through simple access to manufacturing information

Rich visualization tools for the enterprise- Measure accurately (from B-REP geometry) - Cut, measure, markup, and manipulate sections in real-time- Perform color-coded searches by attribute or spatial location- View and interrogate PMI information (including GD&T and Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3D Drawings)- Build heterogeneous digital mockups- View product structure and meta data

Additional Features-Optional adapters for JT, Unigraphics, CADDS 5, SolidWorks, CATIA, I-DEAS and Microstation- Optional Realizer module for digital mockup studies and creating animations- Optional Composer module for creating interactive work instructions- Optional PDF Collaboration module for robust view and markup of PDF files

Product Page Link: Progressive Die Extension

Pro/ENGINEER Progressive Die promotes faster creation of progressive dies. Die designers can work with solid, sheetmetal and imported geometry to prepare the part for strip layout and staging. Specialized wizards automate strip layout definition, cut stamp creation and placement and modification of die components. Pro/ENGINEER Progressive Die provides “smart” assemblies and components - when components are placed, operations such as clearance cuts and drilled and tapped holes, are automatically created in the appropriate neighboring plates and components, thereby relieving the mold designer of time consuming, repetitive and error-prone die design and detailing tasks.

Capabilities: • Sheetmetal design parts are automatically prepared for strip layout and staging – bend, pierce and form areas are colored for easier identification and selection • Automated strip layout definition using a specialized, quick preview wizard • Automated cut stamp creation including automated bushing configuration and assembly • “Smart” die components and assemblies with quick-preview wizard for all components and plates easy placement and modification • Automatic creation of drawings including automatic hole charts and BOM

Benefits: • Specialized GUI’s guide users through progressive die design – shortens the learning curve • Saves time in unbending and identifying features for staging • Increases design productivity and allows insertion of new stages even after the die is design • Easier creation of cut stamps – more robust, automatically update to changes in sheetmetal design part • Repetitive tasks, such as creating clearance cuts when components are placed, are completely automated • Drawings, including BOM and hole charts, are automatically created – drawing templates can be easily customized • Creates solid models of stamps that maintain an associative link to Pro/ENGINEER NC applications – if the design part changes, the stamps, plates and NC toolpath update • All library components and GUI’s are easily customizable to suit your company’s standards.

Product Page Link: Reverse Engineering

Product Page Link: Routed Systems Option


Routed System Designer is a completely new Diagram product from PTC. It is a single user diagram system for Wiring Diagrams and Process Instrumentation diagrams. It does not have any pre-requisites. It can export routing information to drive Pro/PIPING and Pro/CABLING at release 2001 and beyond.

To share data with internal and external design groups and improve performance in large assembly design, you can capture lightweight representations of models, called "Shrinkwrap models." A Shrinkwrap model is based on the external surfaces of the source part or assembly model and captures the "skin," or outer shape, of the source model.

About Shrinkwrap Features: · A Shrinkwrap feature is a collection of surfaces and datum features of a model that represents the exterior of the model. You can use a part, skeleton, or top-level assembly as the source model for a Shrinkwrap feature. You can control the components and the surface subset to include in the Shrinkwrap feature.

· Unlike the Shrinkwrap model, a Shrinkwrap feature is associative and automatically updates to reflect changes in the parent copied surfaces. The Shrinkwrap feature detects when components have been added or removed, and updates accordingly. You can control updates with dependency control and switch between making the feature dependent on referenced additional surfaces or independent. The independent state can be useful to avoid unwanted regeneration cycles.

· The Shrinkwrap feature gives an accurate representation of the exterior of a model without the need for having the entire model in memory, so less memory is required. When created in an assembly, a Shrinkwrap feature can be seen in an empty simplified representation (one that does not have any components). This empty simplified representation (of this subassembly) can be assembled to another assembly (the parent assembly). Thus the detail of a complex subassembly can be represented in its parent assembly by a subset of surfaces that requires a fraction of the memory space that would be used if the actual assembly had been assembled instead of the empty simplified representation. This can be a powerful tool in the manipulation of large assemblies.

· The system creates the Shrinkwrap feature in the object that is currently being modified. All created geometry appears in the modified object. The system captures source geometry by means of a surface method, along with datum geometry and such shrinkwrap attributes as surface selection and hole removal, according to your specifications. You can create a Shrinkwrap feature in an envelope part or in an empty component.

Product Page Link: Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica OptionPro/ENGINEER Mechanica Option gives designers the power to understand product performance on the desktop, before resorting to physical prototyping. By gaining early insight into product behavior, you save time, effort, and money.

Unified, Integral Design Environment: • Native to Pro/ENGINEER; common workflow and UI • Fully associative with all Pro/ENGINEER applications • Single data model with all analysis information embedded; no additional files to manage • No time-consuming data translation • Global support from one supplier

Not Just Any Answer–The Right Answer: • Powerful adaptive technology drives solution accuracy • Automatic convergence gives product designers confidence in results--with no intervention • Capture actual model geometry as designed, not a linear approximation as in traditional analysis packages • Get the most accurate answer in the least amount of time

Early Design Insight and Improvement: • Make smart decisions early on to mitigate risk • Bring function into conceptual design • Early discovery of design flaws increases first-time build success • Design insight drives engineers toward better designs

Reduce Risk and Increase Innovation: • Explore “what-if” studies to evaluate many product designs automatically • Detect design and production problems before prototypes are built • Optimize design for intended function • Automatically establish best combination of design variables and product options

