November 2007:
Small And Medium Businesses Execute Global Product Development Initiatives With PTC® Windchill®
The Product Development Company®, today announced that small and medium businesses (SMB) are implementing its Windchill content and process management solution to help achieve success in their global product development initiatives. Windchill helps companies manage and configure complete product development content, and optimize the broad set of product development processes necessary to bring products to market and manage them over the entire lifecycle. The momentum of Windchill adoption was recently reflected in PTC’s fourth quarter earnings results which reported the highest revenue for Windchill solutions in the company’s history.
More information at www.ptc.comNovember 2007:
MITCalc for Pro/ENGINEER - v. 1.40 released!
The MITCalc engineering calculations were extended by:
- New worm gearing calculation (DIN, AGMA)
The calculation is used for geometrical and strength designs and worm gearing check. Gearing can be designed for selected safety coefficients including optimization e.g. for weight, efficiency, centre-line distance, etc. Worm gearing thermal analysis is added to the calculation of geometry and safety coefficients (wear, seizure, deflection, fatigue break). The calculation is in accordance with DIN 3996, DIN 3975-1, DIN 3975-2 and ANSI/AGMA 6022-C93 and /AGMA 6034-B92. Outputs to 2D and 3D CAD systems are supported. (More info...) - Integration of the Extension Pack EP06 (bearings III - FAG)
- Chinese language (traditional, simplified)
- Other modifications, corrections and enhancements of MITCalc calculations
- Calculation compatibility with MSOffice 2007 (user interface modifications)
- Bearings I - SKF
- Bearings II - INCH
October 2007:
PTC To Acquire Leading PDS Provider CoCreate For $250 Million
The Product Development Company®, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CoCreate Software GmbH, a provider of PLM and CAD modeling solutions for approximately $250 million. CoCreate, based in Sindelfingen, Germany, is privately held, has 280 employees and more than 5,000 customers globally including Agilent, Canon, Fisher Controls, Fujitsu, HP, Liebherr, Matsushita Electric, NEC, Olympus, Phoenix Contact and Seiko Epson.
With the acquisition of CoCreate, PTC will broaden its portfolio and offer support for the most comprehensive range of modeling techniques in the MCAD industry. PTC plans to integrate the CoCreate modeling solutions with the PTC Product Development System (PDS) in order to offer CoCreate customers additional product development capabilities including engineering calculations, dynamic publishing, visualization, high-speed machining, and enterprise content and process management, and ultimately, the option of using their modeling solutions also as part of the PTC PDS.
More information at www.ptc.comSeptember 2007:
BOSCH Group Deploys PTC Windchill As Global Data Management Platform
The Product Development Company®, today announced that Robert Bosch GmbH, headquartered in Stuttgart (Germany), plans to deploy Windchill PDMLink at numerous business units to improve their product development processes. In a joint project, Bosch Corporate Information Technology (CI) and PTC global services are going to implement Windchill PDMLink to better manage Pro/ENGINEER® data, which is the standard CAD/CAM/CAE solution at many Bosch business divisions. The new platform reduces the number of system configurations and harmonizes data management at the different business units. The single platform enables the reuse of data within the business units and improves collaboration as more and more product information with increasing complexity has to be managed globally. The decision to implement the PTC® Product Development System (PDS) was also driven by Bosch’s strategic requirement for a global Web-based IT architecture.
More information at www.ptc.comJuly 2007:
PTC Announces Pro/TOOLMAKER 8.1
The Product Development Company®, today announced Pro/TOOLMAKER 8.1. Since its acquisition of NC Graphics in May 2007, PTC has focused on delivering a complete solution for optimized tool making and high-speed, precision machining processes. Pro/TOOLMAKER is a stand-alone software application that provides multi-CAD support to enable fully associative, reliable NC toolpath programming for Pro/ENGINEER® and other CAD systems.
Toolmakers require best-in-class solutions to meet the challenging demands of their discrete manufacturing customers and to compete in a global marketplace. Additionally, the ability to create molds and dies quickly and accurately is important to the manufacturing process and overall product development process. Historically these tools have been created in 2D CAD environments, but are increasingly being designed in 3D CAD/CAM systems. With its optimized high-speed machining capabilities, Pro/TOOLMAKER will offer manufacturing engineers and machinists a powerful package of NC programming capabilities that include NC post-processing and tooling libraries in a single product. Pro/TOOLMAKER enables companies to reduce scrap costs, increase product quality, decrease production time, and deliver products to market faster.
