Demos, Tools & Tutorials

Conceptual and Industrial Design

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

Conceptual and Industrial Design
  • Interactive Freeform Surfacing
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Advanced Photorendering

Tips & Techniques

  • Industrial Design Solutions Overview Customers with Active Maintenance
    Customers with Active Maintenance
    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) Customers with Active Maintenance
    Customers with Active Maintenance
    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/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0.
  • Photorendering in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire with the Advanced Rendering Extension Free Basic Account
    Free Basic Account
    Video of Tips & Techniques for Photorendering in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire with the Advanced Rendering Extension
  • Rapid Conceptual Product Design Tools Free Basic Account
    Free Basic Account
    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 Customers with Active Maintenance
    Customers with Active Maintenance
    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) Customers with Active Maintenance
    Customers with Active Maintenance
    Video of Tips & Techniques showing an overview of the Reverse Engineering capabilities within Pro/ENGINEER presented and demonstrated by PTC's Product Manager.
  • Style Feature Overview Customers with Active Maintenance
    Customers with Active Maintenance
    Video of Tips & Techniques for Style Feature Overview which covers Interactive Surface Design Style Feature found within the Pro/ENGINEER environment.
  • The Industrial Designer's Toolset Customers with Active Maintenance
    Customers with Active Maintenance
    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.