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Pro/ENGINEER^®

The power to quickly deliver the highest quality, most accurate digital models — that's what Pro/ENGINEER is all about. As the primary design offering within PTC's Product Development System, Pro/ENGINEER details the form, fit and function of products. With its seamless Web connectivity, product teams have access to the resources, information, and capabilities they need – from conceptual design to tooling development and machining. And, with Pro/ENGINEER, high-fidelity digital models have full associativity, so that product changes made anywhere can update deliverables everywhere. That's what it takes to achieve the digital product confidence needed before investing significant capital in sourcing, manufacturing capacity, and volume production.

Though most discrete manufacturers invest in computer-aided design and other technologies for product development, their investments do not always generate the returns they expect. Lack of interoperability, capability shortcomings, poor usability, and discontinuities across the concept-design-manufacturing continuum often hamper engineering teams in their search to develop high-quality digital product models more efficiently.

Simple. Powerful. Connected.

Engineering departments face countless challenges as they strive to create breakthrough products. They must manage exacting technical processes, as well as the rapid flow of information across diverse development teams. In the past, companies seeking CAD benefits could opt for tools that focused on ease-of-use, yet lacked depth and process breadth. Or, they could choose broader solutions that fell short on usability. With Pro/ENGINEER, companies get both a simple and powerful solution, to create great products without compromise.

Simple

Through its flexible workflow and sleek user interface, Pro/ENGINEER drives personal engineering productivity like no other 3D CAD software. The User Model enables direct modeling, provides feature handles and intelligent snapping, and uses geometry previews, so users can see the effects of changes before committing to them. Plus, Pro/ENGINEER is based on familiar Windows® standards – providing immediate user accessibility and extending those standards to the unique challenges of 3D product design.

Powerful

As the two-time recipient of IndustryWeek's Technology of the Year Award, Pro/ENGINEER remains the most powerful MCAD solution on the market. Pro/ENGINEER creates seamless digital product information throughout all engineering processes, with associative CAD, CAM and CAE applications spanning conceptual design to NC toolpath generation. And since it's built on GRANITE®– PTC's modeling and interoperability kernel – Pro/ENGINEER excels in multi-CAD environments, and guarantees upward compatibility of data from earlier Pro/ENGINEER releases.

Connected

Pro/ENGINEER offers instant connectivity to valuable resources via an embedded Web browser. As part of PTC's integral Product Development System (PDS), Pro/ENGINEER provides a seamless user experience with Windchill^®.

Pro/ENGINEER^® can help you optimize:

• Conceptual Development
• Detailed Design
• System Design
• Verification and Validation
• Design Outsourcing
• Variant Design and Generation
• Manufacturing Tooling and Equipment Design