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Top 10 reasons why engineering managers switch from SolidWorks to Creo Elements/Direct Modeling

Formerly CoCreate

As a manager, you know your companys success depends on designing great products and getting them out the door fast. Thats why choosing the correct 3D CAD strategy is very important. By using a 3D CAD system thats perfectly suited to your business needs, you can be more competitive, more innovative and, ultimately, more profitable. Unfortunately, many Engineering Managers often discover that the CAD solution theyve installed isnt appropriate for their business. Thats one reason why many SolidWorks users are switching to Creo Element/Direct Modeling. With a faster, more flexible, more lightweight CAD system, these companies can achieve superior design productivity, and enhance creativity and innovation.
Here are just 10 reasons why Engineering Managers are now switching from SolidWorks to the lightweight Creo Element/ Direct Modeling. 1. A  llocate Design Resources More Efficiently and Drive-Down Product Design Costs As a manager, you sometimes need to shuffle design projects between many product designers. That way, you can increase engineering productivity while you lower costs and eliminate resource bottlenecks and project delays. With Creo Element/ Direct Modeling, anyone on your team can instantly pick up and work on any model regardless of who created it giving you unlimited flexibility when allocating design work.

2. I ncrease your Design Competitiveness and Win Market Share from Competitors Even in Tough Economic Times In the face of todays economic crisis, leading companies are focusing not only on reducing costs, but also on streamlining processes in their business, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations. By replacing a traditional 3D CAD tool with an direct modeling approach to 3D design, you gain the speed and flexibility to boost your design efficiency and productivity, so you can turn around better designs to your customers faster. 3. C  hoose Software from a Clear Market Leader With Gold Standard Products Growing companies, such as yours, are looking to partner with market leaders like PTC. This partnership guarantees the best solution, the highest level of satisfaction, as well as the safest level of investment in software quality and firstclass service and support. With more than 50,000 customers worldwide, PTC is a market leader you can rely on. 4. D  rive Down Product Design Costs through Better Time Utilization In tough economic climates, smart companies reduce costs through better utilization of assets. If your company is like most, your largest expense is human resources. By using Creo Element/Direct Modeling, you can make dramatic improvements in design time utilization, which will achieve immediate savings and improve profitability. When designers can make rapid-fire changes to their concepts, they can generate more new product designs, thus preparing your company for success after the downturn.

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5. M  atch the Optimal Modeling Approach with Your Companys Product Strategy To create innovative products, your company must properly align your product design tools with your product design strategy. This alignment guarantees an optimal foundation for improving your product development processes. Whether you need parametric or direct modeling tools, PTC offers the most comprehensive portfolio of 3D CAD solutions in the industry. 6. Work with Highly Available, Interactive Design Tools Your product designers need to work with stable and reliable tools that offer powerful, interactive performance, regardless of design complexity or size. Thats exactly what you get with Creo Element/Direct Modeling. 7. I ntegrate Tighter Data Management From Single User to Enterprise PLM When you combine Creo Element/Direct Modeling with Creo Element/Direct Model Manager a fully integrated data management system, you can manage all your development efforts by organizing product design data and associated files within a single, central database. In this way, you promote true concurrent team design because all your designers have access to the most up-to-date design data. A single, centralized database helps eliminate errors by preventing designers from either working on the wrong revision of a component, or modifying a component reserved by another designer. 8. A  ccess to Local and Global Support through PTC and its Channel Partners You have enough problems with resource bottlenecks, delayed suppliers, and understaffing. You certainly dont have time to resolve issues with software implementation, which is why PTC offers a broad ecosystem of award-winning Technical Support engineers to answer all your software questions. 9. C  ut Product Development Times Significantly with Quicker Modeling With its smaller data volumes, fewer mouse clicks, and easyto-change models, you can work far faster in Creo Element/ Direct than in SolidWorks. With the power to make unlimited design iterations in near real-time, designers can create better quality designs, shorten time-to-market, and reduce product development costs.

10. Access to Comprehensive Solution Services from PTC Managers like yourself trust PTC and our Creo Element/ Direct Modeling solution because PTC is a full solution provider. You get much more than exceptional software. When you partner with PTC, you gain access to a complete range of technology installation, configuration and migration services to fully optimize your product development process. For more details about why Engineering Managers are switching from SolidWorks to Creo Element/Direct Modeling, read our in-depth guide at www.ptc.com/go/replace3d/solidworks
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