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YES you heard correctly, PTC/USER is planning for a LIVE event in Orlando in MARCH of 2022! The event will include tracks around various PTC product offerings (CAD, PLM, Retail, Manufacturing, AR, IoT, Arbortext, etc.), an Exhibit Hall, the fan favorite PTC UX Lab, as well as a new PTC supplied Training Day.
The Call for Abstracts will open soon. Selected speakers will be given complimentary registration to the event, so we encourage everyone to start thinking about what story you can share from your work experience this past year.
We look forward to seeing everyone again!
The Routed Systems Technical Committee is comprised of experienced users across a variety of industries that are all passionate about taking the PTC Tools to the next level, as well as working together as a team to help resolve immediate issues. The Routed Systems Technical Committee focuses on Creo Schematics, Creo Cabling, Creo Piping, and the logical transfer of data between these tools, and other downstream tools. Regular meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month where we have the opportunity to interact with PTC Product Management and their partners. We are always looking for new members, no matter your experience level, to bring in new opinions, ideas, and industry needs.
PTC/USER Technical Committees consist of customers like you who work together with PTC Product Managers talking about how the products work today and what can be done to make them even better. Joining a Technical Committee is a great way to have your voice heard and network with your peers in industry.
We welcome new members! Please apply for PTC/USER Sheetmetal Technical Committee or any other TC that may interest you via the PTC/USER portal.
Join the roundtable discussion any time between 11-12 CST on Tuesday, July 20th to talk about CAD/Windchill administration with other admins.
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Ready to jump into training? PTC University is interested in hosting an in-person Creo training event later this year. Take this brief survey to vote on which Creo courses you would like to see at this event!
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Help PTC update the PTC Knowledge Base to your needs! They would like to understand your needs & preferences in regard to the Knowledge Base. Are there topics you would like to see covered more or usability and functionality enhancements? Speak up now! They are collecting your feedback (They'd love your video, but audio or text options are possible, too!) and they will feed it up to thier Support Engineers. This is your chance to share your unfiltered voice with them.
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The Virtual PTC/USER Arbortext Symposium 2021 is now available on demand here.
This year’s virtual PTC/USER Arbortext Symposium Event took place on June 29th from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. ET with presentations from:
• Eric Graham, Sr. Technical Writer at Stryker - User Adoption for Arbortext and Windchill
• Chris Goolsby, Sr. Technical Writer at Eaton - Working with the Arbortext DITA Application
• Steve Stoner, Sr. Manager, Technical Services at Panasonic - From ground to Full Flight in Eight Months – Moving to Structured Authoring
• Patti Lutsky, Simon Taylor, and Gil Shroitman from PTC -Arbortext Product Updates.
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Product & Technology Focus
- Tips & tricks sessions for each product in the Vuforia suite
- The launch of Vuforia’s newest product – Vuforia Instruct
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Customer Spotlights
- Hear from other Vuforia customers like Valmont, Harpak-ULMA Packaging, IGT, Entegris and Visionaries 777
- Opportunity to ask questions and connect with other customers
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Strategy & Vision
- Four innovative keynote sessions
- A strategy track featuring Forrester, IDC, technology and AREA
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Register and we’ll provide you access to the recorded sessions to watch at your own convenience!
Create a Solid Foundation for Enterprise PLM
A house needs a solid foundation if you expect it to last. With strong building blocks in place, you can add onto that house when and if the need arises. The same is true for a "digital house". With the digital thread at its core, an enterprise PLM foundation provides the infrastructure needed to build your digital house. So how do you go about building it?
Laying a firm foundation involves unifying engineering tools, processes, and methodologies - resulting in a 'system of product intelligence'. Doing so allows manufacturers to support global cross-discipline collaboration, enable concurrent manufacturing in engineering and the factory, and achieve closed-loop quality.
In this fully loaded event held on June 8th and June 9th replay, you will:
- Hear first-hand how leading manufacturers established their PLM foundation.
- Learn how to get to value quickly delivering core PLM functionality.
- Gain insight into PTC's top PLM priorities in our roadmap session.
- Engage with speakers in live Q&A and an Ask the Experts forum.
Keynote Speakers:
For more information and to register for the on demand session click here.
Here were some of the topics discussed:
- Sneak Peak Creo Flow Analysis RT (CFD in Real Time)
- CFD Topics
- How to set up CFD problems in Creo?
- How to round trip Simulation Driven Designs using
- BMX in Creo and Creo Flow Analysis.
- Getting Started with Creo Flow Analysis
Webcast Replay
With the release of Creo Illustrate 8.0, PTC’s most advanced technical illustration tool has been revamped with a new batch of improvements.
Watch the Creo Illustrate Webinar for more information on the latest release.
