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Are you looking to pursue a career in industrial design or related field , and you need to choose between PTC CREO and Solidworks, but you’re still unsure and ambiguous.

PLM Central offers you a brief comparison of “PTC Creo Vs SolidWorks “ !

Conceptual Design

With Creo Parametric users have access to numerous and flexible tools to quickly turn Ideas into concepts and models into detailed designs. Creo Parametric Freestyle allows users to quickly and easily create 2D conceptual geometry, generate variations of proposed concepts and best of all the ability to easy work with other subdivisional modelling tools that have been integrated very well into Creo, such as: Simulation live which allows the use of simulation early in the design phase to shape initial surfacing. Generative Design, AR Design Share and Additive manufacturing are among other tools that allow the user to bring their conceptual Ideas to reality with ease and effectiveness.

SolidWorks has its vulnerabilities when it comes to conceptual design modelling, particularly in the areas of quick creation of multiple complex proposal models and complex concept ID models. With basic surfacing and freeform tools – PTC Creo have a plethora of tools to DO IT BETTER!

Large Assemblies

Creo is the recognised leader in Large Assembly Management and Top-Down Design. Creo has the capability for multiple people working with large assemblies which allows for efficiency and productivity, the usability and performance scales as assembly size grows, any significant changes to assemblies have a predicted outcome and can be resolved with ease. All in all, Creo has the strongest performance in loading and working with large assemblies, some of the tools that allow for this performance and concurrent engineering are: Creo Advanced Assembly, Simplified Representations, Shrink-wraps and substitution models.

For many industries performance is key for working with Large Assemblies, SolidWorks has performance constraints when loading large assemblies, meaning constraints on stability and poor responsiveness of a full assembly when changes are made. There is no functionality or limited capability for Top-Down Design and concurrent Engineering.

Robust Modelling Functions

Creo offers a single, comprehensive suite of integral solutions supporting CAD/CAM/ and CAE, users can design without compromising on their ideas and worry not – about complexity. The world-class tools available in Creo include Advanced Surfacing, Multibody Design, Piping & Cabling and 3D Direct & Parametric Modelling.

The SolidWorks solution lacks robust capabilities for Sheet Metal, Direct Modelling, Multibody, Top-down Design and complex surfacing. Scalability is important for businesses as changes occur over time to create more innovative and complex products.

Late-Stage Design Changes

Only in Creo is there a solution that allows users the ability to make latestage changes comfortably & conveniently to their designs. Creo’s Flexible Modelling introduces powerful capabilities for latestage design changes. This means users can Move complex geometry including adjacent surfaces, the flexible modelling tool intelligently adapts based on the given use case. When data is imported from other CAD formats: flexible modelling allows the user to edit rounds direct copy and paste of geometry and a flexible pattern tool.

SolidWorks does not provide the framework for late-stage design changes to complex geometry. In addition, late-stage design changes often mean rework and fixing geometry, all features of the of the model will be affected negatively impacting performance and productivity. Often Moving surfaces and various parts of the model may require a complete rebuild or importing/exporting external CAD Data, this makes changes to dimensions, geometry surfaces and patter features very difficult reasonably achieve.

Emerging Technologies

PTC are unmatched when it comes to emerging technologies shaping the next evolution of product development, these new technologies are deeply integrated into Creo negating the need for multiple CAD/CAM & CAE solutions, all the tools you would need are in one place – Generative Design, Simulation Driven Design, Model Based Definition MBD, Augmented Reality, IOT, and Additive Manufacturing.

Creo provides a truly complete Generative Design solution that automates the design of products based on the users’ functional objectives, constraints loads and manufacturing processes. Not only that! Generative Design is fully integrated into Creo which allows for creation of multiple conditions per model. You can create unique conditions that define specific loads and constraints or create design criteria specifying unique optimization goals, manufacturing constraints and material properties.

