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PTC Creo is a versatile CAD software that is widely used by engineering departments in various industries. Users have reported using PTC …
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PTC offers Creo, the company's line of computer-aided design (CAD) products that support the product lifecycle management (PLM) process with 2D and 3D design kits (Creo Elements and Creo Direct), an augmented reality module, Creo Illustrate for technical illustrations, Creo…
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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PTC Creo is a versatile CAD software that is widely used by engineering departments in various industries. Users have reported using PTC Creo for a wide range of purposes, including modeling and drawing products, designing manufacturing machine layouts, and creating 2D drawings. With its parametric software nature, PTC Creo offers flexibility in creating part models, allowing users to easily design both simple and complex mechanical engineering products.
One of the key advantages of PTC Creo is its ability to handle large assembly files with 1000+ parts smoothly, making it ideal for projects that involve complex geometries. Clients who use PTC Creo are often described as forward-thinking and creative, utilizing the software as a productivity tool rather than just a CAD system. In addition to its industrial applications, PTC Creo is also used in educational settings to teach engineering and CAD skills to students, helping them create prototypes and gain hands-on experience in STEM fields. Overall, PTC Creo has proven to be a valuable tool for product design and development, reducing lead time in development projects and enabling efficient collaboration through integration with PLM software.
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November 17, 2023
Best 3D Parametric Software
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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
- Handle Heavy Assemblies with out any lag
- Advance Assemblies
- Kinematic and dynamic
- User friendly
- Feral Error need to improve due to sudden our whole work goes waste
- Auto-Save Feature
October 24, 2023
PTC Creo Review
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
- Product Design
- 2D Drafting
- Computer-aided manufacturing
- Product management
- Need to improve when we deals with heavy assemblies, it got stuck
- Need improvement in sheet metal design
- Improvement required in rendering
December 03, 2021
Best Drafting and modelling software
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.
- User interface
- Solid cad modelling
- 2d drawing creation
- Surface modelling
- To deal with large .assy files
- Support to customer
October 13, 2021
PTC CREO - Best in industry CAD software
Score 9 out of 10
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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.
- Parametric Modelling
- Supports all CAD formats like STEP, IGES, shrink-wrap, etc.
- Detailed drawings
- Provides automatic tolerance in accordance with general tolerance standard
- Cannot make changes to a child part in assembly process
- Changes [have] to be made individually in a child part or else it will not reflect
- Sometimes DXF file gets corrupted
September 10, 2021
PTC Creo for designers
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.
- Large Assemblies handled really well and is faster and stable for processing the designs
- User have more control over the design
- CAD files from other software can be directly opened even without converting the files
- Some selection for switching between advanced control and default user controls while designing. This can help speeding up the design process and give freedom to improve design at specific locations if user needs
September 02, 2021
PTC Creo a 3d product design journey
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.
- 3d products design
- Real time simulation
- Flexible software to make innovative 3d model
- User interface
- Price of software is little bit high
- More automation in software
June 29, 2021
PTC Creo is a collaborative designer's dream!
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.
- Part import from 3rd party models like fasteners and machine components is super fast.
- Deriving new parts from another part's geometry is nice when using PTC Creo's parametric relations features.
- Revising models and drawings while retaining the old version is great when using PTC Creo.
- The STL model output is not always as smooth as some other software usually can do.
- There are not many 3D full solid file type export options that are not exported as surface-only.
- Importing sketches is kind of difficult sometimes depending on how the source sketches are drawn.
June 22, 2021
Texas Consulting Firm's Take on PTC Creo
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.
- PTC Creo is based on a single database for product definition
- PTC Creo is designed to anticipate your intentions
- PTC Creo is supported by a diverse user base from diverse industries, encouraging cross-pollination of design approaches
- PTC Creo could grow a help-line staff of highly experienced individuals to aid the existing knowledge base article searchers. It would include experts with deep knowledge of certain Creo modules (SMEs) and provide help staff a go to for deeper levels of help when it is needed.
February 19, 2020
PTC Creo allows the ability to bring CAD to students!
We use it to help students create prototypes and teach engineering and CAD skills in STEM.
- Modeling.
- Ability to make templates.
- Rendering sometimes crashes.
- Putting in backgrounds is difficult sometimes.
PTC Creo has been used as our main work software for our Transportation business unit. We use it in Siemens offshore projects, for creating 3D models as well as 2D drawings. PTC Creo is a parametric software, so it gives us flexibility in creating part models. The software used by us is custom-built by PTC for our needs, which contains specialized tools for Siemens projects. Siemens' Creo is way different from the normal PTC Creo in interface and usage.
- PTC Creo contains many advanced tools with better optimization for creating part models and other production related drawings.
- The initial concept designs can be done more adequately.
- The parameters of 2D drawings can be changed easily by editing the 3D model.
- The productivity can be increased by customized tools for modeling.
- The user interface needs to be improved in a lot of areas where the selection of tools and information related to them can't be accessed.
- The views creation for 2D drawing is a bit difficult when compared to other design software.
- You need a lot of knowledge to create the 2D & 3D models in Creo for beginners.
- Working on large assembly files sometimes leads to unknown errors.
July 06, 2019
My PTC Creo Review
My team is using this software for various mechanical engineering projects. Its a great software for 3D modeling and making 2d drawings.
- We are using it with PTC windchill and working on 3D modeling of various mechanical products like an automobile, valves, etc.
- We creates engineering drawings with this software which is used for manufacturing of products.
- Drawing creation is bit difficult for the user.
- User interface can be more user-friendly.
PTC Creo's main advantage is its ability to work well (remain smooth) with large assembly files with 1000+ parts. I had to "pick up" PTC Creo for one project, in which we knew that we were going to have an absurd amount of part files within the assembly. From my experience, this seems to be one of the only main advantages of Creo over other CAD programs. The software does allow one to get mechanical/product development work done, but I've never found the user interface to be intuitive.
- Large assembly files with 100+ parts.
- Creo provides more simulation and analytics tools in an integrated environment.
- Creo provides better management of external references.
- Cost of Creo is a bit pricey compared to some of the alternatives (SOLIDWORKS).
- Ease of use and learning (especially for new employees who have no previous experience in PTC Creo).
January 21, 2019
Not the most user-friendly, but highly capable
Our mechanical engineering department uses PTC Creo to design mechanical components of electronic products. For us, a lot of the time this means an enclosure, but we also design mechanisms as well. The bulk of our designs will be molded plastic parts and we occasionally will design with sheet metal or other cast metal materials as well.
- Extrudes are easy in Creo, you can start with the tool or with a sketch and either way it doesn't get confused.
- Sweeps with Creo are better than in some of the other software packages. While sometimes other CAD packages will let you do the impossible, Creo simply gives you an error, which is how it should be.
- Assembly is very intuitive with Creo.
- Providing guidance through using tools is lacking in Creo. There is a small area where the text is displayed at the bottom that is supposed to help guide you, but many times the guidance doesn't make sense.
- Layers are a hassle in Creo. Unless you know how to set up your config file to do it automatically, you have to add each item to the appropriate layer.
- There is a lack of automation in Creo. In some other CAD packages, you can add holes or the like on a pattern of features. Not so in Creo.