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Conceptual and Industrial Design

Capture ideas and forms that meet any aesthetic requirement. Explore capabilites such as:

Interactive Freeform Surfacing
Reverse Engineering
Advanced Photorendering

Tips & Techniques

Industrial Design Solutions Overview
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Video of Tips & Techniques for Industrial Design Solutions Overview in which a product expert takes you through an overview of PTC's Industrial Design Solutions via this Tips & Techniques How to Video.
Interactive Surface Design Extension (ISDX)
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Video of Tips & Techniques for The Interactive Surface Design Extension (ISDX) which will take you through the process of designing surfaces for conceptual and industrial design with Pro/ENGINEEER Wildfire 3.0.
Photorendering in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire with the Advanced Rendering Extension
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Video of Tips & Techniques for Photorendering in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire with the Advanced Rendering Extension
Rapid Conceptual Product Design Tools
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Video of Tips & Techniques showing an overview of PTC Products aimed at Rapid Conceptual Product Design plus a demonstration of PTC's Industrial Design Solutions.
Reduce Effort - Reverse Engineering Your Design
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Video of Tips & Techniques showing how Reverse Engineering for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire allows you to digitize your physical products and recapture your legacy intellectual property.
Reverse Engineering Product Designs (REX)
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Video of Tips & Techniques showing an overview of the Reverse Engineering capabilities within Pro/ENGINEER presented and demontrated by PTC's Product Manager.
Reverse Engineering in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
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Video of Tips & Techniques for Reverse Engineering Extension (REX) of Pro/ENGINEER as shown by PTC's product expert.
Style Feature Overview
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Video of Tips & Techniques for Style Feature Overview which covers Interactive Surface Design Style Feature found within the Pro/ENGINEER environment.
Taking the Napkin Sketch to the 21st Century - Pro/CONCEPT
Video of Tips & Techniques showing Wildfire 2.0 - Pro/CONCEPT.
The Industrial Designer's Toolset
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Video of Tips & Techniques showing an overview of PTC Products related to Surfacing and Styling including demonstrations of these PTC Products and capabilities.
The Sophisticated Consumer with a Discriminating Eye for Style - Pro/CONCEPT
Video of Tips & Techniques showing the capabilities of Pro/CONCEPT, the all-inclusive digital sketching tool that lets you conceptualize without limits.

Tutorials

Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Rendering, Rendering a Magnifying Glass Tutorial: Customers with Active Maintenance; This tutorial will show you the process of generating a Photo Realistic image of a magnifying glass. This will cover scene setup as well as Photolux appearance definitions.
Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Rendering Advanced Material Definitions Tutorial: Customers with Active Maintenance; This tutorial will step you through the process of creating Photolux materials. It will cover the following material types - Metals, Plastics and Glass.
Pro/ENGINEER Reverse Engineering Analytical Surfaces Tutorial: Customers with Active Maintenance; This tutorial will step you through the process of creating analytical surfaces such as planes, cylinders, extrudes, etc from facet data, using Pro/ENGINEER Reverse Engineering.
Pro/ENGINEER Reverse Engineering Surface Creation Tutorial: Customers with Active Maintenance; This tutorial will explain how to create high quality surfaces from facet data using Pro/ENGINEER Reverse Engineering. This will include boundary conditions such as Normal to Plane and Tangent.
Fundamentals of Warp Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 | Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0: Free Basic Account; This tutorial will show you the basic principles of each tool and some of the key controls. This is not intended to teach you all the controls and every nuance, but does provide a good overview for getting started with Warp.
Warp a Kettle Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 | Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0: Free Basic Account; This tutorial is designed to follow-on from the Fundamentals of Warp tutorial. It will show you examples of how some of the Warp operations can be combined and applied to a specific scenario. Use it to give yourself ideas of the possibilities of Warp, rather than how to model a kettle.
Warp a Drill Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 | Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0: Free Basic Account; This tutorial is designed to follow-on from the Fundamentals of Warp tutorial. It will show you examples of how some of the Warp operations can be combined and applied to a specific scenario. Use it to give yourself ideas of the possibilities of Warp, rather than how to model a drill.
Advanced Rendering Extension: Learn to quickly generate photorealistic images.
Photorendering in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire with the Advanced Rendering: Explore some of the ARX capabilities such as how to set up a room, apply textures and colors to design, and utilize stunning new effects like fog and lens flare.

Expert Advice

Settings for Commonly Used Appearances (pdf, 244 KB): The following is a set of Appearance settings to be used for Pro/ENGINEER Photorender.