More information at www.ptc.comJune 2007:
PTC Releases Windchill 9
The Product Development Company®, today announced Windchill® 9.0, the latest release of PTC’s production-proven content and process management software. Offering extensive new capabilities, Windchill 9.0 strengthens key engineering, manufacturing, and publishing business processes and offers immediate solutions to product development initiatives such as lowering product costs, achieving greater design reuse and improving productivity.
As an integral component of the PTC® Product Development System (PDS), Windchill is a proven solution that provides collaboration, control and configuration of product content to over 3,000 thousand global manufactures. In an environment where products need to be configured to meet individual customer requirements in a shorter time period, Windchill enables companies to reuse designs, make modifications, manage work-in-process tasks, and synchronize activities among workgroups and the enterprise. Windchill 9.0 is focused on solving customer-specific problems that can deliver the biggest impact to the company’s operations giving them the ability to manage real world business processes that affect time-to-market and cost pressures.
More information at www.ptc.comMay 2007:
PTC Acquires Leading CAM Software Provider NC Graphics Ltd
The Product Development Company®, today announced it has acquired NC Graphics Ltd., headquartered in Cambridge, England. The acquisition of NC Graphics is in direct response to customer demand for specialized CAM capabilities required for molds, dies, and prototypes. With its Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) technology, NC Graphics delivers best-of-breed software for optimizing tool making and high-speed precision machining processes. NC Graphics has more than 1,500 customers in multiple discrete manufacturing vertical markets such as aerospace, automotive, medical equipment and motorsports. With this acquisition, PTC strengthens the link between product design and manufacturing, offering its customers faster production of molds and dies. As a result, parts will be available sooner and at a higher quality level than other non-integrated solutions.
More information at www.ptc.comMay 2007:
PTC Introduces Pro/ENGINEER Packages That Provide Unmatched Scalability
The Product Development Company®, today announced new packages of its flagship Pro/ENGINEER 3D integrated CAD/CAM/CAE software. This announcement deepens the company’s commitment to provide customers, large and small, with a flexible set of Pro/ENGINEER packages to support their evolving product development needs. PTC’s approach to Pro/ENGINEER – combining ease-of-use with powerful functionality on a single platform - is embodied in this set of scalable packages, meeting the cost and functional requirements of all companies and users, whether their product development environment is globally distributed or centrally located.
PTC’s unique set of scalable packages provides the flexibility to seamlessly expand capabilities to accommodate growth and increasing product development complexity – a growing trend even with small companies. The scalability of Pro/ENGINEER and the flexibility offered by the packages creates a unique value proposition for organizations that would prefer to make technology investments priced and packaged according to their current business needs with limitless upward potential to support the evolution of their business over years to come. PTC’s competitively priced, easy to use, upgradeable packages represent the most comprehensive range of package options on the market today:
- Pro/ENGINEER® Foundation XE - embodies PTC’s essential 3D CAD solution offering the most robust 3D product design toolset that is the core of the industry's only scalable product development platform.
- Pro/ENGINEER® Advanced SE – extends the Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE offering with the addition of hosted data management capabilities to manage increasing product complexity.
- Pro/ENGINEER® Advanced XE - expands the features of the Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE package with the choice of a high performance add-on design module and data management solutions enabling growing companies to control and manage information across product development teams.
- Pro/ENGINEER® Enterprise SE – enhances product development initiatives with a set of high performance design modules and data management solutions in addition to providing collaboration and project management capabilities to seamlessly connect the extended supply chain.
- Pro/ENGINEER® Enterprise XE - delivers an extensive product development solution, including simulation and analysis, engineering calculations, enterprise visualization and technical documentation authoring capabilities designed to solve the complex needs of today's globally dispersed development teams.
