Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire® 5.

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Design Without Barriers
John Buchowski
Direct of Product Management
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Introduction to Pro/ENGINEER

A Winning Heritage
World’s first parametric No. 1 choice of engineering
CAD solution professionals

Expanded to a Pro/ENGINEER is
fully integrated the market leader
CAID/CAD/CAM/CAE (Wohlers 2008 report and
solution internal estimates)

Improves both personal Over 25,000

and process productivity SMB customers

The industry’s only scalable

Many industry firsts: solution that addresses both
web-enabled, mid-range and high-end CAD
DRM, ECAD-MCAD, etc. market needs
50,000 customers
worldwide

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Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 – Barrier Solutions to Productivity

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and leveraging
collective knowledge
efficiency

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Raising the Bar on User Experience

Greater Design
Flexibility to
Overcome traditional design Innovate!
modification barriers to
significantly increase
productivity

Instantaneous changes with

real-time feature editing

Increased modifying flexibility with

Disruption Free Design

Enhanced design reuse by placing

UDF’s in up to 1/3 less time

Up to 70% faster changes with

enhanced direct surface editing

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Instantaneous Design Changes

Dynamic feature edit

Accessible via RMB
– In Model Tree or Graphics Window

Real-time regeneration of features

– Patterns, etc. All update!
Modify sketch and feature dimensions!
– Select sketch entities or drag handles

Dynamic change - not manual iterations

Tweak features for aesthetic or functional reasons
easily
See model updates in real-time!

Task: Tweak a feature dimension twice to obtain a desired result

– 69% Fewer clicks!
– 68% Less mouse travel! A richer, more dynamic, and
interactive modeling experience!

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Disruption Free Design

No more “resolve mode”

Deal with failures now or later
– Failed features not regenerated as well
as child of failed and topology children
– Failed features highlighted in model tree
– May be edited, redefined, suppressed,
or deleted
Users can continue modeling if they
choose
“Failed” Geometry is shown when
possible
Huge improvements when dealing
with assemblies
– Ignore missing components on
assembly retrieval!

Task: Retrieve a small assembly with half a dozen missing components

– 66% Fewer clicks!
– 85% Less mouse travel!
– 56% Less time!

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Design Flexibility
Task: Place constraints on a sketch
– 25% Fewer clicks!
Faster Sketching
Object-Action Constraints
– Accessible via RMB
Enhancements to dimensioning
Sketcher “Geometry”
– Points, Axes, and Coordinate Systems
• Sketched Datum Points are now “Geometry”
points in a Sketch
DXF import into sketcher More Usable UDFs – Design Reuse
Sketcher Display Performance Leverage new on surface CSYS for placement
Dynamic Preview
– Provides wireframe preview on initial placement
– As all references are defined, solid intersection preview is shown
Easier Editing
– Any changes to variable items show up immediately
– Features can be redefined on –the-fly

Task: Place a UDF on a part surface

– 31% Fewer clicks!
– 31% Less mouse travel!

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User Experience Enhancements

Reduces time to productivity from design concept through production

Drive dramatic efficiency and productivity gains

Across the board improvements to usability
New top-level Detailing Interface
– Intuitive dashboard, icon and ribbon user interface
enhancements help you navigate commands and
tasks more efficiently
– Drawing Tree
New graphical browsing helps you locate the
files even faster
Process and workflow specific efficiency gains
– Industrial Design
– Sheetmetal and Weldment Design
– Assembly Modeling
– Routed Systems
– Virtual Prototyping

Streamlined, intuitive user experience improves productivity by up to 82%

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Better User Experience Delivers Faster Performance

Industrial Design
Task: Assign Appearances to an Assembly
– 59% Fewer clicks!
– 64% Less mouse travel!
Task: Edit Model Appearances
Appearance Assignment – 56% Fewer clicks!
– 30% Less Mouse Travel!
Action – Object and Object – Action
– Ability to clear appearances
– Ability to replace appearances New N-sided Surface
Apply appearances within assembly Overbuilt rectangular surface
– By activating part
– Simpler surface structure - more robust
offset/shell/round
Tangent and Normal connections
Ability to use a N-Sided for a 3 and 4 sided
patch.

