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PTC Advances MCAD Strategy with Release of Creo 2.0
NEEDHAM, Mass. --(Business Wire)--
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced Creo®
2.0, the latest release of its revolutionary new generation of product
design software. Last June, PTC
challenged the industry paradigm with the introduction of the first nine
"apps" in its Creo family - conceived, in part, to enable a much wider
range of roles to contribute to the design process with a set of
integrated, purpose-built tools. With Creo 2.0, PTC introduces a new
role-specific app supporting modular product design that extends how
organizations can approach concept
design, and delivers significant productivity
enhancements to its existing Creo apps.
"The release of Creo 2.0 demonstrates PTC's unwavering commitment to
deliver against our Creo strategy and solve the chronic challenges
customers face with traditional CAD tools," said Michael Campbell,
divisional general manager MCAD segment, PTC. "Built on PTC's heritage
of innovation, Creo rethinks the very nature of product design,
increasing collaboration and protecting data fidelity across any user
role, any design mode, or any data source. Today, PTC is also delivering
the first technology component in its vision for managing modular
product designs driven by the bill of materials."
Modular Product Design
With Creo 2.0, PTC introduces a 10th app to the Creo family -
Creo Options Modeler™ - a new role-specific app built for designers who
need to create or validate modular product designs in 3D early in a
design cycle. The new app, available this summer, delivers a dedicated,
easy-to-use, powerful set of capabilities to build accurate, up-to-date,
precise 3D-based product assemblies, irrespective of size or complexity.
When used with Creo Parametric™, Creo Options Modeler enables teams to
validate precise mass, center of gravity, and even check and resolve
critical issues like interference for modular designs.
Creo Options Modeler contributes to PTC's AnyBOM™ Assembly technology
vision, which promises to give teams the power and scalability needed to
create, validate and reuse information for modular product
architectures. By combining Creo Options Modeler with PTC's Windchill®
product lifecycle management software, manufacturers can generate and
validate precise 3D representations of product configurations defined by
an individual bill of materials.
By enabling easier reuse of existing 3D models and through innovative
interface tagging, the new app can reduce process errors and engineering
rework. As a member of the Creo product family, Creo Options Modeler
also seamlessly leverages and shares data between other Creo apps, and
with other people involved in the design process and beyond, further
increasing detailed design and downstream process productivity.
Rethinking Concept Design
Many companies prefer to start concept designs in 2D to quickly explore
multiple options before moving to build more complex 3D models. With
Creo 2.0, PTC delivers on its vision for enabling companies to make the
most of this early stage of their product development process. The new
releases of Creo Parametric, Creo Direct™, the free Creo Sketch™ (now
available on Mac OS X with this release), and Creo Layout™ combine to
greatly enhance collaboration, innovation and design exploration during
concept design. Since all Creo apps share a common data model, 2D
geometry and design data can be easily shared by all users and apps and
can be re-used later in the design process to accelerate the transition
to the detailed design phase.
In Creo Layout 2.0, PTC is helping to solve the specific problem of
transitioning from 2D to 3D, allowing users to easily create a layout of
complex assemblies, quickly explore design alternatives, import a
variety of 2D CAD file types, sketch and modify 2D geometry, organize
information with groups, tags and structure as well as dimensions, notes
and tables. Once creaed, a 2D design in Creo Layout can serve as the
basis for 3D models, allowing users to create assemblies in 2D or
reference 2D geometry to create part features, and any changes made in
2D are reflected in 3D upon regeneration.
Productivity Enhancements
In the new release, PTC delivers more than 490 enhancements to the Creo
app family, all designed to optimize the user experience and increase
design productivity.
Creo Parametric enables increased productivity and streamlining of the
overall product design process with:
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Freeform Surfaces - With the enhanced freestyle capabilities,
designers can quickly and easily create more refined surfaces with
higher levels of detail while still maintaining top level control over
the general freeform shape. This significantly reduces the time to
move concepts to precise, highly-detailed aesthetic product designs.
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Cross-sections - Designers working in 3D cross-sections gain
complete product insight with new, intuitive, and fast ways to create
and dynamically re-position the sections, including instant access
directly from the model tree. Real-time interference detection within
a section together with 2D visualization helps designers fully
visualize the design, design changes, and detect and address potential
issues early. The new tools significantly enhance productivity when
working in cross-sections and provide a rich design environment that
accelerates the overall design process.
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Measure - The new streamlined measure tool offers
significant performance and usability improvements. Designers can
quickly gain detailed insight into key dimensions and measurements of
any selected surface. By controlling how and where measured results
are displayed on-screen, and allowing for simple re-use of the
displayed values into other applications, such as a Word document,
designers can improve the efficiency and accuracy of leveraging
precise measurements during the design process.
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Track Changes - The new track changes capability in Creo
Parametric allows designers to view, accept or reject model changes
made by others using Creo Direct. Designers can now work with a
broader range of roles across the company while still maintaining full
control of how changes are reflected in the parametric model. This
ensures design intent is fully maintained. Irrespective of modeling
approach or Creo app, teams can now truly work together.
Overall, Creo Parametric delivers state-of-the-art user experience, new
capabilities, automates common tasks, improves performance with
streamlined workflows and enables dramatically improved overall design
productivity.
Beyond Creo Parametric, PTC delivers significant enhancements to other
Creo apps. New capabilities in Creo Direct help accelerate bid-proposals
and early concept design. Casual users can now quickly and easily create
new compelling 3D designs. They also can easily modify models by
reference to existing geometry of available parts and assemblies or
quickly, but precisely place multiple parts and assemblies into position
with the new intelligent snapping capabilities.
And as Creo Direct seamlessly works with Creo Parametric and other Creo
apps, any 3D design can be shared by users across the enterprise design
process.
In addition, this latest release greatly simplifies the installation
process for Creo, only downloading and installing the Creo apps specific
to a customer's environment and license entitlement. This speeds
download and significantly simplifies installation and configuration
enabling teams to get up and running with Creo more quickly than ever
before.
More information will be shared at PTC's upcoming annual user event, PlanetPTC
Live.
Additional Resources:
Availability
Creo Options Modeler is available for purchase today as an extension of
Creo Parametric. It is expected to be available as a stand-alone app in
June 2012. All other Creo 2.0 apps are available now. Active maintenance
customers can download the release from the software
downloads page on www.ptc.com.
About PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) enables manufacturers to achieve maximum value from
their product strategies with software and services designed to optimize
key business processes throughout the entire product lifecycle - from
conception and design to sourcing and service. PTC's integral solution
portfolio enables customers to unleash product innovation, improve
collaboration and ensure product data integrity within engineering and
across the enterprise, supply chain and service partner networks.
Founded in 1985, PTC employs over 6,000 professionals serving more than
27,000 customers worldwide. More information can be found at www.ptc.com.
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