Filed under: Industry, Video, Animation, Reality-Free The Parents Television Council has added FOX's Family Guy to the list of shows it's going after. They are filing another complaint with the FCC, this time over last Sunday's episode of the cartoon that featured (from the PTC complaint) "bestialit...

The Pro/E "out-of-the-box" experience has got me in a bad mood. I had never installed Pro/E before. I had been warned that it "takes forever" which had already made me a tad anxious. But a customer sent me a PRT file and I had no choice. I pulled the Wildfire 3.0 box off the shelf and in 5 minutes, ...

Direct-modeling is the new trend in CAD. No doubt about it! Some call it Synchronous Technology, some Interactive Solid Modeling, and some direct-editing. All of these approaches differ, but all are trying to overcome the limitations of existing parametric systems. If we were to identify one origina...

oLONG BEACH, CA (PTC World Event) -- As I wasted way too much time online shopping for my own Father's Day gift, a GPS unit (hey, kids need help!) it occurs to me I should just walk into a store and pick one out. It may not be the perfect one, maybe I'd pay a bit more, but this should not be a big d...

Those little bitty fillets (AKA rounds, blends) so common on castings and molded parts can be ever so confounding to the conscientious designer trying ever so hard to complete the solid model. During the customer presentations at the PTC Wildfire Launch, one customer estimated 20-30% of their modeli...

Despite it's billing as a Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Launch, most of the buzz at the annual PTC press event was about CoCreate. PTC had acquired CoCreate late last year. Media types and analysts came loaded with questions and PTC executives were only too happy to discuss the acquisition, like parents...