Draft connection improvements

Smart curve connections
Use curve draft plane for surface
Multi-Tangent edit

Task: Assign Draft Connections in Style…

– 56% Fewer clicks!
– 49% Less mouse travel!

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Better User Experience Delivers Faster Performance

Weldments and Sheetmetal Task: Place a form on a sheetmetal part
– 77% Fewer clicks!
– 75% Less mouse travel!
– 82% Less time!
New Form Tool
Dynamic Preview
3 ways to assemble forms
– On Surface CSYS, Interfaces, Constraints
Auto rounding of edges
Assemble as a Merge or Inheritance
– Open base model via RMB

Flat and Flange Wall Efficiency

Complete Overhaul of Pro/WELD
Patterned Walls
“Progressive” UI
– Start simple, add additional definition information as desired
– Direction patterning is only supported
– Geometry preview True mirroring with dependant sections
All weld types covered – Only prompt is for mirror plane
– Fillet, Groove, Plug/Slot, Spot
Welds available in parts and assemblies Task: Build this bus bar in Wildfire 5.0…
– 16% Fewer clicks!
References defined similar to Chamfers/Sets
– 33% Less mouse travel!
Toggle easily between surface and lightweight – 30% Less time!
– Lightweight needs no additional references

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Better User Experience Delivers Faster Performance

Assembly Modeling
Envelope Definition Overhaul
Explode Enhancements “Dynamic” selection
Modern UI, improved usability Quick Rep creation
– Dashboard, selection, drag handles – Highly automated multi step process
Rotation – Envelope automatically substitutes all components
– Rotate about selected reference
Task: Create an envelope part that
Animation substitutes a subassembly in the top level
– Shortest distance or follow explode sequence assembly
– 78% Fewer picks in 5.0 (10 vs. 46)
– 76% Less mouse travel (7’ vs. 28’)
Task: Restructure 8 parts into a new subassembly…
– 70% Fewer picks in 5.0 (14 vs. 47)
– 80% Less mouse travel (14’ vs. 78’)

Restructure
Enhanced Workflow!
– New UI, drag-and-drop, multi-selection
– RMB “Move to new Subassembly” shortcut
Removed restrictions
– First (Default) component, simp reps

Task: Define a 25 component explode state – Components intersected by assy cut

– 37% Fewer picks in 5.0 (93 vs. 147) Enhanced reference handling
– 65% Less mouse travel (29’ vs. 83’) – External references are minimized by rerouting
assembly paths – No more stubs!
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Better User Experience Delivers Faster Performance

Routed Systems

New Cabling Interface Task: Route a pipeline through an assembly

– 64% Fewer clicks to route pipes!
Improved user model
– 33% Less mouse travel!
– New Routing toolbar, consistent UI
New dashboards
Asynchronous design
– On-the-fly network modification
– On-the-fly component designation
Consolidated routing UI
Model tree improvements Drag Handles
Visual Feedback
– New icons and name designation
Harness modification using drag handles New Piping Interface
Improved User Experience
– Consistent UI, menu shortcuts, dashboards
– Object Action Workflow
Asynchronous Piping Environment
– Improved performance
Enhanced Capabilities
– Piping Connections
Task: Route cables in a simple assemb
– 40% Fewer clicks to route cables!
– Place/Insert Fittings
– 35% Less mouse travel!
– Dynamic Dragging & Manipulation
– New Pipeline Modification Capabilities
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Better User Experience Delivers Faster Performance

Virtual Prototyping
Task: Define a “pin”
Constraint
Dashboard UI for Surface and – 79% Fewer clicks!
Volume Regions Pin, Ball and Planar Constraints
Geometry Preview “1 Pick” Constraints
– No need to define UCS
Enhanced Workflow
Geometry Specific
– Simplified Definition UI
Pin allows for selected freeing of rotations or axial motion
– No more Menu-manager

New Definition Options

– Surface regions split by chain
– Volume Region Depth Options
(Through Next, etc)
Midsurface Model Definition
New shell pair definition workflow
Task: Define a surface region using a
sketched curve Ability to define assembly level shell pairs
– 50% Fewer clicks! Updated, streamlined UI and selection
– Fast repeat
– Automated selection of opposing surface
“Geometry-based” shell pair auto-detection

Task: Mid-surface and compress a 30 component weldment

– Build weldment model up to 10x Faster!