Faced with increasing competitive pressures, manufacturing companies need high quality solutions that help optimize their product development processes and move products to market faster and at lower costs. Furthermore, the new suite of Pro/ENGINEER packages offers customers a choice of pre-configured solutions that enable them to take advantage of the same unified platform regardless of their company size or the complexity of their product or processes. Whether an organization needs a cost-effective 3D CAD system with all the basic capabilities to create innovative designs, or 3D CAD with data management and specialized capabilities such as advanced assembly or piping and cabling, or a comprehensive system that seamlessly connects people and data to the extended supply chain, Pro/ENGINEER packages provide exactly that they need with room to grow as their businesses and needs grow.
May 2007:
SpaceExplorer - 3D motion controller from the company 3DConnexion
COGRAS became the reseller fo intelligent 3D motion controllers from the company 3DConnexion. 3Dconnexion’s SpaceExplorer is the hands-down winner when it comes to comfortable and intuitive 3D navigation devices for design professionals.
Featuring an array of easy-to-reach function keys labeled and pre-programmed with commands from leading design applications, SpaceExplorer’s advanced ergonomics offer 3D designers high-end performance at a mid-range price.
May 2007:
MITCalc for Pro/ENGINEER v1.30
Engineering calculations MITCalc were extended with new modules:
- New calculation of fifteen types of springs
- New calculation of internal toothing
- Extended calculation of external spur toothing
Other modifications, corrections and extension of MITCalc calculations:
- SKF bearings: Correction of drawing for some axial roller bearings
- Pins: New types of ANSI pins added
- Pressure springs: Correction of wrong assignment of the value of spring constant in DXF table
- Tension springs: Correction of translation
- ANSI toothing: Correction of calculation of safety coefficient (SP05)
- Shafts: Modification of calculation of critical revolutions
More information about MITCalc for Pro/ENGINEER
April 2007:
ADLT 2.0 & 2.1 released - News in this version
- Approximate phrase matching - typing errors do not matter any more. For each phrase all approximatelly matching phrases from the dictionary are offered.
- German letters ä, ö, ü and ß are equal to ae, oe, ue and ss.
- Windows XP 64 bit platform supported
More information about ADLT (Advanced Drawing Language Translator)
March 2007:
PTC's new acquisition - ITEDO Software
With its market-leading IsoDraw family of products, ITEDO delivers comprehensive software solutions for creating and maintaining technical illustrations.
ITEDO has more than 2,400 customers in multiple discrete manufacturing vertical markets such as automotive, aerospace and defense, and industrial equipment.
With this acquisition, PTC will be the only vendor to offer a complete solution for creating, managing, and publishing text and graphical content for technical publications.
March 2007:
ADLT & M4P on Share*it!
Two of our product (Advanced Drawing Language Translator, MITCalc for Pro/ENINEER) have been registered with Share*it! (global e-commerce provider for Internet software and shareware sales). This enables our customers to pay for our software licenses with credit cards.
- Purchase ADLT (Advanced Drawing Language Translator)
- Purchase M4P (MITCalc for Pro/ENGINEER)
- Purchase FBU (Full Backup)
March 2007:
PSP Engineering a.s. Prerov upgrades to Wildfire 3.0
PSP Engineering a.s. Prerov - the first Czechoslowak Pro/E user - decided based on good experience to enhance substantially its Pro/ENGINEER installations together with upgrading to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 by the end of April 2007
January 2007:
COGRAS became the reseller of IPA (Immersive Product Animator)
COGRAS concluded Partner Agreement with the company Immersive Design, Inc. based on which we can resell the Immersive Product Animator (IPA).
- IPA creates interactive animations of product designs directly from 3D CAD solid modelers.
- IPA is in use at more than 1200 customer sites in 22 countries worldwide. Customers range from fitness product and consumer product manufacturers to underground mining equipment and diesel engine providers.
- Representative customers include: Ford Motor, 3M, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, EDS, Eaton Corporation, John Deere, Gillette, Intel, Lucent Technologies, Motorola Corporation, and NASA.
