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PTC (Needham, MA) announced CoCreate 2008 — the latest release of its explicit CAD, PDM, and collaboration software. CoCreate 2008 brings new time savings to companies challenged with shrinking design cycles and pressures to create product designs in competitive markets.
Users can explore more style options and keep product designs aligned with manufacturing processes. Additionally, companies that design complex machinery will benefit from the responsive, 3D cross-sectional design environment.
CoCreate 2008 will help users increase productivity, speed design iterations, and make it easier to make modifications to designs. Highlights of the new CoCreate 2008 enhancements include increased everyday productivity with revised pattern capabilities, more flexible work-in-progress capture, and shaded and rendered drawing views.
Faster design iteration is possible through enhanced surface editing capabilities and modification is streamlined due to cross-sectional modification that is said to be fast.
CoCreate Drafting 2008 will now support AutoCAD 2008 compliant DWG and DXF formats. Other capabilities include dimensioning enhancements, such as ANSI-compliant chamfer dimensions, dimension pre- and postfixes, inquiries and grouping of dimensions, symbols, and text. CoCreate 2008 is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Videos for each new enhanced functionality are available under the Easy and Intuitive tab.
In related news, CoCreate Software Inc. (Fort Collins, CO) announced that its CoCreate Modeling Personal Edition (PE) Version 2.0 now offers support for Windows Vista. V2.0 lets you design with CoCreate's free 3D explicit modeling CAD system on all popular Windows platforms, plus select and move faces and parts by simply dragging a box around them; and more.
For more information, go to the CoCreate 2008 website or PTC.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.
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