20 Years in the Making, Creo!
Many of the people following the Creo launch will be from the CAD community that is very familiar with modeling paradigms that are feature tree based. They will all, if they are honest with themselves be familiar with all of the inherent problems around this approach such as large assembly handling, the ability to easily modify your own existing designs and even more troublesome the ability to modify other peoples designs from the same package or from a 3rd party 3D application.
I am from a CoCreate background and have been in the technology for over 20 years although I am very familiar with the other CAD offering on the market as you would expect after 20 years in the industry and having been directly involved with a number of the other modellers over the years. If anyone is in any doubt that Creo is possible should not be! The introduction of the CoCreate technology to the PTC solution suite is the key to addressing most of the issues around CAD. The CoCreate technology is robust and mature and has always in my opinion been ahead of it time. The application use model changes that we have all seen in the product demonstrations for the Creo launch are very credible.
What I find most exciting of all is that I am familiar with this technology and can confirm that it’s real. This is not some Marketing smoke and mirrors, this is technology that already exists and is firmly in the hands of PTC. This is not a PTC marketing dream, it’s a reality. Yes it will take time to continue the development objectives but from the first release customers will start to benefit from changes in CAD that have not been seen in years.
If you consider the investment the customers have made in CAD over the years the main investment has not been in the software but in the data they have created with that software in building their product portfolio of engineering intellectual property. The Common Data Model (CDM) combined with the ability to import and work on any 3rd party 3D data means that companies who are ready for change are no longer faced with the issue of losing their previous investments. You no longer have to imagine a system that provides the power of parametric and freedom of direct modeling in a single data model, it,s here, it,s Creo!
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