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Creo Elements/Direct Drafting now owned byPTC, and formerly calledME10 is aCADsoftware application exclusively for2D drawings, especially inmechanical engineering andelectrical engineering.
The program was first developed byHewlett Packard in Germany. HP released the first version 1986. Hewlett Packard MDD (Mechanical Design Division) continued the ME10 development. The first product designed using ME10 was the original HP DeskJet printer at the HP Vancouver Division.[1]
Creo Elements/Direct Drafting was originally developed for theHewlett-Packard 98xx workstation family (also referred to as the Series 200) on their proprietary Pascal based operating system / development environment, followed by a move a few years later to theoperating systemHP-UX. With the success ofMicrosoft Windows, a version was offered for this operating system. Some versions have also been developed forLinux. Today, MS-Windows is the standard platform for Creo Elements/Direct Drafting.
In 2010 the product was renamed toCreo Elements/Direct Drafting (as opposed to 3D productCreo Elements/Direct Modeling). Creo Elements/Direct Drafting is one of the most common 2DCAD programs for mechanical engineering in Germany, behind the leader AutoCAD.
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