Demos & Tech Tips

This tutorial shows enhancements that improve the general usability and productivity inside Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, such as the graphical browsing, the color scheme, the recovery mechanism, etc.

This tutorial shows PTC’s ergonomics solution which gives you the ability to simulate, communicate, analyze and optimize human-product interactions. It includes how to insert a manikin into an assembly, how to easily manipulate it and adjust its postures, how to perform advanced ergonomic analyses such as the Rapid Upper Limbs Assessment to see if the product meets health and safety guidelines, etc.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 includes many exciting assembly enhancements. In this tutorial we review some enhancements such as simply define representation, restructure, the component accessory window, copy/paste, explode, etc.

This tutorial shows some exciting new capabilities of the manufacturing in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, such as the process manager, the manufacturing documentation, the toolpath pattern capability, the manufacturing strategy for family table model, etc.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 has many enhancements to help you create complex surfaces faster and add graphical realism to your designs. This tutorial highlights some of the many enhancements such as the curvature (G2) continuity of round feature, the N-sided surface with new surface technology, the new rendering engine from Mental Images, etc.

This tutorial shows some enhancements in simulation capabilities in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0. It includes the plastic material support, unit conversion on-the-fly, automatic creation of shell pairs, etc.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 introduces the new user interface icons for cabling and piping. Now you can route cables up to 40% faster. Besides the new user interface, this tutorial also shows some other routed systems design capabilities in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0

Weldment and sheetmetal design is faster and more efficient in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0. This tutorial highlights some of the many enhancements in weldment and sheetmetal design, such as mirror command in sheetmetal mode, the 10x faster analysis of weldment.

This tutorial shows the enhancements made to the 2D and 3D drawing in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0. Some highlighted new capabilities are such as the ribbon style user interface, the drawing tree, the layer management methodology in 3D drawing, the datum target annotation, etc.

This tutorial shows many of the machine design and mechanism’s enhancements in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0. You will experience 3D contact, belt creation, dynamic analysis of gears, and how to drive slot motor along a curve, etc, in the tutorial.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 introduces the new simulation tool – Spark Analysis Extension. With this tool we have the possibility to check safety distance between electrical components. This tutorial shows users how to work with the Spark Analysis Extension and its capabilities.

This tutorial shows some of the many new capabilities on molded part design in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, such as the point pattern, the UV pattern, the trajectory rib, and the enhanced UDFs (User Defined Features), which help you improve your productivity.

This tutorial highlights some interactive modeling enhancements inside Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, such as the enhanced sketcher, the dynamic editing, the new strategy for failure and diagnostics while modeling, which give you the ability to overcome traditional design barriers.

Large assemblies can become difficult to work with and unwieldy. The large assembly management tools of Pro/ENGINEER can significantly improve the user experience by interactively displaying only necessary assembly information at any given time. This recorded webcast will cover the following topics: Creating Simplified Reps, Shrinkwrap, On-Demand Simplified Reps, Zones and Envelopes, Reference Control, Strategies for Working with Large Assemblies.​

Verification package. Ensuring that proper manufacturing processes are conducted is an essential, but potentially expensive proposition. Pro/ENGINEER Computer-Aided Verification delivers a straightforward, economical answer. It allows digital inspections of machined parts and assemblies for quality assurance purposes and supports both CMM machines and laser scanners. Thus, this integral digital quality checking saves time, effort, and money.

This video demonstrates Pro/ENGINEER NC Four-Axis Wire EDM. Pro/ENGINEER NC Manufacturing allows engineers to create either two- or four-axis wire EDM NC sequences. These capabilities help manufacturing engineers drive wire EDM machines fully and optimize their process flow.

This video demonstrates both the basic functions of the Expert Moldbase Extension (EMX) and some of the advanced capabilities of EMX 6.0. These advanced functions include creating a mold template from an existing mold assembly, the related operation of the mold ejector pin, managing cavity components, and managing the BOM table in the mold engineering drawing.