Also embedded deeply within Creo is the Ansys Technology – accessible directly into the modelling environment to provide real-time feedback on design decisions while the user creates and modifies the 3D Geometry. This enables any designer to use real-time simulation to iterate faster, improve product safety and quality, leveraging the power of simulation to eliminate problems early, validate design integrity, function and performance, allowing you to design with greater confidence.

SolidWorks lack a dedicated, fully integrated solution for generative design, optimisation is limited to a single part within larger assemblies, this presents challenges with generating optimal designs for different manufacturing processes.

 Design Engineers using SolidWorks will also struggle to find robust simulation and analysis tools and find that it is also limited in scope and functionality. The CAD System is simply lacking the necessary tools for verification and validation of design ideas.

Key Takeaways

Overall Creo is an easy-to-learn 3D CAD solution that has the capabilities and more to “accelerate product design to manufacturing and beyond”. It leads the field in new and emerging technologies, encompasses proven technology and combines the power to iterate faster, reduce costs and improve product quality.

“Design and Innovate Better with Creo”

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Product lifecycle management (PLM) software enables geographically dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams to strategically collaborate with partners and customers using trusted, up-to-date product information. It’s the process of managing the entire lifecycle of data from its origins, through to the end of usage and application. PLM integrates people, data, processes and business systems and provides a rich, single point of an information tool for businesses and their extended enterprise, utilising the PTC Windchill platform.

PTC Windchill is a family of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software products that are offered by PTC (A global technology company with a turnover of $1bn). PTC’s Windchill PLM system provides comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality which is highly configurable, with the role and task-based apps. This Software also allows for companies to share ‘self-service’ product data with non-experts who don’t typically use PLM, without added customisation or complexities. PTC Windchill is used by more than 1.5 million users around the world to manage and optimize their product development and lifecycle processes. Windchill is named a leader in PLM Software by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions.

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11th July 2022
Stefan Dornescu
System Engineer
PLM Central Ltd

Download bellow the Manual to configure your Mathcad Floating Licence !

Since 1986, PTC Mathcad® has been the industry standard for mathematical calculation, and more than 2 million engineers and 2000 universities worldwide use it.

The most important feature of the software is that it is an engineering math programme that enables users to do, analyse, and even more, share, the most essential calculations in a single document. Engineers and design teams can record and express their essential design and technical information thanks to its live mathematical notation, units intelligence, and strong calculation capabilities.

21st June 2022
Stefan Dornescu

Digital Marketing Executive

PLM System Engineer

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is a way to digitally create 2D drawings and 3D models of real-world products – before a prototype has even been manufactured. With 3D CAD, you can simulate, modify, share and review, designs easily. This will open doors to innovation and create competitive products that get to the market fast. 

In 1985 Dr. Samuel Geisberg formed Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) and defined a radically new approach for CAD software. This innovation produced the first parametric and feature-based solid modelling CAD software in the market, which today is known as Creo, the industry standard for product design and development software.

We at PLM Central’s offer the world-class PTC Creo suite to meet your Computer-Aided Design specifications – it’s the design software with solutions to meet a variety of customer needs. Click the button below, to see how we can help you. 

12th October 2021
Stefan Dornescu

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20th January 2021
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In this video demo, we show how the Project Plan Activity track works in PTC Windchill using MPM Link . Get in touch to ask questions from our experts.

18th November 2020
Stefan Dornescu

In this video demo, we will show how to save a Step file in PTC Windchill.

Get in touch to ask questions from our experts.

18th November 2020
Stefan Dornescu

Options and Variants in Creo/Windchill using the Options Modeller

Options and Variants in Creo/Windchill using Overloaded Structures

Interactive demos on how easy and simple it is to create options & variants using our best-selling CAD and PLM programs, PTC Creo Parametric and Windchill.

