PTC Education Program
Overview
Who are PTC?
•Global software company based in Needham, MA, USA
•3,751 PTC employees in more than thirty countries
•40,000+ customers
•16th largest software company in the world
•Developed the first parametric feature-based
design software (Pro/ENGINEER) over 20 years
ago
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20 Years of Customer Success
Aerospace/
Defense
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Automotive
Products
High Tech/
Electronics
Industrial
Products
Medical
Products
Consumer
Products
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Why is PTC committed to Education?
Inspire students to embrace technology and pursue technology related
careers
The welfare of our customers is linked to the pipeline of technologically literate
students
– Example: many PTC Customers are aerospace organizations. 54% of this workforce is
over 45 years old; 33% will be eligible to retire in five years
• There are not sufficient numbers of students in the pipeline to replace them
• Less than 10% of high school graduates pursue undergraduate degrees in engineering. Of the
10% who enter engineering, only about 50% earn a degree in engineering
Prepare students for college/university engineering programmes
BUILD the engineering pipeline!
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Why is PTC committed to Education?
PTC is focused on developing technological literacy skills through 3D
design, technology, pre-engineering and engineering programs.
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PTC Education Program
The PTC Education Program is preparing the next generation of
engineers by providing leading edge product development solutions to
both the K-12 and college/university level.
Capabilities and Benefits:
Build technological literacy
Develop communication,
interpersonal and social skills
Improve critical thinking and strategic
thinking skills
Increase confidence
Experience project-based problem
solving
Become familiar with advanced
design processes
Prepare for real-world careers in
technology
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Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition – NEW PRODUCT
Free software for certified middle and
high school teachers
Affordable teacher training workshops taught by
certified trainers (technology teachers. Upon
successful completion of training and follow-up
project, a teacher becomes certified.
For classroom and students’ home use
Pre-packaged version of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 with comparable
functionality as Pro/DESKTOP; including:
• Part Modeling
• Assembly Modeling
• Drawing
• Kinematic Analysis
• Design Optimization
• Rendering
Free tutorials and project based activities with a focus on math and
science.
In addition, free classroom resource materials and PTC produced, industry-proven training
materials will be available for teachers
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Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition – Student Examples
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Pro/ENGINEER Schools Advanced Edition
Advanced package for high school teachers
PTC-produced training materials and tutorials and Classroom-tested Tutorial and
Multimedia CD.
For classroom and students’ home-use, allowing for additional exploration and learning
outside of the classroom.
Technical Support from PTC, via phone or Internet.
Teacher training at any PTC training facility, and access to web-based distance learning
classes.
Enhanced capabilities built on top of the Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition,
including 25 additional modules covering the entire manufacturing
process, such as:
• FEA Analysis
• Manufacturing and production options
• Quality checking tools
• Peer-to-peer collaboration
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Curriculum material and Lesson Plans
PTC are working with leading educational institutions and teachers to
develop:
Interesting project based tutorials for classroom deployment
Links into Math and Physics curriculum (STEM subjects)
A comprehensive program of resources for both teachers and students
Industry relevant curriculum
Teacher training and support infrastructure
Assessment tools
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The Schools Program across the United States
The number of trained teachers in the Schools Program by state
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PTC’s continued focus and commitment on Education
PTC acquire mathsoft
mathcad
– Provides hundreds of operators and built-in functions for
solving technical problems.
– Perform numeric calculations and find symbolic solutions
– 2D & 3D graphing
• Cartesian, polar, surface, contour, bar, scatter, and vector-field
plots
– Document calculations
– Integration & connectivity with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
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Top Engineering Universities in the US teach with Pro/ENGINEER
University Program is expanding
nation-wide (Universities in
every state are teaching Pro/E!)
– and across the globe.
45 of the top 52 Mechanical
Engineering programs are
members of University Plus!
Top Mechanical Engineering Programs* using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire in the classroom
1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. UC Berkeley
4. U of Illinois
5. Georgia Ins. Of Tech.
6. Cal. Tech.
7. U of Southern Cal.
8. Purdue U.
9. U of Michigan
10. Cornell
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Carnegie Mellon U.
