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Pro/DESKTOP 8.0
Ignite Your Passion for Great Products

Theres one thing that defines a great company,

and thats great products. An increasing number
of companies are realizing that process
re-engineering, or best practice methodologies,
are no substitute for great products.
This realization has re-focused companies attention on the engineer and
designer. and companies are now looking to improve their innovative
creativity and design productivity.

Design at the Speed of Thought

Nothing should get in the way of capturing that breakthrough idea.
Thats why weve focused on improving the already easy-to-use
Pro/DESKTOP User Interface. Weve taken drag-and-drop to the next
level, allowing you to create designs in a fluid and flexible manner.
Pro/DESKTOP allows engineers and designers to fully explore their
product ideas, and when users become comfortable with 3D parametric
modelling, and their functionality requirements increase,
Pro/DESKTOPs unique level of interoperability, along with its common
look and feel with Pro/ENGINEER, actively promotes an easy upward
migration to the full power of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire.
PTC offers a unique product range suitable for all levels of product
design, from conceptual design through to the most sophisticated
engineering task.

Students as young as 10 years old are designing everything from mobile phones
and dinosaurs to futuristic robots with Pro/DESKTOP.

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Technical Specifications

2D Sketching and Active Drafting

Solid Modeling

Basic entities: line, rectangle, square, circle, arc, ellipse, and spline,
with real-time heads-up numeric feed back

3D parametric feature-based solid modelling

2D sketch palette: create your own library of sketches

Extrude: with draft

2D constraints: concentric, parallel, co-linear, mid point, end point,

point on curve, fixed, rigid

Revolve
Sweep: along a path or helix
Loft
Shell: internal, external, and variable thickness

2D real-time mechanism simulation

2D animation output
2D sectional properties

Draft: including split draft

True type fonts, allows creation of solid text on models (i.e. Cast
weight = 4kg)

Round: constant and variable radius

Sketch fill patterns/colors

Chamfer: equal, unequal and angled setback

Trim, fillet, convert to arc, convert to spline, project

Patterns

Project solid edges or face

Drag-and-drop feature tree editing

Move spline points

Offset

Assembly Tools

Project
Scale

Top-down and bottom-up assembly design

Configurations
Real-time mechanism simulation

Deform
Mirror

Animation output, AVI

Mate, align, offset, center axis, orient, fix, suppress

Remove
Transform
Use component
Standard holes: plain, tapped, or clearance includes ISO, UNC, and
UNF, and standard countersink and counter-bore sizes.

Drawing Creation

Multi-sheet drawings
Standard drawing formats
Intelligent feature-based associative drafting
Intelligent center-lines (automatic phasing)

Feature palette: drag-and-drop feature creation, create your own

library of features
Direct modelling with real-time heads-up numeric feedback and
dynamic feature creation
Surface support: thicken, trim solid, replace face
Cosmetic threads

Intelligent geometric feature control symbols and datum

Drafting standard support: ANFOR, ANSI (inch and metric), BS308,
DIN, ISO, JIS
Weld symbols
Automatic hidden line removal
Automatic orthographic view creation

Design Automation and Customization

Material database
Bi-directional simultaneous equation driven design
Goal-seeking solver
Part and assembly configurations: create families of parts and
assemblies (i.e. as cast, as machined)

Section views and automatic cross-hatching

Auxiliary and detail views
Associative bill of materials and ballooning
Split part tables
Import sketch dimensions

Microsoft Excel integration, drive your designs from Excel

spreadsheets

Tolerances

Support for any COM-based language: Java, C, C++, PERL, etc.

Windows Spell checker

Fully exposed Application Programming Interface (API)

OLE container: add images, Web links, Word documents, or any OLE
document to your drawing

Shaded views

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Design Visualization

Data Management

Real-time dynamic sectioning

Pro/INTRALINK

Dynamic view manipulation

Transparency
Wireframe
Shaded
Enhanced
Tumble
Photo-Realistic Rendering

Drag-and-drop material selection

Associative image update
Visual effects: fog, snow, clouds
Decals
Animation output (AVI)
Multiple resolution settings

Granite Interoperability

Open files from any application built on Granite, including

Pro/ENGINEER parts and assemblies, supported file extension .prt
.asm .xpr .xas
Heterogeneous assemblies with Pro/ENGINEER files: add
Pro/ENGINEER files directly to Pro/DESKTOP assemblies with
associative interoperability
Drag-and-drop Pro/DESKTOP and Pro/ENGINEER parts from a Web
page
Open Pro/DESKTOP parts and assemblies directly in Pro/ENGINEER
with associative interoperability

System Requirements
Intel x86 or equivalent CPU (Pentium 166MHz or comparable) with
64MB RAM. Windows 98/98SE/Me, Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 6 or
higher), Windows2000 (service pack 1 or higher), or Windows XP operating system.

Multiple pre-set lighting effects

Jpeg, bitmap, and tiff image output
Set as wallpaper
Data Exchange

Supported export formats:

IGES, STEP, VDA, SAT, Windchill ProductView, Stereo
Lithography file (STL), VRML, Jpeg, bitmap, MEDUSA model file
and drawing sheet
Supported import formats: Parasolid transmit file, DXF or DWG,
IGES, STEP, VDA, SAT

Other
Pro/DESKTOP supports multiple languages: English, French, German,
Chinese (simplified and traditional), and Japanese.

For More Information

To learn more about PTC and Pro/DESKTOP, visit the PTC Web site at
www.ptc.com.

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herein is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a guarantee, commitment, condition or offer by PTC. PTC, the PTC logo, The Product Development
Company, Pro/DESKTOP, Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/INTRALINK, Windchill, ProductView, and all PTC product
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