Companies have various challenges regarding product configuration. Products are becoming more complex, and customers want a lot of configurations for their products. Configurations range from types of features, regional compliance and many more. To extend the Digital Thread story, you can see (in the video) our options and variants Configurators give the sales team and engineers the flexibility to configure the product and manage their association right on to manufacturing. The visualisations and drawings are created automatically as a part of their association with CAD. Our configurator is rule-based, and very complex logic can be achieved.

For questions and inquiries, get in touch with our experts.

18th November 2020
Stefan Dornescu

Toyota uses Vuforia Chalk to Enable Secure Communication and Increase Safety and Efficiency

Vuforia Chalk resolved Toyota’s need for better safety and communications in their plants.

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) has an 80-year history as the automotive organization of Toyota Industries Corporation, a textile machinery manufacturer. Today, “TOYOTA” is renowned as one of the world’s leading car manufacturers and is headquartered in the city of Toyota, a company town. Toyota has numerous R&D, production and sales locations worldwide.

The Challenge

Toyota’s production engineering and production staff oversee the installation of new manufacturing lines and the maintenance of existing manufacturing lines and plant buildings around the world. Because this work is typically done by local Toyota personnel and subcontractors, the departments that oversee the operations at these worldwide plants must visit each site to ensure that work is done correctly and safely.

Toyota’s production engineering and production staff oversee the installation of new manufacturing lines and the maintenance of existing manufacturing lines and plant buildings around the world. Because this work is typically done by local Toyota personnel and subcontractors, the departments that oversee the operations at these worldwide plants must visit each site to ensure that work is done correctly and safely.

If an issue with plant machinery arises at a site, subcontractors cannot make decisions to resolve the problem on their own due to potentially hazardous conditions. Instead, a Toyota employee must travel to the remote location to review the issue. There are even instances when a higher level manager from Toyota’s headquarters must also visit the site to assess the issue and make the final decision on how to resolve the problem. At times, it is very difficult for an employee to travel to the factory site as construction is usually carried outduring the factory’s off-hours and on holidays.

Because Toyota maintains strict regulations for managing confidential information at all locations, including its headquarters, local sites and plants, it can be difficult for Toyota employees and subcontractors to communicate effectively from a remote distance. “Safety permissions based on on-site confirmation are a very important part of our process,” says Ms. Aya Miyazaki from the Powertrain Production Engineering Planning Department. The use of cameras, devices and software that could lead to an information security breach is strictly prohibited. While these measures are necessary to maintain information security, the inability to freely record information often leads to inefficient processes.

The Solution

Ms. Miyazaki and her colleagues found PTC’s Vuforia Chalk when researching a software solution that maintains secure communication and adheres to information restrictions at the same time. Vuforia Chalk is a simple remote assistance tool that connects subject matter experts with workers both inside and outside of their organization via mobile or tablet. Vuforia Chalk combines live video, audio and the ability for both participants to draw digital annotations on their live shared view for real-time visual collaboration and problem solving.

The Impact

Using Chalk, the subcontractors are able to tackle complex or unfamiliar challenges with the help of an expert where and when they need it. In addition to its ease of use, the company decided to adopt Chalk because of its security control function

“In addition to Vuforia’s secure connectivity, PTC customized the tool to ensure that no data is saved on iPads or iPhones. These capabilities helped us meet our internal information security standards,” says Ms. Miyazaki. iPads pre-installed with Vuforia Chalk were distributed to all the plants. The plants loan their devices to contractors for their use.

Mr. Yusuke Nohara, a senior expert in the development and experiment unit of the Manufacturing Development and PJT Promotion Department, heard of the adoption of Chalk through an internal Toyota announcement and became very interested in the product for his own use. He contacted Ms. Miyazaki to demo the tool and eventually Mr. Nohara started testing Chalk with his own organization.

Mr. Nohara says he was thrilled to be able to share the same view as a contractor joining the session remotely. He could teach and communicate with both people looking at the same object. “When there is an error on a machine, for example, I just ask them to put a circle on the affected area and can see one being drawn on the screen. If I want to give them a specific instruction, I can draw that on the screen. This is very convenient,” says Mr. Nohara.

