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Creo 1.0 provides the first set of apps which deliver on PTC’s vision and strategy to redefine the MCAD industry and enable companies to unlock potential within their organizations.

Creo product design apps allow everyone in the enterprise to use the tools that work best for them so that they can contribute more efficiently to the product development process. Creo also provides an unprecedented level of interoperability – data moves seamlessly between apps and modeling modes while retaining design intent – such that companies can share data more easily with internal and external parties. By delivering new apps with seamless interoperability, Creo enables companies to make dramatic improvements in their engineering, manufacturing and service processes.

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Creo 1.0 provides the first set of apps which deliver on PTC’s vision and strategy to redefine the MCAD industry and enable companies to unlock potential within their organizations.

Creo product design apps allow everyone in the enterprise to use the tools that work best for them so that they can contribute more efficiently to the product development process. Creo also provides an unprecedented level of interoperability – data moves seamlessly between apps and modeling modes while retaining design intent – such that companies can share data more easily with internal and external parties. By delivering new apps with seamless interoperability, Creo enables companies to make dramatic improvements in their engineering, manufacturing and service processes.

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The anticipation began over a year ago when the company introduced what was then called Project Lightning, promising their audience that it would be a new toolset that would change the way products were designed forever.

A few short months later customers got a brief introduction to what Project Lighting actually is, now named Creo, PTC showed the world a product design toolset that would allow users to combine aspects of both parametric and direct modeling. In addition they promised Creo would have a product architecture that would allow users to interact with it in ways specific to their role within their organization.

Finally this June users got their first comprehensive introduction to Creo 1.0 at PlanetPTC Live, the annual user group event.

During the conference John Buchowski, vice president product Management, Creo gave audiences a detailed look at the final product and its future with his presentation “Creo Roadmap Presentation.”

Buchowski explained that the core problem that Creo was meant to address is that despite the fact that parametric CAD modeling systems have existed for 25 years they are still difficult to work with.

Furthermore the various design paradigms are hampered by interoperability issues that make it difficult for users to apply the best solution to a problem, a problem that is then exacerbated by vendors creating formats that discourage leveraging multiple solutions to a design challenge.

In addition to these issues Creo was also created to deal with the fact that currently very few systems do not offer any kind of deep connection between PLM and CAD nor do they offer downstream validation of specific product configurations.

The thinking behind Creo is inspired by a six box diagram that presents users with the concept that there are two main modeling methods, direct and abstract that can be used to create 2D, 3D and assembly designs. By creating a system that allows users to choose the best option for their designs whether it is 2D, parametric or direct modeling and allowing users to take advantage of any data created in any of the Creo environments users can greatly streamline their design processes said Buchowski.

Currently, Creo works to achieve these goals through a number of existing implementations that include a user interface that remains consistent throughout the experience regardless of the environment or App being leveraged; plus complete interoperability between all of the solutions, the ability to move data as easily as possible between design paradigms and the ability to migrate date from past PTC toolsets.

As of right now seven of the nine Apps that make up the Creo system are available. By November there will be nine available Apps.

The core of the Creo system is Creo Parametric, an App that allows users to create and alter models using parametric modeling methods. The App also allows users to take advantage of PTC’s training content through a tool called the Learning Connector, which will allow the software to instruct users in the use of its functions as they are selected.

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More and more software applications are going mobile. The number of mobile applications for mobile gadgets such as iPhone and iPad has rise tremendously for past recent years. Through this mobile apps extension, companies are extending its market share and their customer experience.

Recently two CAD/CAE companies has launched the inaugural mobile Simulation and CAD apps. NEi Nastran has launched it’s NEi Stratus also in there is a rumor from PTC that users are able to view their Creo files from iPhone and iPad.

To get the full story for NEi Nastran, click here. For Mobile Creo Viewer, click here

The Cube Test

The cube test was designed to test a CAD systems ability to construct and handle large assemblies. It’s an area that often gets overlooked in the CAD demo’s I have seen so I set about re-creating it in both SolidWorks and CREO Elements/Pro to see how they both performed on exactly the same hardware.

The Hardware/Software Used
I used a pretty standard CAD workstation which you will see detailed in the full report below. I used SolidWorks 2010 and CREO Elements/Pro 5 – both current versions of the software.

The Result

In a nutshell, CREO Elements/Pro outperformed SolidWorks. And not just by a small margin.  I liked using SolidWorks from the start and have heard people say PTC‘s products are harder to use but I was actually pleasantly surprised by CREO Elements/Pro. It was easy to use too.  But ease of use and mouse clicks are one thing – what I am really interested in is exactly how long does it take me to get the job done.

If you would like me to download the full report, please visit CADstig website here

The Hardware/Software Used

I used a pretty standard CAD workstation again which you will see detailed in the full report below. The machine was loaded with both Inventor 2010 and CREO Elements/Pro 5 – both current versions of the software. I wanted to make it a like for like comparison

The Results
In a nutshell, CREO Elements/Pro outperformed Autodesk Inventor. Whilst Inventor was actually faster than CREO for the drawing element, the big difference was in the Modelling and Assembly Work which AutoDesk Inventor took a staggering 4 times longer to complete. It suprised me just how big the difference was. Inventor made up a bit of time when dealing with drawings which it was able to do in a little over half the time that it took in CREO. But still, when we take all tasks into account CREO finished up

12% faster than AutoDesk Inventor

Some points of interest to me were that while AutoDesk inventor had an appealing interface (Microsoft Ribbon style), it had very limited assembly tools in comparison to CREO. For example, CREO’s ‘Geometry Rep’ method for choosing the most suitable representation has no match in AutoDesk Inventor. These are the kind of tools that really make life easier for the user and there were several other examples. I certainly dont like waiting around for models to load. Autodesk Inventor crashed twice during the copy/build part of the process and I did NOT include this downtime in the test results. But in real life these crashes would have caused a lot of waiting, frustration and possibly lost data. A point for concern.

In terms of other likes and dislikes, well it becomes a bit of a ‘beauty contest’ really and everyone will have there own preference. There is stuff in all three systems that I really like and other stuff that I found really irritating. But in terms of these timed tests and ability to complete a task without crashing then I must say CREO Elements/Pro is stacking up really nicely so far. And I’m getting used to calling it CREO now rather than Pro/ENGINEER.

To download the full report, please visit CADstig website here

Unofficially, someone in the lab is already on it. We’re not ready for a company announcement or a formal demo. Of course, future plans are subject to change, etc. etc.

But, okay, wanna see?

Source: PTC Creo Official Blog