Creo: Your Best Designs
in Less Time
PTC’s Creo is a parametric 3D CAD system that delivers innovative technologies, productivity tools, and usability enhancements to help you deliver your best designs in less time.
What is Creo?
The 3D CAD tool Creo lets you develop better products more quickly by accelerating product innovation.Creo is a simple tool to learn and takes you step-by-step from the initial stages of product design to manufacturing and beyond with its model-based methodology. With Creo, innovative technologies like generative design, real-time simulation, advanced manufacturing, IIoT, and augmented reality coexist with robust, tested functionality.
Creo Plus is also available as a SaaS product, providing innovative cloud-based tools for real-time collaboration and streamlined license management and deployment.
Product development is a fast-paced industry, and only Creo offers the game-changing tools you need to establish a competitive edge and increase your market share.
May 2026: Advancing Design Productivity with Creo+
Charting new waters in 3D CAD with Creo 13 and Creo+
- Usability and productivity enhancements you will use every day
- Market-leading fidelity and accuracy in design of composites
- Expanded model-based definition (MBD) and detailing tools
- Simulation-driven design and generative design
- Advanced additive and subtractive manufacturing tools
- Improvements in electric harness designs
- AI-powered design assistance and workflow automation
New features and functionality
Advise, Assist, and Automate with the Creo AI Assistant
Integrated into every seat of Creo, the Creo AI Assistant helps engineers work smarter and faster. It offers AI-driven guidance throughout the design process, enabling users to create, modify, and optimize products with greater efficiency. From answering design-related questions to providing intelligent recommendations, the assistant enhances productivity while reducing repetitive tasks. With advanced model-based insights and automation capabilities, Creo AI Assistant streamlines workflows, improves decision-making, and helps teams accelerate product development. Whether you’re designing complex components or refining existing models, the AI Assistant acts as a reliable partner to support innovation and engineering excellence.
Creo is the ideal choice for designing for additive and subtractive manufacturing. With Creo 13, engineers can now use additive manufacturing to design conformal cooling channels in injection-molded tools, for optimal results. Additive manufacturing also has enhanced capabilities for connecting and customizing lattices, and subtractive manufacturing is now better than ever with undercut high-speed milling capabilities. Creo 13 helps engineers deliver their best manufacturing designs in less time.
With a model-centric approach, Creo ensures that all product information is accurately defined within the 3D model, providing the right information to the right person at the right time. Creo 13 offers improved file export capability, including 3D PDF and STEP AP242, Edition 3. GD&T Advisor now supports datum reference features and intent surfaces, and annotations are now easier to reuse. With PTC’s Creo 13, engineers can use model-based techniques to deliver their best designs in less time.
Simulation-driven design and generative design
Creo simulation-driven design helps engineers iterate and optimize designs early in the design process, with award-winning generative design and real-time Ansys simulation tools. With Creo 13, engineers can leverage AI-powered generative design for thermal optimization studies, in addition to structural and modal analysis. Creo 13 has updated Ansys solvers (25R1) with simplified and improved results for both Creo Simulation Live and Creo Ansys Simulation. With powerful simulation driven design tools, Creo helps engineers deliver their best designs in less time.
With a model-centric approach, Creo ensures that all product information is accurately defined within the 3D model, providing the right information to the right person at the right time. Creo 13 offers improved file export capability, including 3D PDF and STEP AP242, Edition 3. GD&T Advisor now supports datum reference features and intent surfaces, and annotations are now easier to reuse. With PTC’s Creo 13, engineers can use model-based techniques to deliver their best designs in less time.
Creo Capabilities
3D Part & Assembly Design
Analysis
Structural analysis
Thermal analysis
2D Modal analysis
Motion analysis
Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing
Tool & die design
Production machining
Others
Product data management
Technical illustrations
Performance advisor
Generative design
Creo Design Packages
Comprehensive 3D software is offered by Creo design packages, which you may expand and upgrade at any moment to satisfy your evolving engineering and business needs. To learn more about the range of packages that are offered as a SaaS solution and on-premises, download the Creo Design Packages Overview brochure.
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