The needs of the mechanical designer appear to have been seriously diluted by PTC.įrom the 1st January 2018, all core PTC Creo software will be available on subscription (pay as you go) terms only, meaning loyal customers will no longer be able to purchase the Perpetual license they have become accustomed to.
PTC have made numerous acquisitions into other areas, with IoT becoming the latest product getting all the attention. You only have to look at the PTC website to see that MCAD is a much smaller part of the overall business. However, PTC quickly grew to become a billion dollar company.įast forward 25 years, with the Pro/ENGINEER brand renamed CREO, it has now clearly lost its place as leader in the Mechanical CAD (MCAD) marketplace. This was usually purchased by larger companies and used only by the “Professional Engineer”, because it was not very easy to use. There was no doubting it was amazing stuff, but in those days you needed an expensive UNIX workstation and the software itself costing some £20,000 per user – not for the faint-hearted. As pioneers of Parametric CAD back in the 1980’s, they introduced the concept of parametric modelling and bi-directional associativity with drawings.
Time to move to SOLIDWORKS from PTC Creo?
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