KeyCreator Erfahrungen

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Kommentare: KeyCreator is of great assistance to those in manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, and industrial design. Personally, it has helped me in industrial design.

Vorteile:

The feature I liked is the direct modeling approach, which allows creators to directly modify 3D models without being limited by parametric history. It also offers the ability to create solid models and 2D drawings, enabling the creation of complex geometries.

Nachteile:

I believe that in terms of customization and automation, there should be further improvements. The ability to create macros and scripts is not very advanced and could benefit from a renovation.

Key Creator is the CAD you want

Kommentare: I really love this program I am retired now by keep my maintenance fees up. Getting help, the few times I've needed has always been fast and easy at no cost (maintenance feed is up to date) these guys are [SENSITIVE CONTENT] on the spot!!! I've never had to wait for help.

Vorteile:

First: I've been using Kubotek KeyCreator since it was CadKey, at least 20 years ago. I am self taught and I am pretty good. The big thing with Keycreator is it is easily self taught. it has been button driven since it was Cadkey. It is set up by Mechanical engineers (I think) NOT ARCUTECTS or civil engineers. Dimensioning parts is pretty much like a machinist would do it. There is and never was a need to type in commands. I personally believe a new to CAD person could sit down and teach themselves this program is 3-4 days (8 hours per day). A day of "teaching" where to look and getting the proper mind set would definitely help but is not necessarily needed.

Nachteile:

No one has heard of it!! :) :) I usually make a solids and then burst various views after importing. This seems to save "space" and keep the file size down. it is a pain if changes must be made do the original solids since I have to change the 2D drawings of parts manually or just import can create new 2D drawings (again bursting the part views. No biggie however.

Keycreator Review

Kommentare: Our company is a specialty electrical mfg. solving unique applications, one off parts.

Vorteile:

I am very familiar with the software, using it since CadKey ver 3.0. Flexible for designing

Nachteile:

Sheetmetal, it will form something and will not unfold the part it just formed. No option to change metal thickness unless you unfold the part. BOM is hard to use. Training documentation is not very easy use.

Satisfied aerospace user

Kommentare: KeyCreator is the right product for our aerospace job-shop environment. It is fast and accurate. We receive data in many formats from many customers, so quick, accurate CAD is a must.

Vorteile:

The mathematics is flawless. We rely on KeyCreator for all our calculations and operation sheets for 5-axis milling machines. it is correct every time. The solid modeling is easy and consistent.

Nachteile:

We cannot make continuing section views except from a main view (you cannot section a section view). The dimensioning, though always correct, can be a little glitchy at times and may lose associativity (rarely). The dimension annotations are improving but can continue to be developed.

Great Product, packed with everything you will ever need.

Kommentare: I have been very pleased with this product and have been a power user for most of my career in Engineering. I have trained many users through the online University. Designers can work to their level of comfort and utilize past experience in other software to achieve the desired results with KeyCreator. So, if you are familiar with using a design tree approach, 2D extrusions, sheets and vectors, it doesn't matter, they are all available .

Vorteile:

I have been using this software for over 30 years. From the early days of Cadkey, where you had to construct your solids by building wire frames, to the current KeyCreator product where you are designing with real solid elements. The software has the power to handle the most complicated of designs with the simplicity of tasks that achieve the design. Menus are intuitive, and well organized. The best feature by far is that you only have 1 file to manage. Your solid model, assembly and drawing are stored in 1 file. In these days of remote locations and outsourcing having to manage multiple files, as is the case in other software, is a treacherous road.

Nachteile:

The biggest shortcoming in my opinion has been the software help. Sometimes the self-contained help search in the software can get you out of trouble, but more often than not it is rather geeky. The online support, examples and tutorials are great, they need to be expanded into the fringes of the software where reside some very powerful tools.

Started with CADkey 3.0 and still using the software under KeyCreator name

Kommentare: KeyCreator is an essential software package for our custom tool & die shop. Since most of our work is unique and doesn't often get repeated (if ever), it's critical for our CAD software to get the job done efficiently and accurately. For the most part, KeyCreator fulfills that mission, with a few glaring gaps. The fact that it's non-parametric removes the worry that by changing one feature I risk screwing up other aspects of my geometry unintentionally.I do wish that the KeyCreator development team were more approachable with bug fixes and functionality improvements, and that some of the issues I have reported through the years would actually see improvements rather than being completely disregarded.

