

#Parametric modeling with autodesk inventor 2015 install#
PTC also have nicer licensing terms, or rather: "normal" licensing terms - whereas Autodesk won't allow you to install a version older than three years, and you have to pay service fees to be allowed to use older versions than the current one. Or makes faulty assumptions about sketch references. Creo has become a bit more forgiving, but I still prefer its strictness compared to Inventor - which for example allows you to reuse sketches from former features, causing havoc when you change an earlier sketch. This was actually a good thing, because it forced you to not be sloppy and do stuff that you would later regret. It guesses your design intent more clever, and after using Creo for a while, the Inventor sketcher feels really slow and dumb.ģ - Creo is rebranded Pro/Engineer, and Pro/E used to be extremely stringent. I also like that Creo seems to share the memory space of a part with its representation in an assembly, so when you change a part the changes are simultaneously introduced in the assembly, rather than that you need to reload/rebuild the assembly parts again and again.īrifly put: large assemblies are faster and doesn't fail as much in Creo as they do in Inventor.Ģ - The sketcher in Creo is vastly superior. I've been told that this is due to the algorithms in the Granite kernel, blah blah, but I don't understand it. There is also a difference in that Creo seems to manage really RAM-consuming assemblies better.

The mating contraints in Inventor is a separate feature outside the part, which is more cumbersome to correct when assembly orders change. I've used both extensively and these are my opinions:ġ - Creo manages large assemblies better.
