PTC showed off a few: live collaboration, where several users work on the same design at the same time within Creo+ design rev versioning and rollback and easier administration. So why think about moving to Creo+? For the added benefits that Atlas brings. Still, the customers I sat with during CEO Jim Heppelmann’s keynote were willing to consider this change to their working dynamic, especially if the “same code base” means the same user interface that makes them lightning-fast at what they do.

We’ll see how that pans out in the long term. That means (again, PTC said) that it can afford to maintain Creo and Creo+ indefinitely - the marginal cost of keeping the desktop version is … not much, so it sees no need to urge everyone to the Creo+ version. PTC said (many times) that one advantage to its SaaSy Creo+ CAD implementation is that it’s the same Creo code base, whether users access it on the desktop, via a thick client (today), or a browser “sometime in 2024”. Due out later this summer, Creo+ is Creo 10 (the latest desktop version) plus cloud-enabled functionality via Atlas, PTC’s software as a service (SaaS) architecture that’s based on Onshape and Arena technology. I wrote a bit about what I learned on day 0, the partner pre-event, so here are a few observations from the rest of the week:įor me, the big news out of Liveworx 2023 was Creo+ . Add in resellers, software and services partners, industry analysts, journalists, and investors the joint was hopping. We had Creo users, Windchill admins, Codebeamer coders, Vuforia wizards, Servigitics partners, Thingworx implementers, ServiceMax users - and even some Mathcad and Creo Simulation people. Big user events are back! PTC’s Liveworx filled the Boston Convention Center, a full 12-minute walk from end to end.

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