Pro/Feature: Package $ Product Short Description Acrony M

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.
0 Packages
This spreadsheet is intended as a guide to PTC's MCAD packaging. It is not an exhaustive list of all licensing options and may
Last Update: April 20, 2007
be out-of-date. Please refer to the Pricing and Configuration guides for complete details. The $ column is provided for your use.
-------- Design Packages --------
Acrony
$ Product Short Description Questions
Package m
3D modeling using the same terminology as on the shop Is it important to you to have 100% confidence that your
N/A Pro/FEATURE
floor digital part model represents reality?
Do you need to create accurate, complete and detailed
N/A Pro/DETAIL Produce complete, production-ready drawings
production-level drawings?
N/A Pro/PLOT Prints drawings & extends plotting capabilities Do you produce printed/plotted drawings and images?
Allows batch processing of Import, Export, Plot and Do you need to batch process printing or import/export
N/A Pro/BATCH
Conversion operations activities?
Do you import designs using IGES, STEP, DXF, DWG,
N/A Interface Capabilities Import/Export various CAD and image formats
etc?
Are accurate, up-to-date BOMs, wire lists and other
N/A Pro/REPORT Creates Bill of Material (BOMs)
table-type data on your drawings important?
Create, modify, and delete individual geometric 3D entities. Do you import designs using IGES, STEP, DXF, DWG,
N/A Pro/LEGACY Handle entities contained in 2D drawings. etc? Do you ever have to modify them?
Allows Design of sheetmetal style parts. Shows bends and
N/A Pro/SHEETMETAL Do you design products that are made of sheetmetal?
flat patterns in sheetmetal drawings
Do you create welds when building assemblies? How
N/A Pro/WELDING 00--- many welds are in your assemblies? How are you
documenting your welds?
Quickly create accurate, photo rendered images of Pro/E Do you have a need to produce high-quality, photo
N/A Pro/PHOTOTRENDER
parts and assembles (great for sales and marketing groups) rendered images for marketing purposes?
Would you like to be able to quickly publish your

N/A Pro/WEB PUBLISH Creates website showing the assembly of parts
engineering/manufacturing data in a web format?
Library of standard parts, features, and tools (moldbases, Do you maintain a library of standard components for
N/A LIBRARY ACCESS
pipe fittings) reuse?
Automatically takes 2D schematic drawings and converts Do you create PC Boards? Circuit Boards? Do you
N/A Pro/ECAD
Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE
them to 3D model (used for PC Boards) create 3D models from your 2D schematics?
Allows for customized part definition by modifying the built-in Do your part designs ever change based on a logical set
N/A Pro/PROGRAM (Parts)
part definition program of criteria?
Do you design assemblies with moving parts(design

Creates kinematic motion checking moving parts within an
mechanism)? How do you make certain that parts don't
MDX Mechanism Design Extension
assembly for interference and range of motion (envelope) --
interfere as the mechanism moves? Do you do
stimulates motion WITHOUT testing for forces.
kinematic (MDX) or dynamic (MDO) analysis of motion?
Enforces company standards (spelling check for Pro/E) -- Have you established standard design modeling
N/A ModelCHECK important if company is ISO Certified -- also does part practices in your organization? Design to model quality
indexing and company standards, common names?
Dimension based surfacing (creates surfaces by
N/A Pro/SURFACE Do you design technical or complex shapes?
boundaries)
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Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 Packages
Do you need to make changes to imported models?

Allows users to manipulate models (bend, stretch, etc.)
N/A Warp Surface (i.e., drafting for plastic molding) Manufacture
regardless of model's creation history or data type
designs/components in different sizes?
Includes Simplified Reps (only bring up the parts of the

How long does it take you to update an assembly? How
Assembly assembly you need to work on -- time saver) & Shrinkwrap
long does it take for you to retrieve and regenerate your
APX Performance (reduces file sizes by 90% and masks proprietary info about
designs? How many components are in your
Extension design by only supplying what is necessary -- the size,
assemblies?
shape, and weight)
Would it be helpful to design in a photo rendered
N/A Real-Time Photorendering
updates photo images as Pro/E model is moved in real-time
environment with reflections and textures?
How do you visualize and communicate design
Visualization (movie) of how things are assembled or dis-
information efficiently to manufacturing? Your
DAO Design Animation Option
assembled (great for Marketing or Sales departments or
customers? Create compelling sales/mtg presentations
instructional movies for assemblies)
and assembly sequences?
Do you work with imported data from suppliers/partners?

DDO Import Data Doctor Cleans up imported part geometry (saves 60%-80% of time)
How much time is spend cleaning up geometry?
Web native to allow for access to part libraries, tutorials, Would you like to utilize the web more effectively for
Web Connectivity
tech support & more directly within Pro/E design and engineering tasks?
Are you using or considering LINUX for your engineering
N/A Linux Support Only CAD software to support Linux!
workstations?
Takes 2D drawings and makes a 3D parametric model (free Are you moving from 2D drawings to 3D models?
N/A AutoBuildz
for download to maintenance paying customers) Legacy 2D drawing?
Please see the latest "Pro/ENGINEER Data
Advanc
PDMLin Windchill PDM -- Enterprise connected data management Management Decision Support Guide" located on the
Pro/EN
GINEE
ed SE
k Only Windchill PDMLink HeavywithUser

multiple
seat BOM views, configuration management, Workgroup Data Management Product Page (internal or
R
change management and built-in, pervasive visualization. portal) for a discussion of which product to position,
Windchill PDMLink or Pro/INTRALINK or both.
Choice of
PDMLin Please see the latest "Pro/ENGINEER Data
Engineering workgroup PDM -- Simple to install and
k or Management Decision Support Guide" located on the
configure. Provides check-in, check-out, promote/demote,
INTRALI Pro/INTRALINK Multi-site seat Workgroup Data Management Product Page (internal or
release levels, electronic sign-off and data replication
NK portal) for a discussion of which product to position,
capability.
Advanced functionality for creating: assembly instruction Do you design assemblies in teams to work on parts of
sheets, top-down designs, global layouts, assembly family the same large assembly? Would you benefit from
AAX Advanced Assembly Extension
tables, and automated design changes (using Interchange employing better large assembly management
NGINEER Advanced XE
assemblies, assembly programs and linked web pages). techniques?
How many times do you have to "modify" a design? (if

Optimizes the design of parts and assemblies within a
more than 20 per/day, then BMX) Are all your designs
BMX Behavioral Modeling Extension
defined set of parameters (spec-driven optimization) 5th
ese Options:
optimized? Waste money on over designing products?

generation of CAD.
Spend lots of time on multiple design iterations?
cluded

Pro/ENGINEER Adv
One of these Options:

All Included
Do you design complex surfaces? Design organic, free
Free-form surfacing not bound by dimensions (although not
ISDX ISDXII - Interactive Surfacing Design Ext.II flowing shapes for superior looking products?
fully dimensional, it can have dimension as references).
Concerned with ergonomics?
Provides additional functionality over MDX allowing
engineers to simulate and improve the dynamic
How do you tell what forces are acting on your
performance of a mechanism as it would operate in real life.
MDO MDO - Mechanism Dynamics Option mechanism in real life? Do you do kinematic (MDX) or
Forces and acceleration solving allow for friction, springs,
dynamic (MDO) analysis of motion?
cam liftoff and slot stops with coefficient of restitution
formulated forces and more.
Cable Design Extension

Concurrent mechanical & wiring design (includes RSD Lite) Do you have any wires or cables in your assemblies?
PCX
Piping Design Extension
Concurrent mechanical & piping design (includes RSD Lite) Do you do piping, tubing or flexible hoses?
Pro/ENGINEER
Windchill ProjectLink is a quick-start solution that delivers

Enterprise SE
Please see the latest "Pro/ENGINEER Data

Web based, real-time project collaboration for your
Management Decision Support Guide" located on the
extended product development team. Users can quickly
Windchill ProjectLink Heavy User Seat Workgroup Data Management Product Page (internal or
create Web-based, virtual workspaces where globally and
portal) for a discussion of which product to position,
organizationally dispersed design team members can work
together as if in the same room.
Do you need to consider loading or temperatures when

Virtual prototype and design optimization taking structural
designing? Have you ever wished there was a way you
and thermal loading into consideration. Static, modal,
Pro/MECHANICA Structural & Thermal Simulation Option could perform analyses without waiting for the PhD
buckling, steady-state thermal analyses using
analyst to get around to it? Do you need to get it right
Pro/MECHANICA and/or output mesh to 3rd party solver.
the 1st time?
Are you capturing the valuable calculation information

Mathcad manages engineering calculations using a created in every engineering project? Can you tell, at a
Scratchpad Interface and Real Math Notation. Mathcad glance, what the critical parameters or design
calculations are easy to create, understand, audit, share, constraints are for your project? Are you reusing your
and troubleshoot. Mathcad recognizes thousands of engineering calculations in subsequent projects? Are
Mathcad standard units of measurement, so if your calculations employees learning from their mistakes rather than
Pro/ENGINEER Enterprise XE
contain mixed units, Mathcad eliminates conversion errors repeating them? Do you need to reduce the number of
and reduces time spent trouble-shooting your calculations. It design iterations or prototypes required for each design?
supports Numeric and Symbolic math, equation solving, Are you identifying best engineering practices, or
vectors and matrices, 2D and 3D plotting, and more. relying instead on the judgment of individual engineers
on a case-by-case basis?

Pro/ENGINEER Enter
Through its easy to use interface, ProductView allows
anyone to visualize assemblies and 3D models from all
major MCAD tools, as well as drawings, images and Who within your enterprise needs to view product data
documents from a multitude of sources, all without the need (3D Models, Drawings, Documents)? What do they
ProductView Standard Edition
for the native authoring application. With its compact, yet need to do with that data? Who needs to review, redline
accurate 3D viewable format, complex information can be or markup this data ?
quickly accessed to reduce rework and improve decision-
making.
Arbortext Editor looks and works like familiar word

processing software–yet provides all the power and
flexibility you need. Arbortext Editor lets authors build How does your enterprise create and publish it's
Arbortext Editor compound documents out of reusable components, attach documentation? Do you have and document
audience information to content for producing customized management/change control goals?
publications, and embed data from databases, business
systems and other data sources.
-------- Design Add-ons --------

Extension/ $ Acronym Product Description Questions
Option
Top-down assembly tools including: Skeleton models, assembly Do you have large or complex assemblies? Are your assembly
Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX)
N/A Advanced Assembly family tables, interchange assemblies, external copy geom features, designs driven from an overall shape/size? Do you have
dependency control and dependency investigation. families of assemblies?
Do you, or would you like to, produce assembly instruction

N/A Pro/Process for Assemblies
Creates instruction sheets for how components are assembled
sheets?
Design-to-order web page that links into Pro/E. Allows for simple Would creating custom web pages which can drive detailed
N/A Pro/Web.Link
programming of custom tools. designs be useful to you?
Allows for customized assembly definition by modifying the built-in Do your assembly designs ever change or swap components
N/A Pro/Program (Assembly)
assembly definition program based on a logical set of criteria?
Are your sub-assemblies large? Would having a simplified
Automation feature for creating an associative, lightweight part
N/A Shrinkwrap "envelope" of the sub-assembly that updated be useful in your
model from an assembly.
top-level assemblies?
Are there any design parameters used in multiple places (such
Top-down design tool for capturing high-level parameters in one
N/A Pro/Notebook as pitch, diameter, etc.) that control the shape/size of
place to drive the design
different/matching geometry?
Free-form surfacing not bound by dimensions (although not fully Do you design ergonomic or styled products that need smooth,
Extension (ISDX
ISDX Interactive Surface Design

Surface Design
dimensional, it can have dimension as references). complex surfaces?

Interactive
Define layered composite designs in 3D including foam cores and Are your components designed and produced using layered
N/A Pro/Composite
ply-layups. composites?
II)
Set of tools to import and manipulate scan curve data (not point Do you use scanned curve data in your designs (not point
N/A Pro/Scantools
cloud) and create best-fit, smooth surfaces through the curves clouds -- see REX for that)?

This option provides comprehensive functionality for mechanical
and packaging engineers for the easy creation of 3D harnesses
completely detailed with connectors and components. The design
of harnesses is associative with the Pro/ENGINEER assembly, Do you design and route wire harnesses through your
N/A Pro/Cabling
enabling concurrent engineering by ensuring that cable paths and assemblies?
lengths automatically update when assemblies are modified.
Piping & Cabling Design Extension
Harness Manufacturing provides powerful, fast, and easy-to-use

tools for flattening 3D harnesses for manufacturing documentation
purposes. The flattened harness can be used to create fully Do you need to create nail-board drawings for wire-harness
N/A Pro/Harness-Mfg
documented nail board drawings, complete with parts list, from-to manufacturing?
wire lists, and connector tables.
Offers comprehensive, associative capabilities and libraries for

piping design through manufacturing. Used by system and
Do you design and route pipes or flexible hoses through your
N/A Pro/Piping mechanical designers to accurately design, route, document and
assemblies?
manufacture complex piping systems while optimally reusing
designs for dramatic time savings and improvements in productivity.
Are you using a schematic solution that is unable to drive the

Standalone multi disciplined diagramming solution for the creation
mechanical world? Did you know if you own cabling piping or
of Block, Circuit, Wiring, P&ID and hydraulic diagrams. Wiring and
RSD Lite Routed Systems Designer Lite flex 3C you are entitled to RSD Lite for Free? Do you want to
piping information created in RSD drives mechanical Pro/PIPING
reduce your maintenance costs of your existing schematic
and Pro/CABLING using an XML interface
solution?
Piping Design
Extension
Enabled
Isogen
Do you need to produce isometric drawings of your piping

N/A ALIAS Personal Isogen Provides automatic generation of piping isometric drawings.
components? Are you required to provide ISOGEN drawings?
Create superb, photo-realistic renderings using PhotoLux.

Do your company have the need to produce high-quality, very
Rendering
Advanced
Extension
PhotoLux complements PhotoRender and raises the bar. 200 new

realistic renderings for marketing material? Do you use a
materials with "procedural textures", real-world lighting, accurate
ARX Advanced Rendering photography studio to take pictures of your prototypes? Are
reflections and shadows (ray-tracing), and the fastest render times.
you exporting and "touching-up" images from your CAD
Incorporate light scatter, lens flare and depth of field falloff effects
system?
also.
Create accurate, modifiable Pro/E models form 3D scan data.

