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Deelip Menezes PTC Forms Business Units

A PTC Partner newsletter alerted me to the news that PTC has formed separate business units for its product lines. Previously PTC has just two primary product lines - Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill. Over the years, due to acquisitions and internal growth, its product lines have dramatically increased. Next year they will have a total of eight major product lines:
  1. Pro/ENGINEER
  2. Windchill
  3. CoCreate
  4. Arbortext
  5. Mathcad
  6. ProductView
  7. SharePoint/SP
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Added by Deelip Menezes on December 19, 2009 at 1:13pm — 1 Comment

Deelip Menezes Pro/ENGINEER and Direct Modeling

Of late I have been reading some reviews in the media of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 which list "direct modeling" as one of its new features. In an earlier post titled "PTC Joins the Direct Modeling Bandwagon" I mentioned that while PTC was working on a direct modeling solution for Pro/ENGINEER, it would not be shipping with Wildfire 5.0 because it was not ready yet. Instead PTC would ship it with Wildfire 6.0. In fact, when I was at the P… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on December 19, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Deelip Menezes Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD Released

Today we released another plug-in for AutoCAD called Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD. As the name suggests, it imports Pro/ENGINEER files into AutoCAD. This is different from Pro/ENGINEER 2D Import for AutoCAD, a different plug-in that imports 2D drawings created in Pro/ENGINEER into AutoCAD. This plug-in imports Pro/ENGINEER… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on November 26, 2009 at 11:45am — No Comments

Deelip Menezes SYCODE Launches 14 Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Plug-ins

First off, I would like to thank all the kind-hearted Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 1.0 users who responded to my earlier post and took the trouble of testing our Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 1.0 plug-in DLL's. The first to respond was someone from PTC UK. We are done with our final testing and today we released our first batch of Pro/ENGINEER plug-ins. This batch contains 14 data exchange plug-ins (8 import and 6 export). They have been tested to wor… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on July 27, 2009 at 3:55pm — No Comments

Deelip Menezes Wanted - Kind-Hearted Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 1.0 User

At SYCODE, we are doing the final testing of our Pro/ENGINEER data exchange plug-ins. I have Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 1.0 (actually it was called just Wildfire), 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 Preproduction on my development and testing computers in office. My problem is that for some weird reason Wildfire 1.0 crashes on startup. I am trying to resolve this issue with PTC technical support. I just spent two and a half hours on the phone with a PTC technical support engineer. I gave him control over my compu… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on July 10, 2009 at 7:58pm — No Comments

Deelip Menezes The 15 Minute Lockout

This post is a humble request to all Pro/ENGINEER developers out there to help me solve an extremely irritating problem. First let me begin by explaining my problem. Unlike most CAD vendors, PTC does not give away their SDK (Software Development Kit) for free. So if you want to customize Pro/ENGINEER by means of plug-ins you need to purchase a license of something known as Pro/TOOLKIT, basically a C API used to develop what PTC calls auxiliary applications, or plug-ins. As a PTC partner I have… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on July 9, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Teun Ham VBA - Connect to Pro/ENGINEER

This code will connect to a running session of Pro/ENGINEER and will change the Working Directory:
Sub Main() Dim asynconn As New pfcls.CCpfcAsyncConnection Dim conn As pfcls.IpfcAsyncConnection Dim session As pfcls.IpfcBaseSession 'Make an asynchronous connection with Pro/ENGINEER Set conn = asynconn.Connect("", "", ".", 5) 'Get the current session Set session = conn.session 'S
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Added by Teun Ham on July 8, 2009 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments

Teun Ham VBA - Run a 'mapkey'

The code below shows how to run a 'mapkey' For this example you will need to have a drawing open in Pro/ENGINEER
Sub Print_Current_Sheet_To_PDF() Dim asynconn As New pfcls.CCpfcAsyncConnection Dim conn As pfcls.IpfcAsyncConnection Dim session As pfcls.IpfcBaseSession 'Make an asynchronous connection with Pro/ENGINEER Set conn = asynconn.Connect("", "", ".", 5) 'Get the current s
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Added by Teun Ham on July 2, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Teun Ham VBA - Open a Pro/E file in a new window

This routine will open a Pro/E file from your WorkingDirectory in a new window:
Sub Main() Dim asynconn As New pfcls.CCpfcAsyncConnection Dim conn As pfcls.IpfcAsyncConnection Dim session As pfcls.IpfcBaseSession Dim oModel As pfcls.IpfcModel 'Make an asynchronous connection with Pro/ENGINEER Set conn = asynconn.Connect("", "", ".", 5) 'Get the current session Set session = conn.
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Added by Teun Ham on July 2, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Deelip Menezes PTC Joins the Direct Modeling Bandwagon

