‘social product development’

Project Lightning. PTC Strikes a Plan for the Future of MCAD

08 Jun, 2010 by in NEWS

Crack out the Faraday suits and rev up those Tesla Coils, PTC is stirring the air with talks about their endeavor to define and possibly redefine (thunderous clap and loud echoing voice) THE FUTURE of MECHANICAL CAD!! CAD CAD!!

We’re out at PTC/USER 2010 in Orlando, Florida and we’ve found out as much as possible about the gameplan PTC has for product development. Could it be a new product? A new platform? Or perhaps their position on that Cloud mess and how to deliver apps to the user? Hmmm. Here’s what we know and what we think it might be.

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The Frigin’ Long Post of 5 Things a SolidWorks User Can Gain From Going to a Pro/E Conference

10 Jun, 2009 by in NEWS

You may have suddenly gagged on a dry crumb of muffin just now, so just give yourself a nice hard wallop in the chest and take another swig of scalding hot coffee. We’re actually about to expel muffintop all over SolidSmack with some tidbits I took away from the PTC/USER 2009 event I’ve been at over the past few days.

I didn’t see any mountain lion wrestling, body slams or other teeth-gritting activities you might think you would see at such events, but I did find 5 things you may be interested to know about. They have a lot to do with why you would even go to a 3D CAD/PLM conference in the first place… minus the headbutts.

So what are they? Let take a little walk…

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