U of Texas-Austin
UC San Diego
Texas A&M
U of Wisconsin
Princeton
UCLA
U of Maryland
Harvard
Northwestern
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John Hopkins
Penn State
UC Santa Barbara
Columbia
U of Washington
U of Florida
U of Minnesota
U of Pennsylvania
Ohio State U.
Duke U.
31. Rice U.
32. Virginia Tech
33. North Carolina State
34. RPI
39. UC Davis
40. U of College Rochester
42. Dartmouth
43. Rutgers University
46. Iowa State U
47. U of Arizona
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Boston University
U of Delaware
Arizona State U
Brown University
U of Notre Dame
*1-52 as ranked in US News and World Report (2005)
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Design & Technology in Schools Program Progress
Teachers
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Schools
Students
Countries
2001
2,500
2,030
901,800
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2005
14,000
12,000
3,200,000
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2008
45,000
40,000
15,000,000
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JOB POSTINGS FOR ENGINEERS – As of October 4th, 2006
20000
18490
18000
16000
14000
12430
12000
No. of Postings 10000
8000
6390
3951
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4192
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2000
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Pro|ENGINEER
SolidWorks
Catia
Inventor
SolidEdge
Statistics courtesy of + One search. One job.
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Wohlers’ Associates Report 2005
• 2004 – Wohlers’ Associates
reports Pro/ENGINEER as the
leading 3D MCAD system*
• 2005 – Wohlers’ Associates
report again confirmed
Pro/ENGINEER as the leading
3D MCAD system*
Cummulative Commercial Seats (000s)
Solid Edge
70
SolidWorks
138
Pro/ENGINEER
305
Autodesk MDT
150
Autodesk
Inventor
176
Catia
294
UG NX
(Includes IDEAS)
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* Based on Installed Commercial seats
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BusinessWeek Recognizes the PTC Education Program
PTC's in-kind contribution is attributed to the Design & Technology in
Schools Program, where we have donated our design software to more
than 3 million students worldwide.
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Installation and Administration
Installation and Deployment
The installation of Pro/ENGINEER is different then Pro/DESKTOP!
What does that mean to a school?
What IT issues does that cause?
How is Pro/ENGINEER licensed?
How can I deploy Pro/ENGINEER in my school?
To help users with the installation, PTC has provided a Installation and
Administration guide for Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition.
There are two methods for installing Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition
On-line method
Off-line method
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Platform Requirements
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Operating System
Service Pack
Processor
Windows XP Professional and Home
Edition, 32-bit
Base OS, Service Pack 1 and 2
INTEL Pentium/Xeon family and AMD Opteron family
Windows 2000, 32-bit
Base OS, Service Pack 1,2,3 and 4
INTEL Pentium/Xeon family
Platform
Minimum Requirement
Main Memory
256 MB (512 MB or higher)
Available Disk Space
900 MB (Pro/E), 1.2 GB (with Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica)
Swap Space
500 MB (1024 MB or higher)
CPU Speed
Pentium III 700 MHz (1 GHz or higher)
Graphics Cards
OpenGL graphic cards
Browser
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or later
Network
Microsoft TCP/IP, Ethernet network adapter
Monitor
1024 X 768 (or higher) resolution with 24-bit or greater color
File Systems
NTFS
Mouse
Microsoft approved 3-button mouse
Distribution Media
CD-ROM or DVD drive
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Graphics Settings
Pro/ENGINEER is an OpenGL based application
For the best performance each system should have an OpenGL graphics card
Understanding the user demographic for all edition, it is required that the edition
be able to run without OpenGL.
– This is primarily due to the fact that users might be using this edition on home desktop
machines and the available graphics cards may not support OpenGL.
– In order to address this issue PTC has included Software OpenGL technology into the
installation of Pro/E
• USE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL = YES
– Alternatively, you can use the following basic setting to validate graphic card issues
• GRAPHICS = WIN32_GDI
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Deployment in Schools
The Schools Edition is a node locked licensed version of Pro/ENGINEER.
