Similar to using add-ons to keep the ribbon in office 07+ away and back to the toolbar style. My recommendation has been to people here not to fight and resist the change too much as we have a few people people who do and they are the ones who get irritated the most. Good luck with the transition to Creo 2.0 if you keep up with it I think you will ultimately be satisfied. I have to admit that I am glad drawings are not my primary focus as I only work test fixturing and tooling type drawings or I would get frustrated a lot more often. RE: Creo 2 simulate licensing dgallup (Automotive)
We did wait for the second major maintenance release however as we always do before trying anything. These are just my thoughts as it seems so many have resisted the Creo change because of the 'ribbon' without diligently evaluating its performance and we have been very happy.
I shouldn't have to run several batch files in several locations to install and setup brand new software. To me those days were a pain in the neck and dealing with 'liscense simplification' and such. I prefer this to the days of WF3 and WF4 when the installations were separate for modeling and Mechanica.
Also the icons always install with each update but a lot of software suites do this now days anyway and it is easy to clean them up. Oh and I agree that simulate lite is nothing but marketing strategy to get you interested completely useless. I feel the help and documentation have improved (although are still terrible) which is helpful since direct PTC support is pretty useless still. If it were not for the simulation advances in dynamic analyses introduced in 1.0 and improved in 2.0 I doubt we would have looked at the update but I can honestly say that we as a company are in a way better position after having done so. Certain features used to be available to all standard modeling packages and are now part of the specific 'extensions'. The FUBAR in all versions of ProE/Creo imo is with drawings and feature availability and location changes. We still have a couple of seats using WF5.0 and it drives me crazy now that I am used to Creo 2.0. Our user experience has been nothing but positive once we were used to the changes and the interface. That takes several iterations down from weeks to days. In simulate we have been able to take solution times for dynamic analyses from 30+ hours down to 2-4 hrs with more confidence in the results. Creo 2.0 has its bugs but not like Creo 1.0 did and has definitely increased our productivity by orders of magnitude. RE: Creo 2 simulate licensing jvian (Aerospace) 18 Jun 13 10:25 Comparisons for contact analyses between Wildfire 5 and Creo 2.0 are, in my opinion, particularly "useful and improved".Īnd the new, useful and improved will continue in Creo 3 with a couple of significant nonlinear enhancements, a revamped results environment, easier to use/smarter bolt preloading, and so on. Oh and revamped fasteners.Ĭreo 2.0's development focus was on robustness and performance, specifically in contact performance and for dynamic analyses. Not to mention the ability to created mapped (hex) meshes, automatically mesh prismatic parts with hex/wedge, better thin solid recognition. Not sure I get the FUBAR reference, but just FYI the Creo release of Simulate was a big one, with the following major improvements: Large deformation contact, coupled nonlinearities, load history controls, 2D Axisymmetric nonlinear, nonlinear springs, solid bolt preloading, temperature dependent conductivity, grey body radiation, moving thermal loads.