CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 January 2005
Product News
PTC Offers Industrial Designers Innovative New Capabilities; Pro/CONCEPT 3.0 Delivers Market-Leading Improvements for Product Ideation
PTC announced the general availability of Pro/CONCEPTT 3.0. Pro/CONCEPT is the PTC solution for digital product brainstorming, which supports the innovation-intensive "fuzzy front end" of product development. In addition to the release of Pro/CONCEPT 3.0, PTC is also offering a special pricing incentive to new and existing customers for the Pro/ENGINEER® Interactive Surface Design Extension (ISDX).
As part of PTC's industrial design solutions, Pro/CONCEPT and ISDX are particularly important to consumer product manufacturers, medical device companies, and design consultancies. ISDX provides freeform curve and surface modeling capabilities that give industrial designers complete flexibility of product design, coupled with the single-product nature of Pro/ENGINEER. Moreover, ISDX is a complementary solution that allows the user to further refine Pro/CONCEPT product ideas in Pro/ENGINEER. With Pro/CONCEPT and Pro/ENGINEER ISDX, industrial designers are able to easily develop and present eye-catching product concepts, which can be quickly refined into fully manufacturable designs.
This latest release, Pro/CONCEPT 3.0, adds new features that now allow industrial designers to crop images, measure, and export curves via IGES. To further enhance the industrial design capabilities in Pro/CONCEPT, new geometric manipulation features were added to this release including:
• Rounded square
• Curve fillet
• Curve trim
• Pattern
• Curves combined with cusps
"Pro/CONCEPT is an exciting ideation tool," said Rebecca Moore, lead industrial designer, QFD Inc. "Combined with ISDX, it makes an excellent solution, allowing industrial designers to unleash their natural creativity."
"Studies show that the more attractive a product looks, the better it sells," said Thomas Shoemaker, director product marketing, PTC. "With the release of Pro/CONCEPT 3.0 and the limited time offer for ISDX, PTC is enhancing its commitment to industrial designers by providing key capabilities that allow companies to optimize the process of designing and manufacturing more evocative products."
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