Creo by Parametric Techonology

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jferguson
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Creo by Parametric Techonology

Post by jferguson » Mon Mar 06, 2017 8:08 pm

Is anyone here using Creo for solid modeling? I ask because I would be interested in getting some observations on its applicability to 3d printing.

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zemlin
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Re: Creo by Parametric Techonology

Post by zemlin » Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:01 am

I love Creo - been a PTC user for 25 years, although have been on SolidWorks more lately at the day job. Creo seems particularly good at exporting clean, smooth, efficient STL files. Even if I model in SW, I will export a STEP file to Creo and create the STL file from there. I enter zeros for both the Chord and Angle inputs - Creo changes the Chord the the minimum value it will process. I don't use the STEP setting.

For the same model, the stl files from SW are huge by comparison and take far longer to slice than the Creo files.

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Re: Creo by Parametric Techonology

Post by jferguson » Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:03 am

Thanks for the thoughts Zemlin, i sent you a pm with some more detail.

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