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Key Highlights
- Markup Reference Improvement
- Interference Detection – Accurate Fallback
- PDF Viewing Improvements
- Creo Publishing Improvements
- Creo Parametric – Publishing of Hidden Layer Content
- Creo Elements Direct performance improvements
- ECAD Reference Designator Handling Updates
- Installer Updates
- See the Creo View 8.0 What’s New for the complete list of feature updates
Support Matrices
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Key Highlights
Design Engineering
Creo Data Management & Visualization
- Creo 8 Support
- Support for Managing and Visualizing Inseparable Assemblies and Embedded Components
- Improved support for publishing MBD content on hidden layers
- Creo Elements Direct Publishing Performance improvements
Workgroup Manager Improvements
- Improved workflow to support usage of SolidWorks Speedpak for lightweight retrieval of large assemblies
- Support for converting Catia V5 design table instances to standalone models
Windchill Smart Platforms
- New Windchill Capability built on Options and Variants to support building new product configurations with variable design characteristics.
- Create and maintain Design Contexts for configurable products with dynamic positioning for products utilizing new Positioning Architecture.
Design Collaboration
- Markup can now directly reference geometrical features
- Improvements for PDF support for Native PDF Viewer
- Interference Detection Algorithm improvements for Approximate Interference Calculation
ECAD Schematic & PCB Viewing
- Optional removal of reference designator merging in Bill of Materials
Product Engineering
Change Intent & Planning (BOM Redline)
- Increase the scope of Redlining BOM Changes
- Support to create and execute Redlines for Parts with related CAD
- Improve understanding of Redlines
- Revert action allows user to easily remove Redline
- Redline details are available for each occurrence
- Documents Tab shows Documents / CAD data related to the Parts being changed
- Redline header highlights the top level Part
Windchill Smart Platforms
- New Windchill Capability built on Options and Variants to support building new product configurations with variable design characteristics.
- Create and Maintain Positioning architecture to enable Windchill Smart Platforms to dynamically position configurable modules based on configuration logic.
- Visualize Product Configurations with new position solver integrated with positioning architecture.
Digital Product Traceability
- Expand the Digital Thread
- Create Traces to Documents in Windchill in addition to Parts and Choices
- Support OSLC Large Preview to see diagrams from Windchill Modeler
- Modeler Use Case Diagram & Use Case resource types supported OOTB
- Ease creating Traces
- Copy/Paste Support to easily add Traces to other items
- Simplified Selection Dialog when working with Windchill Modeler
- Faster rendering of data in the Traces table
Classification
- Supported APIs for Classification Structure Management
- CRUD operations
- Default attribute value
Quality, Risk & Reliability
- Regulatory Hub - eMDR sample application for developing Submission Apps
- QMS – License Updates for contribute, base, advanced, premium
Manufacturing & Service Engineering
xBOM transformation
- Multiple Downstream Link BOM’s
- Split assemblies during BOM transformation
- Reconciliation for multiple split downstream
assemblies
- Generate Downstream Structure (GDS):
- Support GDS in out of the box MPMLink
- Support GDS customization on the new BOM transformation framework
Process Planning
- 3D management:
- Allow to reposition Resources directly in PPB embedded Creo View
- WRS:
- API’s to Create and Update Resource allocations
Deployment, Infrastructure and Architecture
Mandatory License Usage Reporting
WindchillDS removal update
- Utility to support Principal migration to new Directory Servers where the BaseDN changes and/or attribute mappings exist. Reconnect Principals Utility.
Library Update
- Log4j (potential customization impact)
Windchill Performance Advisor
Collecting usage data from
- Product Structure Browser pages
- MCAD workgroup managers (available in a subsequent CPS)
- WRS endpoints in Windchill
PA Agent Installer in Windchill
Windchill REST Services 2.2
- Documentation of authentication of WRS endpoints via OAuth tokens
- Framework support for 3-stage content upload
- Support for Create and Update operations for Change Issues, Change Notice, and Change Tasks in the Change Management domain
- Support for Create and Delete of certain associations between Operation and other MfgProcessMgmt entities like Work Centers, Process Materials etc.
- Support for adding Part Instances as affected items to a CAPA and NCs
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ThingWorx 9.2 is now available for download on the PTC Support Downloads website! Look for availability in PTC Cloud later this year.
ThingWorx Foundation
- Mashup Builder
- New Widgets including Waterfall chart, and previews for Menu and Toolbar
- Remote Access and Control (RAC)
- Updated GAS Manager and GAS Node software
- GAS integration directly to ThingWorx to support ThingWorx Edge devices
- Provided Policy Server Compatibility with eMessage Connector
- Software Content Management (SCM)
- Upgraded SCM auditing to utilize a database instead of data tables
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- User authentication and authorization directly via Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) or AD Federation Services (AD FS), without PingFederate
- Permissions schema enhancements
- ThingWorx Azure IoT Hub Connector
- Updates for subscription co-existence with ThingWorx and Azure IOT applications
- Solution Central
- One click deploy allows faster deployment for admins
- What’s New Dialog guidance for users
- Easier deletion for instances and solutions
ThingWorx Navigate
- New Contribute App to create Problem Reports in Windchill
- Intuitive UI with support for attachments
- Role-based tailoring capabilities for the admin
- Using ThingWorx Flow for system connectivity
ThingWorx Analytics
- Include free form text information when generating advanced analytics insight. A new TEXT opType supports the use of free-form text information so that key words and phrases from text data (examples: comments, notes or descriptions) can be related to outcomes.
- Expanded support for date/time formats in time series data. A new DATETIME dataType supports the use of date and time information in standard formats eliminating the need for additional data transformations.
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