PTC Creo is a collaborative designer's dream!
Overall Satisfaction with PTC Creo
The engineering department at each plant uses [PTC Creo] to model/draw products and manufacturing machine designs. We use PTC Creo for everything from small brackets on the production line machines to entire machine assemblies, forging dies, grinding wheel design, and even product drawings and quality lab gauging and fixtures. We also use PTC Creo with Windchill to organize all our models, drawings, and assemblies company-wide.
Pros
- Part import from 3rd party models like fasteners and machine components is super fast.
- Deriving new parts from another part's geometry is nice when using PTC Creo's parametric relations features.
- Revising models and drawings while retaining the old version is great when using PTC Creo.
Cons
- The STL model output is not always as smooth as some other software usually can do.
- There are not many 3D full solid file type export options that are not exported as surface-only.
- Importing sketches is kind of difficult sometimes depending on how the source sketches are drawn.
- The model organization
- Part references that are used to create new parts from existing ones.
- The ability to share floating module licenses between users who aren't on the software at the same time.
- Our design time is greatly reduced by using PTC Creo.
- Our model/drawing organization is much better with PTC Creo.
- The revision history save us lots of when comparing old/new designs.
PTC Creo is much better than other software at allowing collaboration across multiple users, even multiple plants/locations. We went from an older non-parametric industry standard software to PTC Creo because we could save massive amounts of time by using the parametric assembly features of PTC Creo along with the the Windchill drawing organization functions.
Do you think PTC Creo delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with PTC Creo's feature set?
Yes
Did PTC Creo live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of PTC Creo go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy PTC Creo again?
Yes
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