Vorteile:

We have found that using a non-parametric 3D CAD modeling software in our custom tool & die work is preferable in most instances to using a parametric modeler like Solidworks. There have been a number of times we have received Solidworks or geometry in other parametric formats from our customers, and when they made a minor change to something it screwed up other aspects of the geometry because they didn't have their constraints set correctly. The worse thing is that they didn't know it, and I discovered it during my work. In the custom tooling world, those kinds of things can be catastrophic.In general terms, I have always found the interface to be reasonably easy to use, although there are some things that could be drastically improved. Most of the basic entity generation functionality works largely as I learned how to do things as a draftsman on the drafting table, so the process is generally straightforward.

Nachteile:

The feature generation and documentation (drilled and/or tapped holes, fasteners, etc.) is mostly an imported functionality set from the old Draftpak suite they imported into CADkey years ago. They have done very little to improve it, it's pretty buggy and there are some large holes in the way it works. Compared to other CAD software I've played with, KeyCreator's functionality in this area is substandard. Like most software these days, the documentation and help system are terrible, and often haven't even been updated to match the current version of the software.

Reliable and versatile CAD software

Kommentare: I have been a long term user of Key Creator (17 years) I originally learned CAD on AutoCad and found the solid modeling in KeyCreator to be much more fluid. The ability to manipulate solids on the fly is a big part of what I love about the software. With my use primarily being sheet metal, unbending and creating flat cut files is extremely easy. Inputting bend allowances and corner reliefs is simple and allows easy exportation of flat DXF files to use for manufacturing.The support is excellent when needed and they have a great option to submit customer requested features.

Vorteile:

The ease of importing and healing customer supplied files makes preparing cut files to be used in manufacturing sheet metal parts extremely simple. It is capable of importing many mainstream file types and is very dependable.

Nachteile:

A couple of the negatives of this software are the inability to merge entire native files or to copy complete drawing layouts into other native files. I also hope that the ability to export multi-page PDF files is added to the features, as of now the need to export single page PDF files and then combined them in a separate software to create drawing packages.

Long Time User, First Time Caller

Kommentare: It has been good.

Vorteile:

It is very good for creating part geometry and features quickly. Most of the popular neutral formats can be imported and exported, and a few of the most popular native formats can also be imported. You can easily drop assemblies in to a new model in free space and locate them quickly with just a few steps. The way you use the software may be totally different than the way another user works with it. The way you access tools and features is user configurable. Compared to the most popular packages, it is less expensive per seat and the AUC is also less expensive but in some cases the functionality is quite a bit better.

Nachteile:

I’m not a big fan of the animation feature, but aside from that I can’t find anything I don’t really like. I’ve been a user since 1991 so I am kind of institutionalized. The software fits my needs and always has. I am probably using about 30% of it’s capabilities, but that’s OK because I can get things that I need done, done quickly while only occasionally utilizing many of the available features.

Intuitive and Easy to Learn

Vorteile:

I have used KeyCreator for 15 yrs and one of the most important things to me is the ease of translation importing and exporting file types and how fast the program allows me to work. I use KC to design progressive stamping dies as well as custom machinery. Designing in 3D and being able to see my projects from all aspects is critical to my business. KeyCreator provides the direct drawing experience that makes 3D CAD easy to learn and use.

Nachteile:

Having used KeyCreator for so long, I have found ways of working around almost all obstacles. I do not have any problems with the software.

Very User Friendly

Vorteile:

Very easy to use. I like that it is compatible with multiple file types.

Nachteile:

The main issue I have is the the online university. The tutorials are helpful but the order is chaotic. I wish it were more organized step by step, from the beginner stage and gradually get more advanced.Specifically there is one feature I think could be added. On a folded model there should be a way to change the sheet thickness without unfolding and re-folding after extruding the sheet.

thankful that the program had the same options as the version I used back in the 90's

Kommentare: this works very well with the part of the company that I manage

Vorteile:

the software is easy to use for me because its similar to the software I was using so thankfully I didn't have to learn a brand new and different software

Nachteile:

some features I haven't looked at closely are bothersome but I know there are settings that can be changed to make those functions operate differently

Great Tool!

