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June 4, 2004
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FREEWARE IGS viewer

  • June 4, 2004
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Freeware is the key....


Does it exist?

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    BrianMartin13-Aquamarine
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    July 25, 2012
    Hi Nathan...

    Sorry it took so long to get back to this! I tried unsuccessfully to get in touch with my PTC Sales Rep to inquire about the costs for Creo View and all the various options. He'll be onsite in a few days. I'll be sure to ask and get back to the group with additional data. It's really tough to get pricing without getting it right from the sales rep.

    You've asked a good question about the fully executable zip model. I actually think the viewer does have to install at least Creo View Express to view files. That is, I do not thunk there is a standalone, non-installation version of the viewer that will just fire up and run with an executable zip. However, with a full version of Winzip, you can certainly bundle Creo View Express and configure it to run during the extraction process. I realize this isn't what you were asking. I was just offering a potential workaround.

    For measurements... even the free viewer in Creo View Express has the ability to perform measurements and cross-sections. I wanted to verify this before stating it as fact but I was able to confirm this today running E-Drawings and Creo View Express (free version) side by side. Also... there's a button on the E-Drawings publisher side which allows the viewer to use measurements. Even the E-drawings free viewer can use measurements if the publisher has enabled this feature. Maybe you're already aware of that... but if not, I can point you to the switch in E-Drawings if it would help.

    I'm not sure what you get with Creo... but I know there are some Creo bundles that have Creo View included. I'm not sure what version or options might come alone with it (if any). Because I'm a Creo user, we have to pay that $1800 for E-Drawings. We have access to Creo View with all the options... but I'm not sure if it was part of a bundle or if we paid a la carte for it. I'll discuss it with the sales rep and see how the two packages compare.

    Oh... and yes... my chart was colored a bit to the Creo View side. I tried to remove most of the bias. I kept going back and trying to take out the jabs at E-Drawings. But in all honesty I do not care for E-Drawings and that probably came through in the chart. Mostly I'm glad PTC finally overhauled ProductView (which was really poor in my opinion). The Creo View product finally gives E-Drawings some competition. We'll likely continue to own and use both... along with U3D (3D PDF's) so I'll have access to all the best features of each package. I hope people give Creo View a look, though... it's really come a long way.

    Thanks and best regards...
    -Brian

    Brian K. Martin
    Sr. Mechanical/Application Engineer
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    Rev2_Steve6-Contributor
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    July 25, 2012

    How does the file size compare between E-drawings and Creo View (and 3D PDF, for that matter). Do they handle various geometry more or less efficiently during publishing or opening?

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    Rev2_Steve6-Contributor
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    July 25, 2012

    Ok, I did an informal comparison. See the attached table for a comparison of file sizes.


    For the comparison, I used a convenient part and assembly from Creo Elements/Pro 5.0. I saved it in 3D PDF format and Creo View format. I also saved it as a STEP file for comparison. I then opened the native .prt and .asm files in E-Drawings and generated .eprt and .easm files. E-Drawings took a long time to open the assembly, but the resulting file sizes were amazingly small.


    I then generated an STL file from a Creo Elements/Pro model. I was using Creo View Express (2.0) so I couldn't open the STL file and export to pvz. E-Drawings (Professional 2012)did this quickly and produced a small .eprt file. I don't know what options might affect the file size for any of these viewables during generation. If anyone has other insight, I'd be interested.

    In Reply to Steve Barnhart:



    How does the file size compare between E-drawings and Creo View (and 3D PDF, for that matter). Do they handle various geometry more or less efficiently during publishing or opening?


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