Creo UG/NX Collaboration license

Hello all,

I’m interesting in hearing from anyone that has used the Creo UG/NX Collaboration tool?

We are starting manufacturing a product in the UK that is currently manufactured by our sister company in Germany. They have all the cad data in NX, but I think they use windchill as data management.  

The question is, does this extension really allow you to edit the NX data in CREO.  I have seen something similar in Solidworks where it interrogates the CREO model and basically redraws the part in Solidworks automatically.  This produced something that looked correct on the outside but the way the model was generated didn’t make much sense and consequently made editing difficult.

I suspect that I’m going to have to redraw the parts on CREO manually as they are mostly sheet metal components, and I am doubtful that the conversion will be seamless.

Does anyone have experience of this?  Bearing in mind these converted files will be used for manufacture and be subject to revisons.

Brian Menagh

Design Engineer 

Hillend Engineering