I've been a user of PTC products since v. 2000i in college. I thought it to be a great program despite the steep learning curve, which I had grown comfortable with. I used it up until WF3 to design part of the 2009 Whirlpool appliance line up. As a contractor I went on to other companies that used Inventor, Catia, NX, and SolidWorks. I griped about SW when it came to surfacing, didn't like the relative lightweight ability of Inventor. Catia and NX were easily the equal of Pro in thier respective strengths. It was with great anticipation that I accepted a permanent position with a company that used Creo, I would return to the fold. I've been using Creo for 4 months now and I have to say that while the surfacing is likely still much better than SW that's where it stops for me. I find Creo to be lacking in improvements, tedious in feature creation, and clumsy in overall use. Configuration is still a PITA as it was 15 years ago, sketches cannot be derived, drawings views are limited, patterns are not as flexible, and the scrambled shuffling of names every year or two doesn't lend to stability. As a long time fan of PTC products it's my opinion that PTC has NOT made improvement a priority, if it has it certainly hasn't been geared to the designer's experience. Disappointing really, enough to make me purchase a seat of SW last year.
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