Reduce Product Cost: • Iterate with simulation; validate with a physical prototype • Reduce design cycle times with rapid feedback • Improved product quality reduces warranty issues • Reduce changes due to rework/ECO’s

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Mechanica Option

Advanced Adaptive Solution: • Automatic solution convergence • Maps precisely to underlying CAD geometry • Iterates to a quality, converged solution Supports Multiple Solution Types: • Static structural (including contact) • Modal/natural frequency • Buckling • Steady state thermal

Design Optimization: • Makes use of the parametric nature of Pro/ENGINEER • Local, global sensitivity studies • Goal-oriented, multidiscipline optimization studiesStructural Loads: • Force/Moment • Pressure • Centrifugal • Gravity • Bearing • TemperatureStructural Constraints: • Displacement • Symmetry • Along SurfaceThermal Loads: • Heat Loads • Thermal Boundary ConditionsAn Open Solution: • Solution in either MECHANICA® or 3rd-party solvers • Solution in either MECHANICA® or 3rd-party solvers • ANSYS 6.1

Tool Design Option

Vericut for Pro/Engineer

Warp Revolutionary New “Warp” Technology• Make universal deformations of selected geometry in 3D• Dynamically scale, reorient, taper, stretch, bend, and twist the model• Apply deformations both to native Pro/ENGINEER models as well as to any geometry imported from other CAD tools.

Web Connectivity

• Integral Internet/Intranet capabilities including e-mail, FTP, and Web browsing• Ability to leverage existing IT infrastructure for more effective product development• Tools to query models with interactive XML reports using model, feature, and standards-compliance information• Comprehensive JavaScript API-to-Pro/ENGINEER functionality• Built-in connections to:• Access to libraries with thousands of ready-made Pro/ENGINEER parts• PTC Online Technical Support services• Online hints, tips and advice from expert users• Seamless access to optional Windchill® solutions for project collaboration and product data management

Web Publish

Windchill PDMLink

Personalized Product Workspaces• Current Work and Recent Task Display• Personal Notebook• Subscriptions:Pervasive Visualization• Part Identification• Three-Dimensional Part Visualization• Enterprise Visibility:Product Information Capture• CAD Integration:• Top Down Design:• Desktop Integration• Full Text Search• Other Data and Document Types:Complete Configuration Management• Auto-Generated Part and Document Identifiers• Version Control• Product Structure Views• Effectivity ManagementProduct Structure AnnotationAutomate Product Development Processes using WorkflowChange System Metrics

Windchill ProjectLink

Capabilities• Self-service project management enables users to track project milestones, activities, tasks, deliverables, schedules, and resources• Central repository for all project-related information• Lightweight (minimal file size) visualization of information from various CAD authoring tools• Streamlined business process management through an automated workflow• Read/read-write access determined by project manager• Automatic change notification through subscription protocols• Discussion forums and online collaborative meetingsBenefits• Accelerates time-to-market by providing common virtual workspaces for dispersed project teams• Reduces product and overhead costs by delivering timely and accurate information to project team members• Enhances innovation through real-time collaboration inside or outside firewalls with the extended value chain• Improves customer intimacy through interactive customer participation in product development• Creates one location for all project documents, drawings, and information, including version control

Handles Any Model Type: • Work with all types of geometry including solids, shells, beams, or mixed models • Extract mid-surface geometry • Robust library of tools such as spot welds that allow engineers to rapidly simulate assemblies • Interprets Pro/ENGINEER assemblies and automatically connects components at solution

Product Page Link: Tool Design

This option provides specialized functionality for injection mold, casting and stamping die design. Functionality includes insert design, mold splitting, shrinkage compensation, multi cavity mold layout, design of waterlines and runners, and moldbase/mold component libraries and selection.

Product Page Link: VERICUT for Pro/ENGINEER

VERICUT for Pro/ENGINEER is a software product that enables users to reduce or even eliminate physical part program prove-outs by simulating the process of material removal as it happens on NC machines. The software verifies the accuracy of the tool path and makes certain the finished part matches the design model. Errors that could ruin the part, damage the fixture or break the cutting tool are easily identified and corrected before the NC program is used.

Pro/ENGINEER is built to enable immediate collaboration, so you can generate more ideas faster and minimize review time. Pro/ENGINEER, with a Web services architecture, enables you to do much more than just surf the Web. Other Web capabilities include:

Product Page Link: VRML/HTML OutputPro/WEB PUBLISH enables you to:· Create a paperless environment that reduces the cost of creating and plotting drawings.· Extend the access to data to all parts of an organization.

The publishing tools enable you to export and then view—in HTML, VRML, CGM, and JPEG formats—the following on the Web browser:· Assembly models and data· Assembly processes including graphical and textural information for each process step· Manufacturing processes including graphical and textural information for each process step

Process and assembly information that you view in the browser reflects the process data extracted programmatically from Pro/ENGINEER.All publications that you create with Pro/WEB PUBLISH are view-only. Once a publication is created, it is independent from the original assembly or process plan. If you make changes to the model in Pro/ENGINEER, you must re-create the publication to reflect the latest changes.

Product Page Link: Windchill PDMLink

Windchill® PDMLink™ fulfills this requirement by providing unmatched out-of-the-box functionality for the capture and management of product information throughout the product lifecycle. Best of all, it offers a quick and streamlined deployment which can be completed in as few as five weeks.

Product Page Link: Windchill ProjectLink

Windchill ProjectLink is a quick-start solution that delivers Web based, real-time project collaboration for your extended product development team. Users can quickly create Web-based, virtual workspaces where globally and organizationally dispersed design team members can work together as if in the same room.



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