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Arvin1-Visitor
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June 13, 2010
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CoCreate Personal Edition

  • June 13, 2010
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Hi,

Has anyone ever used, or is currently using, CoCreate Personal Edition? I noticed that it's a free download, complete w/ 3D and 2D capability. I currently use Pro/E Wildfire 2.0 Training Edition for all my 3D and 2D needs, and was wondering if CoCreate would be a good software to use as well.

If anyone can give me any feeback regarding the software, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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ptc-23602311-Visitor
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June 14, 2010

I highly recommend it. The ease of use of CoCreate Modeling is amazing. I've used most of the major CAD systems, and I find that I can get things done much faster in CoCreate than any other product. Plus, the personal edition is free! I've used it to design a pinewood derby car for my son, and a castle project for my daughter.

Hope this helps.

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Arvin1-VisitorAuthor
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June 14, 2010

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback. I assume that there is also no border saying "For Personal Use Only" on the drawings when they are printed out?

Thanks again.

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jose1-Visitor
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July 16, 2010

"You can use it to create extremely detailed drawings, but if you really want to use it for production purposes, you should invest in a full CAD system"

Hi Gary, thanks, but are you sure about that?

Well, I can't see the purpose to do detailed drawings and not to b able to use it, after all the time invested on it.

If you read the main advertising page, http://www.ptc.com/offers/tryout/pe3.htm, the only drawback explicit pointed is the max 60 parts on a piece, that is, we are induced to think that this limitation is the big one (very resonable for a hobbyst or a eventual user).

So, seems to me that is a wrong statement from PTO that it's a free software for up to 60 pieces and if you go to more serious projects, you must purchase a full copy. That would be prefectly understandableand and ok. Their last paragraph, "...Download CoCreate Modeling PE FREE today, and see how the explicit modeling approach to design can help your products come to life".... Come to life? Where? inside my computer? (well they told "see" above....) 🙂 Well I tink this is not a serious statement. And if you read further in other pages, you see that PE3 data can not be imported by the user himself if he decides to go to full version...

Well, I come to here from Alibre's homepage forum, were someone was discussing about CoCreate PE3.

There I was discussing some missing features on their $99,00 hobbyst version, like parts library and other cutted features, and sugesting another kind of limitation like this "supposed" on PE3, of 60 parts or so...(see the discussion: http://forum.alibre.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11433&sid=2ff68e5f823e3a533d444934f893fb28).

Anyway Gary, thanks again, this saved me a lot of time!

Jose

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