Software Solutions
Thank you for your interest in the EAC hosted webcasts. Below you will find a chonological list of the sessions currently available for review. Select a link, complete a short form, and you are all set.
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• September 12, 2008 - Mechanics of Pro/E Admin
This session discusses successful Pro/E environment best practices including initial installation and server considerations, client install options, hardware and graphics driver issues, training, and options for legacy data. It also covers options for common parts, how to handle shared files, config files, and share industries online resources. All centered around the topic of administrating a successful Pro/E environment.
• September 19, 2008 - Getting the most out of PTC.com
This session uncovers rich content you may not know exists on PTC.com. Tutorials, User Guides, how to order media, license management, call logging and tracking, and knowledge base searching. This session is designed to help both Pro/ENGINEER users and administrators alike.
• October 10, 2008 - Setting up a scene for your product in Pro/E
This session explores the Pro/ENGINEER rendering package. See basics such as, how to add colors and appearances to your models, how to create a room and add lighting. Learn some great tips-n-tricks to consider while rendering a model.
• November 7, 2008 - License Mgmt. & License Borrowing Tips-n-Techniques
This session will explains license management and borrowing in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire versions 2.0 or later. Topics include:
• Ways to extend the built-in 5 day borrowing limitation
• The effect of borrowing on license pools
• Advanced management tools
• Navigating unnerving administrative issues
Learn about techniques, processes and free tools that can help you take the frustration out of this inconvenient necessity
• December 5, 2008 - Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Migration Options and Tools
Many companies have to decide how they will move forward from Pro/INTRALINK 3.x. This webcast replay will help answer some of the questions a company or admin may have when approaching this decision.
This session covers:
• What to consider during the decision making process
• Who is best suited to perform a companies migration
• Why a company would decide to upgrade/migrate
• What PDM/PLM tools are available
• Tools that will simplify the migration process
• December 12, 2008 - Mold Design Automation Tools & Tips
This session reviews valuable user tools & tips for mold design automation including:
• Naming practices for parting surfaces, volumes, and splits
• Post creation name and feature editing
• Undercut detection tools for volume creation for splits
• Uses for the Runner Feature; other than runners
• The Ejector Pin Catalog; an often overlooked feature
• The creation & manipulation of automatic parting surfaces.
• Date: N/A -Windchill View & Print Demonstration
This video demonstration presents a light weight Windchill user role. You will see how to minimize the number of picks and clicks required to view and print objects in, and from, the Windchill environment. Users that would find this demonstration valuable are non-CAD user such as a Management, sales, or marketing employees.
• January 2, 2009 - Leveraging Excel & Mathcad Integration with Pro/ENGINEER
This webcast replay explains Excel and Mathcad integration with Pro/ENGINEER. By watching this video you will see Microsoft Excel calculations can directly drive Pro/E geometry and simplify changes to design requirements. This session also covers how Mathcad, a white-board style calculations software, integrates with Pro/ENGINEER and many other CAD applications.
• January 9, 2009 - Wildfire 5.0 Preview & Wildfire 4.0 New Modules
This session provides an in-depth look at the modules and features of Wildfire 5.0. We'll reviewed are the modules available to users with active maintenance in the Wildfire 4.0 M060 release. Take a peek at the Wildfire 5.0 interface and new modules: Manikin Lite, Mechanica Lite, and Manufacturing Lite.
• January 16, 2009 - Startup TOOLS, Launch your Pro/ENGINEER!
Startup TOOLS is a precision engineered tool developed specifically for the engineering and design professional using Pro/ENGINEER. Its user-friendly graphic interface uses the built-in browser within Pro/ENGINEER. Startup TOOLS allows the user quick access to the most common tools and library parts used in Pro/Engineer, and its customizable format will allow you to create a working environment and graphic libraries specific to your company, and friendly for your users.
• January 30, 2009 - Overhauled 2D Drawing Functionality in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0
This session covers the overhauled 2D drawing functionality in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0. We dive into the task-based user interface, show how the drawing tree simplifies drawing creration, and touch on other areas that PTC has addressed in this newest release. Viewing this webinar session is a must for anyone creating 2D drawings of their designs in Pro/ENGINEER.
• February 6, 2009 - ProductPoint: SharePoint Based Pro/ENGINEER Data Mgmt
This video presents the latest addition to the Windchill family. Windchill ProductPoint. ProductPoint is a data management system built on the Microsoft SharePoint architecture. This easy-to-install software helps Pro/ENGINEER users easily collaborate across a team. If you are looking for a reasonable means to control your IP and boost productivity, you need to see this demonstration.
