From CREO to Inventor

[tmgfigueiredo]

I'm evaluating a job change, and I've been working in recent years, with CREO. The job offer, it's for the same business type, but I will need to work with inventor. My only work with inventor, it was at university a few years ago. My question, is for the ones who made this transition from CREO to Inventor is.

How easy, is get up to speed with inventor, coming from CREO?

What do you miss from CREO?

How do you rate inventor in surface modeling?

In terms of performance of hardware, is inventor lighter or heavier than Creo?

And about stability, it crashes often?

Thanks

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! The concepts are similar. But, there are subtle differences. Also, I believe in terms of geometry definition, Creo is stronger. But, it really depends on what you actually do. Those differences may not matter.

I don't know how often Creo crashes. But, Inventor has made good progress in the past 5~10 years in terms of stability and performance. We have customers working on a quarter million components on a decent hardware recent. This is unimaginable 10 years ago.

If you happen to have Creo files, here is a tool developed by our partner ITI. It can help migrate Creo files to Inventor in high fidelity.

https://www.iti-global.com/gotoinventor

Many thanks!

[tmgfigueiredo]

Thanks by your assessment, I would say it's quite honest.

Meanwhile I've downloaded a Inventor trial version, and tried to draw something. I was able to do it. But it felt so strange, the workflows are similar but each one has it's way to do it.

In terms of surfacing, my first opinion (it can change with time), it lacks a lot compared to CREO.

I've also watched a few videos from inventor, and I'm quite enthusiasted with design accelerators, look powerful, and more refined than CREO.

[CGBenner]

@tmgfigueiredo 

In my old job, I worked for three years on CREO (as Widlfire 4 & 5).  I did mostly piping design and frame design.  I found the modeling to be verysimilar, but all of the tools are named a little different and are laid out in menus differently.... made my head spin for a while after switching back to Inventor.  I've never done any surfce work, so I can't offer an opinion on that.  As far as the Tube & Pipe and Frame Generator... I've made no secret (before or since joining Autodesk), that I found these to be superior to CREO.  Yes, there will always be room for improvement... and that's where our Feedback Community comes in.  If you do decide to make the switch, this could be an option for you as you gain proficiency in Inventor.

[emailJC9H5 · Accepted solution]

I made the transition from using Pro/E & Creo 20 years of usage to Inventor a couple of years ago.

I sketch mode things are in some ways similar but also frustrating, part modelling is on a sort of part though but using things like points and cord systems doesn't seem as good I've found (though might be using them wrong).

The bid frustration for me is in assembly mode, if you are used to using simplified reps etc you may struggle with Inventor’s representations as these are no way near as slick as Creo.

Overall, I get on with Inventor but on occasion assembly mode and sketch mode are frustration when something goes wrong, it tells you something is wrong but doesn't say what 9 times out of 10 it is easier to delete things and start again than to fix them I've found....