Each machine being installed must have a unique license file
License files are tied to the physical address of the Ethernet Card – PTC HostID
– This can be found from
• Command prompt and typing ipconfig /all
• Front page of PTC.Setup
For on-line method, the machine MUST be connected to the internet during the
installation process.
To enable deployment on a complete lab, the best approach is to use the offline
method and generate the licenses for each machine from one system.
– Install Pro/E, create a ghost image and deploy it to all systems.
– Replace each local license file with the newly generated ones.
• <Pro/E Schools Loadpoint>/text/licensing
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Multiple Network Cards
Pro/E looks for the active network card at the time of install and uses
that one for the HostID. In some cases, the specific card may not be
present or disabled.
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Select Start > Run, Type regedit
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Navigate to the following location –
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windo
ws NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards
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Select the first folder under NetworkCards
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On the right side there will be three
items….the second one being description.
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What is the value? Look at each folder
and find the one that corresponds to the
Internal Ethernet card…..and rename the
folder to number 1.
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Then rename the others 2…3…4…and so
on.
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Close regedit.
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Administration
File Compatibility of Pro/ENGINEER Editions
The different editions of Pro/ENGINEER and the compatibility between them are
shown in the next table.
Pro/ENGINEER
Edition
Training
Training
Schools
Schools
Advanced
University Plus
Student
Commercial
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No*
Yes
Yes
No*
Yes
Yes
Schools
No
Schools Advanced
No
Yes
University Plus
No
Yes
Yes
Student
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Commercial
No
No*
No*
Yes
No*
No*
* Requires the use of the Education-to-Commercial conversion tool, a part of University Plus.
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Administration
Using Pro_Standards in Classrooms
A configuration directory called pro_standards is
located the installation directory.
Within the pro_standards directory are the following
directories:
config_files
hole_sizes
material_database
part_libraries
templates
trail_files
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Network Pro_Stanards (SE_Deployment_guide.doc)
It is recommended that a school places the pro_standards folder on a
server for all clients to connect to.
Benefit:
Central location for standard files
Easy modification and utilization for the class
Teacher controlled
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Administration
Managing Files and Your Work Environment
The most widely used file extensions in Pro/ENGINEER are as follows:
.prt—part files
.asm—assembly
.drw—drawing
.frm—drawing format
A name of any file within Pro/ENGINEER cannot contain any of the following
characters: & / . , ; : # % $ ( ).
In addition, you cannot use a space in a file name, as in top bracket.prt. Use an
underscore (_) instead as in top_bracket.prt.
Pro/ENGINEER does not differentiate between uppercase of lowercase characters.
For example, when opening a new part, you enter the file name Front_Wheel.prt.
Pro/ENGINEER sees and refers to this part as FRONT_WHEEL.PRT, and on disk
this part is seen as front_wheel.prt.
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Administration
Erasing Pro/ENGINEER Files
Pro/ENGINEER all file in memory after you save and close it. Erase files from
memory when you have finished with them. To remove a file from memory, click
File > Erase > Not Displayed and choose the file to erase.
Otherwise, when you open a file, Pro/ENGINEER first searches for it in memory
and could open an unwanted file, as the example below explains.
Suppose that you open wheel.prt from C:/my documents/projects/car and then
close it. Next, you change directory to C:/my documents/projects/truck and
select a file call wheel.prt from this directory. Pro/ENGINEER looks first in
memory, sees a file called wheel.prt, and opens that file. As a result, the
wheel.prt of the car would open and not the wheel.prt of the truck.
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Administration
Working with Versioned Pro/ENGINEER Files
Every time you save a file in Pro/ENGINEER, a sequential version of the file is
created.
For example; if you open a newly created part called antenna.prt and save it,
antenna.prt.1 is created, and then antenna.prt.2 and so on with each
successive save. These versioned files can consume disk space. Purge files on
a frequent basis on each directory with part files, assembly files, and drawing
file.
To assist in removing unwanted versions of a file, users can add the Purge
utility to the Windows Explorer menu. The purge utility is an automated
script that removes all old versioned files from a directory.
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