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0 pointsjeffrallen2y ago0 comments

Just going to mention Pro/E forward compatibility here: https://youtu.be/tY_Gy-EElc0

"The roots of Creo Parametric. Probably one of the last running installations of PTC's revolutionary Pro/ENGINEER Release 7 datecode 9135 installed from tape. Release 7 was released in 1991 and is - as all versions of Pro/ENGINEER - fully parametric. Files created with this version can still - directly - be opened and edited in Creo Parametric 5.0 (currently the latest version for production).

This is a raw video, no edits, and shows a bit of the original interface (menu manager, blue background, yellow and red datum planes, no modeltree).

Hardware used: Sun SparcStation 5 running SunOS 4.1.3 (not OpenWindows), 128MB RAM

Video created on january 6, 2019."

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ddingus2y ago

That is great! NX has similar compatibility, though not quite as good.

In some cases, the actual version code of a feature is invoked by that data being encoded as part of the model data schema.

Literal encapsulation in action. That way bugs and output variances are preserved so that the regenerated model is accurate to what the software did decades ago.

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