Engineering
Extension
Quickly capture design intent and maintain critical geometric data or

Reverse
just quickly wrap the point cloud in surfaces and move on. Do you reverse engineer models? Do you want to or do you
REX Reverse Engineering
Advanced capabilities include point-cloud refinement, facet receive laser scanned point clouds to base designs on?
modeling and refinement, primitive shape recognition, analysis
tools, and real flat and cylindrical surface types.
Do you design using welded and/or bolted structural steel or
Framework
Extension
Functionality to design beam structures up to 10x faster than using

other frame-type members? Do you need to produce accurate
Expert
out-of-the-box Pro/E. EFX is targeted toward customers who make

EFX Expert Framework BOMs and cut-lists of framework components? Are you
structures with steel beams as well as custom and standard
spending too much time in the details and not enough time
aluminum extrusions.
innovating?
-------- Production Add-Ons --------

Option

Tool Design Option (TDO)

Specialized functionality for injection mold core, cavity and insert
design. Shrinkage compensation, automated parting surfaces,
N/A Pro/MOLDDESIGN-2
automated splitting. Draft, undercut and thickness checks as well
as mold opening simulation. Do you design or take part in the design of your mold, die or
Specialized functionality for die casting design. Spring back cast tooling? Would you like to have changes to your design
N/A Pro/DIEFACE
calculations. automatically reflected in the tooling? Is there a big disconnect
Specialized functionality for sand casting cavity and pattern design. between tooling design and engineering?
Shrinkage compensation, automated parting surfaces, automated
N/A Pro/CASTING
splitting. Draft, undercut and thickness checks as well as mold
opening simulation.
Complete Mold Design
Provides automated moldbase design functionality well beyond

TDO's moldbase libraries. Standard moldbases from Hasco, DME,
Futaba, Progressive, Strack, Meusberger, Rabourdin, PCS, Pedrotti
Extension
and more. A 2-D user interface allows for easy use by designers
Do you use or modify moldbases? If so, you need to see this
EMX Expert Moldbase used to 2D applications. Included are standard moldbase
tool!!!
assemblies, plates, insulation, screws, washers, dowel pins, ejector
pins, latch locks and slider assemblies. Fully automated mold
opening animation provides a visual check. Pre-made, associative,
automatic drawings are provided for the mold assemblies.
Extension
Progressi
Provides automated functionality and a 2-D user-interface for

ve Die
designing Progressive Dies. Includes sheet metal part preparation,

PDX Progressive Die Do you design progressive dies?
strip layout, punch, bend and trimming tools as well as plate
configurations and automated drawings.
Provides automated moldbase design functionality well beyond

Expert Moldbase
TDO's moldbase libraries. Standard moldbases from Hasco, DME,

Futaba, Progressive, Strack, Meusberger, Rabourdin, PCS, Pedrotti
Extension
Do you design mold tooling? Do you use standard moldbases?

and more. A 2-D user interface allows for easy use by designers
Would a flexible, fully documented, accurate moldbase design
EMX Expert Moldbase used to 2D applications. Included are standard moldbase
with drawings and BOMs be useful to you? Would you like to
assemblies, plates, insulation, screws, washers, dowel pins, ejector
double or triple your moldbase design through-put next year?
pins, latch locks and slider assemblies. Fully automated mold
opening animation provides a visual check. Pre-made, associative,
automatic drawings are provided for the mold assemblies.
Simulates the mold filling of injection molded parts at the early

Extension
Advisor
stage of the design process. This catches potential manufacturing Do you design parts that are plastic injection molded? Do you
Plastic
N/A Plastic Advisor problems and prevents costly rework. It also provides insight into need a quick, accurate way of determining the filling
the design of the tooling for venting and required injection characteristics of your designs before you go to production?
pressures/speeds.
-------- Machining Add-Ons --------

Option
Option
N/A Expert Machinist 2-1/2 axis (multi-axis positioning) feature-based milling package
Prismatics and
Do you need to do production or prototype NC machining? Do

Milling Option
Multi-surface
N/A Pro/NC-MILL and a complete multi-surface, 3-axis milling package. Create, post-
you program just 2-1/2 or 3-axis work with maybe 4th axis
roduction Machining
N/A Vericut for Pro/E process and simulate accurate and efficient part-programs. The
indexing? Is your NC program linked to the engineering
ability to create automatic process documentation (setup sheets)
Process for model? If not, what happens when a change is made in
N/A and a tooling library are included. Full associativity to the design
Manufacturing engineering? What are the costs of reprogramming every
part means no starting over when engineering makes changes.
N/A Pro/NC G-Post time?
VERICUT for Pro/E and Pro/NC G-Post are included.
N/A Pro/NC-TURN Do you need to perform NC turning or NC Wire EDM? Would
automating your process setup sheets -- ensuring the right
Adds 2- to 4-axis turning and 2- to 4-axis wire EDM.
information was presented and updated when changes occur --
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Complete Machining
Last Update: April 20, 2007 need to perform or NC Wire EDM?
be out-of-date. Please refer to the Pricing and Configuration guides for complete details.
automating The $ column
your process is provided
setup sheets for
-- ensuring theyour
right use.
Adds 2- to 4-axis turning and 2- to 4-axis wire EDM.
information was presented and updated when changes occur --
N/A Pro/NC-WEDM have value?
Adds full 5-axis, continuous multi-axis milling and mill/turn machine Do you have 5-axis milling work or a mill/turn machine (live
N/A Pro/NC-ADVANCED
programming (live tooling). tooling)?
Computer-aided verification Option
Does your QC department use a CMM machine for

Capabilities to inspect the quality of machined, cast or molded parts
inspections? Is it programmed manually? What would it mean
and assemblies. It creates DMIS programs for CMM (Coordinate
if the CMM program and inspection criteria were linked to the
CMM Pro/CMM Measuring Machines) based on the Pro/E design model, tolerances
engineering design so changes could be immediately
and g-tols. Also for free-form geometry, it compares scanned,
incorporated into your QC procedures without the time and risk
point-cloud data to the Pro/E design model.
of manual programming?
Compare a scanned model to the (nominal) design model, using
computer-aided verification techniques. You can quantify the
Are your components tight-tolerance products? Do you use. or
following types of deviations: Global defects, such as warping and
N/A Pro/Verify would like to use, laser scanning for quality control purposes?
shrinkage; mid-level defects, such as those caused by improper
If so, how do you check the results for deviation?
EDM setups; and highly local defects, caused by surface
imperfections.
NC Sheetmetal
Allows NC programmers to create, verify and post-process Do you have NC sheetmetal punch, laser or flame equipment?
toolpaths for turret punch presses and contouring laser/flame How do you currently program this equipment? Is your NC
Option
Option
N/A Pro/NC-Sheetmetal machines. Pro/E part or DXF sections may be used as reference. program linked to the engineering models? If not, what
Includes automated toolpath generation, automated nesting, happens when a change is made in engineering? What are the
automated punching and automated contouring. costs of reprogramming every time?
MechanicaMechanica
Option
-------- Simulation/Analysis Add-ons --------

Option
Pro/ENGINEER
Virtually prototype and optimize designs taking into consideration and/or thermal requirements? Would an up-front analysis
N/A Basic Pro/Mechanica Structure
thermal and structural (stress) requirements. Solve static, modal, (during the design phase) to identify potential problems save
buckling and steady-state thermal analyses. Full associativity to the you headaches downstream -- provided it was accurate and
N/A Pro/E design model allows for easy updates and optimization using easy enough for non-analysts to use? Could it reduce costly
Basic Pro/Mechanica Thermal
Pro/ENGINEER Advanced
design parameters and dimensions. Supports the Mechanica prototypes? What if your analysis model was your design
N/A Pro/Mesh solver or 3rd party FEM solvers. model -- no translation, never out-of-sync, no need to
Adds Pre-Stress, Large deformation, Contact, 2-D axisymmetric, 2-
N/A Advanced Pro/Mechanica Structure
D Plane Stress/Strain
Do you have need to handle… (see Description column to the

N/A Advanced Pro/Mechanica
Adds
Thermal
Transient thermal left)?
Large, system model, hierarchical control of node and element

N/A Hierarchical FEM modeling
numbering for 3rd party FEM solving
Are your designs driven by physical requirements beyond
Behavioral
Extension
shape and size (like volume, clearance, center-of-gravity,

Modeling
Optimizes the design of parts and assemblies within a defined set moments of inertia, area, etc)? Would you like to be able to
BMX Behavioral Modeling
of parameters (spec-driven optimization) 5th generation of CAD. find feasible and/or optimal design solutions automatically?
Would you like to be able to quickly see the results of changing
something?

Provides additional functionality over MDX allowing engineers to
Mechanism
Dynamics
simulate and improve the dynamic performance of a mechanism as Do your mechanisms include spring and damping forces,
Option
MDO Mechanism Dynamics it would operate in real life. Forces and acceleration solving allow friction, force motors and gravity? Would you like to know the
for friction, springs, cam liftoff and slot stops with coefficient of reaction forces in your system during operation?
restitution formulated forces and more.
Advisor
Fatigue
Uses results from a Structural Simulation analysis to calculate Is metal fatigue a factor in your designs? Should it be? Would
Option
N/A Fatigue Advisor fatigue life of metals. Includes rainflow cycle counting and plastic you like to be able to quickly estimate the fatigue life of your
strain extrapolation. designs using industry-proven methods?
-------- Technical Illustrations (Arbortext IsoDraw) SEPARATE PROGRAMS --------

Option
Arbortext IsoDraw
Who is responsible for creating and maintaining technical

illustrations?
Foundation
How are technical illustrations created, utilized and maintained?

Highly specialized tool for creation of illustrations from scratch,
N/A Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation To what extent are technical illustrations required?
These are SEPARATE PROGRAMS from Pro/ENGINEER
reuse of 2D data, photo tracing, raster editing, hotspot creation.

What kind of documentation is produced?
How many technical illustrations do you produce on average?
How long does it take to create each technical illustration?
CADproce
Arbortext Arbortext
Contains all the functionality of Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation,

IsoDraw IsoDraw
PLUS the ability to automatically create high-quality technical Do you create 3D models of your products? What if you could
N/A Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess
ss
illustrations directly from 3D CAD design data, while maintaining an easily reuse that data in your technical illustrations?
associative link to the original CAD file.
Extension
Allows the user to upgrade seamlessly from IsoDraw Foundation to Do you want to upgrade your Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation
3D
N/A Arbortext IsoDraw 3D Extension

IsoDraw CADprocess. seat to Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess?
Distribution Kit
Arbortext IsoView is the industry’s leading intelligent technical

Arbortext
IsoView
graphics viewer. Arbortext IsoView enables readers to view and

Will you need to view the technical illustrations/animations that
N/A Arbortext IsoView Distribution
interact
Kitwith technical illustrations created by Arbortext IsoDraw, or
you create throughout your organization?
other illustration tools. This is a 'Per Site License' allowing the
customer to distribute IsoView throughout their organization.
Arbortext IsoCompose is a complete application for catalog creation

IsoCompose
and distribution. It speeds the work of documentation professionals

Arbortext
in every phase of catalog production, from design to distribution, as Do you create product catalogs? What is the process of
N/A Arbortext IsoCompose well as subsequent revisions. This wizard-based application makes documenting and updating them? What types of illustrations
it easy and cost-effective for any organization-large and small-to are used in those manuals/catalogs?
quickly create high-quality electronic catalogs without any
programming required.
-------- Other Licenses --------

License $ Acronym Product Description Questions

Interface Interface Interface Interface Languag

for CATIA for CATIA e Option
Chinese
This option is required to operate Pro/ENGINEER in the Chinese
Language Option -
N/A language. Please specify Simplified or Traditional at time of Do you need the Chinese version of Pro/ENGINEER?
-
Chinese
purchase.
Are you interfacing with a customer/supplier who uses CATIA
Allows for associative import of native CATIA II (v4) models.
II with
ATB Interface for CATIA II v4? Would a robust, direct interface to read and write native
N/A Exports directly to CATIA model format. No CATIA license is
with ATB CATIA v4 models and keep your Pro/E models associative be
required.
useful?
V5 with
Translation processor for Pro/ENGINEER that allows for associative Are you interfacing with a customer/supplier who uses CATIA
Interface for CATIA V5
ATB
N/A import of CATIA V5 models (parts and assemblies) to v5? Would a robust, direct interface to read their native CATIA
with ATB
Pro/ENGINEER. No export capability is included with this product. v5 models and keep your Pro/E models associative be useful?
s with ATB with ATB
Unigraphic I-DEAS
Translation processor for Pro/ENGINEER that allows for associative Are you interfacing with a customer/supplier who uses I-DEAS?
Interface for I-DEAS
N/A import of I-DEAS models (parts and assemblies) to Would a robust, direct interface to read their native I-DEAS
for
with ATB
Pro/ENGINEER. No export capability is included with this product. models and keep your Pro/E models associative be useful?
Translation processor for Pro/ENGINEER that allows for associative Are you interfacing with a customer/supplier who uses
Interface for import of Unigraphics models (parts and assemblies) to Unigraphics? Would a robust, direct interface to read and write
for
N/A
Unigraphics with ATB Pro/ENGINEER. Also provides model export directly to Unigraphics native Unigraphics models and keep your Pro/E models
model format from Pro/ENGINEER. associative be useful?
Single Service
Distributed Pro/BATCH allows batch processing for common

Pro/BATCH
Distributed
Pro/ENGINEER tasks such as printing, plotting, import, export, and

Do you have sophisticated batch processing requirements? Do
Distributed Pro/BATCH ModelCHECK verification using Pro/ENGINEER installed on the
N/A you need to expand your Pro/BATCH capabilities to another
Single Service License local machine. This license can also be used to extend the
machine?
Distributed Pro/BATCH Server Package to enable additional batch
jobs to be processed on a remote machine.
Distributed Pro/BATCH
The Distributed Pro/BATCH Server Package includes the

Server Package
Distributed Services Manager for job-queuing, resource scheduling

and web-based task monitoring along with six Single Service
Do you have large or sophisticated batch processing
Distributed Pro/BATCH licenses. This bundle allows batch processing for common
N/A requirements? Would you like to take advantage of idle
Server Package Pro/ENGINEER tasks such as printing, plotting, import, export, and
machines on your network to do the work?
ModelCHECK verification to be performed using remote machines
on the network (the number of simultaneous batch jobs is limited by
the number of Service licenses owned (six are included)).
Programming
The Application Programming Toolkit allows customers to extend,

Application
Pro/ENGINEER automate, and customize a wide range of Pro/ENGINEER design- Do you need to create customized, C++ programs that interface
Toolkit
N/A Application through-manufacturing functionality. Similarly, customers can build with Pro/ENGINEER or Pro/INTRALINK to perform company-
Programming Toolkit custom Pro/INTRALINK-based solutions to further leverage product specific capabilities?
model information and fulfill their business objectives.
Are you using a schematic solution that is unable to drive the

Standalone multi disciplined diagramming solution for the creation
mechanical world? Did you know if you own cabling piping or
Separate of Block, Circuit, Wiring, P&ID and hydraulic diagrams. Wiring and
RSD Routed Systems Designer flex 3C you are entitled to RSD Lite for Free? Do you want to
Program piping information created in RSD drives mechanical Pro/PIPING
reduce your maintenance costs of your existing schematic
and Pro/CABLING using an XML interface
solution?

