Pro/ENGINEER to Creo Parametric 2.0: Five Steps to a Successful Upgrade
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 [...]
Creo 2.0: Freestyle puts the Art back into Design
Traditionally, when doing surface design, you spend a lot of time laying out your work and figuring out how to use CAD to accomplish your ideas. We think it’s time to kiss tradition good-bye. The Freestyle capabilities included in every seat of Creo Parametric let you skip all the methodology that goes into creating a shape and [...]
Pro/ENGINEER Users: One Move That Can Double Your Design Productivity
Creo Parametric 2.0 is Here! If we narrowed the new release down to one word, we’d call it speedy. Speedy delivery. Speedy concept design. Speedy assemblies. Speedy apps. Over the next few months, this blog will highlight everything Creo Parametric 2.0 offers you– whether you’re a Product Manager, Designer, Engineer, Analyst, or Tooling Engineer. Create [...]
New Creo App for Modular Product Design
Different roles in the design process require different CAD technologies, and most companies need all of the CAD technologies at some point. When PTC revolutionized the CAD design process with role-based packages (or apps) in 2011, it boosted productivity for everyone from service planners, technical illustrators and industrial designers to engineers who have historically driven [...]
Learning Exchange: 200+ Free, Expert Video How-tos
If you’re learning to use design software or taking on a new, complicated skill or role, a training class makes sense. But when you just need someone to show you how to do one little thing, so you can get on with your work, there’s LearningExchange. Whether you work with Creo Parametric, Creo View, Creo [...]
Creo Turns One: An Anniversary Flashback
A year ago, on this very day, PTC first invited the world to “unlock potential” with its new suite of design software, Creo. The announcement stirred excitement among the crowds attending our launch event live and among the many more watching online. The day sparked a lot of questions too. What happens to my data [...]
Creo Turns One: 15 Essential Clicks
Since we unveiled Creo, one year ago today, we’ve posted 400 articles on this web site including announcements, video demos, interviews, free software downloads, customer case studies, industry trends, and training tips. It’s hard to keep up, we know. So, from time to time, we publish lists of just the most essential articles and links [...]
Creo Apps and CoCreate
Does Creo Direct signal the death of Creo Elements/Direct Modeling? The answer is no! In this blog, I’d like to recap our strategy for CoCreate customers and users. Creo Elements/Direct (formerly CoCreate) is by far the most comprehensive direct modeling solution on the market, used by more than 5,000 companies as their core product development [...]
Creo, AnyMode Modeling, and the Common Data Model
Is the approach PTC’s taken with the AnyMode Modeling technology, Creo Parametric, Creo Direct and the Common Data Model, the best? We believe so and in this blog, I’d like to recap the strategy, our approach, and also comment on other technology approaches. Traditional CAD systems offer many powerful features for product developers. Too many, [...]
Creo Apps and Pro/ENGINEER
Creo is PTC’s strategy to redefine the way companies design products. Our June 2011 release of Creo 1.0 was our first step along that strategy. Welcomed by customers, users, industry watchers, and many others – finally innovation in CAD was back. Creo 1.0 is a huge step, delivering our first collection of apps, new breakthrough technologies [...]