Kommentare: I started with CADKey back in 1994. I learned by wire frame and advanced through to solid modeling.Most of my knowledge is from using the software and others to help me learn other tricks.It is nice to have so many ways to do the same thing.Some ways are faster but get the same result.

Vorteile:

I love how the solid model works. Much better than surfaces. I like to know how my parts are fitting together and make sure they are not interfering with each other.

Nachteile:

Sometimes it is difficult to know what the software is looking for without a little digging.Sometimes it is trial and error to know how it is looking at what I want to do.

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Kommentare: I use KeyCreator on a daily basis for mechanical design. It allows us to design in 3D and quickly produce prints for fabrication.

Vorteile:

I like the 3D design features. The software is easy to use and the customization is a plus.

Nachteile:

I wish there were more detailed rendering tools.

KeyCreator Review

Kommentare: In tooling development it is very helpful to see tool before fabrication so you know if it is going to work or not.

Vorteile:

Easy to use and design creatively because you don't have to make sure everything is connected.

Nachteile:

I wish that FEA was better. I have colleagues who say the FEA is not quite as good as ANSYS.

Best in Class

Kommentare: Best in class 3D CAD with extreme translation characteristics/features!

Vorteile:

The Flexibility!!!Communications with all of the leader 3D CAD systems.

Nachteile:

All features are fine!There were nonproblems.

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Kommentare: I have seen many benefits from keycreator and one that really comes to mind is the translators built in. I have been able to take work from many different customers using many different CAD programs. Most all documentation these days must be in electronic format so the ability to send files back to my customers which they can easily open I think has been a big plus. I use Keycreator on a daily basis for many different kinds of projects and it has never failed me. I have to say that there are many design projects I would have never been able to take on if it was not for the ability to work with just about any format out there as well as the ability to send back files to my customers that they can work with. Kubotec is constantly updating and improving Keycreator and over the years I have seen great new features added which save me a lot of time and that is kind of the whole point saving time since we all know time is money.

Vorteile:

There are a few very powerful features in Keycreator which I use constantly one being box move the other being dimension driven editing these two features save me a lot of time in the kind of design work I do. I also like the fact that it comes with translators built in, enough of them so that I have never had an issue importing files from my customers.

Nachteile:

For the kind of work I do I can not honestly say I have run into any cons with Keycreator I have been using it since about 1998 it was called something else back then but it is the same program and despite all the other CAD software out there I never considered switching to anything else. Keycreator is a perfect fit for the kind of design work I use it on it is very reasonably priced tech support has always been awesome. I really can not say I have any complaints about it.

KeyCreator Review

Kommentare: KeyCreator allows me to review part designs and mold designs from different vendors with out the need of multiple CAD programs to read the different file formats.
I have had only one problem and it is self inflected and has to do with product liscensing which at times can be confusing.

Vorteile:

KeyCreator has been used by our company for around 30 years in reviewing plastic part and mold designs. It has also been used for fixture and gauge designs and mold designs. I like the software for its ease of use and ability to make changes easily. One of its greatest advantages is its ability to work with both Auto Desk Inventor and Pro-E Creo native files which are the main softwares used by our engineering and design staff.

Nachteile:

Personally I have nothing negative to say about the KeyCreator software. What causes us the most issues is that our engineers are not able to open KeyCreator files in the software they use, specifically Auto Desk Inventor and Pro-E Creo. Step files must be provided and since KeyCreator is not parametric based, the other softwares do not work well with the step files. In our situation the KeyCreator step files are considered dumb files.

From IT point of view

Vorteile:

I never had a problem with KeyCreator as program neither as license manager for the old versions. adding users to access license manager easy. creating travel license for out of office easy and self managed.

Nachteile:

But last version is a disaster by all mean, from point view of Tool Makers they all agreed on that also from license manager keep stopping the services on server for some reason, I opened 2 tickets and one call for support where I had to leave a message but no one called or replied back on email!!! support was better year ago.

Too many workarounds

Kommentare: Terrible experience for 20 years and am begging bosses to get something that works like Solidworks. We dropped the update contract because we got nothing for it. Support is terrible updates never fix any of the core issues.

