To see a few great demoes and to see the Wildfire 3.0 offerings.
First time I ever went to the PTC headquarters and I was impressed. You would never think they were going through a bad time with money. The funniest thing I saw was lots of people with either nice suits or dresses with dark tans, definitely sales and marketing people.
The Wildfire 3.0 presentation was handled by a gentleman name Netesh Gohill, really nice guy who didn't shy away from any bad questions and gave real me real answers not the standard PTC I get back to you answer.
He talked about most of the changes in Wildfire 3.0, which looked really good, but he also talked about what's to come in Wildfire 4.0 and alittle beyond. I thought that was really cool.
It seems they did alot more work on patterning what's called Projection and Orientation of Filled patterns, where you could pick on a contoured surface and select (the example they had was a hairbrush brissell sp?) the feature to pattern and the features will pattern by the u & v of the surface. really slick.
They also seemed to fix the stupid cancellation problem in feature/sketcher where if you want to back out of a feature creation it's like 6 picks to do so, all you have to do pick a red X on the feature box and your out. Yeah!
One cool thing is they finally came out with a shape palette that has some 26 different shapes and you could create you own put it in a directory in the loadpoint,when you're in Pro you will see a tab of that directory and all your own saved sections in there.
Copy/Paste has its own clipboard and assy mode and sweptblend are gui updated.
Netesh said the Pre Production will be out within 2 months and Production could be end of summer.
I left there feeling really good about the future products coming out. I've been dealing with PTC for a long time, it's like they fired all the old early and mid 90's staff and replaced them with people that hsve brains and personalities that don't try to b.s. you. I don't mean to be harsh though
If you are reading this Netesh thanks for the great presentation.
Edited by: Moroso
First time I ever went to the PTC headquarters and I was impressed. You would never think they were going through a bad time with money. The funniest thing I saw was lots of people with either nice suits or dresses with dark tans, definitely sales and marketing people.
The Wildfire 3.0 presentation was handled by a gentleman name Netesh Gohill, really nice guy who didn't shy away from any bad questions and gave real me real answers not the standard PTC I get back to you answer.
He talked about most of the changes in Wildfire 3.0, which looked really good, but he also talked about what's to come in Wildfire 4.0 and alittle beyond. I thought that was really cool.
It seems they did alot more work on patterning what's called Projection and Orientation of Filled patterns, where you could pick on a contoured surface and select (the example they had was a hairbrush brissell sp?) the feature to pattern and the features will pattern by the u & v of the surface. really slick.
They also seemed to fix the stupid cancellation problem in feature/sketcher where if you want to back out of a feature creation it's like 6 picks to do so, all you have to do pick a red X on the feature box and your out. Yeah!
One cool thing is they finally came out with a shape palette that has some 26 different shapes and you could create you own put it in a directory in the loadpoint,when you're in Pro you will see a tab of that directory and all your own saved sections in there.
Copy/Paste has its own clipboard and assy mode and sweptblend are gui updated.
Netesh said the Pre Production will be out within 2 months and Production could be end of summer.
I left there feeling really good about the future products coming out. I've been dealing with PTC for a long time, it's like they fired all the old early and mid 90's staff and replaced them with people that hsve brains and personalities that don't try to b.s. you. I don't mean to be harsh though
If you are reading this Netesh thanks for the great presentation.
Edited by: Moroso