• February 18, 2009 - Mathcad vs. Excel Webcast
This webcast replay presents the functionality and interfaces of the top calculation tools for engineers. And we're not talking about paper, pencil and calculator...We plunge into the calculation and logic features that matter most to engineers. In one corner: Mathcad, PTC's calculation software; in the other, the familiar tool: Microsoft Excel. Topics covered include: data entry and export, unit management, and IP security, just to name a few.
• February 20, 2009 - Automation of Pro/ENGINEER with a focus on Pro/TOOLKIT
If your product development team engages in frequent repetitive tasks or occasional tasks requiring a lot of time and money, learn how automation may be a good fit for you. Fishbowl Solutions will highlight customer projects to help explain how automation can save companies a lot of money.
• February 25, 2009 - Mathcad Integration with Pro/ENGINEER
Mathcad has long been the calculation tool of choice for companies in the civil, commercial, industrial, and government sectors. View this webcast replay to see why. Learn how this powerful engineering tool integrates with Pro/ENGINEER to make collaboration and quality control easier than ever. By leveraging Mathcad's direct integration with Pro/ENGINEER companies can reduce or eliminate the risk associated with errors in data entry and data conversion.
• February 26, 2009 - ProductPoint: A Deep Dive Into SharePoint Based Pro/ENGINEER Data Management
You can literally say you saw it here first! On February 26th EAC Product Development Solutions hosted this Deep Dive webinar showcasing Windchill ProductPoint, the latest addition to the Windchill family.
Windchill ProductPoint – the first technology built from direct collaboration between Microsoft® and PTC – is a CAD data management tool built on the Microsoft SharePoint architecture. This easy-to-install software helps Pro/ENGINEER users easily collaborate across a team. If you are looking for a reasonable means to control your IP and boost productivity, you need to see this replay.
• February 27, 2009 - The ProductView Publishing Adapter Install & Configuration
This webcast replay explains the ins-and-outs of configuring the ProductView Publishing Adapter to output rich interactive visualizations within Windchill. This presentation covers topics such as publishing shaded views on drawings, creating visualizations from IGES files, and publishing interactive visualizations from STEP files. If you are a CAD or Windchill admin we recommend watching this great presentation.
• March 6, 2009 - The Basics of the Advanced Assembly Extension
This session discusses the basics of the Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX) and how this exciting Pro/ENGINEER add-on can help you become more productive with your seat of Pro/ENGINEER.
AAX provides a collection of tools that allow users to leverage top-down design methods to accelerate the product development process and collaborate more effectively across workgroups.
• March 13, 2009 - Family Tables and Pro/ENGINEER
Using Family Tables and Inheritance models is a great way to enhance your productivity in Pro/ENGINEER. This session covers the benefits, techniques, and best practices for using Family Tables and inheritance models within Pro/ENGINEER
• March 20, 2009 - Mechanica Lite: Built in functionality and how to use it
Pro/ENGINEER now comes standard with built in analysis functionality via the Mechanica Lite module. Mechanica Lite is a built in tool in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 M070 and later. This session walks through the built in functionality and compares Mechanica Lite to the standard Mechanica and Advanced Mechanica modules.
• March 27, 2009 - How Modern Training Options Help You Keep Pace During Slow Times
This replay covers the modern training options available to Engineering and Design industry professionals. We discuss the pluses and minuses of various training methods, including: general costs, cost advantages, learning style benefits, and delivery formats. Learn about the training methods available to you and/or your team--and how the right training mix helps position an individual and company for success.
• April 3, 2009 - Pro/ENGINEER Sheetmetal Basics
Re-visit the basics of Sheetmetal modeling in Pro/ENGINEER. Take a look at common sheetmetal design tasks such as the creation of flanges, flat walls, and flat patterns, as well as conversions from solid to sheetmetal, and editing of bend tables. You will also see some of the sheetmetal user defined features specific to Wildfire 4.0
• April 17, 2009 - How to use the built in surfacing tools in Pro/ENGINEER FXE
This session explores some of the standard surfacing creation and editing functionality available in the base FXE package of Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0. This presentation and demonstration identifies the available surfacing tools and show how to create some of the more common surface features. Specifically: Swept Blend, and Boundary Blend surfaces.
• April 24, 2009 - The CAx Hardware Checklist
This session takes a real-world look at what engineers need in a computer to be as productive as possible. When facing hardware choices for CAx (Multi-CAD, CAID, CAM Environments), fitting the right solution to your need can be a daunting task. You may end up spending needless money on an overkill system, or not enough money, and end up frustrated. Watching this replay you will learn about the latest workstations for the engineering industry as well as configuration considerations for optimal user experience: CPU and RAM, OS versions, Scalability, New vs. Refurb...and the list goes on.
