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lylebeidler1-Visitor
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January 11, 2011
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creo what?

  • January 11, 2011
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A co-worker just overheard a conversation here in the engineering cube, and
asked, "What the heck are creo elephants?"



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    jfrankovich12-Amethyst
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    January 11, 2011
    I think the name change is exactly that - "marketspeak". It is an attempt to emphasize that the product you use today is Creo and the product you'll get months from now will be Creo. It may look different, work a little differently, and have even more powerful capabilities, but underneath it is still the product that you have used for years.



    Compare that to "Solidworks V6". Same name. Different Kernel. (CATIA V5 anyone?)



    That being said, I'm not that fond of the change and the confusion that it causes, but I think I can get used to it and if it delivers on its promise I'll be ok with them changing the name every six months if they want to!



    John Frankovich

    GSI Group LLC

    www.gsiag.com<">http://www.gsiag.com>




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    kimndave91-Visitor
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    January 12, 2011
    The creo brand name is apparently being developed by Mechanica. What?
    Yes a brand development firm named Mechanica. Maybe someone lost a bar
    bet and instead of pink-slips they traded...

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    DeanLong1-Visitor
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    January 18, 2011

    Brilliant move actually....

    When Mechanicabills PTC for all theprofoundalphabet soup activities in naming ouremasculated software,someone in accounting will "accidently" mis-categorize the payment to their internal Mechanica FEABusiness Unit...PAID IN FULL!

    Oops...invoice? Payment...what?

    Business School movewritten all over that one.

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    mnelson-21-Visitor
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    January 18, 2011
    Can we stick a fork in this topic? No matter how much you dislike it, question it, don't understand it, etc., it's not going to change. Simple fact...

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    I don't have the energy to delete another 50 email responses on the topic and I'm too lazy to setup a filter 🙂

    Respectfully...
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    frederick.burke1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 18, 2011
    New rule for 2011!

    No blaming! No complaining! No justifying!

    They are the enemies of reality and productivity.

    They give your power away and make you helpless.

    Let's take this bull by the horns baby!

    Love the pic by the way...

    Isn't there supposed to be a printer somewhere around there?

    Live long and prosper,

    Frederick Burke


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    DamianCastillo1-Visitor
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    January 19, 2011


    Here is the confusing part for me. I am so fed up with Wildfire and all the UI mess that came with it. We are on version 5 and the UI is still not complete and it's not user friendly at all.




    This is why I prefer for PTC to throw away everything and start from scratch. From my understanding, this is what CREO 1.0 will bring us. The scary part is that PTC employees are dancing on a thin line when it comes to the CREO brand. They try to make it sound like CREO 1.0 is going to be nothing more than an upgrade from CREO elments/pro. If this is true, then CREO 1.0 is not a brand new product developed from the ground up and that is scary. I don't want CREO 1.0 to use any of the Unix crap code that Wildfire uses. I want something new, clean and written for Windows. This is why the competition is making changes easily with their code and PTC is struggling to make the old menu manager disappear. They where trying to polish a turd and when the shine wears off, you realize you still hold a turd in your hands.




    I can't seem to get a straight answer from PTC on how CREO 1.0 is developed. Is it a brand new code and engine written in native Windows that will drive their future CAD products? I sure hope so. If anyone can confirm this for me and point me to a document that makes it clear, I would appreciate it.




    Let Wildfire burn a slow death and let something new and refreshing take it's place.




    What say you?




    P.S. PTC/User will not need a name change.


    "Too many people walk around like Clark Kent, because they don't realize they can Fly like Superman"
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    jfrankovich12-Amethyst
    12-Amethyst
    January 19, 2011
    "The scary part is that PTC employees are dancing on a thin line when it comes to the CREO brand. They try to make it sound like CREO 1.0 is going to be nothing more than an upgrade from CREO elments/pro"

    I couldn't agree more. I experienced this first hand on a conference call with my manager and PTC to discuss the former CoCreate. Prior to the call I had been explaining how the /pro and /direct tools would be integrated into a common UI as demonstrated at the Creo launch event and how we would leverage and benefit from that in engineering. Once on the call, however, this PTC rep went on and on about how the /direct tool wouldn't really change in menus or function once Creo was released, and the time we put into learning it now wouldn't be wasted because there wouldn't be a learning curve, just more functionality.

    I just sat and shook my head at my manager...

    John Frankovich
    GSI Group LLC
    www.gsiag.com<">http://www.gsiag.com>

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