Steven,
Poor background info is a criticism I have made on many occasions.
I would like more background on contact as mentioned above. My knowledge is partly reverse engineered and part remembered occasional notes from PTC when specific questions are answered. Bits of a complete story but never the whole story.
These PTC Global Services documents are not released to the general public and only found by chance or by knowing someone after which they gradually become known by the wider community.
Some earlier documents such as the one you attach were marked as PTC internal only and of course, none of us got copies ...
It is not possible to locate these documents via the PTC support pages (unless that has recently changed) and I point this out whenever possible. They should be part of the help installation.
A cynic may say it is to keep the users ignorant so as to be able to sell services. But I cannot work out if it a premeditated move to maintain the 'positioning of the software' where designers' don't need to know' or a consequence of running a lean ship, There are (were? Is Tad Doxee still around for example?) clearly very clever developers who understand the theory and have tested models etc.
The community is generally unaware of
Where Roland Jakel's and other PTC presentations can be found.
None of us are encouraged to be involved.
Perhaps this is in part a consequence of there being no effective user group any more.
Simulate is very good and getting bettering better and it's CAD integration is brilliant (PTC, please don't quote me out of context), but it will never really begin to deal with software snobbery unless we know more. Again, perhaps this deliberate.
atb
Charles