Popular CAD suite “Pro/ENGINEER” is no more, now known as “Creo Elements/Pro”, thanks to a global product rename by parent company PTC. CoCreate and ProductView have been renamed as well.
“We believe Creo could be significant and a positive advance in PTC’s product offerings.” said Mike Galbraith, Global Engineering Systems & Services, Tyco Electronics. Creo could allow the teams involved in designing new products and bringing them to market…across different functions, different locations, etc… to productively use the same toolset throughout the product life-cycle process. We’re looking forward to working with PTC and their other partners in shaping these new capabilities.”
At at the naming event, they announced launch partner Luxion who have revamped their KeyShot rendering plugin for the new software.
“Selecting Luxion as a launch partner enables us to demonstrate that Creo in combination with Luxion’s KeyShot rendering technology allows other members of the community such as sales and marketing to be involved early in the design process and utilize the digital data directly for the creation of product imagery” said Michael M. Campbell PTC’s Divisional Vice President of Design and Visualization Products.
I have to admit, I’m not a big fan of the name. The previous name was more than just a product name, it was a job description (Professional Engineers use “Pro/E”, etc). The new name reminds me too much of the Pleo or the Treo.
Nonetheless, I’m glad to see a company like Luxion brought it at the ground floor. High-end rendering has traditionally been forgotten in CAD packages, and I’m glad to see it available at-launch for a new product (even if it is just a rename of an old product).
via Press Releases: PTC Introduces Creo Design Software – PTC.com.
i,m working about 12 years with pro-e software but when i compare it with other software the others software are more user friendly than pro-e I hope Creo could solve this problem.
Pro/E is too long to train and cumbersome. The aim is actually to catch up with spaceclaim (www.spaceclaim.com) and solidworks which are really easy to use and makes more sense so far.
I don’t think the writer of the article understood anything of the presentation , other then renaming pro/E ! this is really sad .
About time too, I’m 12 years in with Pro/E and have love it from day one – still do but rendering within it has always been dubious. You end up exporting it, turning it to a poly, andding materials, shading, lighting, camera angles etc only to find in the morning there is a glaringly obvious mistake.
It’s easier to print one out than to go through that!!
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