Creo 2 simulate licensing
Creo 2 simulate licensing
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Long time Pro/E user, just getting around to testing out Creo2. I installed Creo Parametric 2.0 M50 and it littered my desktop with Creo Simulate, Thermal, Structure & ModelCheck icons. Now we have never had licenses to any of those things in the past but I thought maybe PTC had seen the light and decided to give everybody limited functionality access to these modules in the hope that it would get users to pony up more money for more powerful versions. So I fired up Creo Simulate for the first time and opened an existing part. The first thing it says is "Unable to get required Creo Simulate License."
So has PTC just teased me and wasted a bunch of disk and desktop space for software I can never use or did I miss something in the setup/install?
So has PTC just teased me and wasted a bunch of disk and desktop space for software I can never use or did I miss something in the setup/install?
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So the Creo Simulate, Thermal and Structure icons on my desktop are indeed completely useless.
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i think you can get a student or an eval version even if you are not a student. contact your ptc rep.
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Creo 2.0's development focus was on robustness and performance, specifically in contact performance and for dynamic analyses. Comparisons for contact analyses between Wildfire 5 and Creo 2.0 are, in my opinion, particularly "useful and improved".
And the new, useful and improved will continue in Creo 3 with a couple of significant nonlinear enhancements, a revamped results environment, easier to use/smarter bolt preloading, and so on.
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Oh and I agree that simulate lite is nothing but marketing strategy to get you interested; completely useless. Also the icons always install with each update but a lot of software suites do this now days anyway and it is easy to clean them up. I prefer this to the days of WF3 and WF4 when the installations were separate for modeling and Mechanica. To me those days were a pain in the neck and dealing with 'liscense simplification' and such. I shouldn't have to run several batch files in several locations to install and setup brand new software.
These are just my thoughts as it seems so many have resisted the Creo change because of the 'ribbon' without diligently evaluating its performance and we have been very happy. We did wait for the second major maintenance release however as we always do before trying anything.
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Just rambling sorry, good luck,
- J -
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I know, I know, I can break my model out of the family tree, rename it, blah, blah, blah. Just disappointed that it requires so many extra steps.
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Time for a cold one. This will be here next week.
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Parameter PTC_HARDNESS is not defined. The material is invalid.
I have no idea where one would input PTC_HARDNESS, it's not on any of the tabs. I tried to create a user defined parameter PTC_HARDNESS but it said that was a reserved parameter. I did find a HARDNESS surface property, it would not take VERY as a valid value. I put in a random number, now it wants Hardness Type, who knows what is a valid response here?
It's actually running the analysis, I'm sure the result is completely bogus but it's a start.
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Is the Nylon_6-6 material you refer to one of the defaults? Might it be a carry over from a previously user defined material? The NYLON material that ships with the software has the all the correct mechanical/thermal properties needed for analyses.
The Hardness parameter that you refer to appears in the "Miscellaneous" tab of the material property dialog box. You'll see a section called "Surface Properties" and three parameters can be entered - Hardness, Hardness Type, Condition. Referring to the help documentation (which is always a good idea), you can see the allowable values for these. Real >0.0; String; String respectively.
Note that these material parameters are not required for any Creo Simulate analysis (and have no effect) as they are for detailing/drawings/annotation. A while back (sometime in Wildfire era, I forget the specific release) the material definitions were unified across the design, drawing, simulation etc modules. You can also enter things like cross hatching, color/appearance, sheetmetal bend tables and so on - all of these are not required for Simulate.
Does this help?
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