Creo Weekly Roundup: Everything Creo 2.0

New and Advanced 3D Cross Sections for Creo Parametric 2.0

Originally Posted by Geoff Hedges, Creo
So far, we’ve covered a variety of zippy new enhancements for Creo Parametric 2.0 that up your design speed, intensify your graphics quality, and even simplify the migration of your current behemoth CAD program to our sleek and sturdy Creo 2.0 suite. This week we’ll focus in on Creo Parametric 2.0 and the newest additions to the 3D Section tool.

Not only does the Section tool let you define how and where you want to section your model, but it’s the numerous, real-time enhancements for 2.0 that make this tool so much more useful in making a cross section.
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Creo 2.0 Doubles Design Productivity, Delivers Conceptual Design Gains and Modern Assembly

Originally Posted by Nancy Pardot, Planet PTC Community
Creo 1.0 provided nine integrated purpose-built tools that enabled a much broader design contribution across the enterprise. Creo 2.0 takes another leap forward by delivering user interface enhancements that double design productivity for Pro/ENGINEER users, apps that substantially improve the conceptual design process, and a new role-specific app supporting modular product assembly. Read full article »

Solidworks Roundup: Sustainable Insight Podcast, Configuration Publisher, BuiltWorks 3.1

SolidWorks:HEARD! – Episode 338 – Sustainable Insight
Originally Posted by SolidWorks:HEARD!
This podcast covers the capabilities and features in SolidWorks SustainabilityXpress as well as the tools included in the full suite of Sustainability.  Topics covered:

• Introduction to Lifecycle Assessment
• General workflow of SW SustainabilityXpress
• Utilizing the “Find Similar” material tool
• Adding and updating the Sustainable materials (requesting too)
• Differences in Xpress vs Sustainability (full suite)
• Other sustainability resources

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SolidWorks Configuration Publisher: Taking File Configuration to the Next Level
Originally Posted by Josh Altergott, Solidworks blog
If you have a part or assembly file and it has configurable properties SolidWorks has many possibilities to be able to create those different versions of your file. You can start simple with a few simple configurations, from there you add in Design Tables which allow you to control your configurations with and Excel chart. We are going to take it one step further today and show you how the Configuration Publisher which will allow us to…
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BuiltWorks 3.1 Increases SolidWorks Utility for Plant Design
Originally Posted by Randall Newton, Graphicspeak
Only five months after a major update, SolidACE has released an update to BuiltWorks that provides links to the major plant design software platforms. As one of the leading AEC add-ons to SolidWorks, it provides a way for structural engineers and designers working in SolidWorks to…
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Weekly Roundup: Nvidia VGX, Lenovo E31 Workstation, CAD Managers

Nvidia’s VGX Platform Delivers ‘Virtualized Desktop’
Originally Posted by Computer Graphics World
With the Nvidia VGX platform in the data center, employees can now access a true cloud PC from any device — thin client, laptop, tablet or smartphone — regardless of its operating system, and enjoy a responsive experience for the full spectrum of applications previously only available on an office PC. VGX enables knowledge workers to access…
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Lenovo Shows Off ThinkStation E31 Workstation In Two Different Sizes
Originally Post by Dana Wollman, Endgadget
Don’t let that headline fool you: although Lenovo technically just unveiled one product, the ThinkStation E31 workstation, it actually shoehorned two distinct machines into one press release. Behold: a budget workstation available as a conventionally sized tower, as well as compact one. Whichever you choose, both support up to…
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Trials of a New CAD Manager
Originally Posted by CADDManager, CADD Manager Blog
Becoming a new CAD Manager can be a joyous time in your career path. You have finally achieved something that you have sought after for years. You have been recognized by the firm for all of the contributions you have made. You have gotten a title that you were seeking and know that you can serve the firm with success. But once the title is bestowed, the troubles may begin…
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NX Weekly Roundup

NX CAE Tips & Tricks – FEA Workflow Part #3
Originally Posted by Mark Subramaniam, Siemens PLM Software Blog
After a brief tour of the user interface and some essential geometry idealization in Part #1, we meshed the bracket, constrained it, and configured two distinct load cases for evaluation in Part #2. Now comes the real fun – executing the model, and reviewing the results!
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Software Efficiently, Realistically Simulates Composite Wind Turbine Blades
Originally Posted by Allan Wood, President and CEO of AnalySwift
As wind-turbine manufacturers seek additional ways to reduce costs and improve performance, greater focus has turned to improving modeling techniques as a way to reliably predict wind-turbine behavior prior to expensive prototyping and testing. In particular, better-designed wind-turbine blades are more effective and they create significant savings for the tower and drive train, major components in the overall system. In this regard, they reduce the initial and operation costs of the entire system, increasing overall competitiveness.
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Infinite Z Showcases Virtual-holographic 3D Imagery with NX Software at PLM World 
Originally Posted by Infinite Z, Inc.
Infinite Z, Inc.®, a technology provider that enables virtual-holographic 3D imagery to bring designs to life, today revealed a proof of concept demonstration of  NX™ software, Siemens PLM Software’s solution for integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE), running on its zSpace 3D virtualization platform at PLM World® 2012. The collaboration seeks to redefine conceptualization and digital prototyping in industrial design, manufacturing and engineering.
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Creo Weekly Round-Up

Fireuser: AMD & PTC develop ultra-fast GPU-accelerated 3D transparency mode for Creo Parametric 2.0
This video compares PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5 for 3D transparency rendering on an AMD FirePro V7900. AMD and PTC developed a new hardware-accelerated transparency feature called Order Independent Transparency (OIT).
Originally Posted by Creo
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PTC Slips on the Shiny Sequins of Creo 2.0…Upgrading?
The 10th app is imminent. It beckons from the ashes… ahem, PTC has formally announced the release of Creo 2.0. For those still clinging to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5, it may have just the right gleam to get you past the rebranding/restructuring brought out with Creo 1.0. With it, PTC brings you the 10th app to complete the role-specific app fam. Completeness is achieved. All hail the 10th app.
Originally Posted by Josh Mings, Solidsmack
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PTC Creo 2.0
We take a look at what the latest version of Creo has to offer. If you’ve been following what PTC has been up to in the last year or so, you’ll be more than aware of the change in both brand and direction. Gone is the oldest name in the parametric modelling game, Pro/Engineer and this has been replaced with Creo.
Originally Posted by Develop 3D
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