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September 1, 2020
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Compatibility ProE Wildfire 5 vs Creo 3.0 vs Creo 5

  • September 1, 2020
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Hello,

 

We work with PTC CAD for long time. Three years ago we moved from ProE Wildfire 5 to Creo 3 and work with it.

In our system we currently have files create/modify with only ProE Wildfire 5 and other create/modify with Creo 3.

We plan to move soon to Creo 5. As we know it will work perfectly well between Creo 3 and Creo 5 (at least when we move from 3 to 5) but my question is: what about if we want to open / modify with Creo 5 some files saved with ProE wildfire 5 10years ago ?

Do we need to re-open and re-save all files from wildfire 5 to Creo 3 before move to creo 5 to be sure everything will work ?

 

regards

Cedric 

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    23-Emerald III
    StephenW23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    September 1, 2020

    There shouldn't be any problems with Wildfire 5 files (or even older) when opening with Creo 5 or even Creo 7.

     

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    ptc-31311681-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    September 1, 2020

    thank you for your feedback

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    23-Emerald III
    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    September 1, 2020

    My question is why go to Creo 5 when it is no longer supported? Creo 5 support ended in March 2019.

    Creo 4 and Creo 7 are considered long-term releases. Creo 4 support ended in May 2020.

    Creo 5 & 6 were short-term releases and Creo 6 support ended in April 2020.

     

    If you don't use Windchill or another PLM system, any version of Creo should work and the only supported system is Creo 7.

     

    As to compatibility with older files. Wildfire 5 files should open, but PTC only guarantees 3 versions older to open. If you have any issues with opening Wildfire 5 files in Creo 5, PTC will tell you that your version of Creo is not supported.

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    ptc-31311681-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    September 1, 2020

    Hello,

     

    Thank you for your answer, I didn't know about the support end date (and naively I though the support end date follow the version number, it looks a bit weird for me the supprot end of creo 5 is before the support end date of creo 4 so thank you for the info).

     

    We don't use Windchill (we use another PLM system: Audros).

     

    So my understanding of your answer is: to be sure everythings work as well as possible:

    - we should migrate all wildfire 5 files to creo 3

    - save them to our PLM

    - migrate all files from creo 3 to creo 5

    - save them in our PLM

    - plan to move to creo 7 all files when the interface will be ready between creo 7 and our PLM

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    23-Emerald III
    StephenW23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    September 1, 2020

    PTC does only guarantee 3 releases. My experience is that I regularly open and use file from Wildfire 2 (maybe older) & up in Creo 4. We have lots and lots of data that was released many years ago and has not changed. 

    Just looking at my current workspace (large assembly) I have files from 2007 and up. ( I am discounting the library family table stuff that is dated 2003) In 2007 we were using either Wildfire 2 or 3.

    If you have support and you can't open a file, PTC will support you. 

    I don't know how many files you have but opening and migrating files from one release to another would be a massive undertaking.

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