PTC/USER Monthly Newsletter: December 2005

December 2005

The Independent Voice of PTC Customers Worldwide™

PTC Acquires CADTRAIN

Last week, Pro/ENGINEER education developer CADTRAIN announced that it had been acquired by PTC. In a letter to customers, CADTRAIN President Dennis Stajic states that "the combination of CADTRAIN's eLearning solutions with the existing PTC training offerings and resources will result in more learning content and new, exciting learning options for our customers. PTC will continue to offer, develop and support the CADTRAIN COACH curriculum and the COACH/LMS product."

Dennis goes on to say that the acquisition will help enable a thorough integration of COACH topics with PTC's Precision Learning methodology. As so many of our members utilize CADTRAIN products, we hope to have a more comprehensive article assessing the impact of this acquisition in our January issue.

2006 Call for Papers Ends This Month
Would you like to receive recognition for your knowledge and insights on the use of Pro/ENGINEER, Windchill, or Arbortext software? Enter our 2006 Call for Papers and you may be selected to present at the PTC/USER World Event in Dallas next June.

The Call for Papers will end on December 30. We are looking for suggested topics for 2006 as well as people to help evaluate papers to be selected for presentation. If you have an idea for a presentation topic, send an e-mail to agendatopic@ptcuser.org. If you would like to volunteer to help select presentations, send an e-mail to agendavolunteer@ptcuser.org.

PTC Awards is Coming
PTC will be accepting entries for the PTC Awards 2006 design competition from January 2 through March 13, 2006. Winners will be announced at the PTC/USER World Event in June. For complete details, visit www.ptc.com/go/awards. While there you can download a neat screensaver comprised of images from this year's winning entries.

Best wishes for a joyous and safe holiday season
from PTC/USER.

Technical Committees to Meet in January

The PTC/USER Technical Committees will hold their winter meetings at PTC in Boston, January 17-19. These meetings are for members only and are closed to the public. If you are a member and plan to attend, please register through your committee page at the PTC/USER member portal.

What Kind of Training Do You Want?
You can help us determine the training topics for our Precision Learning courses at the World Event. Vote in our member poll today!

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	Events Calendar
	With all of these upcoming meetings, there's sure to be one near you! North Texas, December 3 St. Louis, December 6 Badgerland, December 8 Kansas, December 8 You can check the website for updated meeting information at our member portal members.ptcuser.org.


	Last Chance
	Designing with Style Translating the aesthetic sense of a design into the mechanical reality of the product is often more art than science. In our cover story by Mike Brattoli, find out how Moen employs ISDX to help mechanical engineers move from hand sketches to stylish products. What's in this issue: Designing with Style–Turning Sketches into Successes by Michael A. Brattoli, Moen Incorporated All About Arbortext An Interview with Jim Heppelmann Being Innovative by Evan Caille, PTC/USER President A Student's Eye View of the PTC/USER World Event by James Lynch, University of Ireland Reevaluating the PTC/USER Member Portal by Evan Caille, PTC/USER President		Tips and Tricks In this issue, learn how to use mapkeys to recreate pre-Wildfire functionality for increased productivity. Also, discover how to accurately build involute curve profiles for gear and spline design. We also cover automatic creation of digital watermarks for documents, and visualizing component density in an electronics package. I Want My MOM Back! by Pete Pickett, Mercury Marine Creating Gears and Splines by Dan Marsalek, Marine Mechanical Corporation Visualizing the Air Space of a Complex PSU by Ceferino Sanchez, ASTEC Power Digital Watermarks for Today's Engineer by John Tucker, Raytheon Vision Systems Past Issues profilesmagazine.com
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