Creo
Creo: Design. The way it should be.
What is Creo?
PTC’s Creo is a parametric 3D CAD platform with integrated technologies for product design, engineering, and manufacturing. By building off a single, fully associative digital model, Creo combines parametric modeling with real-time simulation, model-based definition, validation, and manufacturing workflows in a single environment – unlike other CAD systems that rely on disconnected add-ons. Design changes automatically propagate downstream to analysis and production teams, reducing manual, repetitive work, and improving efficiency.
Easy-to-use core CAD tools help new engineers onboard quickly, and advanced capabilities enable experienced engineers to scale quickly with CNC programming, additive manufacturing, composite structures, and generative design.
Available as both an on-premises solution (Creo) and a SaaS offering (Creo+), Creo supports flexible licensing options. Creo+ adds cloud-enabled collaboration, license management, and simplified software deployment.
Engineers and manufacturers rely on Creo’s core and advanced 3D CAD capabilities to deliver their best designs in less time.
Creo 13: Engineering What’s Next
Creo 13 helps you deliver high-quality designs faster without compromise. The embedded Creo AI Assistant reduces repetitive tasks and provides intelligent guidance from design through manufacturing. Productivity improvements enhance usability, core modeling, and large assembly performance. Expanded MBD capabilities strengthen collaboration, while advances in composites, simulation-driven design, and manufacturing enable earlier optimization and a seamless path to production. Check out how Creo has gotten more capable over years!
New features and functionality
Creo introduces new functionality focused on helping teams design smarter and work more efficiently. From an AI-assisted user experience and core productivity enhancements to expanded model-based definition, and advanced manufacturing, Creo 13 strengthens the product lifecycle from design through production. These updates make it easier to optimize designs earlier, streamline workflows, and deliver higher quality products faster.
The Creo AI Assistant
Advise, Assist, and Automate with the Creo AI Assistant
User Productivity
Enhanced usability with every release
With each release, Creo introduces core CAD enhancements to give users more capabilities and easier workflows. Creo 13 improves the user experience with top-level assembly filtering, opening models in tabs, improved assembly retrieval (70% faster) and regeneration control to give you greater control and performance in Creo. Core enhancements to feature presets, advanced surfacing, multi-body workflows, and sheet metal exporting help you to save time when designing. Finally, new capabilities like corner blend, vertex selection, and 3D curve patterns give you greater control.
Model-Based Definition
Establish the Creo 3D Model as the source of truth
Creo was natively built as a model-based system, enabling engineers to establish the 3D model as the single source-of-truth for product and manufacturing information. Creo 13 expands the robust set of MBD capabilities with the ability to customize 3D PDF templates for exports, improved ISO standards compliance in Creo GD&T Advisor, and easier control of stackups in Creo EZ-Tolerance.
Partner
Composite Design & Manufacturing
Industry-leading composite structure design
Simulation-Driven Design
Iterate and optimize early and often
Simulation-driven design in Creo helps designers explore innovative ideas early in the engineering process, with award winning generative design and Ansys simulation tools. In Creo 13, generative design workflows support assembly-level optimization of part models, Multiphysics analysis, and inertia relief. Creo Simulation Live now supports ECAD assemblies, and for both CSL and Creo Ansys Simulation, there is expanded support for patterning of bolts and preloads to easily analyze designs. Deliver your best designs in less time with the power of Creo simulation-driven design.
Advanced Manufacturing
Additive and subtractive manufacturing in one tool
Creo is the ideal choice to connect your 3D model to the manufacturing environment, offering integrated CAM capabilities directly within the CAD environment. In Creo 13, engineers designing for additive manufacturing have greater control over lattices. In mold design, conformal cooling channels can be connected automatically to create efficient mold designs with single inlet/outlet cooling paths. For subtractive manufacturing workflows, Creo 13 introduces a swarf milling tool path for higher quality surfaces, and a UX redesign of the NC parameters list for easier understanding of what changes you are making.
Electification
Cable, Piping, and Harness Design Made Easy
Creo continues to build up routed systems design capabilities as more products grow in complexity. Creo 13 delivers working on harnesses as an independent component. Designing harnesses as assemblies improves usability and reuse of electrical components between teams. In addition, Creo has improved usability of the cabling tree, aligned cabling and schematics functionality on bundles, and can create empty bundles. In ECAD, Creo supports the IEC 81346-2 standard, automatic IDX naming conventions, and leverages part level parameters during export.
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