Creo

"The best CAD software"

Vorteile: My college uses Creo to teach us CAD. Since then I have worked with other CAD softwares and I have to say Creo was the most powerful of them all. It offers great range of tools to make your designs look amazing and the render option beats it all. It offer much more than any CAD software including assemblies, drawing files but most importantly NC manufacture and mold and cavity manufacture. You can generate CL files for 4th and 5th axis milling.

Nachteile: It takes a while to explore all the best options to optimize your drawings and it's ot easy to use at first. The default template is always imperial and requires changing to metric.

"Creo View is a complicated software eventhough its capabilities are limited."

Kommentare: The software, when you consider it overall, an exceptional one in terms of its capabilities. And from the Creo View sub module I get the impression that it is good to create a simple working part for each design which only targets a specific duty. So it improves my modular design experience

Vorteile: The system that Creo implement to its products is very beneficial, they create a submodule for each specific task and Creo View is one of them. This creates an opportunity to make more emphasized softwares and it provides a productive working environment.

Nachteile: The overall interface is a little bit problematic and hard to use and it leads a little bit confusion for starters.

"All in one machine designing software."

Kommentare: PTC Creo is a good software who want to visualize a design and make some improvements on it. This software made me fall in love with machine designing.

Vorteile: I am using Creo for last 12 months. Creo has lots of features and functions. Anyone can design a machine or part if they have some basic knowledge about engineering and mathematics. There are a tons of features. Among them stress analysis and CNC based automatic coding I love the most. The UI is smooth and looks great while working with this software. There are also free tutorials provided by PTC for working with this software.

Nachteile: As there are tons of features, sometimes it is really hard to navigate on the feature what I really want to apply at a time. The newest version of PTC Creo uses heavy RAM on PC which makes it sometime unstable and laggy, though if the PC contains 8gb of RAM then it won't be an issue at all.

"Good but not Great..."

Kommentare: Creo is a good software package, but it takes a back seat to Dassault and AutoCAD CAD packages within industries. It just isn't as well known and having Creo on your resume just wont go as far as the prior two mentioned because it is not industry standard...

Vorteile: Creo was the CAD package I learned first manuevering through engineering school. It has a good Mold/Tooling add-on that provides robust analysis of mold design and mold flow.

Nachteile: Creo can sometimes be too detailed for its own good. I used it less and less as I began to teach myself Solidworks (because Creo had become too convoluted when I was a novice user). There is a lot to take in starting off and it can sometimes cause a hindrance in achieving what a beginner needs to accomplish to build confidence in their CAD skills.

"Buggy and Unintuitive"

Kommentare: I have to listen to calming music so that i do not break any of my hardware while using CREO 4.0

Vorteile: There are some minor features that are convenient that other softwares should adopt - such as copy text formatting by selecting the text you want to copy the format of.

Nachteile: I've been using some form of Creo in multiple Jobs for 10+ years, and the only thing that it is able to do consistently is confuse and annoy me. Oh, you didn't know that you had to push that super secret button to get that feature to show? too bad. Sometimes i think it would be easier to create drawings by taking screenshots from creo with the snipping tool and pasting them into powerpoint.
every single time it tries to assume something for you, it does it wrong. Why would I ever assemble objects by selecting surfaces that are NORMAL to each-other?!