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PTC’S PRO/ENGINEER WILDFIRE 5.0
BREAKS TRADITIONAL DESIGN BARRIERS
quality and commitment to deliver capabilities that enable our customers to
Charles Clarke
develop winning products and bring them to market faster and at lower costs.”
These traditional barriers include things like the problems associated with making
design changes, the length of time to manufacturing productivity, dealing with
PTC has managed to transform its flagship product almost beyond recognition heterogeneous CAD data, working with a multitude of disconnected software
from the product we knew and loved (or otherwise) in its formative years. If you've applications, and identifying resources and exploiting the collective knowledge
been abducted by aliens and missed the metamorphosis, you can be forgiven for when needed for real innovation. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 now offers powerful
not recognising the product at all. The signature cascading menus have long new capabilities in all these areas and over 330 enhancements that improve
since been consigned to the history books and what we have today is a very productivity, enrich the user experience and provide the freedom to design
modern looking, comprehensive PLM offering that would not look out of place without these traditional barriers.
alongside many of the newest entrants to the PLM/solid modelling space.
User experience enrichment includes things such as graphical browsing with
According to Marc Halpern, Research Director at information technology research interactive 3D file previews in the open dialogue box for graphical searching and
firm Gartner, “Global competition, environmental sustainability and demographic a new, contextual ribbon interface for the 2D sketcher, like Office 2007. There are
change are the major factors affecting manufacturers today. These translate into intuitive, user interface enhancements, like streamlined tasks and faster
multidisciplinary design, design for lifecycle and social networking for innovation application performance to improve design efficiency and reduce the time from
as top priorities for manufacturers to deliver winning products.” concept through to production. With Wildfire 5.0, you can now create simplified
sub-assemblies, place forms and create moulded parts up to 80% faster than
In response to this, PTC's marketing credo for this release is that it delivers new with previous releases. You can also analyse weldments up to 10 times faster and
capabilities to help customers eliminate the traditional design barriers so that create facing toolpaths up to five times faster.
they achieve faster, more efficient and more innovative product development.
There is dynamic direct editing of parametric features with automatic model
“Particularly during challenging economic times, customers demand and expect regeneration on the fly, while preserving the feature tree. You no longer have to
technology leaders like PTC to provide solutions that will help them to address 'regenerate' the model after making changes. Ribs can be dragged and dropped in
barriers to productivity that can inhibit them from efficiently creating great plastic parts and there is no need to roll back the model history or to regenerate
products,” said Brian Shepherd, Executive Vice President, Product Development, it. There is a lot going on under the surface here and because it's mixing
PTC. “Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 demonstrates PTC's ongoing emphasis on parameter with explicit definitions, it might not work in every case, but the early
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