**FIRST EMAIL**/2009 FRC Kit of Parts Modeled and Available Now Through PTC's CAD Lib

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

FIRST is pleased to announce that PTC, The Product Development Company, has modeled the 2009 FRC Kit of Parts in Pro/ENGINEER and have made it easily accessible through Catalog Data Solutions' CAD library. Thank you to Catalog Data Solutions for donating the storage of these models to the 2009 FRC!

Click here to access the CAD library <http://www.catalogds.com/db/service?d=first&c=browse> <http://www.catalogds.com/db/service?d=first&c=browse>

As a Crown Level Supplier to the FRC program, PTC is offering the following software tools to all teams:

· Windchill for team collaboration (hosted by PTC)

· Pro/ENGINEER for creating CAD models of your robot

· Mathcad for documenting your engineering calculations

· ProductView for visualizing your robot design

In order to access any of these tools, you or the lead contact for your team will need to register for a team Windchill project.

Click here: www.ptc.com/go/frcregistration <http://www.ptc.com/go/frcregistration> . From the project, you can download Pro/ENGINEER, Mathcad and ProductView.

For more information on how to get started, visit our Getting Started Information Site <http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/educational/program.jsp?&im_dbkey=76335&icg_dbkey=851> or contact firstsupport@ptc.com.

Thank you,

firstsupport@ptc.com <mailto:firstsupport@ptc.com>

Go Teams!