Parametric Technology Corp. Announces It Will Ship Release 14.0 Of its Pro/ENGINEER Family of Software Products This Week.WALTHAM, Mass.,--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 1994--Parametric Technology Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : PMTC PMTC Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (of HIV/AIDS) PMTC Pacific Missile Test Center PMTC Professional Multimedia Test Center ) today announced that Release 14.0 of its Pro/ENGINEER family of mechanical design automation software will begin shipping to customers this week. Release 14.0 introduces three new application-specific modules to the product family: Pro/CASTING, which automates the creation of casting tools and components; Pro/LEGACY, which provides tools for importing and updating legacy data in the Pro/ENGINEER software environment; and Pro/STEP-INTERFACE, which supports the exchange of product model data in compliance with the emerging international standard, STEP. In addition, Release 14.0 incorporates more than 700 customer-driven enhancements throughout the product line. Many of these productivity enhancements are concentrated in the company's manufac-turing, sheetmetal, surfacing and assembly management software. "Release 14.0 of the Pro/ENGINEER product line typifies our company's rapid pace of technological innovation and our continuing commitment to introduce two significant software releases every year," noted Louis J. Volpe, senior vice president of marketing and operations. "At PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. , product development is an interactive, customer-driven process - and it's a key reason why we have quickly grown to become the #1 software supplier in the mechanical CAD/CAM/CAE industry." With the introduction of Release 14.0, the Pro/ENGINEER product family will now encompass 33 application-specific modules that address the complete spectrum of mechanical design-through-manufacturing activities. This parametric, feature-based solid modeling technology is used throughout the electronics, aerospace, automotive and consumer products industries by nearly 4,600 companies worldwide. Release 14.0 includes support for new hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. from Compaq Computer, Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Technologies, NeTpower, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . The software runs on all leading UNIX-based workstations as well as on a growing variety of personal computers that support the Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. from Microsoft. Parametric Technology will showcase Release 14.0 of the Pro/ENGINEER software family at AUTOFACT '94, the CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. industry's premier exposition for computer-based design and manufacturing technology, which takes place in Detroit, Mich., November 15-17. In addition to the company's own display of product offerings (Booth #1000), PTC will sponsor an adjoining exhibit called Pro/PARTNERS. This display will highlight the integrated product strategies of nearly 30 members of PTC's Cooperative Software Program. PTC's New Pro/CASTING Software Module Pro/CASTING enables rapid generation of casting tools and components by allowing casting and die engineers to easily create casting geometry, generate die cavities, produce finished castings, and evaluate designs for ease of manufacturing. The fully associative as·so·ci·a·tive adj. 1. Of, characterized by, resulting from, or causing association. 2. Mathematics Independent of the grouping of elements. , parametric nature of Pro/CASTING permits numerous casting iterations early in the product development process, thus allowing easy implementation of manufacturing concerns and shortening the overall time to market. This powerful set of software tools will be of particular interest to the automotive and aerospace industries, industrial pump manufacturers and foundries. With Pro/CASTING, users can progress rapidly from the designed part to the finished casting through the use of software tools for draft analysis, feature creation and manipulation, sand core development, and the simulation of full die-opening cycles. Specifically, Pro/CASTING allows engineers to: o Easily create cast geometry based on engineering part definition. o Create die cavities based on single or multiple parts. o Compensate for shrinkage. o Determine draft requirements automatically. o Create any type of draft required. o Define and generate sand cores. o Define complex parting surfaces. o Automatically split die components into individual cast sections. o Run interference checks during user-definable die-opening sequences. o Analyze part thickness for casting suitability. PTC's New Pro/LEGACY Software Module Pro/LEGACY is specifically designed for importing and updating legacy data in Pro/ENGINEER. Legacy data may include 2D drawings or 3D parts and assemblies, consisting of surfaces and/or wire frame geometry. Pro/LEGACY provides a user interface which has been streamlined based on functionality needed for maintaining legacy data. Since the primary task for a user maintaining legacy data is to revise existing work without recreating it, Pro/LEGACY provides a full set of tools to import and work with both 3D data and 2D drawings. These tools allow engineers to easily create, modify and delete individual geometric entities within imported three-dimensional data, as well as work with geometry and detail information in 2D drawings. By using Pro/LEGACY, investments in existing databases can be preserved while transitioning to Pro/ENGINEER. PTC's New Software Module, Pro/STEP-INTERFACE Pro/STEP-INTERFACE enables designers to import into, and export from, the Pro/ENGINEER environment via ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 10303, commonly known as "STEP." STEP is the new international standard for geometric and non-geometric data transfer between heterogeneous CAD, CAM and CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. systems. By gaining access to the new STEP standard, designers can exchange more complete data sets than they could with traditional data transfer modes such as IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) An ANSI file format that is system independent and also intended for human interpretation. Evolving out of the U.S. , DXF DXF - Drawing Exchange Format , SET and VDA VDA Vendor Driven Architecture VDA Verband Der Automobilindustrie E.V. (German Automobile Industry Association) VDA Virginia Department for the Aging VDA Ovda, Israel (Airport Code) VDA Visual Data Analysis , which only allow the transfer of simple geometric data. The first release of the STEP standard supports Application Protocol (AP) 203, which addresses configuration-controlled 3D designs of mechanical parts and assemblies. Pro/STEP-INTERFACE currently supports AP 203 Level One (file exchange) implementation. Using the new module, designers will be able to exchange and store the following types of product data: o Advanced boundary representation solids (Conformance class 6). o Manifold surfaces with topology (Conformance class 4). o Surfaces and wire frame models (Conformance class 2). Other Pro/ENGINEER Release 14.0 Highlights Release 14.0 makes a new library database called HUMAN FACTORS available to Pro/ENGINEER users. This library includes models of both male and female bodies and provides 5th-, 50th- and 95th-percentile body dimensions. Layouts are provided for each model, enabling modification of body size dimensions. Pre-defined joint angle settings provide access to preset preset Cardiac pacing A parameter of a pacemaker that is programmed permanently when manufactured positions such as "standing," "walking" and "driving." The HUMAN FACTORS library permits the designer to easily account for human operator requirements in equipment design. Parametric Technology Corporation |Parametric Technology Corporation]] Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC)(NASDAQ: PMTC) provides Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) engineering CAD/CAM software and content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 40,000 companies worldwide. has emerged as the CAD/CAM/CAE industry's leading supplier of mechanical design automation software. Its software tools for mechanical design, manufacturing, and product data management are used by nearly 4,600 companies throughout the world to reduce time to market, improve engineering processes, and optimize product quality. The company's growth strategy emphasizes technological leadership, aggressive price/performance, hardware independence, worldwide distribution, and extensive customer support. -0- Pro/ENGINEER is a registered trademark of Parametric Technology Corporation. All other companies or products referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Parametric Technology Corp. John W. Hudson, 617/398-5000 |
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