Thanks for your question – I hope the following answer provides some answer – but it really isn’t a black and white answer.
In many industries – including many manufactures, most new products are launched that include existing proven components, revised parts, and brand new parts or technologies. It’s the same for the software industry, and for the new Creo product suite, we’ve also leveraged proven technology components (from PTC and third parties), revised some existing software components, and included brand new technology and software developments.
Take for example, the kernel technology for the Creo parametric app, that uses and expands on the proven reliable and rich capabilities available in Creo Elements/Pro. This common in our industry, and most of today’s CAD products leverage off-the-shelf kernel technologies like Parasolid and ACIS kernels. Other components that are typically off-the-shelf or extensions of pre-developed software components include graphics engines, print engines, rendering engines, installers, etc.
We’ve also leveraged existing technology approaches from third parties –for example, the user interface across the Creo apps uses the Microsoft UI approach of ribbons.
And in many areas, we’ve developed brand new components, like the direct modeling application, new interaction methods, etc.
We see that by packaging the best existing, enhanced, and newly developed software components, we can deliver an innovative and yet reliable set of apps with Creo 1.0.
Best Regards,
Geoff Hedges