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Technology Leadership and Seamless Integration of Applications

Removes barriers of using disparate applications, giving users a true

competitive advantage

New Pro/ENGINEER Spark Analysis Extension for

electromechanical clearance and creepage analysis
– Automates analysis and predicts the
electromechanical performance of designs
– Saves prototype and production rework time
and costs

First fully integrated, affordable

digital human modeling solution
Industry’s first DRM and ECAD-
MCAD collaboration solutions are
Spark Path
Creepage Path now enhanced

New capabilities reduce prototype and rework time and costs

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Technology Leadership and Seamless Integration of Applications

Production Machining and Simulation Linear

NC Power
Enhanced tool manager functionality
Plastic
– Multiple tools manipulations
Nonlinear Material Support – Plasticity!
– Replace tool
Three most common materials laws supported
Toolpath duplication based on familiar pattern UI
– Linear Hardening, Power Law, Exponential Law
HTML based process documentation
Understand post-yield behavior
Loading/Unloading are supported

Dynamic and Generic Gears

Production machining
Support for complex multi-tasking tools
Process manager turning support
Family tables for manufacturing models
CMM steps in NC for in-process probing
Support for camera for vision on CMM
Reaction forces based on pressure angles
– Reaction forces where pitch diameters touch
– Auto-calculation of pitch circle diameters
New “Generic” Gear type
Belts
Dynamic and Kinematic scenarios
– Belt tension and belt flexibility
– Includes belt Slip calculation

Best-of-breed capabilities in Pro/ENGINEER

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Sets the Standard for CAD Interoperability
Increases productivity by overcoming barriers to data exchange
Improved interoperability
– Native Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks
support (in Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE!)
– Updated processors
Non-geometric data exchange helps you
preserve and transfer even more model
information
Saves imported data clean-up time and increases efficiency
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Investor
Access your imported model data 10x faster
– Plus 84% reduction in memory usage (65Mb
dataset)
Repair imported models faster and easier with
even more Import DataDoctor enhancements
– 15% faster than Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0
– 45% faster than Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
(average)
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Industry’s First CAD Solution Enabled for Social Product Development

Removes barriers to effective design collaboration

Capabilities in Enabled by Helps designers Improves

Pro/ENGINEER Windchill find the right collective
facilitate social ProductPoint ®
people at the knowledge
product right time sharing, design
development collaboration
and decision
making

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What is Social Product Development?

The inclusion of industry-ready social

Social Computing computing capabilities…
…in a complete technology solution
which understands the complexities
Social Product of product data...
Development
…and which is used to improve the
work practices of product development
Product Development
organizations…
…for business gain.

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A New Set of Capabilities Relevant to Product Development

Web 2.0
Presence detection
Status
Communities
Texting
Forums
Web 1.0 Blogs
Wikis
Email RSS feeds
Portals IM
HTML File/photo sharing
Calendaring On-line gaming
Search Geo-tagging
Friending/Association
Video chat
Podcasts
Faceted/predictive search
Polling
Peer-rating

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Industry’s First CAD Solution Enabled for Social Product Development

Increases collaboration efficiency

Search faster with graphical browsing and

navigation of data

Easily stay up-to-date with advanced presence

detection and model status updates

Communicate and collaborate faster and

easier with Web 2.0 design collaboration-
auto-creation of wikis for design review,
discussion, etc.

Lowering communication and collaboration barriers improves design

team process productivity
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Example Scenario
Design engineer, Fred, needs to work with a team to solve a design problem

Joe updates the CAD model status Fred/Joe converse on problem via wiki, Joe
1 5
to indicate a “red light” status on selects new component, updates CAD
the part model, resolves problem

Selects “Initiate Collaboration” in

2
Pro/ENGINEER to set-up an Auto-
wiki (Web portal) to act as project
collaboration hub

3 Joe documents issues on the

design review wiki

Invites engineering colleagues with

4
advanced materials background to
review the design
– Finds Fred, Materials Engineer in ABC Division, and locates approved supplier, XYZ
– IM’s Fred to chat, invites to wiki to review design

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Summary

Realize dramatic efficiency Get the whole job done

and productivity gains (simple to complex)

Collaborate more
Easily use CAD data
effectively with social
from different systems
product development

Empowering You to Design Without Barriers!

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John Buchowski
Direct of Product Management