January 2007:
ADLT 1.1 released - News in this version
- Variable text
(phrase in the dictionary may contain variable part - see picture) - Phrase editor
(new dialog for more comfortable phrase editing) - Translator
(the user can decide which phrase will be /will not be stored in the dictionary) - Dictionary editor
(duplicate phrase filter)
More information about ADLT (Advanced Drawing Language Translator)
November 2006:
3DCaliper 3.1 released - News in this version
- Integration of company logo to reports
- Separate directory for customized report templates
- Application can be closed when Batch mode ends (releasing license)
- License information - Table with detailed information about actual license usage
- Analysis information - Username and date as part of analysis result window
- Minimal distance display in Pro/ENGINEER
- Result Mask - Possibility to hide/display results based on their minimal distance
- Automatic surface orientation
October 2006:
STROJTOS takes the advantage of Pro/ENGINEER
The company STROJTOS Lipník nad Beèvou has decided to take the advantage of Pro/ENGINEER in development and design of new products and thus to join the group of producers of machine tool who use the most powerful CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM technology to maximize their benefits, such as DECKEL, MAHO, GILDEMEISTER, ZPS-TAJMAC, CETOS, TOS, ...
September 2006:
PTC World 2006 conference in Europe
PTC holds the meeting of Pro/E users under the name PTC WORLD 2006 in a new way. Four one-day free user meetings will be held in Düsseldorf, Birmingham, Paris and Milano during November 14-17, 2006. For more information please see www.ptcworld.org
September 2006:
Second phase of INSCAPE custom project finished
After more than 2 years of development and debugging the second phase of our custom project for the Canadian company INSCAPE was finished. The purpose of this project is to automate sheet metal part placement in the production of office furniture.
The next phase of the custom project for the company INSCAPE will be solved together with our new partner – the company ORSES Oakville, the reseller of PTC technologies in Canada.
June 2006:
Partnership with VRcontext
VRcontext is committed to developing real time visualization software applications for industry. The software is targeted towards the Energy, Manufacturing and Government sectors. As an innovative IT company VRcontext has implemented a company culture which encourages research & development to better provide cost-effective visualization solutions. At the same time VRcontext has a dedicated customer focus and works together with hard- & software partners to deliver the best solutions.
June 2006:
16th specialized Pro/ENGINEER user meeting at COGRAS
The following has been presented and showed at the meeting:
- new version of the most advanced CAD/CAM/CAE technology - Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 with innovated user interface
- capabilities of Product Development System (PDS), i.e. PTC's PLM solutions based on Windchill
- useful add-on product for everyday's mechanical calculations (MITCalc for Pro/ENGINEER) and translation of Pro/ENGINEER drawings (ADLT)
- our Pro/TOOLKIT applications (DBT) and (RICOSYS)
May 2006:
Ludìk Niessner took part in PTC's Windchill training
- Training agenda at Lyon:
- Windchill 8.0 - System Components - description of Windchill component
- PDMLink 8.0 Application - User Features & Functions - description of user interface and functions
- PDMLink 8.0 Administration - Container & Policy Setup - basic administration and settings of libraries, products and access rights
- Training agenda at Barcelona:
- Windchill 8.0 - Lightweight Extension Patterns & Mechanisms - basic customization of appearance and further administration of life cycles and workflow
- Windchill 8.0 - CAD Data Management - management of Pro/ENGINEER data in Windchill
May 2006:
SP05 for MITCalc for Pro/ENGINEER version 1.22
The service pack (set of all calculations) solves issues described below.
- Spur gears (Imperial version)
Not correct calculation of the Contact stress (gear) in line [10.3]. (Importance - High) - Bevel gears (Imperial version)
Not correct calculation of the Contact stress (gear) in line [10.3]. (Importance - High)
May 2006:
New product ADLT released!
New product Advanced Drawing Language Translator (ADLT) released. ADLT provides automated translation of texts on Pro/ENGINEER drawings. ADLT application – fully integrated in Pro/ENGINEER – translates texts from the drawing elements (notes, balloons, tables, drawing dimensions, drawing parameters, symbols) giving the user full control over the translation process.
April 2006:
3DCaliper 3.0 released!
New version of 3DCaliperu brings Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 and MS Windows 64-Bit support and other substantial improvements enabling more efficient product design.
More about news in 3DCaliper 3.0
March 2006:
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
PTC announced release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 for March 17, 2006! More information about news in WF 3.0 (PDF)
March 2006:
COGRAS was confirmed PTC Software Partner and PTC Authorized Reseller!
