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There’s one thing that defines a great company,

and that’s 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.

That’s why we’ve focused on improving the already easy-to-use

Pro/DESKTOP User Interface. We’ve 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 parametricmodelling, and their functionality requirements increase,

Pro/DESKTOP’s 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.

Pro/DESKTOP® 8.0Ignite Your Passion for Great Products

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Data Sheet Pro/DESKTOP® 8.0 Page 1of 3

Students as young as 10 years old are designing everything from mobile phones

and dinosaurs to futuristic robots with Pro/DESKTOP.



2D Sketching and Active Drafting

• Basic entities: line, rectangle, square, circle, arc, ellipse, and spline,

with real-time heads-up numeric feed back• 2D sketch palette: create your own library of sketches

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

point on curve, fixed, rigid

• 2D real-time mechanism simulation

• 2D animation output

• 2D sectional properties

• True type fonts, allows creation of solid text on models (i.e. “Cast

weight = 4kg”)

• Sketch fill patterns/colors

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

• Project solid edges or face

• Move spline points

Assembly Tools

• Top-down and bottom-up assembly design

• Configurations

• Real-time mechanism simulation

• Animation output, AVI

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

Drawing Creation

• Multi-sheet drawings

• Standard drawing formats

• Intelligent feature-based associative drafting

• Intelligent center-lines (automatic phasing)

• 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

• Section views and automatic cross-hatching

• Auxiliary and detail views

• Associative bill of materials and ballooning

• Split part tables

• Import sketch dimensions

• Tolerances

• Shaded views

• Windows Spell checker

• OLE container: add images, Web links, Word documents, or any OLE

document to your drawing

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Technical Specifications

Solid Modeling3D parametric feature-based solid modelling

• Extrude: with draft

• Revolve

• Sweep: along a path or helix

• Loft

• Shell: internal, external, and variable thickness

• Draft: including split draft

• Round: constant and variable radius

• Chamfer: equal, unequal and angled setback

• Patterns

• Drag-and-drop feature tree editing

• Offset

• Project

• Scale

• Deform

• Mirror

• Remove

• Transform

• Use component

• Standard holes: plain, tapped, or clearance includes ISO, UNC, and

UNF, and standard countersink and counter-bore sizes.

• 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

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)

• Microsoft Excel integration, drive your designs from Excel

spreadsheets

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

• Fully exposed Application Programming Interface (API)



Data Management

• Pro/INTRALINK®

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 oper-

ating system.

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.

Copyright © 2004, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) – All rights reserved. Information described

herein is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be con-

strued 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

names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of PTC in the United States and in other countries.

Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation and Intel is a registered

trademark of the Intel Corporation.

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Design Visualization

• Real-time dynamic sectioning

• 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

• 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

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