Pro/CONCEPT is a digital sketching, modeling and rendering
Are you capturing conceptual designs using artist renderings?
product for conceptual designers. It contains a complete set of tools
Would an powerful but easy to use 3D sketching environment
Separate for sketching, image retouching, curve and facet modeling,
N/A Pro/Concept with photorealistic rendering, sketching and painting add value?
Program painting directly onto 3D models, real-time and photorealistic
How about being able to use those concepts downstream in
rendering. Integration with Pro/ENGINEER and ProductView enable
detailed design - directly?
communication and date reuse.

The details provided below are for reference only and are culled from PTC's product pages, various presentations (past and present) and personal knowledge. There is no guarantee of accuracy or that
the information is up-to-date. This information is subject to change without notice. Consult current PTC documentation before using.
Advanced Assembly Product Page Link: Advanced Assembly Extension™
The Pro/ENGINEER® Advanced Assembly Extension (P-AAX) expands the power of Pro/ENGINEER® to allow the design and management of medium to very large assemblies,
throughout the enterprise-wide development process. It offers high-powered tools for design criteria management, top-down assembly design, large assembly management and
process planning.
These tools include:
· Skeleton models
· Simplified representations
· Interchange assemblies
· Exploded states
· Unplaced components
· Shrinkwrap models
· Geometry features
· Shrinkwrap features
· Reference Control
· Global Reference Viewer
· Layouts
These tools enhance the productivity of design teams creating and managing very large, complex product designs -- and help downstream users produce accurate lifecycle
documentation and assemble these products on the shop floor.
Specifically, advanced assembly design functionality allows designers to:

• Use a top-down approach to design Working with intuitive tools, users can quickly define and populate an assembly structure with new or existing components, collect critical
design criteria in skeleton models, and propagate these criteria throughout the assembly with Copy Geometry functions. Users can also manage the top-down design process with
Reference Control and Reference Viewing tools.
• Interchange assemblies Users can relate independent, functionally equivalent parts, so these can be easily switched in the context of a particular design – to leverage previously
created designs on new projects. Users can also create simplified interchange members. These can be substituted into a design to simplify the display, while retaining accurate
mass property information.
• Create simplified representations Users can create collections of components to facilitate managing a large assembly design. These collections can be based on rules, such as
model size, location, name, or any other model parameter. Graphics and Geometry Only Representations can also significantly improve performance by reducing the amount of
component information brought into a session.
• Associative Shrinkwrap capabilities Within the Advanced Assembly, users can produce a lightweight representation that retains complete surface and mass property information.
This "Shrinkwrapped" representation reduces the load on system resources – greatly improving performance. In addition, Shrinkwrapped designs can be passed to suppliers and
customers without distributing the proprietary design information and Shrinkwraps are associative, allowing changes to update automatically.
• Create graphical 2D assembly layouts Users can create annotations on parts and assemblies at the conceptual stage. They can also create block diagrams representing the
assembly design – including notes, global parameters, relationships, and global placement information, as well as components, constraints, requirements, and descriptions of how
the assembly must fit together.
• Complete top-down descriptions Using the 2D-assembly layout, users can create relationships in the models, linking dimensions and parameters to features and components. This
symbolic representation of the assembly can then be disseminated to all members of the design team, ensuring clear communication.
• Facilitate automatic assembly Users can create a placement correspondence among multiple components in the assembly by declaring the same axis or plane in different
components in the assembly to the layout. The software then can locate components with common declarations based on this knowledge – to automatically combine them in an
assembly.
• Manage symbolic information in a spreadsheet-style Users can create tables to document critical design information. These tables provide a top-level location for manipulating
dimensional and parametric information, which, in turn, drives the assembly design.
Advanced Rendering Product Page Link: Advanced Rendering Extension

PhotoLux (advanced rendering) complements PhotoRender and raises the bar with new abilities. Render your images faster and more accurately. PhotoLux images offer the
highest degree of photorealism for a model. Combine real-world lighting, accurate reflections and shadows, and the fastest render times, for the leading rendering software in the
industry. Advanced features include volumetric light scatter, lens flare, depth of field, fog, and more. Take advantage of advanced features such as light scatter to achieve
volumetric effects of light passing through dust or fog. Add lens flare to simulate the effects of a camera lens in direct light.
Advanced Mechanica Option Product Page Link: Advanced Mechanica

The comprehensive capabilities of Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Mechanica Option is ideal for sophisticated users who work with complicated models, employ complex design
processes, or want to take advantage of the broadest range of simulation functionality offered by PTC, including advanced modeling tools, special-purpose analyses, and top-down
simulation.
Key Product Features: Ability to solve: • Static analyses to compute stresses and displacements, including contact non-linear effects • Large deformation non-linearity effects in
static analyses • Pre-stress static and pre-stress modal analyses, including spin softening and stress stiffening effects • Modal solutions to compute both free and constrained
natural frequencies • Vibration analyses including dynamic frequency, time, random, and shock • Buckling analysis capabilities to compute critical buckling load factors • Steady-
state thermal analyses to evaluate a model's reaction to applied thermal loading and boundary constraints • Non-linear transient thermal analyses to model time-varying thermal
events such as the time required for a model to reach a steady state • 2D idealized model types including plane stress, plane strain, 2D plate, 2D unit depth, and axisymmetric. In
addition, analysts can perform coupled a thermal-structural analysis, applying the results from the thermal analysis as a load for a static analysis.
Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Mechanica Option also contains a robust library of tools that allow engineers to rapidly build simulation models. These tools include: • Weld connections,
including spot, end, and perimeter • Advanced spring and mass idealizations • Rigid connections • Advanced shells with properties such as laminate lay-ups • Engineering loads
and constraints such as bearing loads and cyclic symmetry constraints • Rigid and weighted links for use with NASTRAN • Isotropic, orthotropic, and anisotropic materials support.
In addition, Advanced Mechanica Option provides engineers the flexibility of selecting other solvers via its FEM mode. In FEM mode, analysts can output, solve, and post-process
models in either NASTRAN or ANSYS. Also, because Advanced Mechanica Option uses a single simulation model and database, analysts can switch between using the
Mechanica-based solver and FEM mode solvers with no need to recreate modeling entities (properties, loads, etc.).
Hierarchical Meshing in FEM Mode: Why shouldn’t analysts have the same flexibility in constructing system level analysis models using concurrent and top-down design
methodologies that CAD designers apply on a daily basis? With Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Mechanica Option, they do. Hierarchical meshing lets analysts define the analysis model
at lower levels of the assembly structure (including properties, the finite element mesh, data recovery points, etc.). These definitions are then rolled up into the higher-level
assemblies. This way, analysts can divide the workload for the creation of large analysis models and make more extensive re-use of analysis data.
Alias Personal ISOGEN ISOGEN is the industry de-facto standard for the automatic production of piping isometrics with virtually 100% market share and is supplied by all major plant design vendors. The
strength of ISOGEN lies not only in its speed of drawing production, but also an almost infinite capability for customization. Some of the main features include:
· Extremely fast drawing production - a few seconds per isometric

· Full automatic layout
· Traceability - return file to design system
· Alternative text (ATEXT) for foreign language support
· User defined symbols
· Detail sketches
· Unique part numbers
· Automatic drawing splitting
· User definable drawing splits
· Drawing Content control (see ISOGEN Customization document for more details)
· Reference dimensions
· Location points
· Item code / description substitution
· Pipeline attributes and NDE input at runtime
· Information notes
· Implicit and explicit Welding
· Automatic, straight splitting
· Support for hygienic fittings
· BulkMTO
· Pipe supports
· Additional materials
Arbortext Editor Product Page: Arbortext Editor
A key component of the PTC’s dynamic publishing software, Arbortext Editor (formerly Epic Editor) features an integral connection to Windchill and provides the starting
point for creating publications out of reusable components. Arbortext Editor enables you to:
- Create and edit XML and SGML content
- Work with content both as components and as compound documents
- Reuse content across your organization
- Improve the accuracy, consistency and flexibility of your information
Familiar Word Processing Interface: Change tracking, Real-time spell checking, Multiple levels of undo/redo, cut and paste, Drag-and-drop, Keyboard macros, Dockable
Word-like toolbars,
Structured Editing: Viewing, navigation and editing functions that are specific to structured XML/SGML content
Compound Document Support: Controls for assembling content from multiple contributors, Inline editing of document components in compound documents
Dynamic Content Support: “Profiling” feature lets authors create master documents to be automatically customized to specific audiences, Automatically merge data from
corporate business systems, Configure dynamic or variable elements
Integration with Content Management Systems: Supports PTC Windchill and other leading CMS solutions
Global Collaboration: Supports over 25 languages in content, character sets and spelling dictionaries
Standards Support: Arbortext supports XML, SGML, XSL (XSL-FO and XSLT), XML Schema, XPath, XInclude, DOM and other next-generation Web standards for sharing
content, data and applications, Supports HTML, CALS, OASIS and Arbortext table formats, Highly Configurable and Customizable
Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation Product Page: Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation
Technical Illustrations are essential to technical publications; high-quality illustrations improve the readability of publications, reduce service and operating errors, and
improve customer satisfaction. Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation is designed specifically for technical illustrators. It provides all the capabilities you need to create and deliver
high-quality illustrations in all required formats and media.
Lower Publishing Costs
- Reduce authoring and translation costs by replacing lengthy text descriptions with 2D and 3D illustrations and by animating entire procedures
- Reduce the time needed to create high-quality technical illustrations from hours to minutes
Speed Time-to-Market
- Automatically prepare illustrations for publishing in multiple formats and for delivery in both print and electronic media
Comply with Industry Standards
- Supports all established industry standards for technical illustrations, including: S1000D (aerospace and defense), ATA J2008 (automobile), CALS (defense)
- Supports the standards defined by W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium) for the use of illustrations on the Internet (WebCGM, SVG, PNG)

Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation
Capabilities and Benefits
- Boost illustrator productivity by providing specialized tools to speed common technical illustrator tasks
- Minimize both training cost and ramp-up time through an intuitive user interface
- Automatically display illustrations with the thick/thin technique–standard for technical illustrations. This technique makes illustrations much easier to understand.
- Convert 2D CAD data to perspective illustrations with an extrusion tool to create a solid body from a flat 2D view, and a tool for creating rotational surfaces from planes
- Quickly and easily create 2D animations to improve the readability of technical publications and reduce the need for long text descriptions
- Get access to over 2,200 views of standard parts. Selected parts are incorporated in the illustration in the correct orientation, perspective and size.
- Easily reuse legacy data using Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation tools for tracing photos and videos, along with a comprehensive raster editor for processing scanned images
- Support all major graphic formats: S1000D 2.3 CGM, ATA GREXCHANGE, WebCGM, CGM, SVG, PNG, JPEG, DWG, IGES, DXF, HPGL, Adobe Illustrator, WMF, EPS,
TIFF, PICT, PCX, BMP, CALS Raster, Text excerpt, XML Companion Files, Interleaf ASCII and FrameMaker MIF.
- Prepare illustrations for publishing in multiple formats and for delivery in both print and electronic media
- Expand the software capabilities with the optional Arbortext IsoDraw 3D Extension, to create high-quality technical illustrations directly from Pro/ENGINEER and other CAD
file formats. Maintain a link to the original 3D model and automatically update illustrations as designs change.
Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess Product Page: Arbortext CADProcess

Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess, the workbench for all your technical illustration and animation needs, is a must-have complement to your CAD toolset. This powerful
application reduces the CAD designer's workload by providing illustrators with an easy-to-use tool for processing the 3D model and creating high-quality 2D and 3D technical
illustrations and animations directly from CAD models. Today, the illustration process often includes the time consuming activity of redrawing geometry that was originally
captured in the design process using CAD. By maintaining a link to the original 3D model, and by automatically updating illustrations and animations as designs change,
Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess enables companies to develop documentation faster, reduce risk, and shorten time-to-market.
Increase Productivity
- Enable concurrent development of technical publications and engineering designs; link technical illustrations and animations to engineering designs, and automatically
recreate both illustrations and animations when CAD files change through direct integration with Pro/ENGINEER or transfer in multiple supported formats
- Eliminate the need to create illustrations from scratch; create high-quality technical illustrations directly from CAD
- Reduce resource drain on Engineering; illustrators can orient the model in as many positions as necessary to communicate their intent without relying on the CAD designer

