Inviting student members to the team
I got the initial invitation as my team's primary contact about a month ago and logged into Windchill for the first time back then. Now that I've managed to organize all of the students along with an...
View ArticleRWDC 2012/2013 Webinar Series - Aviation Design Process (Part 3)
During this webinar, PTC will be covering the process for which a team would solve the challenge using a baseline design. We will be looking at the different phases; including concept, preliminary and...
View ArticleHaving trouble opening the new design kit
We were able to download the new Aviation Design Kit but we were unable to open it. When we tried opening it, it says it's empty or source file cannot be read. Is anyone else having this problem?
View Article2012-2013 tail wing deffinition sheet
Has anyone figured out how to figure out what the " Horizontal Tail Root Leading Edge Waterline (z)" is? int eh tail wing deffinition worksheet? I can't figure it out, google is no help, the RWDC...
View ArticleV-Tail
When designing the tail on their owning a tail for the aircraft, would a team still have to use the MathCad files designed for a traditional tail? Or would the team be required to develop their own...
View ArticleNew to Real World Design Challenge
We are new to the real world design challenge program. I am on the technology end and not the teaching end but have several questions. 1. We are primarily a MAC house. We saw some notes in other...
View ArticleSubmission instructions
I don't believe there are any detailed instructions available yet, telling the teams how to submit there projects. Is that still coming? I thought it would have been available at least by today. Thanks.
View ArticleRWDC Judges Training Video
This video is intended to assist judges in judging the state RWDC Aviation Challenge.
View ArticleSearch area of National Challenge
For the recently release national challenge, there is no detail information on the area of the three search zones. There is only the indicate angle of the 250 degree on the national challenge...
View ArticleRWDC Aviation National Challenge - Webinar
During this webinar, PTC will be covering the process for the national challenge. We will cover the details on the national challenge and look at the given tools teams will use to complete the task....
View ArticleMission Planning V1 problems
Does anybody else have a problem with running the mission analysis on the excel sheet? We keep getting a run time error 53, file not found or a run time error 9. Any help would be appreciated.
View Articleexporting x,y,z coordinates from pro e
We are trying to export x, y, z coordinates from pro e (wildfire 4.0, School Edition) to use in the Cessna Analysis Program. We searched the help center for pro e and found a suggested technique, we...
View ArticleExport coordinates of multiple coordinate systems
Hello, I am trying to get a list with the X,Y,Z, and yaw, pitch, roll for coordinate systems that I have patterened across a curved surface. I have not even been able to figure out how to pull the...
View ArticleNew Curriculum!
Hi RWDC Teams! We have released two new curriculum guides for the 2013/2014 RWDC season. They are as follows... How to Model Almost Anything: This new curriculum is an in-depth introduction to PTC...
View ArticleInstallation questions
Trying to install Creo here. When using the wizard it's asking for the location to be installed in. It seems that ANY change on that page (other than unchecking the Quality Agent box) results in...
View ArticleCreo version for the 2013-14 RWDC
There are three versions of Creo listed on the Academic download site. Previously there were issues with some versions of Creo working with Windchill. For the RWDC, should we download and install...
View ArticleWindchill Workspaces
I am a 'Team Member' on windchill; I have been trying to add a workspace to my windchill workspaces page. The dialog asks for me to select a context, when I click the drop-down box, nothing appears. If...
View ArticleCreo Parametic 2.0 ?
Hey everybody, My team's trying to train for the Real World Design Challenge by following the How To Model Almost Anything manual on the site's Getting Started page. However, we have Creo Elements/Pro...
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