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Impressive Renderings Created With Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0

Read this entry to see more impressive renderings! 

In the first graphics here you can see a SRAM XO Short Cage

created using the new Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Software.

Honeycomb Solutions in partnership with Microsoft

Honeycomb Solutions are featured in Microsoft’s Prime Partner Guide .

In this Partner Directory you can find an extensive range of Microsoft partners from all over the world that can help you with your enterprise technology needs.

For more information about Honeycomb Solutions check the online Prime Partner Guide of Microsoft.

Design Partners – What Our Customers Think of Pro/ENGINEER

“The fully customisable interface of Pro/ENGINEER – with its map keys and GUI laid out the way I want it – makes navigation a breeze.”

James Lynch works as an Engineering Manager for Design Partners, a design consultancy firm in Bray, Ireland. After learning Pro/ENGINEER during a semester studying at the University of Limerick, he joined the Design Partners team in 2005 and has been using Pro/ENGINEER on a daily basis ever since.

“It doesn’t take long to become familiar with the software. Within a day or two you can begin to understand the process and build some models,” he reports.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Preview

Short overview of some of the highlights of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 as shown by Brian Shepherd at PTC/USER 2009, in Orlando, FL. 

PTC Named “Ducati Official Supplier”

Distinction Recognises Contribution Of Leading PLM Technology Provider To World Renowned Motorbikes, Celebrates 10-Year Partnership Between The Two Companies

PTC announced today that Ducati Motor Company has named PTC as "Official Supplier" 2009. The prestigious title, reserved for a selected group of top quality service and product suppliers, recognises PTC’s contribution to the development of Ducati motorbikes.

PTC provides Ducati the engineering software for the engines installed on all motorbikes, and for data management needs of the company. The first deployment of PTC solutions in Ducati dates back to 2000. Currently, Pro/ENGINEER® and Pro/INTRALINK® are deployed throughout the company.

“Pro/ENGINEER is so easy to learn…”

“…no wonder it is so popular with American students and teachers.”

Each year, the NESEA – the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association – conducts the Junior Solar Sprint Program, where middle-school students from the north-eastern part of the United States design and build a model solar car for competition.

On their website, www.nesea.org, the organisers of the competition ask, “Where are tomorrow’s inventors, tomorrow’s engineers? Where are tomorrow’s technological trouble-shooters and scientists? Where are tomorrow’s out-of-the-box thinkers?”

Well, we have found four of them:

Overview/First Look: Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0

Read a very interesting and informative commentary by Jeff Rowe, Contributing Editor of MCADCafe.com, on Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 :

MCADCafe Weekly : Overview/First Look: Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 -

“PTC announced Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, the next major release of its integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software and a key component of the PTC Product Development System (PDS). Pro/ENGINEER, the world’s first parametric CAD solution, delivers new capabilities to help customers eliminate traditional design barriers to achieve faster, more efficient and more innovative product development. …” (excerpt from the article)

Social Product Development – The Evolution of Product Development

Social computing is changing communications today. And, it’s about to change how the world develops products tomorrow.

Curious? Have a look at the PTC Social Product Development page.

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