PTC Creo Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm a PTC Creo 9 user since 2008 (it was called Wildfire, back then). In my experience, it's hard to use, doesn't remember most of the settings (i.e. if I need to save something on a specific folder, everytime I'll have to give file type, complete folder etc...), doesn't have autosave, doesn't show a clear message when it has problem saving, doesn't show a message about files not saved if it's replacing a file (i.e. if you change an attribute, it will replace the file that you have on screen and if you didn't saved it before you basically lose the work), it's slow and hard to draw in 2D. In my experience, sometimes it feels connections between *.drw files and files that doesn't exist anymore and can't be removed, sometimes it gives errors so generic that you don't even know where to start. It doesn't have multiprocessor ability (it has just regeneration multiprocessor). I feel it's like a CAD locked in the nineties and proud of it. It's not user-friendly. In my opinion, it's a CAD that doesn't help you, YOU have to remember a lot of things to avoid problems and do a lot of things again and again to work with it. I feel it's basically working against you.

PRO TIP: If it starts regenerating and it's taking some time, don't click continuously mouse buttons or keys, or it will crash.

Likelihood to Recommend

I wouldn't suggest it to my worst enemy. My colleagues worked with other CADs and, in my experience, complain every day about this CAD, about how much things it doesn't have or do, etc. One of them keeps telling me, in their opinion, how even CREO Direct is far superior, easy to use, faster and better. In my opinion, it's a CAD that requires constant attention at what you do, how you do, when you do because it doesn't do it for you.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PTC Creo to develop Agricultural Machinery products from concept to prototype using Part, Assembly, and Drawing Modules. PTC Creo helps to make imagination into virtual reality and the final prototype

Likelihood to Recommend

Its Assembly approach of top-down and bottom-up approach is like advanced Assembly scenario. Also, you can give mechanism and check its kinematics and dynamics as well. Its fetal error is very annoying while you are working and suddenly it appears, even you can’t save before one minute of work. Which need to be looked for.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PTC Creo in our organization for Product Design and development purposes. We use PTC Creo for 2D drawing creation to 3D, various value addition, value engineering activities, reverse engineering & so on. PTC Creo helped us in the development of lead time reduction.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for small-scale Industries. It is user-friendly & beginners can learn this software easily.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This software is being used to create different types of 3d models like sheet metal parts, .assy of child pars, surfacing modeling, and 2d drawing of various parts.

Likelihood to Recommend

This software is capable enough to fulfill all requirement of 2d drawing and 3d cad data using extraordinary features.Its less cost make this software as best choice in market.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is one of the best in industry CAD software. Our organization uses PTC creo as CAD software. The primary uses of this software in our organization [are] creating 3D models of our product & creating detailed drawings. [PTC] Creo is only used by our design department which has 30 plus members. As we have [a] large variety of products in our organization, [PTC] Creo makes it easy to design & create detailed drawings & their storage with integrated PLM software.

Likelihood to Recommend

For multinational corporations with [a] large range of products [PTC Creo] is best in industry software available. For industries in [the] automotive sector like OEM's or TIER 1 industries it is best suited. For small-scale industries with [a] small range of products, it is not recommended as it is very expensive. Technically it has no issues.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used PTC Creo for teaching undergraduate students part modeling, and assembly. This product varied from department to department. Started with basics of using a CAD software and basic approaches for modeling, then creating simple geometry, and finally taught best approach to deal complex geometries. Further, taught how to use assemblies to bring different part models to create a product. For example, a dove-tail joint was initial assignment and car scissor lift was more complex and large assembly that was taught using PTC Creo.

Likelihood to Recommend

PTC Creo has a very stable and fast interface. It is well suited for handling large assemblies. For example, I used it for updating utility truck bucket assemblies. It was simpler and faster to update parts. With such assemblies small parts like fasteners can get tricky to update, but Creo was great. However, Creo can get tricky when designing parts. It takes more steps to create a geometry than necessary. This reduces the speed to design and user sometimes need to keep track of steps order to design.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use ptc creo for modelling of 3d mechanical engineering products. Creo helped me to create from simple model to complex products. Its is very flexible software out ther le present in world. It is very easy to change your view from 3d view to 2d view or vice versa.

Likelihood to Recommend

I was designing a new bike for a client from scratch. It helped to create a fluid body design with the help of its tools, but sometimes I have repeated tasks to design products which I think they should have a feature where you can copy certain drawing step in a different area of the model.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The engineering department at each plant uses [PTC Creo] to model/draw products and manufacturing machine designs. We use PTC Creo for everything from small brackets on the production line machines to entire machine assemblies, forging dies, grinding wheel design, and even product drawings and quality lab gauging and fixtures. We also use PTC Creo with Windchill to organize all our models, drawings, and assemblies company-wide.

Likelihood to Recommend

PTC Creo is great for assemblies that multiple users are collaborating on. Models can reference other models that someone in another department has released and when those models are changed, the referenced parts and assemblies are changed. These changes are very helpful when working on collaborative machine designs and comparing forging dies with the final parts.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PTC Creo is one of many tools we use to support our clients. When we have a choice, we prefer to use PTC Creo. Clients using PTC Creo are usually forward thinking and more creative thinking than most. They made the decision to implement PTC Creo as a productivity tool, not as a CAD system. That philosophy aligns with ours.

Likelihood to Recommend

PTC Creo is well suited for ideation of competing design concepts, especially with use of fast FEA simulation, sensitivity studies of design variables, optimization, and the integration of disparate analysis types--stress, thermal, dynamic, mechanisms, and CFD, for example.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to help students create prototypes and teach engineering and CAD skills in STEM.

Likelihood to Recommend

I know that it was great for us with our 3D printers and modeling. We made classroom prototypes with students but also used it to make classroom materials, solve problems in our organization, create images/models, etc. I also know many engineers who use this software. Overall we were able to tailor it to our 4th-6th grade students but would be great if there were some modifications that we could make for students.