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Eight RUG Meetings in August

 
 


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Looking for other PTC software users in your town? Check out this month's Regional User Group (RUG) Meeting schedule -- there may be an event planned in your community. RUG meetings offer technical presentations by other software users and PTC engineers, demonstrations from software partners, tutorials and more.

Until September 30, 2005 - Pro/ENGINEER Special Offers for Tool Designers & Manufacturing Engineers
Visit www.ptc.com/go/offers and learn how you can save up to $5,000 when you purchase Pro/ENGINEER Foundation Package with either Prismatic and Multi-Surface Milling Option or Pro/ENGINEER Tool Design Option. Visit us at ptc.com/go/offers.

Photoreal Design Competition Announced
Design-Engine Education just announced their fifth annual International Photoreal Competition. This year's focus will be on seating product design. Visit www.design-engine.com/competition for details and images from past contests.

Your Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 Community: A One-Stop Resource
Pro/INTRALINK Advisor, your online user community, is your one-stop resource for everything Pro/INTRALINK 8.0. See what's new since your last visit, share your own experiences, and read what the experts and your peers are saying about Pro/INTRALINK 8.0:

What's New in the Blogs? 
Jim Heppelmann: Is Pro/INTRALINK dead?
Jeff Rembold: Why web-based is better
Victor Gerdes: Roundtripping
Steve Shaw: Not another Pro/CONVERT

Visit the Pro/INTRALINK Community Site.

  PTC/USER
Learn how to easily replace multiple instances of an assembly component in the current issue of Profiles Magazine.

 

Special Offers

     

Free Wildfire 2.0 Primer
CADTRAIN is offering a free, four-hour introduction to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0. This interactive primer is available to all PTC/USER members. Visit www.cadtrain.com/pages/
free_primer.html
to launch your free session.

Technical MCAD Webcasts - New Topics Added for the Manufacturing Engineer
Learn how to better leverage your Pro/ENGINEER design model to create manufacturing deliverables, increase tool design efficiency and create milling toolpaths.Each Webcast features a live question & answer session with a PTC technical expert.

Check out the latest schedule and list of topics.

 

 
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With all of these upcoming meetings, there's sure to be one near you!

You can check the website for updated meeting information at our member portal members.ptcuser.org.

 
     

 

       
 

Summer 2005

 
 

World Event Coverage
Read the review of the PTC/USER World Event in Orlando. We also have an interview with Brian Shepherd, PTC Senior Vice President of Technical Marketing, to discuss the impact of the release of Pro/INTRALINK 8.0.

What's in this issue:

PTC/USER 2005 - Better than Ever
by Rick Snider, Executive Director

Pro/INTRALINK Meets Windchill in Release 8.0
An Interview with Brian Shepherd

Keeping the Connection
by Evan Caille, PTC/USER President

[Editor's Note: Due to unforseeable circumstances, we were unable to include our planned story on the Predator aircraft. We hope to have this available for our October issue.]

 

Tips and Tricks

Creating a Cylindrical Cam Using Mechanism Design Extension
by Dana Coombs, SYNTHES CMF

Pro/ENGINEER Professionals: Test Your Expertise
by John Driscoll

Quickly Replacing Components that Assemble Many Times
by Elkin Jhirad, HP Indigo Division

Reflections on Pro/INTRALINK Scripting
by Marc Mettes

Dimension Justification Made Easy
by Weligton Nascimento, Caterpillar Brazil Ltda.

Using Axis Pattern in Wildfire 2.0
by Florin Neamtu, Belcan Corporation

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