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PTC Education ProgramOverview
© 2006 PTC2
•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
Who are PTC?
•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
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:
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
• Part Modeling• Assembly Modeling• Drawing
• Kinematic Analysis• Design Optimization• Rendering
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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
Top Mechanical Engineering Programs* using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire in the classroom
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!
1. MIT2. Stanford3. UC Berkeley4. U of Illinois5. Georgia Ins. Of Tech. 6. Cal. Tech. 7. U of Southern Cal. 8. Purdue U. 9. U of Michigan10. Cornell
11. Carnegie Mellon U.12. U of Texas-Austin13. UC San Diego14. Texas A&M15. U of Wisconsin16. Princeton17. UCLA18. U of Maryland19. Harvard20. Northwestern
21. John Hopkins22. Penn State23. UC Santa Barbara24. Columbia25. U of Washington26. U of Florida 27. U of Minnesota28. U of Pennsylvania29. Ohio State U.30. Duke U.
31. Rice U.32. Virginia Tech33. North Carolina State34. RPI39. UC Davis40. U of College Rochester42. Dartmouth 43. Rutgers University46. Iowa State U47. U of Arizona
48. Boston University49. U of Delaware50. Arizona State U 51. Brown University52. U of Notre Dame
*1-52 as ranked in US News and World Report (2005)
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TeachersTeachers SchoolsSchools Students Students CountriesCountries
20012001 2,5002,500 2,030 2,030 901,800 901,800 2 2
20052005 14,00014,000 12,00012,000 3,200,000 28 3,200,000 28
20082008 45,00045,000 40,00040,000 15,000,000 40 15,000,000 40
Design & Technology in Schools Program Progress
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JOB POSTINGS FOR ENGINEERS – As of October 4th, 2006
18490
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No. of Postings
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*
* Based on Installed Commercial seats
Cummulative Commercial Seats (000s)
Catia294
UG NX (Includes I-
DEAS)260
Autodesk Inventor
176
Autodesk MDT150
SolidWorks138
Solid Edge70
Pro/ENGINEER305
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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.
Installation and Administration
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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
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
1. Select Start > Run, Type regedit
2. Navigate to the following location –
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards
3. Select the first folder under NetworkCards
4. On the right side there will be three items….the second one being description.
5. 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.
6. Then rename the others 2…3…4…and so on.
7. Close regedit.
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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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/ENGINEEREdition
Training Schools Schools Advanced
University Plus Student Commercial
Training No No No No No
Schools No Yes Yes Yes No*
Schools Advanced No Yes Yes Yes No*
University Plus No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Student No Yes Yes Yes No*
Commercial No No* No* Yes 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.