- Eliminates the need to create illustrations from scratch; create high-quality 2D and 3D technical illustrations directly from CAD
- Enables you to quickly create 2D, 3D, or a mix of 2D and 3D animation with a simple user interface. Imports and leverages existing 2D and 3D data animations to create
high-quality animations.
- Manipulates 3D data with a highly intuitive user interface: explosion along any axes, cutaways, rotations, reflections, copying, scaling, etc. Newly trained illustrators can be
fully productive within just a few days.
- Empowers illustrators to manipulate 3D CAD data for the purpose of the illustration rather than relying on the CAD designer for all 3D data manipulation
- Direct integration with Pro/ENGINEER
- Support for a wide variety of CAD data through standard data exchange formats (e.g. IGES, VRML, OBJ, STEP, VDA, SAT, Parasolid)
- Enables concurrent development of technical publications and engineering designs; link technical illustrations to engineering designs and automatically recreate illustrations
when CAD files change (through direct integration with Pro/ENGINEER or link to 3rd party CAD tools through IGES, DWG, VRML, STEP, VDA, SAT, OBJ, and Parasolid.
- Deletes hidden lines, sets line thickness as required, and optimizes the elements of the CAD model in order to both reduce file size (required for electronic delivery) and
make elements more compact and easier to edit. Reduces further editing and cleanup of illustrations. Automates hotspot creation for electronic delivery.
- Automatically prepares illustrations for publishing in multiple formats and for delivery in both print and electronic media
- Automatically updates illustrations and animations as designs change
- Contains the full set of Arbortext IsoDraw Foundation capabilities for creating and editing high-quality technical illustrations, including specialized tools for drawing in
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Arbortext IsoView Distribution Product Page: Arbortext IsoView Distribution Kit

Kit Arbortext IsoView, a key component of the PTC Arbortext product family of dynamic publishing software, is the industry’s leading intelligent technical graphics viewer. Arbortext
IsoView enables readers to view and interact with technical illustrations created by Arbortext IsoDraw, or other illustration tools.
Arbortext IsoView also supports all established industry standards, and is the de-facto industry standard viewer for CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) files, mandated in a number
of industries. Arbortext IsoView is commonly used to view and distribute, either via CD or over the Intra-/Internet, high-quality graphics in interactive electronic documents such as
spare part catalogs, sales catalogs, or maintenance manuals.
Arbortext IsoView is available as an ActiveX Control for use within Internet Explorer, Visual Basic applications, and other compliant environments. It also provides an interactive
environment that can be customized and integrated with external applications.
- Provides high-quality display of technical graphics in an interactive electronic environment like electronic parts catalogs, IETMs, etc.
- The industry standard viewer for CGM files (CGM Version1-4, WebCGM)
- Compliant with ASD S1000D and ATA iSpec 2200 standards
- Display and print all major raster formats (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PCX and CALS Raster)
- Embed hotspots in graphics to improve readability and user experience
- Enables readers to interact with published graphics (zoom, pan, etc.)
- Readers can add comments to graphics and export the information into the documentation workflow (redlining)
- Displays both vector and raster from hybrid archives
- Available as an ActiveX Control for use within Internet Explorer, Visual Basic applications, and other compliant environments
- Integrates with existing enterprise systems and applications
Arbortext IsoCompose Product Page: Arbortext IsoCompose

Arbortext IsoCompose is a complete application for catalog creation and distribution. It speeds the work of documentation professionals in every phase of catalog production,
from design to distribution, as well as subsequent revisions. This wizard-based application makes it easy and cost-effective for any organization-large and small-to quickly
create high-quality electronic catalogs without any programming required.
- The wizard-based user interface makes it easy to quickly create high-quality illustrated and interactive spare parts catalogs without any programming
- Automatically generate common catalog elements and capabilities, including homepage, table of contents, catalog pages, shopping basket, print functions, catalog search,
and online help
- Interactively navigate the catalog in multiple ways: through a structured table of contents, online search, hyperlinks, and hotspots
- Support multiple languages in a single catalog
- Display interactive part illustrations
- Match catalog text to part numbers
- Automatically recreate electronic parts catalogs as information (text or illustrations) is revised
AutobuildZ Product Page Link: AutobuildZ

AutobuildZ is a plug-in application for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire that allows users to create fully parametric, feature-based 3D models from 2D drawings. With AutobuildZ and the
powerful data exchange capabilities in Pro/ENGINEER, you can directly import 2D drawing files – including AutoCAD DWG and DXF files while retaining design intent (layers,
dimensions, notes, symbols, text fonts, line types).
Benefits
• Leverage 2D legacy data in 3D designs
• “User-in-the-loop” to capture and reuse design intent
• Train 2D workforce in 3D modeling concepts
• Transition at your own pace
Key Features and Capabilities
• Wizards for feature creation
• Add “intelligence” to your imported drawing
• Constant visual feedback in 2D and 3D
• Automatically create 2D drawings from the 3D model
• Support for assembly drawings
Behavioral Modeling Product Page Link: Behavioral Modeler Extension

Allows for true objective-driven design. Build engineering evaluations directly into your models, including links to external applications. Leverage these dynamic evaluations to
automatically explore all design variations and drive geometry to solve engineering problems and optimize designs. Includes the ability to manage many variables and even
multiple conflicting goals. This product is an extension which is locked to the prerequisite package and does not float independently.
About Behavioral Modeling
Behavioral Modeling contains a set of tools for performing a wide variety of analyses on a model and incorporating the analysis results into the model. Behavioral Modeling lets you
modify the model design to reflect the desired solution.
You use the Behavioral Modeling tools to:
· Create feature parameters based on measurements and analyses of the model.
· Create datum geometry based on measurements and analyses of the model.
· Create new types of measurements tailored to your specific needs.
· Analyze the behavior of measured parameters as dimensions vary.
· Automatically find the dimension values that achieve a desired behavior of the model.
The basic building blocks of Behavioral Modeling are:
· Analysis feature
· Field point
· User-Defined Analysis (UDA)
· Persistent Display
· Sensitivity, Feasibility, and Optimization Studies
· External Analysis
· Motion Analysis
· Multi-Objective Design studies
About the Multi-Objective Design Study
A Multi-Objective Design study helps you find optimal solutions that satisfy several design criteria (design goals). For example, you can investigate possible shapes of a part that let
you maintain the part mass and location of the center of gravity within a desired range.
A Multi-Objective Design study provides the following benefits:
· The study helps you find an optimal range of design variables that is most suitable for searching for optimal solutions.
· The study finds solutions for multiple design objectives that may be contradictory in nature.
· If more than one optimal solution exist, the study presents you with the results so you can choose the preferred solution.
· You can expand the range for sampling design goals, or you can narrow it down by using different methods for analyzing the data obtained in the experiments.
Working with the Multi-Objective Design Study
A Multi-Objective Design study consists of a master table and derived tables in their hierarchical order. Initially, the study lets you examine an entire range in which design variables
are allowed to change. The result of the initial investigation is the master table that lists records of all experiments. You can then narrow down the focus of the study by creating
derived tables so you can examine the behavior of the model with a subset of constrained values for design goals or design variables.
You can access any of the tables through the Table Tree to examine its results. You can also edit a table by altering its conditions with the Edit command. After you have examined
your findings, you can expand the master table by specifying additional experiments to be conducted within the range designated for the study. To expand the master table, use the
Expand command.
You can save a study to disk with the Save command and then open it later when you return to the model. Saving a study saves all table data.
Note: The system saves the Table Tree within the model. If you do not save the model, the Table Tree is lost – only a text file with the master table is saved to the hard disk.

CATIA V4 & V5 w/ ATB INTERFACE for CATIA II w/ATB License
Allows for associative import of native CATIA models. Exports directly to CATIA model format. No CATIA license required. Windows or Unix
About the Associative Topology Bus (ATB)
· The ATB creates the environment for working with a heterogeneous assembly. A heterogeneous assembly contains components that were originally created in different CAD
systems, such as Pro/ENGINEER and CADDS 5. With Associative Topology Bus you can share geometry, topology, and assembly structure among systems in an associative
manner, without having the originating application loaded on your desktop system.
· When you use Associative Topology Bus, changes made to data within the original system are propagated throughout the heterogeneous environment.
Complete Machining Option Product Page Link: NC Advanced Machining

This option, which includes Production Machining Option, provides NC programming capabilities to create, verify, and optimize programs for all machine types: 2 1/2- to 5-axis
milling (including continuous multi-axis), 2- to 4-axis turning, mill/turn machines (live tooling) and 2- to 4-axis wire EDM. The option is a comprehensive NC Programming
environment, providing NC Simulation, NC post-processing, process documentation tools, and a tooling library. This product is an option which means it can float independently of
any prerequisites.
Computer Aided Verification Computer Aided Verification

This option provides the capabilities to inspect the quality of machined, cast, or molded parts and assemblies. It creates programs for CMM (coordinate measuring machines)
machines, based on the Pro/ENGINEER® design model, tolerances and g-tols. Additionally, for parts with free form geometry, it compares scanned point cloud data from a
manufactured part to the Pro/ENGINEER® design model. This product is an option which means it can float independently of any prerequisites.
The computer-aided verification option enables manufacturers to inspect parts, produced in-house or by a supplier, by automatically comparing scanned point-cloud data from the
manufactured part to the Pro/ENGINEER solid model. The manufactured part is scanned using any scanning technology to generate x, y, z location information that defines the
part. This point cloud can then be used to make a comparison with the theoretical model. The difference between the Pro/ENGINEER model and the point data can be generated
either graphically, as a color deviation plot, or as a point file that shows the deviation between the design part and the manufactured part.
Design Animation Product Page Link: Design Animation™ Option

The Pro/ENGINEER Design Animation (DAO) is a tool for creating animation sequences using Pro/ENGINEER® parts, assemblies and mechanisms. DAO can animate mechanisms
previously created in Behavioral Modeler Extension and Mechanism Design Extension. It differs from Mechanism Design Extension (MDX), Mechanism Dynamics Option (MDO) and
Behavioral Modeling Extension (BMX) in that Design Animation can create animation sequences without joints or drivers. These sequences are not necessarily kinematically correct, but
convey complex information in an easily understood animated format.
The Pro/ENGINEER Design Animation Option is an option to Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation

DAO allows users to create powerful animation sequences to communicate ideas, concepts and other information regarding a product design more efficiently than using written
descriptions or drawings. Applications include assembly and disassembly sequences, maintenance procedures or product concepts. DAO integrates with MDX to add mechanism
simulation to DAO.
Benefits: Tool for the design engineer to communicate engineering process information via animation; easy to learn and use during the design process; inherits and re-uses design
intent from MDX; create assembly, maintenance and mechanism sequences; access from the familiar Pro/E user interface; associative to Pro/E single product model.
About Animation
Use the Application>Animation command to invoke the Design Animation option. With Design Animation, you can coordinate the components of an animation sequence and play
back an animation. When you select this command, a timeline window appears below the graphics window, and a toolbar appears below the Pro/ENGINEER toolbar. You can run,
create, and manage your animation using the menu commands, the toolbar buttons, or the timeline window.
You can use Design Animation to:
· visualize your assembly's operation. If you have the concept, but have not defined the mechanics, you can drag bodies to different positions and take snapshots to create an
animation.
· create an assembly or disassembly sequence animation of your model
· create a maintenance sequence, a short animation of steps to take to instruct a user in how to repair or build a product
For an introduction and overview of the Design Animation module, and for typical steps to take to create an animation, see the Design Animation Concepts Guide online document.
Expert Framework Product Page Link: Expert Framework

Product Capabilities:
Design beams for steel structures, structures with standard aluminum extrusions and custom beams automatically
Use an interface that is fast and easy to use
Manage an easy step-by-step design process of structural designs from concept to final stages with drag and drop simplicity
Make modifications easily to resize and redefine the structure using intuitive function like mouse drag, move, rotate and more.
Create beam and assembly drawings including Bills Of Material and beam drawings automatically
Customer Benefits:
Enjoy up to a 10:1 productivity gain over creating and detailing these structures in standard Pro/ENGINEER
Efficient transitions from 2D CAD systems
Speedy learning curve from a supported design process that structural engineers are familiar
Faster modifications of designs
Expert Machinist Product Page Link: Expert Machinist Option

This option includes a 2 1/2 axis (multi-axis positioning) feature based milling package and a complete multi-surfaces 3 axis milling package that enables NC programmers to
create, post-process, and simulate accurate and efficient part-programs with greater speed and less effort than ever before possible in a 3-D system. To provide a complete
programming environment, a license of VERICUT for Pro/ENGINEER and a license of Pro/NC GPOST is included in the option. This product is an option which means it can float
independently of any prerequisites.
Expert Mold Base Product Page Link: Expert Mold Base

Pro/ENGINEER Expert Moldbase provides “smart” moldbases and mold components. When components are placed, operations such as clearance cuts and drilled and tapped
holes, are automatically created in the appropriate neighboring plates and components, thereby relieving the mold designer of time consuming and repetitive mold detailing tasks.
Capabilities Overview: • Catalog support for all major mold component suppliers – Metric and English • Process-driven user interface • Quick-preview, customizable GUI’s for
configuration and selection of moldbases and components • “Smart” moldbases and components – when components are placed, appropriate clearance cuts and threads are
automatically created in the appropriate plates • Automatic drawing, hole chart and BOM creation • Complete mold opening simulation with interference checking including slider,
lifter and ejection • Capture company best practices directly in easily customizable library of components • Short learning curve – tutorials provided with software
Benefits: • Big productivity gains in for creating and detailing moldbases since an entire library of moldbases and components are already provided and since drawing are
automatically created behind the scenes for plates and assemblies • Eliminates errors resulting from tedious repetitive tasks like clearance hole creation for screws and ejector pins
• Quick-preview GUI’s allows quick investigation of what-if scenarios • Library and drawings are easily customizable to your company’s specific standards • Short learning curve –
users are typically productive with 2 to 3 days due to easy-to-use process driven UI, GUI’s and included tutorials
Fatigue Advisor Product Page Link: Fatigue Advisor

Pro/MECHANICA Fatigue Advisor allows engineers to predict and improve the fatigue performance of their designs early in the product lifecycle. This can reduce design iteration
and costly test programs on multiple prototypes.
Because Fatigue Advisor is a fully integrated with Pro/ENGINEER, a user could perform a design study to minimize the weight of a design whilst maintaining the fatigue life within a
predefined range. Multi-disciplinary design studies can also be performed using a combination of fatigue, static, vibration and thermal design goals or limits.
Import Data Doctor Product Page Link: Import Data Doctor