This video demonstrates three key capabilities of NC Process Automation: how to capture machining information by using a process template; how to add process information to the design geometry and create user-defined features; how to capture process information from the design model and create the associated NC sequence tool path. These powerful capabilities will help design engineers to fully use important machining information and better understand the process flow.

This video demonstrates the powerful turning and milling capabilities of Pro/ENGINEER, including how to use the process template to accelerate the creation of NC sequences.

This video demonstrates Pro/ENGINEER in machining the mold of a bicycle pedal. In addition, the video shows 3-axis measurement operations to determine the quality of a product. The various machining strategies demonstrated include face milling, rough machining, re-rough machining, finishing machining and corner finishing.

This video is an introduction to the Pro/ENGINEER NC Sheetmetal application and shows how the product automatically creates and optimizes toolpaths using standard and form tools.

In this Tech Tips you will learn about the many uses of surfaces in Creo Parametric. This session will focus on the use of Creo Parametric Interactive Surface Design Extension (ISDX).​

In this recorded webcast we will explore all of the options for creating NC-specific geometry now available in Pro/ENGINEER. Updated dashboards are now shown for all of the key manufacturing geometry tools. They provide a straightforward way to work and eliminate dozens of menus on top of menus, but they also change the way the NC programmer works. This tutorial will explore the various dashboards and the new workflows that work with them.

Have you ever wondered how to document your Pro/ENGINEER NC machining processes? This Tech Tips recorded webcast will explain several techniques, including: using report tables and drawing formats to create single-page setup drawings, drawings with each operation on its own page, and multi-sheet Pro/Process for manufacturing drawings; creating documentation from the NC Process Manager; and the HTML “Auto Shop Doc” tool.

This Tech Tips recorded webcast will cover the basic functionality available in the Behavioral Modeling Extension (BMX); from instrumenting your designs to the automation of basic data analysis. We will look at Sensitivity Studies as a means to determine and tweak the most critical parameters and get the most bang for your buck when making a change. Finally, we will explore the Optimization of a single objective or goal by adjusting multiple parameters. If you are manually changing your designs over and over and over again to reach your design goals, BMX is for you!

Do you know how to use NC machine kinematics simulation during tool path play? This Tech Tips recorded webcast will discuss how to create a 3-axis milling machine tool assembly using mechanism joints, and how to set up NC to display the machine tool motion and check for collisions during tool path play.​

This Tech Tips session will show you valuable tips about the data importing and healing capabilities available within Pro/ENGINEER.

This Tech Tips recorded webcast will provide an overview of how to set up Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Manufacturing NC Solutions for the most efficient use. It will cover configuration of the most common settings and how to set up and use a libray of "smart" cutting tools.

This recorded webcast demonstrates various features of Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Assembly Extension. These features take advantge of simplified representations to improve large assembly management and assembly process planning.

This recorded webcast demonstrates ModelCHECK, an assessment tool that determines whether a model has been built properly and is ready to be released. We will run ModelCHECK on a part, an assembly and a drawing. Shape Indexing will find duplicates of parts previously used in other designs. GeomIntegrityCHECK will verify the integrity of a model imported from another CAD system. The video also demonstrates RuleCHECK.

This recorded webcast demonstrates Pro/ENGINEER industrial design capabilities, including how to reverse-engineer a design, how to create freeform curves and surfaces using interactive surface design, and how to create high-performance renderings using Creo Advanced Rendering Extension.

This recorded webcast demonstrates Pro/ENGINEER advanced Mechanica capabilities. Mechanica customers will learn about the main functions including nonlinear materials, contact with friction, 2D plane strain, 2D axisymmetric, pre-stress, transient thermal, dynamic time, dynamic frequency and composites.

This recorded webcast demonstrates the Tolerance Analysis Extension, which allows a designer to assure that models allow for proper assembly tolerances as well as optimum performance.