This may seem simple, but the impact of permitting this type of technology and communication is significant. Information is now communicated more effectively than with phone calls. “In the past, section managers traveled four times a month to give safety permissions on-site, spending 4 hours on each trip. We can eliminate this, which is a big deal for us,” says Mr. Nohara.

“For example, when measurements of a tall machine needed to be taken, three people had to spend more than a day to complete the task since the only way we can measure such a tall machine is by a licensed technician climbing up and down the machine repeatedly. Any measurement error would lead to rework,” says Mr. Nohara. Now with Vuforia Chalk, the technician can use their mobile phone to share their view of the machine with someone at the headquarters, and he/she can give instructions to the technician on-site. Only one technician needs to travel to the site, and the time it takes for the team to take the measurements can be reduced significantly.

Vuforia Chalk is helping employees communicate not just between teams in different locations, but also between employees in the same building. Before the tool was deployed, it was often challenging for people to give instructions to someone verbally without an image or a video clip. “If I sent someone to pick up a part, but he/she brought back the wrong part, I had to send him/her back to get the right part. If the verbal description is not fully understood, he/she would bring back the wrong part again. I am happy that we can eliminate such an issue,” says Mr. Nohara.

Overall, Vuforia Chalk resolved Toyota’s need for better safety and communications in their manufacturing plants, while also discovering additional use-cases for the tool across other departments.

“Safety permissions based on on-site confirmation are a very important part of our processes” – Ms. Aya Miyazaki – Toyota Powertrain Production Engineering Planning Department

23rd March 2020
Stefan Dornescu

As you know, Windchill relies on the Java environment. However, since January 2019, Oracle’s new policies which required customers to obtain appropriate Java SE Subscriptions from Oracle prevented PTC from providing Java to our customers, even as a convenience. As a result, Windchill products no longer bundled Java with product distributions, leaving customers to obtain and deploy both full Oracle Java SE releases and Oracle Java SE updates (including security fixes).

Since the release of Windchill 11.2.1.0 in December 2019, PTC has now certified Windchill for both Oracle’s Java and Amazon Corretto OpenJDK. This will now allow our customers to have a choice for their Java environment. In addition, we will certify Windchill 11.1 M020, the current long-term support stream of Windchill 11.1, with Amazon Corretto OpenJDK using CPS10.

6th February 2020
Stefan Dornescu

Dear Customers,

We are excited to share with you that PTC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onshape, the first Software as a Service (SaaS) product development platform that unites robust computer aided design (CAD) with powerful data management and collaboration tools. The company was founded by CAD legends, including Jon Hirschtick, John McEleney, and Dave Corcoran, all inventors of and former executives at SolidWorks.

As you know, most software industries have embraced the SaaS model because it lowers the cost of ownership and accelerates the introduction of new capabilities into the market. SaaS eliminates the need for costly server hardware and ensures that users are always current with the latest software with no need for administrators to implement patches or perform regular upgrades. OnShape is an amazing product – I trust you will be as impressed by its many breakthroughs as I have been.

PTC is acquiring Onshape because we have a deep commitment to providing innovative technology that drives business value and enhances your competitive position. With this strategic acquisition, PTC is doubling down on CAD and PLM. We will give customers the ability to choose between leading SaaS (Onshape) and on-premises (Creo and Windchill) deployment options per their preference.

We will be sharing more details about what our acquisition of Onshape means for you in the days and weeks to come, but I want you to take away two important messages:

• Creo and Windchill represent PTC’s core business. Both products are performing well, with a growing market share. PTC will continue to invest in these critical products indefinitely, and you will continue to see a steady stream of new performance and functionality enhancements for many years to come.

• If, and when, you’re ready to adopt a SaaS platform, PTC will be there with a feature-rich, market-proven Onshape solution for your product development needs.

Existing Onshape customers if you have any queries get in touch.

Application Engineer