**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Announces PTC Collaboration Software Sponsorship!

[Elgin Clock]

Ooh... that's interesting.

PTC makes both the Pro-E CAD software, and also MathCAD as well.

Hmmm....

[Madison]

Mark, did you edit anything out of this e-mail blast? I'm waiting for this to be forwarded to me by our main contact. I'd like to take a look at what this has to offer, but it doesn't seem to provide any actual information about how to get started.

Windchill:
http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/products/home.jsp?k=37

I'm particularly interested in how it manages CAD data and whether or not it'll handle native Solidworks (or Inventor, for that matter) files -- or whether it's tailored for PTC's own Pro/E.

[Pat McCarthy]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

I'm particularly interested in how it manages CAD data and whether or not it'll handle native Solidworks (or Inventor, for that matter) files -- or whether it's tailored for PTC's own Pro/E.

Looks like it can handle a bunch of design packages, AutoCAD, Inventor, Solidworks..
http://www.ptc.com/products/discipli...ions/index.htm

[Mark McLeod]

I removed the link to the screen that creates the team leader login account. There's no information there. It just sets up the account, then sends a verification email with the real link.

There's no obvious validation of who's creating the account, so I thought it best to leave that link to team leaders.

P.S.
The documentation in Windchill seems pretty Pro/E-centric, but I haven't read it yet.

[Tottanka]

I've just started using it, it's awesome!

The main contact is the one creating the accout.
After that he recieves a confirmation mail, and only later he can see in the project managing itself a file which instructs him how to start.

I should just mention that it's awesome,
You can let all you team members be a part of it, your sponser or just guests (you can make them belong to different groups with different user modes).
You can arrange meeting through it, and ofcourse, cad managing is aweosme!

STRONGLY SUGGESTED TO ALL TEAMS!