The Import Data Doctor Option provides advanced tools that automate the process of cleaning up imported geometry. Import Data Doctor includes a constraint manager allowing
the user to place constraints on the imported geometry, as well as "collapse geometry" capability for better surface management.
The Pro/ENGINEER Import Data Doctor Option (P-DDO) allows users to repair imported geometric data more easily -- to provide valid Pro/ENGINEER® geometry for downstream
applications. It provides tools for automating the cleanup process as well as a Constraint Manager for constraining or collapsing imported geometry for better surface management.
All of these tools dramatically reduce the time required to manually clean up an imported or legacy model and Import Data Doctor does not require users to have any experience to
achieve good results.
Automated surface cleanup: By performing some of the more tedious and repetitive tasks associated with redefining imported geometry, Import Data Doctor minimizes users’
interaction while still providing them with complete control over the process to maintain design intent and engineering requirements. Based on a user’s input, the system will
automatically reconstruct the underlying wireframe of the imported geometry, close gaps, align vertices, and rebuild boundaries.
Interactive Surface Design ProductPage Link: Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design

Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design represents the ultimate integration of design and engineering. By combining the power of parametric modeling with the flexibility of free
form surfacing, this powerful module allows designers and engineers to create complex, free form curves and surfaces, directly in an intuitive and interactive design environment.
With Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design, designers can start conceptually by developing geometry from scratch, a sketch, scan sets or other reference data, gradually
developing the concept into the production model. User’s can also incorporate the Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design “Style” feature with other Pro/ENGINEER features to
create a model that combines the power of parametrically driven features with freeform surfacing. This allows many design alternatives to be considered while design, engineering
and manufacturing information will be updated as changes occur regardless of their complexity.
Instead of a sequential modeling environment, Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design enables a unique parallel modeling environment, where designers and engineers work
with a unique four-view modeling window that supports the direct creation, manipulation, and control of curves, surfaces, and connections. The flexibility of parallel modeling also
allows the user to establish a parent-child relationship between curves and surface elements if desired. This enables designers and engineers to build free form geometry at any
point in the design, and to model curves and surfaces with as many or as few constraints as desired. By maintaining the focus on value added design, not data transfer and
interpretation, Pro/Engineer Interactive Surface Design helps users quickly define and maintain design intent throughout the entire product development process.
Interfaces Product Page Link to Interfaces

Interface options are available through File/Open, File/Save As and Insert/Shared Data/From File... . Use these options to export from and import to Pro/ENGINEER.
ACIS ".sat"
CADDS 5 With Pro/INTERFACE for CADDS 5 you can move three-dimensional (3-D) geometric data back and forth between Pro/ENGINEER and CADDS 5. This interface does not require a
CADDS 5 license. You can import CADDS 5 parts and assembly structures into Pro/ENGINEER, and you can export Pro/ENGINEER parts and assemblies to native CADDS 5
format. Also supports the import of CADDS 5 Layers.
STEP Through STEP, you can exchange complete product definition between heterogeneous computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing systems. You can export the
combined surface and solid data that is in accordance with AP203 and AP214 STEP multiple shape reps and hybrid models. This module supports the import and export of:
· Drawings that are in accordance with AP202DIS of the ISO 10303 STEP format.
· Parts and assemblies that are in accordance with AP203IS and AP214CD format.
The STEP Format: STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data) is an international standard, defined in publications produced by the U.S. Product Data Association
(US PRO) IGES/PDES Organization. The complete set of specifications for STEP is referred to as ISO 10303.
The STEP format is organized as a series of documents (in STEP terminology, referred to as parts), with each part published separately. Application Protocols (APs), which
reference generic parts of ISO 10303, are produced to meet specific data exchange requirements for a particular application. AP202 has reached the status of an International
Standard (IS) version. Other APs, including AP202DIS (Draft International Standard) and AP214CD (Committee Draft), are at various draft stages of development.
Products supporting STEP can implement this interface using different levels of data transfer. Each level provides various mechanisms to store, accept, and pass product definition
data between heterogeneous systems in a consistent and standardized way.

STEP
Through STEP, you can exchange complete product definition between heterogeneous computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing systems. You can export the
combined surface and solid data that is in accordance with AP203 and AP214 STEP multiple shape reps and hybrid models. This module supports the import and export of:
· Drawings that are in accordance with AP202DIS of the ISO 10303 STEP format.
· Parts and assemblies that are in accordance with AP203IS and AP214CD format.
The STEP Format: STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data) is an international standard, defined in publications produced by the U.S. Product Data Association
(US PRO) IGES/PDES Organization. The complete set of specifications for STEP is referred to as ISO 10303.
The STEP format is organized as a series of documents (in STEP terminology, referred to as parts), with each part published separately. Application Protocols (APs), which
reference generic parts of ISO 10303, are produced to meet specific data exchange requirements for a particular application. AP202 has reached the status of an International
Standard (IS) version. Other APs, including AP202DIS (Draft International Standard) and AP214CD (Committee Draft), are at various draft stages of development.
Products supporting STEP can implement this interface using different levels of data transfer. Each level provides various mechanisms to store, accept, and pass product definition
data between heterogeneous systems in a consistent and standardized way.
For more information about the STEP standard, see the following URLs on the Internet:
· http://www.scra.org/pdesinc.html
· http://www.iso.ch
· http://www.scra.org
For more information about the STEP standard, see the following URLs on the Internet:
· http://www.scra.org/pdesinc.html
· http://www.iso.ch
· http://www.scra.org
PDGS Pro/DATA for PDGS enables you to transfer parts and assemblies between Pro/ENGINEER and PDGS. To exchange data, you must have the Pro/ENGINEER utilities
pro_from_pdgs and pro_to_pdgs and a license for PDGS. Pro/ENGINEER provides these utilities on every CD, so you do not need an authorization code. Versions 24 and 25 of
PDGS are supported. PDGS is a proprietary Design System developed by the Ford Motor Company.
CADAM CADAM/CDT/CPTR
CDT · Import and modify a drawing directly from the Professional CADAM database through Pro/CDT utilities (CADAM Data Transfer)
CPTR · Import CADAM mainframe files through the CPTR (CADAM to Pro/ENGINEER Transfer) neutral file (.bin) format
CATIA v4 Pro/INTERFACE for CATIA
This Interface requires a license of CATIA. Unix only.
With a Pro/INTERFACE for CATIA license, you can exchange geometry between Pro/ENGINEER and CATIA. You can transfer data in two ways:
· Between Pro/ENGINEER and CATIA 4.2.0 running on the same IBM RS6000, SGI, Sun, or Hewlett Packard workstation (one-step method). No utilities are necessary to convert
the file because the result is a .model file.
· Between CATIA 4.2.0 on an IBM RS/6000, SGI, Sun, or Hewlett Packard workstation and Pro/ENGINEER on any Pro/ENGINEER-supported workstation (2-step method). The
utilities for file conversion must be used to convert the .ct to a .model.
CDRS Exchange data between Pro/DESIGNER and Pro/ENGINEER using Feature > Create > CDRS In . Industrial design surfaces are created in Pro/DESIGNER and then exported to
Pro/ENGINEER for downstream and structural design and creation of all engineering deliverables.
DXF, DWG · Import a Data Exchange Format (DXF) file and modify the resulting drawing. A DXF file can contain 2-D geometry, dimensions, drawing cosmetics, layers (highest if several) to
which an entity is added.
· Import and export 2-D DXF and 2-D DWG files to and from such products as AutoCAD.
IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES)
· Export drawing, drawing format, layout, part, and assembly data in Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) format
· Export part data using B-Spline representation for all surfaces, and automatically initiate a post-processing of the IGES file using a program that you supply
· Import IGES files containing drawing data into drawings, formats, and layouts and modify the resulting product
· Group, for exporting through IGES, model edges in a drawing to allow other systems that support IGES groups to see the model edges as a single collection of entities
· Import IGES files containing drawing, sketch, and part data into all modes of Pro/ENGINEER
Image Files Image Files

· Print shaded images to postscript printer.
· Export (File > Export > Image) TIFF, JPEG, and EPS
· Import and export CGM picture files. CGM provides a vector-based 2-D image file format for the storage and retrieval of picture information. CGM is a device-independent
mechanism for communicating information between systems (hardware and software) with different architectures.
· Import TIFF images into Drawing mode
Neutral Use the Neutral option to create or import a formatted text file (NEUTRAL file) containing information such as model topology, relations, and attributes about parts and assemblies
created with Pro/ENGINEER, which can be used to create interfaces with other programs.
PATRAN You can export a file from part data that can be read by PATRAN software systems. This file is formatted according to the specifications of a PATRAN database file. The PATRAN
file contains mathematical definitions of such items as surface data that bounds a solid. Pro/ENGINEER does not accept files from PATRAN systems as input.
Parasolids ".x_t"
SET · Import and modify a drawing that contains Standard for Exchange and Transfer (SET) files
· Import SET part and drawing files (including formats and layouts)
· Export SET part data (curve and surface data and coordinate systems) and SET drawing data (2-D geometry, text, and dimensions)
Shrinkwrap You give each Shrinkwrap model a name and store it as a separate Pro/ENGINEER part.
VDA You can transfer part geometry between computer systems by importing and exporting through the VDA Surface Data Interface.
Cosmos ".ntr"
STL ".stl" Tessellated
Inventor ".iv" Tessellated
Render ".slp" Tessellated
Photorender ".igs"
Supertab ".unv"
VRML ".wrl"
Optegra Vis ".gbf" Tessellated
Meduas ".asc" Tessellated
Xpatch ".facet" Tessellated
ProductView ".ed", ".ol"
Zip ".zip" files of current part/assembly
4D Navigator Allows Pro/ENGINEER to export a VRML type file for use with 4D Navigator, a viewing tool developed by Dassault.
Mathcad Product Page: Mathcad

PTC’s Mathcad product family provides a far more efficient solution for solving and documenting engineering calculations than traditional methods. By integrating text, live math and Mathcad Modules (for Additional Purchase)
graphics into a single environment, Mathcad provides a unique solution that: Mathcad Calculation Server - The Mathcad Calculation Server gives companies the power to distribute
interactive Mathcad worksheets over the Internet and intranets, thus making worksheets instantly accessible
Automates the Process
to colleagues, customers, partners and others via standard Web browsers, without requiring them to install
- Simultaneously solves and documents calculations
Mathcad on their desktops.
- Live calculations are in the document
Mathcad Data Analysis Extension Pack - Enables engineers to easily import, manipulate and analyze
- All equations, text, graphs, and data are captured in the same worksheet
data patterns and relationships in Mathcad.
- Integrated numeric and symbolic math shows both the reasoning behind the design and the results
Mathcad Signal Processing Extension Pack - Offers more than 70 built-in signal processing functions,
- Provides intelligent, automatic units management
adding extensive capabilities for performing analog and digital signal processing, analysis and visualization.
- Produces repeatable and auditable engineering calculations–standard and proprietary – that can be easily iterated, shared and reused
Mathcad Image Processing Extension Pack - Performs smoothing, crisping, edge detection, erosion and
dilation algorithms on color and grayscale images – useful in medicine, astronomy, weather, geophysics,
Communicates Engineering Knowledge geology, forensics and radar, among other fields.
- Calculations, expressed in standard math notation, can be easily read and understood by others Mathcad Wavelets Extension Pack - Facilitates a new approach to signal and image analysis, time series
- XML format enables automated publishing in downstream documents analysis, statistical signal estimation, data compression analysis and special numerical methods. Engineers
can create an almost limitless number of functions that duplicate any natural or abstract environment useful
Ensures Traceability for engineers who need to compress vast amounts of data, as in fingerprint identification or coding an MRI.
Clear documentation of all methods, equations, and assumptions enables traceability between: Mathcad Civil Engineering Library - Combines the encyclopedic “Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain”
- Calculations and design geometry with easy-to-adapt structural design templates and examples of thermal design problems.
- Design geometry and customer requirements Mathcad Electrical Engineering Library - Provides hundreds of standard calculation procedures, formulae
and reference tables used by electrical engineers.
Mathcad Mechanical Engineering Library - Combines the encyclopedic “Roark’s Formulas for Stress and
Mechanism Design Product Page Link: Mechanism Design Extension (MDX) Strain” with easy-to-adapt calculations from a classic McGraw-Hill reference book, along with an interactive
The Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Design Extension (MDX) provides engineers, within the product development process, kinematic motion simulation and behavioral insight into the introduction to the finite element method.
assembly through the easy definition and animation of connections with Pro/ENGINEER, such as pin joints, ball joints and sliders. These connections, and resulting assembly
constraints, facilitate the easy assembly of closed loop systems, like four bar linkages. These connections can be used compatibly and in combination with packaging and
traditional Pro/ENGINEER constraints like mate, align and insert.
Once assembled, engineers can observe how their mechanism designs will behave geometrically through interactive part dragging and user-defined motion simulations. Any point
on a mechanism assembly can be dragged interactively by the user to animate the mechanism. Predefined motion simulations, using drivers to simulate motors or actuators, also
provide animation. Although a full dynamics simulation including forces (friction, damping, springs, etc) must be achieved using Mechanism Dynamics Option (MDO), MDX is a
powerful design tool enabling engineers to create industry-best mechanism designs by clearly building and communicating ‘design intent’ into mechanism assemblies and
subassemblies.
You can also use Mechanism Design to redefine bodies, create slot-follower connections and cam-follower connections, create drivers, play back motion, view measure results, and
investigate models. All connections defined through MDX are useable in a full MDO dynamics analysis as well.
You can also bring your Mechanism Design model into Design Animation to create an animation sequence. Connections, cam-follower connections, slot-follower connections,
connection limits, drivers, and joint zeros are all supported in Design Animation.
Mechanism Dynamics Product Page Link: Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Dynamics Option (MDO)
Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Dynamics adds dynamic functionality to Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Design to provide a powerful virtual prototyping environment for the simulation and
improvement of mechanism operation as part of the design process. Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Dynamics allows designers to virtually engineer a mechanism without leaving the
familiar user interface and workflow of Pro/ENGINEER.
Benefits
• Provides up-front virtual prototyping of real-world mechanisms
• Works with Behavioral Modeling to explore design alternatives
• Reduces hardware prototype iteration and test failures
• Helps design faster, lighter, more efficient mechanisms
• Reduces time to market
Capabilities
• Gravity, force motors, point forces, and body torques
• Springs, dampers, cam and slot impacts, and friction
• Dynamic, static, and force balance simulations
• Comprehensive results graphing and animated display of forces
ModelCheck Product Page Link: ModelCHECK

ModelCHECK is a quality control add-on for Pro/ENGINEER. It detects problems in Pro/ENGINEER models that can make it difficult to share or re-use models and provides
guidance to assist in repairing the models. ModelCHECK is used today in many organizations to help users build parts, drawings and assemblies according to corporate standards
and best practices. Through the regular use of ModelCHECK, users will increase their Pro/ENGINEER proficiency.
A quality control add-on for Pro/ENGINEER. Use to enforce corporate modeling standards and best practices and find geometrical problems in Pro/ENGINEER models. Includes
Shape Indexing technology which helps users find similar models, making it easier to re-use existing designs.
Plastic Advisor Product Page Link: Plastic Advisor Option

The Pro/ENGINEER Plastic Advisor Option (PAO) functionality to the user which simulates mold filling for injection molded plastic parts. As an option to Pro/ENGINEER®-
Foundation™, and working directly from Pro/ENGINEER® designs, users simply select the material type and proposed gate (filling) locations. In just a few minutes, the system
provides on-screen animations of the mold filling, plots describing the “moldability” of the design, and the locations of potential problem areas such as weld lines and air traps.
Plastic part designers need immediate and easy access to reliable and easy-to-understand manufacturing feedback and advice in order to make detailed design decisions.
· Designers, not analysis specialists, use Plastic Advisor Option while designing an injection molded plastic part to gain insight into manufacturability and create a more
manufacturable part.
· Plastic Advisor Option is both simple and fast enough to evaluate every design change, not just every design, for injection molding manufacturability.
· Plastic Advisor Option saves money by reducing late-cycle design changes and mold reengineering costs.
Plastic Advisor allows users to simulate the mold filling of injection molded parts at the early stages of part design. This extension is available as a license that can float across the
network, but is locked to a Pro/ENGINEER session for it's duration.

