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.\u00a0 The email invites the reader to try out a “self-qualification” test on whether their team’s design style is parametric or explicit.\u00a0 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).<\/p>\n
The funny thing with this test, of course, is that regardless to one’s responses, the result is always the same.\u00a0 A screen will pop up declaring “Explicit Modeling is right for you.”\u00a0 It has links to find out about and download CoCreate.\u00a0 Even if I wasn’t my jaded self, this marketing approach would rub me the wrong way.\u00a0 It’s just cheezy, so I’m briefly ranting about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"