• May 1, 2009 - Engineers & Windchill - A day in the life of CheckIn/CheckOut
This replay will benefit engineers working in a Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill environment. Learn best practices, interface controls, and the reasoning behind the picks and clicks that drive an engineer's use of Windchill. The Windchill PDM/PLM system can greatly increase an engineer's work flow productivity when an individual takes advantage of Windchill's collaborative tools. Learn the What, How, and Why of working within Windchill.
• May 8, 2009 - Creating Mapkeys with Pro/ENGINEER
Mapkeys are a useful tool to automate more common simple tasks in Pro/ENGINEER. This session, for the new user or existing users not familiar with Mapkey functionality, will show how to create several Mapkeys with and without keyboard input pauses. We will also review adding Mapkey icons to your toolbars and customization of the icon to make it unique to your Mapkey
• May 15, 2009 - Pro/INTRALINK 3.x, The What, Why, When, and How of Moving On
This session explores the options available to companies as they move from Pro/INTRALINK 3.x to another data vault/PDM solution. It discusses the What, When, How and Why a company would look to the future of their product Data Management.
• May 22nd. 2009 - Advanced Surfacing Using Pro/ENGINEER ISDX
This session takes a look at the advanced surfacing functionality of Pro/ENGINEER ISDX and how to use it. If you are participating in concept development, industrial design, or any other design and engineering discipline, check-it-out to see how this well developed surfacing tool may fit into your workflow.
• May 29th, 2009 - Exploring the PTC Data Management Options
PTC has the strongest offering of product life cycle and product data management tools on the market. This session will explore the various offerings to describe the benefits, corporate fit considerations, and selection criteria that need to be considered when approaching the selection and implementation of a data management tool.
• June 5th, 2009 - Creating Component Interface and Rules in Pro/ENGINEER
Component Interfaces allow you to drag and drop components into your assemblies, increasing designer efficiency. This session will show how to set up Component Interfaces and create the rules that will allow for faster component assembly, as well as what config options to set in order to identify library locations for standard components.
• June 12th, 2009 - Importing STEP Files Into Pro/ENGINEER
Dive into the process of importing STEP files into Pro/ENGINEER. This presentation and demonstration will explain the entire process from importing a STEP file through converting it into a working parametric part.
Almost everyone in the engineering and design industry needs to work with imported data at some point in their career. Watch this one hour session to learn a little more about the Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 import process.
• July 24th, 2009 - Building an Analysis Model with Pro/ENGINEER and Mechanica
This session demonstrates the requirements to prepare a model for Mechanica analysis including: Surfaces vs. Solids, Creating a Mesh, Simplifying your Model, Applying Surface Regions, Creating Volume Regions, and more.
• July 31st, 2009 - How to make: Start Parts, Start Assemblies, Drawing Templates, Drawing Formats
This presentation and demonstration covers how to make and work with: start parts, start assemblies, drawing formats, and drawing templates. We cover how each of these is used, how to create them, and why they improve your CAD experience.
• August 7th, 2009 - Working in Windchill with AutoCAD
See Windchill from an AutoCAD user's perspective, using the Unified Work Group Manager as well as the Windchill menus embedded into AutoCAD. Watch as we check in a new AutoCAD drawing, check it out, make a change, and check it back into Windchill. ProductView will also be explored showing the abilities to view and markup AutoCAD representations.
• August 14th, 2009 - Customizing Hole Feature Annotation
Increase your efficiency by using Pro/ENGINEER’S Hole Feature for tapped holes and customize the annotation to reflect your company standards. This session explores manual editing of Pro/ENGINEER Hole Feature annotation as well as editing the default annotation file to reflect your desired corporate standard.
• August 21st, 2009 - What's New in Windchill 9.1
This Free Lunch session discusses and demonstrate the great new features of Windchill 9.1 including:
• Object Relationship Reports
• Enhanced Pro/ENGINEER Check-in/out
• Multi-Object Attribute Editing
• Table View Improvements
• Improved Move Tools
• System Management and Monitoring Improvements
• September 11, 2009 - Part Compare with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
Pro/ENGINEER has the ability to perform a Part Compare, Assembly Compare and Drawing Compare even if the objects are truly different models with the same geometry.
This session shows how to access "part compare" functionality and use it to remove the guess-work when comparing two similar models, assemblies, or drawings.
• September 18, 2009 - ProductView Express 9.1
Learn about the latest FREE visual collaboration tool - ProductView Express!
• Ultra high performance in a free software
• Quickly view Pro/ENGINEER and ProductView datasets
• Navigate large datasets easily with Spin, Pan, and Zoom
• View Shaded, Wireframe or with Hidden Lines removed
• Review markups to collaborate on the design
• Access Product Manufacturing information
• Available free of charge from the PTC Web site
• October 2, 2009 - Hardware Performance Beyond the Extra Gig of RAM
Drafters, Designers, and Engineers all know their performance and productivity is directly related to hardware performance. So, how do you get the best performance out of your hardware beyond adding that extra GB of ram?