Plastic Advisor
Pro/Assembly Product Page Link: Pro/Assembly

Foundation Pro/ASSEMBLY functionality includes the ability to:
· Assemble components using advanced pick and place tools, implicit mechanism constraints as well as explicit mechanism joints
· Create and manage simplified representations, display states, cross-sections, exploded states, views and combinations of these using the View Manager
· Activate and perform work on parts and sub-assemblies while in Assembly mode
· Modify, but not create, skeleton models.
The online Help documentation for Foundation Pro/ASSEMBLY provides detailed information about basic Assembly functionality.
Pro/BATCH Pro/BATCH enables you to enter batch mode to create multiple plot files, or export to other formats. Using the interface, or a command file that you create, Pro/ENGINEER
retrieves the appropriate objects and creates the specified export files for them.
Pro/CABLING Product Page Link: Pro/ENGINEER CABLING Design

This option provides comprehensive functionality for mechanical and packaging engineers for the easy creation of 3D harnesses completely detailed with connectors and
components. The design of harnesses is associative with the Pro/ENGINEER assembly, enabling concurrent engineering by ensuring that cable paths and lengths automatically
update when assemblies are modified.
The design and routing of 3D harnesses will be accelerated and the need for physical mock-ups will be eliminated, dramatically reducing design costs and time-to-market. Product
quality is enhanced by the ability to optimize mechanical and electrical design simultaneously.
Use the Pro/CABLING module to define 3-D cable harnesses in Pro/ENGINEER assemblies. In Pro/CABLING, you can route cables concurrently with the design and assembly of
electrical and mechanical components.
If you use Routed Systems Designer to create two-dimensional schematic representations of electrical assemblies, you can use the Logical Reference capability in Pro/CABLING
and HARNESS-MFG to compare logical connections and parameters in both modules.
Pro/CASTING Pro/CASTING provides tools to design die assemblies and components and prepare castings for manufacturing.
Pro/CASTING together provides tools to do the following:
· Analyze if a design part is moldable, and detect and fix problematic zones
· Apply a shrinkage that corresponds to design part material, geometry, and molding conditions
· Make conceptual design of one or a multi-cavity mold
· Design core and cavity inserts, sand cores, sliders, lifters, and other components that define a shape of molded part
· Populate a mold assembly with standard components such us mold base, ejector pins, sprue bushings, screws, fittings, and other components creating corresponding clearance
holes
· Create runners and waterlines
· Check interference of components during mold opening
Pro/CMM CMM programmers can also use the Computer-Aided Verification Option to create inspection programs from Pro/ENGINEER design models. Probe paths for the operation are
generated by specifying geometry and tolerance information directly from the Pro/ENGINEER solid part or drawing. The probe path developed can be replayed and automatically
checked for collisions with tooling and the model. The inspection program is output to a file and passed to the CMM through the DMIS (dimensional measurement inspection
standard) 3.0 language. Any CMM controller that is DMIS 3.0 compliant can use the output directly. Most other controllers can be supported through translators.
About Pro/CMM
Pro/CMM is an optional module of Pro/ENGINEER, which provides the tool to generate inspection programs for Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs). CMMs will use these
programs to probe manufactured parts and provide tolerance deviation analyses for dimensions and geometric tolerances. Pro/CMM supports probing using fixed, as well as
manually and automatically indexed, probes. Using Pro/CMM, you can create fully associative, and parametrically defined, measuring sequences relative to Pro/ENGINEER
models. You can also define steps that instruct the CMM to construct geometric entities and reference coordinate systems relative to measured data, and then to perform
dimensional and geometric tolerance analyses on the entities, with respect to reference coordinate systems. Pro/CMM provides dynamic display of the probe assembly along the
path of the probe tip, and allows changing the probe, the active tip, and tip orientation at different points along the path to enable interference checking.
Pro/COMPOSITE
Pro/CONCEPT Product Page Link: Pro/CONCEPT

Pro/CONCEPT™ is the first all-inclusive digital sketching and modeling tool that lets you explore design ideas, brainstorm, and develop new product concepts with unprecedented
speed and ease. Now, instead of using a variety of disparate applications during the conceptual design phase, you have a single, intuitive environment that seamlessly bridges the
2D and 3D design worlds.
Key Benefits
• Capture concepts and explore their capabilities faster and easier
• Enjoy a single, unified sketching and modeling environment—for one low price
• Develop concepts faster using a familiar, intuitive, easy-to-use toolset
• Integrate design concept data with CAD tools like Pro/ENGINEER® and others
• Ramp up quickly with self-paced tutorials and quick reference cards
• Replace physical prototypes with virtual prototypes
• Collaborate on projects with colleagues, customers, and partners via the Web
• Evaluate designs earlier for improved product quality and manufacturability
• Implement as a stand-alone solution or part of a complete CAD system
Pro/DETAIL Product Page Link: Pro/Detail
Pro/DIAGRAM Pro/DIAGRAM captures logical connection information and represents it graphically as wires, cables, components and pins. You can use Pro/Diagram to output component lists and
wire lists, either as schematic reports or as formatted ASCII text files.
Pro/DIEFACE Pro/DIEFACE is an optional Pro/ENGINEER module that provides die designers with functionality for defining complex components used in the manufacture of deep-drawn
products, such as automotive body panels. To use Pro/DIEFACE, you must also have a license for the Pro/SURFACE module.
Pro/DIEFACE allows you to create parametric die surfaces that can be easily changed to optimize the process of forming panels. In addition, full associativity with other
Pro/ENGINEER modules also allows Pro/DIEFACE users to rapidly propagate design changes throughout the design and manufacturing process.
Pro/ECAD With a Pro/ECAD license, you can exchange information between Pro/ENGINEER and systems for electrical computer aided design (ECAD).
IDF, VISULA, ALLEGRO, DAZIX
About the ecad_hint.map File. The ecad_hint.map file is an ASCII file you use to control the following functions in the ECAD import-export process:
· Substituting custom made Pro/E parts for automatically extruded parts on import.
· Allowing or disallowing specified parts on import.
· Allowing or disallowing specified parts on export.
· Changing an ECAD reference designator to a different string for import (If for example the ECAD reference designator uses characters that are illegal in Pro/E).
· Changing an ECAD 'other outline' string for import (If for example the ECAD reference designator uses characters that are illegal in Pro/E)
Pro/ECAD searches the working directory for ecad_hint.map and references it every time import occurs. If the file is empty or has no relevant information it is ignored.
Pro/FEATURE Pro/FEATURE is where it all starts. This is the core of what makes Pro/ENGINEER the most powerful, robust, associative, complete and seemless design creation tool on the
planet.
Pro/HARNESS-MFG Harness Manufacturing provides powerful, fast, and easy-to-use tools for flattening 3D harnesses for manufacturing documentation purposes. The flattened harness can be used to
create fully documented nail board drawings, complete with parts list, from-to wire lists, and connector tables.
The Routed Systems Option enables assembly design and harness manufacturing documentation to occur concurrently, dramatically reducing time-to-market and development
costs with the assurance that changes made to the 3D harness will be automatically reflected in the flattened layout and all associated manufacturing drawings and tables.
Pro/INTRALINK Product Page Link: Pro/INTRALINK

With production-proven Pro/ENGINEER workgroup data management capabilities, Pro/INTRALINK is the industry-standard solution to manage concurrent design teams and the
power of Pro/ENGINEER data associativity. Engineers easily perform data management tasks, so they can concentrate on innovative product design. The result: more control,
higher quality designs, and happier engineers.
Capabilities & Benefits:
- Common working environment and methodologies for Pro/ENGINEER users that improve engineering efficiency
- Centralized vaulting and revision control of Pro/ENGINEER models, relationships, and functionality for improved information security and accuracy
- Individual and group level access control to control when changes are permitted, whom can make them, and communicating changes broadly
- Powerful searching tools, product configuration reports, and easy copying / renaming of existing designs facilitates design reuse
- Intuitive user interface improves productivity simplifies data management activities
Pro/J-Link Product Page Link: Pro/J-Link
Pro/LEGACY Pro/LEGACY is an optional module designed for importing and updating three-dimensional (3D) data and two-dimensional (2D) drawings in Pro/ENGINEER. Using Pro/LEGACY
tools, you can easily create, modify, and delete individual geometric entities within imported 3D data, as well as work with geometry and detail information contained in 2D drawings.
Pro/LIBRARYACCESS Product Page Link: Library Access

Pro/LIBRARYACCESS is a module required to use Pro/ENGINEER library parts.
In addition, some of the parts use Pro/FEATURE features. If you do not have Pro/FEATURE you can retrieve these parts, but you cannot modify them.
If you are using the HUMAN FACTORS LIBRARY, you need a license for both Pro/NOTEBOOK and Pro/ASSEMBLY.
Pro/MOLDESIGN II Pro/MOLDESIGN is an optional module for Pro/ENGINEER that provides the tools to simulate the mold design process within Pro/ENGINEER. This module lets you create, modify,
and analyze the mold components and assemblies, and quickly update them to the changes in the design model.
Pro/MOLDESIGN provides tools to do the following:
· Analyze if a design part is moldable, and detect and fix problematic zones
· Apply a shrinkage that corresponds to design part material, geometry, and molding conditions
· Make conceptual design of one or a multi-cavity mold
· Design core and cavity inserts, sand cores, sliders, lifters, and other components that define a shape of molded part
· Populate a mold assembly with standard components such us mold base, ejector pins, sprue bushings, screws, fittings, and other components creating corresponding clearance
holes
· Create runners and waterlines
· Check interference of components during mold opening
About the Mold Layout Application
The Mold Layout application provides a dynamic environment for designing and assembling single or multi-cavity tooling in an assembly. Mold Layout also provides efficient tools
for fast and robust design of single or multi-cavity molds. You can easily populate your assembly with cavity subassemblies, a mold base assembly, standard components, and an
injection molding machine. You can also create some mold-specific features.
The Mold Layout application is mold functionality that is accessible from Assembly mode. You create or open a regular assembly (.asm) file to use this application.
You can switch from working on a multi-cavity mold assembly to working on an individual cavity. To do this, use a regular assembly structure where the multi-cavity mold assembly
model is a top level assembly and each cavity model is a subassembly. These cavity subassemblies are represented by Mold or Cast assemblies
You can make changes in one cavity assembly model appear in all cavity assembly models in the multi-cavity mold assembly.
The cavity population tool allows flexible patterning of the cavities according to rectangular, circular, and user defined pattern rules. You can add, remove, move, or reorient each
cavity pattern member individually, or even replace any cavity model with a family table instance.
Other functions specific to Mold Layout are as follows:
· Selecting and placing mold bases with the Mold Base Selection dialog box
· Selecting and placing Injection Molding Machine models
· Creating runners at the assembly level
· Creating waterlines at the assembly level
· Creating ejector pin holes at the assembly level
· Using the standard component Catalog to add, redefine, delete, trim, and cut components

· Opening the mold by defining steps, deleting, modifying, reordering, and exploding
The Mold Layout application contains the same basic Mold Opening information as the Mold or Die Opening process. Click Mold or Die Opening Process in the Help Table of
Contents for more information.
Pro/NC-ADVANCED Pro/NC-ADVANCED
Perform 2.5- to 5-Axis Milling and Holemaking
Perform 2- and 4-Axis Turning and Holemaking
Perform Milling, Turning, and Holemaking NC sequences on Mill/Turn centers
Perform 2- and 4-Axis Wire EDM NC sequences
Pro/NC-CHECK NC Check is a dynamic simulation of material removal on the computer screen. It allows you to view a step-by-step simulation of material removal as the tool is cutting the
workpiece.
Optional module Pro/NC-CHECK™ allows you to display a step-by-step simulation of material removal as the tool is cutting the workpiece. This dynamic simulation process is
called NC Check.
NC Check is implemented for all types of NC sequences. If a tool model has been used, it will be replaced by the default tool of appropriate type, as defined by the tool parameter
values. If a sketched tool is used, the tool display will be based on the sketch (revolved for Trajectory milling, extruded for Trajectory turning).
Note: The sketched tool’s section cannot contain splines or self-intersecting entities.
The material is removed according to the actual tool shape and motion, that is, all scallops left by the tool passes will be displayed.
Note: NC Check is not implemented for Side Mill tools.
Pro/NC-MILL Product Page Link: Pro/NC-MILL

