The launch strategy worked and SolidWorks exploded onto the marketplace.
At the time, Pro/ENGINEER did cost significantly more and it was significantly harder to learn. SolidWorks claimed that SolidWorks was easier to use and could do 80% of what Pro/ENGINEER could for 20% of the price. When SolidWorks first hit the scene, it was brilliantly positioned to compete with Pro/ENGINEER (now known as Creo). In fact, it’s one of the top questions we get from customers and prospects.Īs a PTC reseller, we’re obviously biased, but we’ve been around since 2001 and have worked with every CAD product on the market so I think we can bring some useful perspective to this debate. Thank you for taking the time to read this post and I hope it helps if you encounter the same issue.We often get asked about the differences between SolidWorks and PTC Creo. Once the customer updated their license on that machine, the file opened just fine and they could complete their task. Kind of a simple matter but one that does not come up too often. If the end-of-maintenance date is older, the file will not open in 2016. What happens in the background is the software checks to see that this license is current with a maintenance license end-date which is compared to the license on the machine. So even though they were current as of a few weeks ago, prior to calling us about this issue, they still needed to reactivate their license. The solution was listed as S-065307, if you care to search this in the customer portal, but the basics were that this customer had not been on subscription service or it had just been renewed. So we dug a little in the Knowledge Base and found a solution to their question. What I am adding to this post is a scenario where a customer followed the steps listed in this Blog and still was unable to open a SOLIDWORKS 2017 file in SOLIDWORKS 2016 SP5. With each new release of SOLIDWORKS we typically get the question of “Can I open a 2017 file in 2016?” One of my counterparts at CATI graciously posted this very topic a few months ago with great details on what you CAN and CANNOT do with this backward compatibility. Opening a 2017 Version File in SOLIDWORKS 2016
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