Good day!
We recently made the plunge from wildfire and Intralink 3.4 into Creo and Windchill 10.0. 3.4 was cumbersome and counterintuitive, but at least it was predictible!
We are doing our best to adapt, but after over a year we are still plagued with longer design cycle times and more difficult CAD data management than before. There is no problem with the Creo software - it is on most accounts an improvement over the previous software. Windchill is a different beast. Any gains we have realized in design cycle time have been obliterated by the lumbering interface and buggy nature of Windchill.
We can't be the only ones. We are running about 25 seats of Parametric and 1 of Simulate.
I am sure companies like John Deere wouldn't accept a performance reduction, so how did they deal with it?
An example is that copying older assemblies to modify into a new one is nowhere near as robust as the previous procedure. It is often much faster to model the new assembly from scratch, or use the copy functionality in Creo and abandon the drawings. If the copy function in Creo would copy drawings with assemblies we could avoid the Windchill dialogue entirely.
What is the general opinion on the board with Windchill vs 3.4? Are we just a bunch of whiners?
Most of the guys here are experiencing a Pro/HEADACHE.