Perform 2.5-Axis Milling with positioning
Perform 3-Axis Milling and Holemaking with positioning
Pro/NC GPOST Pro/ENGINEER NC GPOST is a software that provide NC post-processing solutions for all Pro/ENGINEER CAM Options. The user can create and update post-processors for any
type of CNC machine, used by the NC Machining Option to create specific NC code (G&M codes) files. The product is developed by Austin NC and sold and supported by PTC in
the Pro/ENGINEER marketplace. Manufacturing engineers and NC part programmers can easily create and modify their post-processors to produce “edit free” Machine Control
Data (MCD) output from the NC Machining and the NC Advanced Machining Option.
NC GPOST lowers NC post-processor development and maintenance costs by improving NC machine productivity while ensuring that NC post-processing produces quality
products. Post-processing is a key production tool and manufacturing companies need to control them – and avoid outsourcing their development and maintenance.
Pro/NC-GPOST is a post-processor generation system designed for end users having no software programming expertise. It can accommodate various flame contouring, laser
contouring, wire edm, punch press, lathe and mill machine types that have up to five axes of continuous path control.
About NC Post-Processing
Pro/NC generates cutter location (CL) data files in an ASCII format that need to be post-processed to create Machine Control Data (MCD) files before any machining operation
occurs.
Each Pro/NC module includes a standard set of NC post-processors that can be executed directly or modified using an optional module. Additional post-processors are available for
download on PTC.COM technical support web site (GPOST Central Page).
Pro/NC-SHEETMETAL Product Page Link: NC Sheetmetal

This option allows NC programmers to create, verify, and post-process toolpaths for turret punch presses and contouring laser/flame machines. Pro/ENGINEER part files or DXF
sections may be used as reference for toolpath creation. This option includes automated toolpath creation, automated nest creation, automated punching, and automated
contouring. This product is an option which means it can float independently of any prerequisites
The Pro/ENGINEER NC-Sheetmetal Option allows NC programmers to create toolpaths for turret punch presses and contouring laser/flame machines. Dynamic True Shape
AutoNesting provides the highest sheet utilization to reduce scrap and material costs, and enables shorter lead times to allow manufacturers to advance from a “push” bulk
production system, to a “pull” order driven system.
About Sheet Metal Manufacturing
Sheet Metal Manufacturing creates the data necessary to drive an NC machine tool to machine parts from a sheet workpiece. It does this by providing the tools that let the
manufacturing engineer set up the manufacturing model, and then follow a logical sequence of steps to progress from the manufacturing model to ASCII CL data files that can be
post-processed into NC machine data. The following illustration summarizes the Sheet Metal Manufacturing process.
Pro/NC-TURN Pro/NC-TURN
Perform 2-Axis Turning and centerline drilling
Perform 4-Axis Turning and centerline drilling
Pro/NC-WEDM Pro/NC-WEDM
Perform 2- and 4-Axis Wire EDM NC sequences
Pro/NOTEBOOK Pro/NOTEBOOK acts as an engineering notebook, enabling you to create two-dimensional (2-D) conceptual sketches, called layouts, for beginning the design process and
maintaining design intent as you develop solid models. This module supports top-down assembly design with tools that enable you to create hierarchically-linked assembly layouts.
Online Help documentation for Advanced Pro/ASSEMBLY Extension provides detailed information about layouts.
Pro/PHOTORENDER Product Page Link: Photorealistic Images
Pro/PIPING Product Page Link: Pro/ENGINEER Piping Design

Offers comprehensive, associative capabilities and libraries for piping design through manufacturing. Used by system and mechanical designers to accurately design, route,
document and manufacture complex piping systems while optimally reusing designs for dramatic time savings and improvements in productivity.
The Routed Systems Option allows piping designers and manufacturers to parametrically route pipes in Pro/ENGINEER assemblies. It has applications in the automotive,
aerospace, marine, consumer, and power generation sectors. The design engineer can quickly create 3D piping systems consisting of large fitted pipe, bent tubing, and flexible
hose, with accurate bills of material for correct ordering of pipe stock, fittings, and equipment.
The option saves time, costs, and increases performance by producing parametric and associative solid pipe that updates all deliverables when changes are made to the assembly,
providing automatic routing through datum point features and automatic bend note creation, as well as performing interference checks and envelope space investigations.
Pro/PLOT Product Page Link: Plotting/Printing
Pro/PROCESS for ASSEMBLIES Use Pro/PROCESS for ASSEMBLIES to create assembly process plans and serviceability documentation.
Specifically, you can use it to complete the following tasks:
· Define the steps of the assembly fabrication process
· Create a manufacturing BOM for each step in the process
· Regroup components independent of the design assembly to model the fabrication structure accurately
· Assemble tools and fixtures unique to a process step without affecting the design assembly
· Perform time and cost estimates for the assembly fabrication
· Create detailed drawings of each step in the process
· Customize the display of each process step by defining multiple explode states with jogged explode-offset lines and assigning different colors and line fonts to components based
on their status in the step
Pro/PROCESS for MFG Product Page Link: Pro/PROCESS for MFG

Pro/PROCESS for MFG is a stand-alone Pro/ENGINEER module that defines the part machining process steps, material removal, fixtures, and parameter information.
The Pro/PROCESS for MFG part machining process consists of two distinct phases:
1. The process planner defines the process flow of machining.
2. The user details and finalizes the process plan.
After these two steps have been sufficiently defined, the manufacturing engineer, or an NC programmer, creates the NC tool path for actual material removal. The goal of
Pro/PROCESS for MFG is to create a process plan with as much detail as desired, document this process, and then use it to create a manufacturing toolpath.
Pro/PROGRAM About Pro/PROGRAM: Each model in Pro/ENGINEER has a listing of major design steps and parameters. This model design listing can be edited to work as a program. By
running the program, you change the model according to new design specifications.
Pro/REPORT Product Page Link: Associative Drawing Tables

In Drawing mode, you can use Pro/REPORT to create dynamic, customized reports with drawing views and graphics. Pro/REPORT also works with Pro/HARNESS-MFG,
Pro/PIPING, Pro/MFG, and Pro/DIAGRAM. By defining repeat regions, you can add model data to a report, which expands and shrinks as the model changes. You can also use the
following techniques to manage the data that appears in a report:
· Add filters to eliminate specific types of data from appearing in reports, drawing tables, or layout tables.
· Search recursive or top-level assembly data for display.
· List duplicate occurrences of model data individually or as a group in a report, drawing table, or layout table.
· Directly link assembly component balloons to a customized BOM and automatically update them when you make assembly modifications.
You can generate several kinds of output using Pro/REPORT such as family tables, associative reports, and graphical wirelists. A common example of a report is a customized Bill
of Materials (BOM).
Pro/SCAN-TOOLS Scantools provides functions for importing and filtering scan data and for creating and manipulating smooth curves and surfaces.
Scantools was originally developed to aid the automotive industry in the creation of CAD surfaces from point data collected by digitizing a physical prototype or a model.
The conventional process begins by generating a clay model based on an artist’s conceptual renderings and sketches. After the clay surfaces are “perfected” they are then digitized
using either a contact or no-contact method to collect thousands of points. The points are imported into Scantools and smooth curves and surfaces are created using automated
fitting functionality to obtain high quality results in an efficient manner.
Today Scantools is used in various industries, ranging in applications from sculpted surfaces of an automotive body panel or mag wheel to engineered surfaces of an aircraft or fan
blade.
Scantools is unique in that it offers dynamic feedback while manipulating curves and surfaces to measure quantitative criteria such as deviation and qualitative criteria such as 3-D
curvature plots, shaded images (for surfaces), and stylistic highlights (for surfaces). In addition, because the result from beginning to end is a Pro/ENGINEER part file (.prt), it offers
a seamless and associative link to all Pro/ENGINEER applications.
In addition to low density data typically collected from CMMs, Scantools accepts high density "point cloud" scan data in various formats ibl, .pts, .igs, .vda.
Note: All imported scan data, whether in point or curve format, will appear as curves. These scan curves are created as splines passing through the scanned points. The shape may
or may not be an accurate representation depending on the amount of noise in the data.
Pro/Sheetmetal Product Page Link: Pro/Sheetmetal
Pro/SURFACE Parametric Surface Modeling

The Advanced Surface Extension allows engineers to efficiently develop and refine their most demanding geometry and free-form surfaces that are driven by parameters and
functionality much rather than aesthetics. Surface Modeling is using the same code as solid modeling. Most of the solid features can therefore be built using surfaces. In addition,
parametric surface modeling provides users with tools such as variable section sweeps and blended surfaces to help accurately create the intended shape. The benefit is that
surfaces and solids are sharing the same environment, use the same user interface, and can be created in any arbitrary order.
Specifically, parametric surface modeling functionality allows designers to:
1. Define even the most complex geometry. The Advanced Surface Extension surface functionality allows the development of complex surface geometry using sweeps, blends,
extends, offsets, and a variety of other specialized surface features. Tools are available in the Advanced Surface Extension to efficiently refine geometry, including parametrically
modifying the surface, and trimming back or merging multiple surfaces. Surfaces can easily be turned into solid geometry at any given point in the design process.
2. Use information/analysis tools. Numerous tools are available to analyze surfaces such as Gaussian and sectional curvature, slope, surface normals, reflection curves, and
draft checking. The surface models can easily be converted into solid geometry for mass property and assembly evaluations.
3. Use top-down design. An unlimited number of Pro/ENGINEER parts and assemblies can be created referencing a single surface model. When this surface model is
changed, all related parts are modified accordingly.
Pro/VERIFY Pro/VERIFY is an optional Pro/ENGINEER module that you can use to classify and quantify flaws generated in manufactured models when they are compared to design
specifications.

Pro/VERIFY
Typically, you use a laser scanner to scan a manufactured model. The scanner outputs a file containing a cloud of point representations of the model— usually several hundred
thousand in one scan. These point representations are generally spaced very closely to detect and measure surface geometry features that are approximately 15/1000 of an inch.
Many laser scanners can achieve accuracy to approximately 25 microns.
Pro/ENGINEER reads in the scan data file and then compares the sampled model to the (nominal) design model, using computer-aided verification techniques. You can quantify
the following types of deviations:
· Global defects, such as warping and shrinkage.
· Mid-level defects, such as those caused by improper EDM setups
· Highly local defects, caused by surface imperfections.
Scan data sets can be in any of the following formats:
· ASCII (filename.pts)
· IBL (filename.ibl)
· IGES (filename.igs)
· VDA (filename.vda)
To maintain compatibility with Pro/ENGINEER formats, Pro/VERIFY first creates an assembly. However, Pro/ENGINEER can distinguish Verify assemblies from Pro/ENGINEER
assemblies.
The Verify assembly has the following characteristics:
· The base component is the design model.
· Each scaled and placed scan set is treated as a component part. When you save the assembly, its scan sets are also saved as separate parts.
Each fit and deviation case is treated as a feature of the assembly.
Pro/Web.Link Pro/Web.Link is a JavaScript Application Programming Interface (API) for Pro/ENGINEER.

Pro/Web.Link’s functionality falls between that of Pro/PROGRAM and Pro/TOOLKIT. Pro/Web.Link functions similarly to a synchronous Pro/TOOLKIT application. A Pro/Web.Link
application runs inside of a browser and “communicates” to a running session of Pro/ENGINEER.
Because Pro/Web.Link applications run inside of a browser, all of the resources of the browser are available, including the ability to use Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) to
create Graphical User Interfaces (GUI).
Another feature of Pro/Web.Link is that it utilizes JavaScript as its programming language. JavaScript is much easier to learn than the C programming language, allowing
Pro/Web.Link to become a customization tool for the casual programmer.
Pro/Welding Product Page Link: Pro/Welding

Pro/WELDING is an optional Pro/ENGINEER module that allows you to model welds in assemblies. In addition, you can generate report tables about weld parameters and show
welding symbols in assembly drawings.
Production Machining Option NC Machining Production Machining Option

