could any body give a review of creo parametric 3.0?

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May 31, 2015
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would like to see a review of PTC Creo Parametric 3.0.

from the experts here who have used creo parametric 3.0 .

area's of interest :

part modelling

assembly

surfacing

drafting

sheetmetal

Assembly Design

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TomD.inPDX

17-Peridot

Rohit; Creo 3.0 is Creo 2.0 with icon changes.

I have been using Creo 3.0 since about February on one contract hoping for better interoperability with SolidWorks. I seem to have taken a step backwards in this regard.

I still use Creo 2.0 for my other clients... M040 as a matter of fact.

There are some really annoying things about Creo 3.0, particularly the assembly constraint windows are to short (shorter than Creo 2.0) so I am always scrolling for coincident, for instance.

Drafting is completely totaled! The new text editor is impossible! No longer can you just make a string with codes, you now have to push buttons. And then, those buttons don't always work. If you are use to adding [.3] to numeric values... forget it! Dragging text around too is much less friendly. overall, had they left annotation alone, I would have been much happier.

The install was good and picked up all my ribbon changes. My config.pro and detail.dtl files converted nicely; and if you plan to run 2 versions, you have to segregate the ribbon UI files somehow. I run Creo 2 and Creo 3 and I just don't make changes in the Creo 3 ribbon to avoid issues.

All the hype about the rendering update is just that, hype! We have minimal use of high def graphics in environments, but overall, it is a miniscule upgrade from what Creo 2 had. The only real plus is the real time bump mapping. Here they did well to at least try to catch up to SolidWorks. Overall, the environment and shade settings are still so-so.

I've also come up with some serious graphics issues where planes and axes are disappearing when zoomed in, and highlighting is getting lost when you use the separate window for assembling. I think Creo 2 has similar issues but it is now much more prevalent.

Overall performance is on par with Creo 2.0. I really do not see any reason to move to Creo 3.0. They added things to sell more extensions, and in the process they messed up the core interoperability with SolidWorks files. I have more export failures now than with Creo 2.0.

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DavorGranic

16-Pearl

Antonius is a bit harsh. Except on drafting.

Note editor is ok but creating dimensions by holding ctrl is anoying, There is no need to make us use 2 hands. When you look for example how Autocad 2016 is dealing with this and no ctrl needed.

Regarding sheetmetal our company had severe problems where our old and new assemblies would go into infinite loop while regenerating. It turned out that config option

smt_mp_method was the problem but it worked fine in Creo 2.0. This continued till M040.

Real time rendering is great. I dont have time to render just to get decent screenshot. Just when we swithched to 3.0 i started a project that required me to provide large sport arena views from certain positions with some new stuff installed. If I had to render evry time i took real time render screenshot I would lose days.

Opening files from other softwares works nice. Creo remembers surface id so you can build your assembly around those parts without evrything blowing up when those pars are updated.

Oddly enough we had problems with exporting to Creo neutral format sometimes. Upon loading assembly gets messed up with some errors.

But by far best thing is that you can see those lost references as "ghosts".You come to apriciate these things when your big assembly blows up in your face.