ProductView
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Creo Elements/View, a product formerly known as ProductView is a suite of digital mockup
and product visualization software applications from PTC
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UK, announced the planned acquisition of ObjectLogic. However, before this acquisition could be completed, PTC acquired Division Group in January 1999 for approximately $48 million in stock and cash. PTC then completed the acquisition of Object Logic in March, 1999.
PTC then marketed products from both companies using the names ProductView and DIVISION.
In 2008, PTC changed its definition of ProductView to define the suite of products acquired from Object Logic and Division Group as well as products acquired in the purchase of OHIO Design Automation.
As of 2008, the latest release is version 9.1.
On October 28, 2010, PTC announced that ProductView is now Creo Elements/View. The name change applies to release 9.1.
Creo Elements/View Lite – A subset of ProductView MCAD professional capabilities that is included with Windchill
ProductView Composer 9.0 – Creates interactive assembly and dis-assembly sequences
Creo Elements/View PDF Collaboration – Manages document collaboration including annotation, viewing and watermarking.
ProductView Realizer 9.0 – Creates interactive animations of mechanisms
Creo Elements/View Toolkits – Used to create custom applications based on the ProductView technology
Creo Elements/View Express – Free, downloadable tool for simple viewing of Creo Elements/Pro (formerly Pro/ENGINEER
) parts, assemblies and drawings
DIVISION MockUp – PTC’s primary digital mockup tool
DIVISION Reality – This tool builds upon DIVISION Mockup to create a higher-end virtual
environment that is used to analyze product models
(PCB) designs
Creo Elements/View Validate (formerly called validation manager, a part of InterComm EDAcompare)– Steps through changes made between ECAD designs or across ECAD and MCAD design
InterComm EDAconduit – Automates electronic markup exchange between ECAD authors and non-authors
InterComm Expert– Verifies electronic design intent with multiple departments
Digital mockup
Digital MockUp or DMU is a concept that allows the description of a product, usually in 3D, for its entire life cycle. Digital Mockup is enriched by all the activities that contribute to describing the product. The product design engineers, the manufacturing engineers, and the support engineers...
and product visualization software applications from PTC
Parametric Technology Corporation
Parametric Technology Corporation is a U.S.-based company that develops, markets and supports software for product development. Its main products are for CAD/CAM, engineering calculations, and product lifecycle management. Its customers include companies in manufacturing, publishing, services,...
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History
ProductView, now Creo Elements/View, was originally developed by Object Logic, a small company in San Diego. In September 1998, Division Group, another vendor of visualization tools based in BristolBristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
UK, announced the planned acquisition of ObjectLogic. However, before this acquisition could be completed, PTC acquired Division Group in January 1999 for approximately $48 million in stock and cash. PTC then completed the acquisition of Object Logic in March, 1999.
PTC then marketed products from both companies using the names ProductView and DIVISION.
In 2008, PTC changed its definition of ProductView to define the suite of products acquired from Object Logic and Division Group as well as products acquired in the purchase of OHIO Design Automation.
As of 2008, the latest release is version 9.1.
On October 28, 2010, PTC announced that ProductView is now Creo Elements/View. The name change applies to release 9.1.
Mechanical CAD (MCAD) Visualization
Creo Elements/View MCAD Professional (formally called ProductView Standard) – This is PTC’s primary product visualization toolCreo Elements/View Lite – A subset of ProductView MCAD professional capabilities that is included with Windchill
ProductView Composer 9.0 – Creates interactive assembly and dis-assembly sequences
Creo Elements/View PDF Collaboration – Manages document collaboration including annotation, viewing and watermarking.
ProductView Realizer 9.0 – Creates interactive animations of mechanisms
Creo Elements/View Toolkits – Used to create custom applications based on the ProductView technology
Creo Elements/View Express – Free, downloadable tool for simple viewing of Creo Elements/Pro (formerly Pro/ENGINEER
Pro/ENGINEER
Creo Elements/Pro, a product formerly known as Pro/ENGINEER is a parametric, integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solution created by Parametric Technology Corporation . It was the first to market with parametric, feature-based, associative solid modeling software...
) parts, assemblies and drawings
DIVISION MockUp – PTC’s primary digital mockup tool
DIVISION Reality – This tool builds upon DIVISION Mockup to create a higher-end virtual
environment that is used to analyze product models
Electrical CAD (ECAD) Visualization
Creo Elements/View ECAD Compare (formerly called InterComm EDAcompare) – Compare two versions of printed circuit boardPrinted circuit board
A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring...
(PCB) designs
Creo Elements/View Validate (formerly called validation manager, a part of InterComm EDAcompare)– Steps through changes made between ECAD designs or across ECAD and MCAD design
InterComm EDAconduit – Automates electronic markup exchange between ECAD authors and non-authors
InterComm Expert– Verifies electronic design intent with multiple departments