We are teaming up with HP to cover the following topics:
• PTC’s hardware recommendations
• Industry best-practices
• A look at what users see in the “trenches”
• Memory assignment by application
• Processor/Process control
• Graphics considerations
• Drivers, compatibility and selection
• 2nd disks and configuration for simultaneous writing
• Hardware ROI calculation
• October 9, 2009 - 3D Production Drawings with Pro/ENGINEER
In order to support Global Product Development and further speed time-to-market, there has been a natural shift from conventional 2-D production drawings to modern 3D drawings.
Pro/ENGINEER’S 3-D Annotation and Dimensioning allows today’s manufacturer's to enhance efficiency using a model-centric approach and build production information right in your Pro/ENGINEER designs without the need for 2-D drawings.
• October 16, 2009 - Importing SolidWorks and Inventor Files into Wildfire 5.0
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 has many added features and enhancements. The ability to import both SolidWorks and Inventor files are two very significant additions to the Wildfire 5.0 release. During this session we will explore this functionality, see how these new interfaces work, and cover what you can expect when using them.
• October 23, 2009 - The benefits of an integral change management process
When a product development deadline turns into product development crunch time it typically can be traced back to a fundamental problem with a group's change management process.
This video replay covers: Change Management Maturity Levels, Change Management Components, Problem Reports, Change Requests and Change Notices, Change Management Execution, Monitoring and Reporting
• October 30, 2009 - Creating Rounds (The Ins-and-Outs) with Wildfire 4.0
This replay discusses how to efficiently create rounds using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0.
Whether you are importing and repairing data or modeling a fresh idea, chances are you will include a round somewhere in your design. This replay shows some best practices and how-to tips for creating these common model features.
• November 13, 2009 - How to add parametrics to CoCreate models, and import to Pro/ENGINEER
This session of the EAC Free Lunch webcast series as dove into the lightning fast CoCreate explicit design process and how it can work for Pro/ENGINEER users.
It shows how companies with short initial design schedules can leverage explicit modeling to speed the design process and even add parametrics to CoCreate parts and assemblies. Then we will show how to import CoCreate data into Pro/ENGINEER.
• November 20, 2009 - Advanced Rendering with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0
The release of Wildfire 5.0 has brought about some big improvements in rendering, especially with the addition of the Mental Ray engine. This video replay covers the basics of the advanced rendering extension (ARX), and how your designs can come to life quickly with amazing realism.
• December 4, 2009 - ProductView Validate for Model Based Design
This session of the Free Lunch webcast series discussed ProductView Validate for Model-Based Design.
Topics Include:
• Focused tool to support the “Design Checker” role in 3D MBD
• Rapid marking of PMI – accept, reject, etc.
• Maintaining marking histories
• Generating design check reports
• Customizing colors, markers, etc
• December 11, 2009 - Rev up your work day with Startup TOOLS 2009
Depending on how heavy a Pro/E user you are, Startup TOOLS offers productivity measures that save minutes—to hours—everyday. Here are some of the highlights:
• Load an .asm or .prt file and edit dimensions in one step
• The enhanced graphical Parts Library
• Automatically create thumbnail previews of the parts
• Automatically generate sequential design numbers
• Export the Bill of Materials (BOMs) directly into Excel
• The Central Administration controls the start-up environment and the licenses to which each user has access
Startup TOOLS was developed as a companion for Pro/ENGINEER. As your company looks for ways to leverage current technologies, Startup TOOLS has features to ensure your CAD data is clean and ready to use.
• January 22, 2010 - Lesser known Windchill modules
This replay provides an overview of the optional modules and utilities available for Windchill. Many people are familiar with the base or "core" modules, such as Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink, but many are unaway of some of the others: PartsLink, MPMLink, RequirementsLink, ESI, and more!
• January 29, 2010 - Tolerance Analysis with Pro/ENGINEER
This presentation covers the recently released Tolerance Analysis Extension for Pro/ENGINEER. It shows the basic capabilties of the package to help you understand how it can help you bring your products to market faster!
• February 5, 2010 - Automating Mold Design with Pro/ENGINEER
Review valuable user tools & tips for mold design automation including:
• Naming practices for parting surfaces, volumes, and splits
• Post creation name and feature editing
• Undercut detection tools for volume creation for splits
• Uses for the Runner Feature; other than runners
• The Ejector Pin Catalog; an often overlooked feature
• The creation & manipulation of automatic parting surfaces.
This session is designed to give users a better feel for the Pro/ENGINEER Tool Design Option. Attendees will learn how this powerful tool can be used for more than “simple” parts.
