Myself and another new mechanical engineer recently started working at an established company 2-1/2 months ago to replace a person that left. Both of us have years of experience using SWX and Inventor and a few other CAD packages; the company is using Creo, which either myself or the ME ever used. After 2 months of using Creo, both of us are finding that Creo is so unintuitive to use with a steep learning curve that there's a large drop in productivity that its effecting the company. During the interviews we were never asked if we know Creo, because from what I found out by asking around, management ( non-engineers) assumed that if you know one CAD s/w package how hard could it be to learn another, there all the same. We asked for 2 weeks training but after showing the training quotes they took no action on it, and swept it under the rug.
Recently I stated my argument to the same managers, that with no training on using Creo management should expect a productivity drop of 50+% for one year, because of the difficulty on using this s/w as we come up to speed. One can only watch so many Youtubes video and post Creo questions for so long. We came here apply our engineering skills and learn the companies products, not watch Creo video's day in out. After a long discussion a few time management said if we change CAD platforms will we get productivity increase and secondly how will that effect the existing Creo data and what need to be prepared for a switch.
So my question is if we get approval to switch from Creo to SWX, what issue will we have on importing Creo files and how to prepare them