Viewing STEP files with CoCreate Personal Edition

CoCreate Personal Edition is the free version of the CoCreate CAD program.  CoCreate PE requires an Internet connection every 3 days, can import IGES, STEP, DWG, and DXF files, export STL and VRML files, and is limited to a maximum of 60 unique parts per assembly.

You can drag and drop STEP files onto CoCreate.  It has a pretty complete set of pre-defined views.  Performance on my system is snappy.  I found measuring easy.  Hmm, so far pretty short and sweet – that’s because I like it.  It’s my favorite of the four programs I’ve tried (CoCreate, Alibre, PowerSHAPE, IDA STEP) – it seems the most intuitive to me, and was definitely the easiest to use to measure parts.

Note that like all other free CAD programs, the terms may change in the future.  For example, PTC (the current owner of CoCreate) had a free CAD program called Pro/Desktop that was later dropped (IIRC, the current users were given a five year license).

Measuring HD26M with CoCreate

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1. Viewing STEP files
2. Viewing STEP files with PowerSHAPE-e
3. Viewing STEP files with IDA-STEP
4. Viewing STEP files with CAD Exchanger
5. Viewing STEP files with Alibre Design Xpress