Also interested. If possible I would like to teach Creo 5.0 next term, starting last week April 18, and allow students access to a compatible version on their own machines.

Also will there be a simple upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0, or is it a new install?

Will any of the CFD and/or non-mark VR functionality be available in the student version?

best Wishes

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cadcam

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I wondered if there was any update on release date for the free student edition Creo 5.0 and what it will include.

Best Wishes

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VladimirN

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@Alex_Cazacu

Please check it.

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Alex_Cazacu

17-Peridot

Hello,

Sadly I don't have a date yet. I'm still working on including some of the new features into Creo 4.0.

I'll try to update you when we are starting the process, but this will not be too soon. As we always did, there will be a gap between the commercial release and the academic one. I'm doing my best to minimize this gap.

Thanks,

Alex

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cadcam

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Thank you for the info. The issue here is that the Academic version of 5.0 has been released, at least to us, and if we are to move it would be nice to give the students some indication of when the student version will be available. Our urgency is that we have a course starting end of April to all our first years in which we will be teaching material, including Sheetmetal, that they will use at the beginning of next year. We could stay with 4.0 but with some of the nice changes in 5.0*, and hopefully a student version of 5.0 before next academic year, it would make some sense to introduce 5.0 to the course now.

See also, https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Academic-Program-Discussions/Creo-5-0-Academic-Licence-What-is-included/m-p/542240#M9807. It would be nice to know whether what we currently have available with

our license is the final offering and what will eventually be available to the students. In particular the CFD and the new way of using AR, the latter offers some interesting educational possibilities.

Many Thanks

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cadcam

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Thank you for the update, immediate access to a new release has been relatively recent to academia so the confusion about what is available.

Publication of timescale for the availability of the BOM for Creo 5 would be useful when it is completed. I guess like any establishment we will often run projects to test new functionality with limited number of users/students prior to releasing teaching material to mainstream teaching. In the academic environment this can often take more than a year, given understanding the resources, recruiting testers, running the test, refining teaching materal and then release at a break in the academic year. By which time the students are saying things like "why can't we try X", "this version has been out for Y months", "other packages have them".... Knowledge about potential capabilities/timescales is powerful to help academic/student planning and keeping our IT support happy. Excessive numbers of installations/updates, keeping multiple old versions active for upto 4-5 years etc on hundreds of platforms tends to reduce IT's collaboration over time 😉

Thanks again, look forward to seeing the proposed BoM for Creo 5.0, I hope things like the new exciting AR and CFD are going to be made easily available for students and teaching.

Regards