IN THIS ISSUE:

• PTC/USER Global Summit 2027 Call for Proposals is Open!
• Follow Us on Social Media for the Most Current Updates on the PTC/USER Global Summit
• PTC/USER Fall Alabama RUG  - Thursday, October 1st, 2:45 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
• PTC/USER Formatting and Output TC meeting - Wednesday, October 14th, 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM CDT
• CAD/Windchill Admin Roundtable Hosted by Badgerland UG -  Friday, October 16th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
• Badgerland UG High Noon Zoom Webinar - Creo AI Presentation and Roadmap  - Thursday, October 29th, 12:00 PM CDT
• PTC/USER Fall TN Valley RUG  - Thursday, October 29th, 2:45 PM – 8:30 PM ET
• Get More from Your Windchill Environment with FELCO Solutions
• How to Use AI for Product Design
• Webinar Replay: AI in CAD: Are you Ready for What's Next? 
• PTC NEXT Innovation Seasons — See What's NEXT, Go Beyond What’s Possible
• New MBD Ready Check Brings Semantic PMI Validation into Creo
• PTC/USER Newsletter Archive
• Have Something to Share?

We're happy to announce that the Call for Proposals for the PTC/USER Global Summit 2027 is now open! Join us April 26th–29th in Anaheim, CA. We welcome submissions covering a wide range of user stories and real-world experience to be presented at the conference.

The Global Summit brings together partners, customers, administrators, and users of PTC software. We want to hear how you are:

• Advancing practice in your field
• Overcoming obstacles in your implementations
• Connecting the digital thread across your organization, suppliers, and customers
• Driving greater sustainability in your projects and unlocking new technology to go beyond the expected

There's value in hearing your story. Some sessions will focus on PTC development areas and current Technical Committee agenda items. Beyond those, anything you're working on now, have recently implemented, or are planning is of great interest to our audience.

Our partners and sponsors will also present solutions and tips for using and implementing their products. We encourage sponsors to act as true advisors by sharing real customer stories or practical implementation guidance.

Content areas include (see the submission link below for full details):

✅ Computer-Aided Design
✅Engineering Analysis
✅ Manufacturing Planning and Instruction
✅ Data and Product Lifecycle Management
✅ Service Content Management and Delivery

✅ AI Success Stories

Key Dates

• Now through November 19th, 2026: Early submission window. Proposals submitted by this date are eligible for a special gift if selected to present!
• January 4th, 2027 (11:59 PM EST): Final submission deadline.
• April 26th–29th, 2027: PTC/USER Global Summit 2027, Anaheim, CA.

All accepted proposals will receive a complimentary pass to attend the Summit!

The easiest way to stay connected to everything happening around the PTC/USER Global Summit is through our social media channels.

Follow us for the latest updates, including upcoming sessions, speaker highlights, trainer spotlights, sponsor features, registration reminders, and glimpses into the full Summit experience. You’ll also see behind-the-scenes moments, community highlights, and content designed to help you make the most of your time at the event.

Follow PTC/USER on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and X to stay informed and inspired as the Summit comes together.

Join us in Huntsville for the 2026 PTC/USER Fall Alabama Regional User Group.

Spend the afternoon and evening with fellow users for practical, engineer-focused sessions, peer discussion, and networking with professionals from across the region.

The agenda explores Multibody Design, Understanding the Trade-Offs of Embedded vs. Dedicated Simulation Tools, Weldment creation in Creo that affects the manufacturing process management in Windchill PLM, and practical ways engineers can begin using AI with Creo today.

Attendees will enjoy complimentary access to the museum exhibitions, dinner, networking, an open Q&A, and raffle giveaways!

Agenda

Join the experts from PTC, tformat and DATACOPY in this webinar providing an insight to new features and enhancements for Arbortext 2027 - currently planned for November 2026 release. Customers using Arbortext successfully over years are influencing the improvements of new releases for meeting their changing requirements still at such high-quality level. Equally important for them is having easy access to information needed by using AI.

Can't make it to the Webinar? Register anyway, and we will send you the full recording afterward.

Agenda

Join for 5 min or the whole hour.  Ask/answer questions of people in similar Admin roles. Badgerland UG is moderator, but all are welcome. 

Join to learn about how PTC integrates Artificial Intelligence in Creo across a tiered strategy—Advise, Assist, and Automate to provide in-product guidance, context aware assistance and intelligent automation. 

Join us in Chattanooga for the 2026 PTC/USER Fall TN Valley RUG

Connect with fellow PTC/USERS at Mueller Co. for an afternoon and evening of practical technical sessions, a plant tour, dinner, and networking with engineering professionals from across the Tennessee Valley.

The agenda explores preparing Creo for MBE, creating weldments in Creo and managing manufacturing processes in Windchill, and practical applications of AI with Creo 13. Sessions will also cover collaboration with PTC’s Jetstream and the trade-offs between embedded and dedicated simulation tools.

Bring your questions, compare approaches with local peers, and share ideas for addressing everyday engineering challenges. The evening concludes with an open Q&A, raffle giveaways, and wrap-up.

Reserve your spot and join us for engineering insights, manufacturing perspectives, and connections across the region.

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Your Windchill environment should support your teams—not create more manual work.

FELCO Solutions develops purpose-built Windchill applications that help organizations close workflow gaps, reduce administrative effort, and improve productivity across their PLM environment.

Object Validator helps engineering teams catch issues earlier by automatically validating business rules before objects progress through workflows—helping improve data quality, change accuracy, and reduce costly rework.

Participant Plus gives administrators a simpler way to manage users, participants, roles, groups, workflow tasks, and licenses from one centralized interface—reducing time spent on repetitive administration.

Whether you're looking to strengthen data integrity, streamline user management, or eliminate inefficiencies in everyday Windchill processes, FELCO Solutions is built to solve the problems that slow your teams down.

Less manual work. Fewer errors. A more efficient Windchill environment.

Discover FELCO Solutions at felcosolutions.com

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how design engineers work and CAD is no exception. Join us for this webinar replay where we’ll explore how Creo AI is redefining design engineering by embedding AI directly into your CAD workflow.

At the heart of what’s possible is innovation that drives real impact. PTC NEXT Innovation Seasons redefine how we bring innovation to market—creating more cohesive, powerful product launches that connect our portfolio, highlight business value, and let you explore what’s new, why it matters, and what’s next—on your schedule.

Capvidia has introduced MBD Ready Check for Creo, a new capability within MBDConnect for Creo, Capvidia’s plug-in inside PTC Creo for validating and preparing model-based definition data before it moves downstream.

MBD Ready Check evaluates Product and Manufacturing Information during design to verify that annotations are semantic, accurate, and machine-readable. It helps Creo users:

• Identify non-semantic annotations
• Detect missing or incorrect feature references
• Flag incomplete features and unstable geometry references
• Find incorrect datums, orientation, grouping, and nominal values
• Verify that feature multipliers match the referenced geometry
• Automatically repair select issues when the correct solution is clear

These checks help prevent annotation problems from reaching manufacturing, inspection, CMM, and other downstream applications.

MBD Ready Check can also work alongside Engineering Checker, which validates models against configurable company requirements for annotations, dimensions, parameters, combined states, layers, symbols, and modeling practices.

Together, the tools help engineers catch problems earlier, reduce repeated export-and-validation cycles, and improve the quality of data entering the digital thread, all without leaving Creo.

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