4 Comments »

• Victori says:

  13 January, 2013 at

  While I don’t agree with all the comments above, I can rtaele to how people feel. I have used both ProE an SolidWorks for several years. I first learned ProE as an undergraduate, then learned SolidWorks and got an internship because I knew both. In graduate school I taught the SolidWorks class for several years, and now am working with a company that uses ProE Creo.The two most common areas of focus when I hear people debate SW or ProE is performance and useability. The classic debate is that ProE is more powerful and SW is more useable. In the most general terms these are true. However, I have worked with very large assemblies in both and I honestly do not see any performance difference if you know what you are doing. Solidworks is more forgiving to bad designers, which can easily lead to a large assembly of poorly created parts that will seems much slower then ProE. However, that is because ProE forces you to do things the hard way.However, most designers are not designing very complicated parts or working with large assemblies. Personally, I prefer SolidWorks still. The error handling is much better. SolidWorks will tell me what is wrong and offer suggestions about how to fix it. The errors are always displayed in the same location and the dialog boxes are always in the same place. It drives me insane how Creo still has messages in different places. Sometimes the top left, bottom left, right, a pop up window. Another issue is that Creo will not let usually let you continue with an error. You must stop and fix it now, before you do anything else. While it is good to fix errors early to avoid propagation, sometimes the correct way to fix an error is not available. I change a early feature and it causes error in later features. ProE makes if difficult and sometimes impossible to go back and undo my change in the early feature (because that will fix the later feature too). The undo command only works about 50% of the time. I can not express how annoying it is that very simple things can not be undone with Ctrl+Z.If you open a drawing that has a broken link to the part you get an error and it closes the drawing immediately. How am I supposed to fix the link? These are just a few of my annoyances with ProE / Creo. I honestly do not believe Creo is a major improvement. From what I can tell it is Wildfire wrapped in a pretty skin. A lot of the old menus pop up when you get past the first level of pretty UI. I am happy to see PTC recognizing that the UI is important. Once you do figure out the nuances Creo is very powerful. But is it worth the time I spend dealing with the program and not focusing on design. In my opinion it is not. (I am however stuck using it for the foreseeable future.) Josh
• vjjscbx says:

  14 January, 2013 at

  9iUgPr , [url=http://szkkxthmmjif.com/]szkkxthmmjif[/url], [link=http://ipqlbsrvzkqv.com/]ipqlbsrvzkqv[/link], http://itjvaomaabeo.com/
• cvthfkhdy says:

  14 January, 2013 at

  8lUSJN wfxmocerfrnm
• dbpatxahs says:

  15 January, 2013 at

  EvIwPf vhfqtsikpajg