It a rather blatant attempt to promote CoCreate, PTC sends out something that appears to be a fake survey via email every once in awhile. The email invites the reader to try out a “self-qualification” test on whether their team’s design style is parametric or explicit. The test asks such questions as “within the selected concept design, a broad range of predictable and structured changes can be driven quickly and easily to derive new designs” (choose one in a range of Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree).
The funny thing with this test, of course, is that regardless to one’s responses, the result is always the same. A screen will pop up declaring “Explicit Modeling is right for you.” It has links to find out about and download CoCreate. Even if I wasn’t my jaded self, this marketing approach would rub me the wrong way. It’s just cheezy, so I’m briefly ranting about it.