This option, which includes Expert Machinist Option, provides NC programming capabilities to create, verify, and optimize 2 1/2- to 3-axis milling (with positioning), 2- to 4-axis
turning, and 2- to 4-axis wire EDM. The option is a comprehensive NC Programming environment, providing NC Simulation, NC post-processing, process documentation tools, and
a tooling library.
The Pro/ENGINEER Production Machining Option provides manufacturing engineers and job shops with NC programming capabilities and tool libraries to create, check out, and
optimize 3-axis milling, 2- to 4-axis turning, and wire EDM. Extending the full associativity of Pro/ENGINEER into manufacturing, it enables them to work concurrently with
designers and automatically incorporate design changes – to dramatically increase quality, reduce scrap, and cut production time and costs. Users can start the programming task
before the design is finalized, enhancing the ability to meet deadlines. All programming is automatically recovered when changes happen.
The Production Machining Option is an option to Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation.
NC programmers and machinists use this option to produce machining programs for discrete parts. It is mainly used by moldmakers and production and prototype machine shops.
In addition, the Production Machining Option eliminates the inaccuracies and inconvenience of exporting Pro/ENGINEER geometry to third party machining software. The NC
Machining Option, is the premier programming system for families of parts with many variations of the same basic design. The programming can be done once for a generic part.
New instances of the part are then swapped in, and the machining automatically updates for all instances.
ProductView Standard Edition Product Page: ProductView Standard Edition
ProductView brings the digital product model to everyone’s desktop for easy-to-use interrogation and visual collaboration. ProductView Options (for Additional Purchase)
Most manufacturers today have a plethora of tools for creating digital product information. Many people within the extended enterprise need access to this data. Through its easy to ProductView Realizer Option - ProductView Realizer is an optional module for ProductView Standard that
use interface, ProductView allows anyone to visualize assemblies and 3D models from all major MCAD tools, as well as drawings, images and documents from a multitude of assists in digital mockup studies of heterogeneous MCAD datasets (interference checking, interactive
sources, all without the need for the native authoring application. animations & kinematics, movie file creation, motion envelope, space claim studies, more...)
With its compact, yet accurate 3D viewable format, complex information can be quickly accessed to reduce rework and improve decision-making. Everyone can collaborate - ProductView Composer Option - allows you to create and deploy interactive assembly, disassembly, and
whether in real-time or by using mark-ups. maintenance work instructions
ProductView PDF Collaboration Option - ProductView PDF Collaboration modules provide robust
Visual Collaboration for the Digital Product Model document collaboration capabilities, including watermarks for redlining documents. As an integral part of the
- Improve productivity by allowing users to easily share visual information across the enterprise PTC Product Development System, these ProductView modules can directly generate PDF drawings from
- Reduce re-work through effective mark-ups and real-time collaboration, replacing error-prone and inefficient paper-based processes Pro/ENGINEER®, while Windchill® can manage the review process for all PDF documents.
- Reduce number of expensive physical prototypes ProductView PDF Collaboration Interface - Additional module for ProductView Standard Edition or Lite
- Improve quality through simple access to manufacturing information Edition which allows view/markup/print/watermarking of PDFfiles. It is appropriate for customers who already
have seats of Adobe Acrobat (NOT Adobe Reader) - or who intend to purchase Acrobat via other means
Rich visualization tools for the enterprise
(e.g. via an Adobe reseller).
- Measure accurately (from B-REP geometry)
ProductView Collective Document Viewing Option - Provides the native viewing
- Cut, measure, markup, and manipulate sections in real-time
of a wide range of document office style document. Word, word perfect, excel etc.
- Perform color-coded searches by attribute or spatial location
and image formats. Supports Standard Word processing formats, spreadsheets,
- View and interrogate PMI information (including GD&T and Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3D Drawings)
database formats, presentations, etc
- Build heterogeneous digital mockups
ProductView JT Format Option - Convert JT objects to ProductView viewable files
- View product structure and meta data
Additional Features
-Optional adapters for JT, Unigraphics, CADDS 5, SolidWorks, CATIA, I-DEAS and Microstation
- Optional Realizer module for digital mockup studies and creating animations
- Optional Composer module for creating interactive work instructions
- Optional PDF Collaboration module for robust view and markup of PDF files
Progressive Die Extension Product Page Link: Progressive Die Extension
Pro/ENGINEER Progressive Die promotes faster creation of progressive dies. Die designers can work with solid, sheetmetal and imported geometry to prepare the part for strip
layout and staging. Specialized wizards automate strip layout definition, cut stamp creation and placement and modification of die components. Pro/ENGINEER Progressive Die
provides “smart” assemblies and components - when components are placed, operations such as clearance cuts and drilled and tapped holes, are automatically created in the
appropriate neighboring plates and components, thereby relieving the mold designer of time consuming, repetitive and error-prone die design and detailing tasks.
Capabilities: • Sheetmetal design parts are automatically prepared for strip layout and staging – bend, pierce and form areas are colored for easier identification and selection •
Automated strip layout definition using a specialized, quick preview wizard • Automated cut stamp creation including automated bushing configuration and assembly • “Smart” die
components and assemblies with quick-preview wizard for all components and plates easy placement and modification • Automatic creation of drawings including automatic hole
charts and BOM
Benefits: • Specialized GUI’s guide users through progressive die design – shortens the learning curve • Saves time in unbending and identifying features for staging • Increases
design productivity and allows insertion of new stages even after the die is design • Easier creation of cut stamps – more robust, automatically update to changes in sheetmetal
design part • Repetitive tasks, such as creating clearance cuts when components are placed, are completely automated • Drawings, including BOM and hole charts, are
automatically created – drawing templates can be easily customized • Creates solid models of stamps that maintain an associative link to Pro/ENGINEER NC applications – if the
design part changes, the stamps, plates and NC toolpath update • All library components and GUI’s are easily customizable to suit your company’s standards.
Real-Time Photorendering PHOTORENDER® — Real Time Imaging

• Quickly create accurate, photo-realistic images of products
• Make dynamic form changes to the model, while maintaining the photo-realistic effects of shadows, reflections, textures, and transparency
• Explore and present any 3D model, no matter how complex, to better convey design intent
• Render large assemblies in a fraction of the time it used to take for a static rendering
Reverse Engineering Product Page Link: Reverse Engineering

Product Capabilities:
Obtain point cloud management and refinement, facet modeling and refinement, robust curve creation, robust surface modeling and shape recognition tools.
Transform existing physical products in to 3D digital models.
Make modifications to these designs.
Create surface connections for curvature (G2) within the Restyle module.
Automatically generate curve-patch structures as well as surfaces directly on a facet model.
Customer Benefits:
Simplifies transformation of a physical prototype into re-usable digital data.
Increases productivity from adjusting and altering existing designs.
Increases accessibility to parts by quickly recreating discontinued or hard-to-find parts.
Increases efficiency for mass customization of parts from a single design.
RSDesigner Product Page Link: Routed Systems Option

Standalone multi disciplined diagramming solution for the creation of Block, Circuit, Wiring, P&ID and hydraulic diagrams. Wiring and piping information created in RSD drives
mechanical Pro/PIPING and Pro/CABLING using an XML interface
Routed System Designer is a completely new Diagram product from PTC. It is a single user diagram system for Wiring Diagrams and Process Instrumentation diagrams. It does not
have any pre-requisites. It can export routing information to drive Pro/PIPING and Pro/CABLING at release 2001 and beyond.
Shrinkwrap To share data with internal and external design groups and improve performance in large assembly design, you can capture lightweight representations of models, called
"Shrinkwrap models." A Shrinkwrap model is based on the external surfaces of the source part or assembly model and captures the "skin," or outer shape, of the source model.
About Shrinkwrap Features:

· A Shrinkwrap feature is a collection of surfaces and datum features of a model that represents the exterior of the model. You can use a part, skeleton, or top-level assembly as
the source model for a Shrinkwrap feature. You can control the components and the surface subset to include in the Shrinkwrap feature.
· Unlike the Shrinkwrap model, a Shrinkwrap feature is associative and automatically updates to reflect changes in the parent copied surfaces. The Shrinkwrap feature detects
when components have been added or removed, and updates accordingly. You can control updates with dependency control and switch between making the feature dependent on
referenced additional surfaces or independent. The independent state can be useful to avoid unwanted regeneration cycles.
· The Shrinkwrap feature gives an accurate representation of the exterior of a model without the need for having the entire model in memory, so less memory is required. When
created in an assembly, a Shrinkwrap feature can be seen in an empty simplified representation (one that does not have any components). This empty simplified representation (of
this subassembly) can be assembled to another assembly (the parent assembly). Thus the detail of a complex subassembly can be represented in its parent assembly by a subset
of surfaces that requires a fraction of the memory space that would be used if the actual assembly had been assembled instead of the empty simplified representation. This can be
a powerful tool in the manipulation of large assemblies.
· The system creates the Shrinkwrap feature in the object that is currently being modified. All created geometry appears in the modified object. The system captures source
geometry by means of a surface method, along with datum geometry and such shrinkwrap attributes as surface selection and hole removal, according to your specifications. You
can create a Shrinkwrap feature in an envelope part or in an empty component.
Mechanica Option Product Page Link: Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica Option

Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica Option gives designers the power to understand product performance on the desktop, before resorting to physical prototyping. By gaining early insight
into product behavior, you save time, effort, and money.
Key Benefits
Unified, Integral Design Environment: • Native to Pro/ENGINEER; common workflow and UI • Fully associative with all Pro/ENGINEER applications • Single data model with all
analysis information embedded; no additional files to manage • No time-consuming data translation • Global support from one supplier
Not Just Any Answer–The Right Answer: • Powerful adaptive technology drives solution accuracy • Automatic convergence gives product designers confidence in results--with no
intervention • Capture actual model geometry as designed, not a linear approximation as in traditional analysis packages • Get the most accurate answer in the least amount of time
Early Design Insight and Improvement: • Make smart decisions early on to mitigate risk • Bring function into conceptual design • Early discovery of design flaws increases first-time
build success • Design insight drives engineers toward better designs
Reduce Risk and Increase Innovation: • Explore “what-if” studies to evaluate many product designs automatically • Detect design and production problems before prototypes are
built • Optimize design for intended function • Automatically establish best combination of design variables and product options
Reduce Product Cost: • Iterate with simulation; validate with a physical prototype • Reduce design cycle times with rapid feedback • Improved product quality reduces warranty
issues • Reduce changes due to rework/ECO’s
Features and Specifications

Advanced Adaptive Solution: • Automatic solution convergence • Maps precisely to underlying CAD geometry • Iterates to a quality, converged solution
Supports Multiple Solution Types: • Static structural (including contact) • Modal/natural frequency • Buckling • Steady state thermal
Handles Any Model Type: • Work with all types of geometry including solids, shells, beams, or mixed models • Extract mid-surface geometry • Robust library of tools such as spot
welds that allow engineers to rapidly simulate assemblies • Interprets Pro/ENGINEER assemblies and automatically connects components at solution
Design Optimization: • Makes use of the parametric nature of Pro/ENGINEER • Local, global sensitivity studies • Goal-oriented, multidiscipline optimization studies
Structural Loads: • Force/Moment • Pressure • Centrifugal • Gravity • Bearing • Temperature
Structural Constraints: • Displacement • Symmetry • Along Surface
Thermal Loads: • Heat Loads • Thermal Boundary Conditions
An Open Solution: • Solution in either MECHANICA® or 3rd-party solvers • Solution in either MECHANICA® or 3rd-party solvers • ANSYS 6.1
Tool Design Option Product Page Link: Tool Design

This option provides specialized functionality for injection mold, casting and stamping die design. Functionality includes insert design, mold splitting, shrinkage compensation, multi
cavity mold layout, design of waterlines and runners, and moldbase/mold component libraries and selection.
Vericut for Pro/Engineer Product Page Link: VERICUT for Pro/ENGINEER

VERICUT for Pro/ENGINEER is a software product that enables users to reduce or even eliminate physical part program prove-outs by simulating the process of material removal
as it happens on NC machines. The software verifies the accuracy of the tool path and makes certain the finished part matches the design model. Errors that could ruin the part,
damage the fixture or break the cutting tool are easily identified and corrected before the NC program is used.
Warp Revolutionary New “Warp” Technology

• Make universal deformations of selected geometry in 3D
• Dynamically scale, reorient, taper, stretch, bend, and twist the model
• Apply deformations both to native Pro/ENGINEER models as well as to any geometry imported from other CAD tools.
Web Connectivity Pro/ENGINEER is built to enable immediate collaboration, so you can generate more ideas faster and minimize review time. Pro/ENGINEER, with a Web services architecture,
enables you to do much more than just surf the Web. Other Web capabilities include:
• Integral Internet/Intranet capabilities including e-mail, FTP, and Web browsing
• Ability to leverage existing IT infrastructure for more effective product development
• Tools to query models with interactive XML reports using model, feature, and standards-compliance information
• Comprehensive JavaScript API-to-Pro/ENGINEER functionality
• Built-in connections to:
• Access to libraries with thousands of ready-made Pro/ENGINEER parts
• PTC Online Technical Support services
• Online hints, tips and advice from expert users
• Seamless access to optional Windchill® solutions for project collaboration and product data management
Web Publish Product Page Link: VRML/HTML Output

Pro/WEB PUBLISH enables you to:
· Create a paperless environment that reduces the cost of creating and plotting drawings.
· Extend the access to data to all parts of an organization.
The publishing tools enable you to export and then view—in HTML, VRML, CGM, and JPEG formats—the following on the Web browser:
· Assembly models and data
· Assembly processes including graphical and textural information for each process step
· Manufacturing processes including graphical and textural information for each process step
Process and assembly information that you view in the browser reflects the process data extracted programmatically from Pro/ENGINEER.
All publications that you create with Pro/WEB PUBLISH are view-only. Once a publication is created, it is independent from the original assembly or process plan. If you make
changes to the model in Pro/ENGINEER, you must re-create the publication to reflect the latest changes.
Windchill PDMLink Product Page Link: Windchill PDMLink

Windchill® PDMLink™ fulfills this requirement by providing unmatched out-of-the-box functionality for the capture and management of product information throughout the product
lifecycle. Best of all, it offers a quick and streamlined deployment which can be completed in as few as five weeks.
Personalized Product Workspaces
• Current Work and Recent Task Display
• Personal Notebook
• Subscriptions:
Pervasive Visualization
• Part Identification
• Three-Dimensional Part Visualization
• Enterprise Visibility:
Product Information Capture
• CAD Integration:
• Top Down Design:
• Desktop Integration
• Full Text Search
• Other Data and Document Types:
Complete Configuration Management
• Auto-Generated Part and Document Identifiers
• Version Control
• Product Structure Views
• Effectivity Management
Product Structure Annotation
Automate Product Development Processes using Workflow
Change System Metrics
Windchill ProjectLink Product Page Link: Windchill ProjectLink

Windchill ProjectLink is a quick-start solution that delivers Web based, real-time project collaboration for your extended product development team. Users can quickly create Web-
based, virtual workspaces where globally and organizationally dispersed design team members can work together as if in the same room.
Capabilities
• Self-service project management enables users to track project milestones, activities, tasks, deliverables, schedules, and resources
• Central repository for all project-related information
• Lightweight (minimal file size) visualization of information from various CAD authoring tools
• Streamlined business process management through an automated workflow
• Read/read-write access determined by project manager
• Automatic change notification through subscription protocols
• Discussion forums and online collaborative meetings
Benefits
• Accelerates time-to-market by providing common virtual workspaces for dispersed project teams
• Reduces product and overhead costs by delivering timely and accurate information to project team members
• Enhances innovation through real-time collaboration inside or outside firewalls with the extended value chain
• Improves customer intimacy through interactive customer participation in product development
• Creates one location for all project documents, drawings, and information, including version control

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Do you need to make changes to imported models?

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Cable Design Extension

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Are you capturing the valuable calculation information

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Arbortext Editor looks and works like familiar word

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Do you, or would you like to, produce assembly instruction

ISDX Interactive Surface Design

dimensional, it can have dimension as references). complex surfaces?

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Harness Manufacturing provides powerful, fast, and easy-to-use

Offers comprehensive, associative capabilities and libraries for

Are you using a schematic solution that is unable to drive the

Do you need to produce isometric drawings of your piping

Create superb, photo-realistic renderings using PhotoLux.

PhotoLux complements PhotoRender and raises the bar. 200 new

Create accurate, modifiable Pro/E models form 3D scan data.

Quickly capture design intent and maintain critical geometric data or

Functionality to design beam structures up to 10x faster than using

out-of-the-box Pro/E. EFX is targeted toward customers who make

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Tool Design Option (TDO)

Provides automated moldbase design functionality well beyond

Provides automated functionality and a 2-D user-interface for

designing Progressive Dies. Includes sheet metal part preparation,

Provides automated moldbase design functionality well beyond

TDO's moldbase libraries. Standard moldbases from Hasco, DME,

Do you design mold tooling? Do you use standard moldbases?

Simulates the mold filling of injection molded parts at the early

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graphics viewer. Arbortext IsoView enables readers to view and

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