The ribbon bar organizes the Creo Parametric commands onto tabs that make them easier to find. Sketch tab of the Creo Parametric 1.0 ribbon bar for 3D part design. The most obvious is the presence of a top-level user-interface ribbon bar. Nevertheless, Creo Parametric has significant new improvements that make it an attractive upgrade from Wildfire 5. Most of the functions that are supposed to be broken out in future Creo apps-drafting, rendering, analysis, and NC tool programming-are still executed from within the Parametric app using the same extensions employed in Wildfire 5 (renamed Creo Elements/Pro in October 2010). It could have as easily been dubbed Pro/Engineer Wildfire 6.
This software is as familiar to experienced Pro/Engineer users as an old pair of slippers and perhaps as comfortable. The most important of the new apps is Creo Parametric. The other five apps are derivatives of existing products or upgrades to existing products. It employs the Granite kernel that has been the core technology of Pro/Engineer since the late 1980s. Only one, Creo Direct has a mostly new code base, and it isn’t wholly novel. First, the Creo applications (“apps” in PTC parlance) released in June 2011, are not all-new-from-the-ground-up software. (See “ PTC Creo 1.0: Breakthrough technology?”)īefore getting to the answers, it’s important to clear up some misconceptions about Creo 1.0 that have been bandied about the Internet. On June 6, 2011, before the release of Parametric Technology’s Creo 1.0, I summarized what PTC had told the world about Creo and posed some questions that I hoped would be answered at the forthcoming Planet PTC Live conference in Las Vegas. There are reasons for existing Pro/Engineer and CoCreate users to be happy, and reasons for them to ask even more questions.
Steve Wolfe takes a close look at the new Creo line of CAD applications from PTC, answering the questions he raised last month.
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