Parametric Technology Corporation
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Parametric Technology Corporation (NYSE: [PMTC]
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PTC has four core products – Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Windchill PDMLink, Windchill ProjectLink, and Arbortext Epic Editor.History
Samuel Petrovich Geisberg previously worked at Prime Computer, Computervision (CV) and Applicon. Geisberg founded PTC as a competing CAD software company, introducing Pro/ENGINEER in 1985. It was one of the first parametric solid modlelers for PC's, introduced shortly after T-Flex, another PC solid modeller.Once an initial version of Pro/ENGINEER was developed, the company received venture capital funding from Charles River Associates and Steve Walske became the CEO.
Parametric modelling caused a major paradigm shift in the CAD/CAM industry.
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