PLEASE MERGE ILLUSTRATE & ISODRAW IN CREOVIEW

[FPerez]

Creoview have most of functionnalities to do card assemblies: Annotations, Explode states, Animations...

Why 3 softwares when it should be possible to have one ?

For business ??? :  I would prefer a 3 x Creoview price for one complete PDMLink default software than 3 softwares with 3 prices !
Thanks.

[TimHarrison]

Thanks for your suggestion Fabrice.  We already have plans to merge IsoDraw and Creo Illustrate into a single illustration product, so this sounds like it will mostly address your requirement.

Creo View and Creo Illustrate have a different data model and different user model, and I would expect these product to diverge (not converge) even more over time.  I think it would be less efficient to merge these 2 products.

Thanks

[thendricks]

Got my attention.

I wondered about the merging of IsoDraw and Illustrate but couldn't ever get confirmation. A couple quick questions (though I know nothing is binding in respect to your reply).

1) Rough ETA? Are we one year, three years, five year plus out on the combination?

2) Is it likely that the current macro language in IsoDraw will be carried over as-is or is it more likely that the language will be it's own set of vocabulary?

Just want to be able to have an idea of effort and timing so that I can keep the switch in mind when planning for upcoming updates. I'm assuming a merging might possibly be more involved that a normal dot release.

[kpritchard]

Would also like an ETA and upgrade path from one, the other ot both.  I would also like to see the illustration tool access the CAD more directly from within Windchill, as well as Arbortext acessing and processing the Illustration.  The current methodolgy of having to publish to CreoView to use in Illustrate is clunky at best and error prone at worst... time will tell.  Currently the relationships are distant and disconnected so something is going to get missed when doing a change to one, not picking up the other.  Current solutions do not seem to align well with the value proposition of PLM.

[TimHarrison]

This will be a significant project for us and will likely be done over multiple phases.  I cannot give a firm ETA at this stage but it will be a minimum of 2+ years.

We are aware of the requirement to replicate the macro capabilities of IsoDraw.  An exact copy of the IML will not be possible but we know that a similar capability will be required once 2D illustration is available in Creo Illustrate.

[KevinHabel]

Any time frame update on this topic?  I have several users that require Creo Illustrate to manage very large PVZ files (difficult and slow in 32-bit IsoDraw), simplify their assemblies, and publish as a smaller PVZ file which is then "placed" into IsoDraw to complete their 2D operations.  This process seems silly to me (and the users) and we would definitely benefit from this happening all in one environment.