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demos are very impressive. More special cases will be identified over time, but it Once the analysis is complete, the violations are displayed for further
is a very laudable holy grail to aim for. investigation. When a violation is selected, the path will be displayed in the
graphics window to help you to understand the failure better. Users can override
When models fail to regenerate properly, Wildfire 5.0 provides much better the results and ignore the violation, and by doing so their user name is stored in
feedback about the failure to help you work through the remedial processes with the assembly along with a note, which describes why the violation was
much better diagnostics and repair tools. overridden. The analysis results are stored with the assembly for later design
reviews.
There is a new Rib tool that will handle draft and will cope with fillets and rounds
and extend ribs to part walls automatically. The user has also got a lot more In addition, enhancements in the Routed Systems interface lets you create wires,
freedom over how to define the core geometry; you can include multiple loops cables and ribbons on the fly. The Spark Analysis Extension is the only
and intersecting paths that used to be avoided like the plague in the old days, commercially available product that helps analyse and optimise the
because of the potential disruption to the topology. There is also the ability to electromechanical clearance and creepage properties of designs.
generate curvature continuous rounds, and use sketch points for patterns with
real-time geometry and user-defined feature previews. Other applications include modules for digital rights management, ECAD-MCAD
collaboration, and the newly introduced digital human modelling solution, which
There is new, real-time, photorealistic rendering, courtesy of Mental Ray, the will allow you to save significant time and costs associated with wasteful
rendering engine from mental images that provides unsurpassed realism in less physical prototyping, production rework and field failures. The integration of
time. This new integration provides ease of use through quality material presets these capabilities will help to reduce errors and the time and costs from using
and real-world illumination models. too many disparate/disconnected design tools.
Wildfire 5.0 has new tools for CAD interoperability. With increased native support PTC with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 is the first vendor to offer a CAD solution
for other CAD systems and non-geometric data exchange, designers can address enabled for so-called 'social product development'. More efficient and more
the time-consuming and error-prone challenges of working with CAD data from innovative product development is driven by an increase in collaboration
multiple systems. There are native 3D import wizards for Autodesk Inventor and efficiency using these social product development tools. It helps users to remove
SolidWorks that preserve non-geometric data (3D notes, annotations and the communication barriers, preventing them from finding the right people and
metadata) in neutral formats. resources at the right time. The integration between Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill
ProductPoint is built on Microsoft SharePoint social computing technologies. It is
Pro/ENGINEER continues to improve how users work in today's highly coupled, called social product development because it's like Twitter or Facebook for
multi-disciplinary design environment. A new Spark Analysis Extension helps product development, helping users find and reuse the wider design community's
users to analyse and optimise the electromechanical clearance and creepage collective knowledge to improve process productivity.
properties of designs. The extension automatically identifies where electrical
sparks will cross gaps and creep along surfaces to help prevent product failures Machine simulation now lets you drive slot motor components along curves
earlier in the design process. (which will be of particular value in the scalextric4schools challenge). You can
now create belts to account for kinematic and dynamic coupling, analyse
The extension allows design engineers to electronically analyse their designs to dynamic gears and model 3D contacts using integrated Pro/Mechanica. There is
identify if electrical components are violating insulation rules. There are two also expanded support for heterogeneous units, improvements to icon and label
analysis types. The first is the clearance analysis, which identifies the shortest displays, a dashboard interface for surface and volume regions and support for
distance between two conductive parts or between a conductive part and the materials plasticity.
outer surface of an enclosure, when the distance is measured through air. The
second is creepage analysis, which identifies the shortest path between two You can see the advanced rendering at
conductive parts or between a conductive part and the outer surface enclosure, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NEfoVnJkM and a short overview of the
when the path is measured along the surface of the insulation. new features at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yj3vaLogU4&feature=related.
Because there has never been a solution to electronically analyse a design,
designers have traditionally relied on rule of thumb. For simple designs, this
works well, but as designs become more and more complex and ever more Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC)
reliant on electronics, there is a high probability of failure. W: www.ptc.com
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