I guess I can open my trap now. People at PTC/USER 09 have started reporting on PTC's modeling plans. I was shown some of it during my visit to the PTC Headquarters in Needham this April, but was asked not to talk about it till PTC/USER 09. Direct modeling will not be in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0. Rather it will be part of Wildfire 6.0. But since they are already working on it, I suspect that it will be in the software but the fu… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on June 8, 2009 at 9:45pm — No Comments

Deelip Menezes PTC's New Blogger and Tweeter

Mark Lobo, PTC's Director of Windchill CAD Integrations, now has a blog. PTC/USER 09 starts tomorrow and Mark intends to blog and tweet live at the event. Blog: http://marklobo.blogspot.com Twitter: @marklobotweets Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on June 7, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Oleg Shilovitsky Options to Streamline PLM Collaboration: Microsoft vs. Google

Options to Streamline PLM Collaboration: Microsoft vs. Google http://plmtwine.com/2009/05/28/options-to-streamline-plm-collaboration-microsoft-vs-google/ Continue

Added by Oleg Shilovitsky on May 28, 2009 at 9:29pm — No Comments

Oleg Shilovitsky Top Five Disappointing PLM Technologies

Once in a while, industries, companies, or developers come up with something that they think will change the technological and product landscape. PLM is no exception in this lineup of excitements and disappointments. Here are five technologies, that disappointed me in the CAD/CAE/PDM/PLM world listed from least to most disappointing): http://plmtwine.com/2009/05/22/top-five-disappointing-plm-technologies/ Continue

Added by Oleg Shilovitsky on May 28, 2009 at 9:28pm — No Comments

Deelip Menezes GRANITE Cross-Release Interoperability

During my recent visit to the PTC headquarters in Needham, Asa Trainer, Director - Product Management, explained to me PTC's solution to the legacy format interoperability problem, something which I accused many CAD vendors of deliberately ignoring in my last post. Their solution is called… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on May 25, 2009 at 3:23pm — No Comments

Oleg Shilovitsky What is the Engineer’s Social Formula for PLM?

http://plmtwine.com/2009/05/04/what-is-the-engineers-social-formula-for-plm/#comment-845 Continue

Added by Oleg Shilovitsky on May 5, 2009 at 10:38am — No Comments

Deelip Menezes PTC Visit - Revisited

Rick Stavanja left a comment on my post titled "PTC Visit" letting me know that he missed the "meaty unfettered opinions" that he is accustomed to hearing from me. He found it odd that the executives from PTC did not discuss the role I was taking as a visitor before I arrived. I know all this sounds quite odd. In fact it is. But I think I need to clarify a few things here. PTC did not pay for my travel or stay. I am payi… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on April 24, 2009 at 6:51pm — No Comments

Deelip Menezes PTC Visit

I spent the entire day at PTC headquarters in Needham, Boston.
My meetings with top PTC executives went off well. In fact, I think they went off too well. So much so that they gagged me from just about everything they told and showed me. Before we even started, John Buchowski, Director of Produ… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on April 24, 2009 at 7:53am — No Comments

Deelip Menezes Boston

Today I find myself in the cozy home of Mark Lobo, PTC's Director of Windchill CAD Integrations. Mark lives in a beautiful town called Ashland on the suburbs of Boston. This is my first time in a suburban town of an American city and it feels wonderful. To give you an idea, Mark's house is on the edge of the woods and I am told that deer come to graze outside his window. I arrived into Phoenix from Hawaii this morning and eventually landed in Boston this evening. I lost a few hours along the wa… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on April 24, 2009 at 7:22am — No Comments

Deelip Menezes Pro/ENGINEER and Direct Editing

Michael Campbell, SVP Product Management, Desktop Products of PTC left an interesting comment on an article on this blog (“Pro/ENGINEER: Old Is Gold”). He drew a distinction between PTC’s strategy and that of its competitors, Dassault and Siemens. According to Michael, “an important part of PTC’s strategy is to develop a single, scalable parametric CAD tool that can compete… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on April 8, 2009 at 8:53pm — No Comments

Deelip Menezes Pro/ENGINEER: Old Is Gold

I prefer to think that I know a few things about the innards of today’s CAD systems. Over the past decade I have written plug-ins for a bunch of them – AutoCAD, Inventor, 3ds Max, Maya, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, SpaceClaim, Rhinoceros, Alibre Design, IRONCAD, INOVATE, SketchUp, Acrobat and over a dozen variants of IntelliCAD. Yes, I have done all these ladies. As programmers we get to feel them up and touch them in places that end users cannot. This is because CAD vendors need to expose certain pa… Continue

Added by Deelip Menezes on April 3, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

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