Vorteile:

I hate this software and am forced to use by the company I work for. Not efficient at all, too many workarounds to make things work. Simple to use, simple to learn but no power - not smart

Nachteile:

No power what so ever. I have used this for 20 years back when it was Cadkey. Surfacing has always been terrible. Won't generate constant fillets. Always have to create nurbspline for trimming surfaces if there are multiple edges. Crashes when it doesn't like something you are attempting to do like shell a solid. Never improving the software just adding junk nobody needs and doesn't work properly anyways. This is a good software for drawing lines and arcs or very simple solids or surfaces.

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Kommentare: We are a consulting firm, and we need its versatility to be able to import lots of different file types. We use it to evaluate plastic injection mold designs, and then create centerlines of cooling lines, and runner systems to prepare for Moldflow simulation.

Vorteile:

I like its versatility most. We use wireframe modeling a lot.

Nachteile:

I wish it could handling free-form morphing of parts better.

Complete Control and Fast!

Kommentare: I have used KeyCreator to design parts, prints, and assemblies for just about any idustry you can think of, as well as for a fast calculator, a translation software, and have been able to exploit just about every aspect of the capabilities of this software. I love KeyCreator!!!

Vorteile:

Complete control! This software doesn't take anything for granted. If you want to do something you tell the software exactly what you want to do and that is exactly the results you get. KeyCreator makes no assumptions! NO mating constraints required. Place a part and move it instantly, you dont have to search through an endless feature list, to find a specific sketch to modify. If I want to edit something I just edit it! Simple, Fast, Easy!

Nachteile:

Even when a new feature is introduced, if the bugs aren't worked out there is always some work around that you can figure out! So even the bad things about this software are a testament to how good it is!

Not the most well known software but very productive.

Kommentare: I use this software everyday for flat development and to translate customers cad files into something that can be shared with non cad users. I find the 3d pdf to be very useful to help people to see the "big picture" on complex assemblies.

Vorteile:

It's just easy and fast. I am faster, self taught in a few months, in KeyCreator than I was in my old software with years of training.

Nachteile:

There is a lack of organization to the the online lessons. It feels like everything was dumped into a bucket and you have to dig for something relevant to what you need. I also don't see anything new from the last 8 years or so.

Kubotek Review based on the past 3 revisions

Kommentare: We use cad for differentiating engineering changes between old and new CAD models, KeyCreator does the perfect job on that part. Can see very minute differences too.
Most of the time we use Keycreator for creating gd&t and roadmaps for the assembly and stampings which does the job pretty well.
If you ask me to suggest, I prefer some default gd&t/drawing pages and title blocks for the organization. Also, it would be awesome if you include a tool for tolerance stackups.

Vorteile:

User friendly - anyone can learn easily. Simple layout/ atmosphere. Best for designing solids like the die and tools.

Nachteile:

Some of the Cads received from customer doesn't load that easily - takes lot of time compared to other softwares. I see transition errors with some of the assembly cad files. Doesn't interpret magenta/mating surfaces on some cad files.

KeyCreator - Most User Friendly but not commonly used

Kommentare: There are some outstanding features of KeyCreator like being user-friendly and creation of quick drawings. It is a great program for a start but you will have to learn some others too since KeyCreator is not common enough in business life.

Vorteile:

I have been using KeyCreator since my university education. I strongly believe that it is the most user-friendly CAD program. It is a great program to start working on these types of programs. And one of the most important feature is the ability of doing simple 2D drafting. It enable you to draw a quick concept sketch.

Nachteile:

From my point of view, the main issue is that it is not the first option in the business life. There are some other programs which are more commonly used although they are not user friendly as KeyCreator. I have never seen in a job posting that ability of using KeyCreator is needed.

Long term user

Kommentare: Have been a user since the early days of CadKey. Has just kept getting better. Does exactly what they claim and customer service is excellent and not ‘big company’.

Vorteile:

Simplicity, ease of use, reliability. I also like the fact there are many ways to approach a design task. I tried Solidworks but always felt restricted in my designing. With KeyCreator I always feel I am in control rather than the software controlling me.

Nachteile:

Few cons, adjusting display colours can be a bit tedious.