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PTC Creo + NVIDIA® Quadro®: A Perfect Combination of Design and Performance

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Oct 26, 2012

With Creo 2.0, you get dynamic viewing and real-time rendering along with new sketching, part modeling, large assemblies, freestyle, sheet metal, 3D Annotation, measuring, and cross-sectioning capabilities. That’s why we partnered with NVIDIA to deliver dramatic graphics acceleration for your 3D design. How dramatic? Up to 4x the performance you get with Creo Parametric 1.0, […]

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Develop3D: Boosting 3D graphics in Creo 2.0

By Admin | Published: Jun 14, 2012

Large assemblies clunk around on screen simply because the software’s graphics engine hasn’t changed in years. Meanwhile, much of the GPU sits idle, rather like a Ferrari’s V12 engine on London’s M25 in rush hour. But who can blame the developers? It’s impossible to be a specialist in all areas of CAD software development. The […]

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SPECapc releases PTC Creo 2.0 benchmark

By Admin | Published: Jun 4, 2012

SPEC’s Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released a new standard benchmark for evaluating the performance of systems running PTC’s Creo® 2.0 product design software. The announcement was made in conjunction with the PlanetPTC® Live annual conference in Orlando, Florida. SPECapc for PTC® Creo 2.0 provides eight workflows that exercise all aspects of system performance when […]

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OCUS Confirms Creo Parametric 2.0 Advantage over Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 22, 2012

If you want empirical data on how Creo Parametric 2.0 performs on your system, this is a good article for you. Using Olaf Corten’s Utilities (OCUS benchmark), you can capture and compare performance data for various platforms and software releases, including your own. Olaf recently updated the OCUS benchmark for Creo Parametric 2.0, 1.0, and […]

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Pro/ENGINEER to Creo Parametric 2.0: Five Steps to a Successful Upgrade

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 10, 2012

Design engineers and product manufacturers are a careful bunch. That’s because a lot rides on the choices they make, and one missed opportunity can be expensive. We feel the same way about design and engineering software. Nobody wants great new technology to sit underutilized or, worse, unused. As such, we’d like to offer some guidance and […]

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Creo Parametric 2.0: New Design Software Delivers Great Graphics Performance

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 3, 2012

Good news. You can now get world-class graphics performance to go with your world-class PTC software. That’s because we’ve recently partnered with AMD and NVIDIA to deliver dramatic graphics performance acceleration for 3D CAD design and precise rendering – up to 10x the performance you’re getting with Creo Parametric 1.0, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, or earlier […]

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Fireuser: AMD & PTC develop ultra-fast GPU-accelerated 3D transparency mode for Creo Parametric 2.0

By Admin | Published: Apr 19, 2012

Comparison of 3D transparency rendering in PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 vs Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5 This video compares PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5 for 3D transparency rendering on an AMD FirePro V7900. AMD and PTC developed a new hardware-accelerated transparency feature called Order Independent Transparency (OIT) (See post on ultra-fast GPU-accelerated 3D transparency […]

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