![]() In truth, as a startup I’d start with Fusion 360 then add to that if I needed it. If I was a startup would I get Creo over Solidworks? Impossible to answer that as it depends entirely on what the products are and on the skill level if your employees. I’d say, ultimately, not as good as Freestyle but if you stay in Solidworks it is your only native option (and that includes 3DSculptor.which isn’t native feature ’s more of the streamlined import export function). Works in the same way, creates a feature in the tree. Power Surfacing for SolidWorks will give you what Freestyle offers in Creo. ![]() Is actually quite similar to Style in Creo (without the live feedback) but results are right up there. This has transformed our surfacing in Solidworks. If you are a die hard Solidworks user and want to stay that way, I suggest getting yourself the brilliant low cost xnurbs add on. If you get the extras it will surpass anything Solidworks can achieve. Very different from Solidworks, harder to learn in some respects. It works 99% of the time bit that 1% sure is annoying. Features like Freestyle don’t always play well with STEP. I was so used to file export just working via Parasolid between Parasolid apps that coming across errors generated more that a few sweary sessions in the office. For us, this was the biggest point of annoyance using Creo.Ĭontentious one. There are some workarounds and if you have the Mold and Die Extension that lets you do it, but otherwise, this is a showstopper. Enough said!Īpplying colours to faces and splitting surfaces. Then we exported the data from Creo to Solidworks to do the drafting there. Yes it can be done, and yes 7/8 make it much easier, but it is still more challenging than in other systems.ĭrafting. Without it, in context modelling (top down) needs planning. Most corporate environments do have this, but our package didn’t and AAX is VERY expensive to add it on. Shock horror the Creo folks will say no way! It built its reputation on this! Yes it is, and it is epic.if you have the Advanced Assembly Extension. You know that thing when your tree goes red and the model falls apart in Solidworks? That still happens in Creo, but not to the same extent.Īssembly modelling and in context parts. Again this could be related to the type of work but even on similar tasks (surfacy 150 features parts) it has to be 10X faster. So rebuilds are literally instantaneous, the more complex trees take maybe 1 or 2 seconds. Creo is soooo much faster than Solidworks. Doing realtime adjustments, not having to wait for rebuilds, is mind blowing for most Solidworks users. But if you do any high level surfacing you need it. It more or less doubles the subscription costs. Having said that I don’t think Creo’s non Style surfacing tools are as good as Solidworks core toolset. Of course demos by an expert rarely translate to reality, and there were issues with the workflow in Creo 4/5/6, but these were resolved in 7/8. I literally signed the order on the spot. PTC never really push this but honestly, when I saw the reseller model our benchmark bathtub in Freestyle and Style I was blown away (compared to the workflow in Rhino/TSplines and Solidworks). These are on dual processor Dell Precision 5900 series workstations btw running latest Windows 10. Ok we use Solidworks a lot more, and probably challenged the software more, but still, I’d expect 2 or 3 Solidworks crashes a week. We used Creo for 3 years, and we had maybe 10 crashes. As a Solidworks user this was almost shockingly good. Core Creo has Freestyle, the sub d toolset and more basic standard surfacing tools. Also, if you do any kind of high level surfacing you need Style (as was ISDX). It totally changes the way you work in Creo, so it is much more Solidworks like. With version 7 PTC introduced multi body modelling in parts. Comments below are us comparing it to Solidworks.įirst off, Creo 7 and above are the only versions of Creo any User of other systems should even consider. I’ll also say we are not expert all round users of Creo. For us Creo was always a nice extra tool to have for a couple of customers who used it, but the reality was they didn’t need us to use it, and when we did we had to supply Creo 5 files as that is what their corporate system used. This is not a reflection on the software, just the harsh reality of 2021 business overheads. OK, straight up I’ll say we dropped our Creo subscription from April this year.
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