They tell me if my customers need me to upgrade my systems to Creo I will have to buy all new Creo licences brand new at a cost of several tens of thousands of dollars.
I have been told by my VAR that my ProE Foundation licences and ASX surfacing extension licenses are NOT UPGRADEABLE to Creo, even though I have paid maintenance every year like a good (but maybe dumb) boy since my initial ProE license purchase. That's my understanding, I'm waiting for Creo 2.0 before trying it. If you need/want Creo Direct you will need additional licenses. Your Pro/E license should upgrade to Creo Parametric. When they opened Creo 1.0, they realized this was a completely new animal and it was not Pro/ENGINEER. They told me that we already changed over to Creo, so what is going on now? Well, they actually got Creo/Elements Pro which is really Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and though that Creo was a shortened version of the name. When we finally upgraded to Creo 1.0 and I sent an email announcing that it's coming to my end users.
But the confusion they added with rebranding the Pro/ENGINEER software to Creo/Elements Pro is terrible. Just the fact that they changed the 25 year old Pro/ENGINEER to some confusing name mid stream.Ī simple name is better moving forward especially for doing Google and Youtube searches. They changed the name and confused many people on what Creo/Elements Pro is vs. Nothing wrong with that.īut PTC had Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4 and then Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5 which was later renamed to Creo/Elments Pro 5.Ģ5 years of Pro/ENGINEER and they could not let it retire with any respect. The big difference here is that PTC changed the name of a 25 year old product before they could retire it. "Too many people walk around like Clark Kent, because they don't realize they can Fly like Superman" I don't blame the end users for the confusion, but just wanted to get this off my chest. This is why Creo started back at Number 1 for it's version. I refuse to call Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Creo/Elements Pro.Ĭreo on the other hand is PTC's new CAD software that is based on the same Kernel as Pro/ENGINEER (Creo/Elements Pro), but it's a completely new software. This is not the end users fault and more PTC's fault for rebranding Pro/ENGINEER as Creo/Elements Pro and not allowing it to retire with any respect for it's original name that it held for 25 years.Ĭreo/Elements Pro is Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire with a new name.
I also find Youtube videos claiming to show something realted to Creo and when I open the video it's actually Creo/Elements Pro 5 which is NOT Creo. Many people when asking questions about Creo, get responses on Creo/Elements Pro 5 which is like asking someone a question about Lexus vehicle and they give you an answer based on a Toyota. They are two completely different things. Creo/Elements Pro 5 is not the same as PTC's new CAD suite called Creo. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5 was renamed Creo/Elements Pro 5. I see many people are still confused by calling Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5, Creo. I am creating this post due to my frustration with the confusion caused by PTC with their naming changes recently.