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PTC Creo

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What is PTC Creo?

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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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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Best 3D Parametric Software

10 out of 10
November 17, 2023
We use PTC Creo to develop Agricultural Machinery products from concept to prototype using Part, Assembly, and Drawing Modules. PTC Creo …
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PTC Creo Review

7 out of 10
October 24, 2023
We use PTC Creo in our organization for Product Design and development purposes. We use PTC Creo for 2D drawing creation to 3D, various …
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Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Machinery Company, 1001-5000 employees
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Anurag Chaudhary
Product Design/Development Engineer
JTEKT India Limited (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)
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Pricing

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Design Package

$2,480.00

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is PTC Creo?

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What is PTC Creo?

PTC Creo Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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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

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Machinery Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
October 13, 2021

PTC CREO - Best in industry CAD software

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
September 10, 2021

PTC Creo for designers

Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 02, 2021

PTC Creo a 3d product design journey

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
June 29, 2021

PTC Creo is a collaborative designer's dream!

Isaac Cogdill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Isaac Cogdill
Manufacturing Engineer (Forging)
Federal-Mogul Powertrain (Global Valvetrain) (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
June 22, 2021

Texas Consulting Firm's Take on PTC Creo

Randy Speed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Randy Speed
President
Speed Consulting, LLC (Design, 1-10 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
February 19, 2020

PTC Creo allows the ability to bring CAD to students!

Karee Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Karee Smith
STEM teacher
STARBASE MN (Education Management, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
July 07, 2019

PTC Creo is a well-built parametric software for solving real time design problems.

Aravind Dirisipo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Aravind Dirisipo
Design Engineer
Cyient (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
PTC Creo is flexible software for part modeling, which helps in solving real-time problems we encounter. Design models can be created more effectively for complex shapes with freestyle capabilities. Sometimes though, while working on large installation files, finding out the small missing parts is difficult and takes a lot of time.
February 01, 2019

PTC Creo is a Professional CAD software that works best with large assembly files

Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Design Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
PTC Creo is well suited for complex assemblies with a large number of files. If you're not familiar with Creo, then you'll likely find it to be a steep learning curve compared to some of the alternatives. Normal functions and the navigation are a bit harder to use when compared to SOLIDWORKS and Inventor. Creo also really shines when it comes to simulations. The advanced simulation and analytics tools that are integrated within, make the process seamless. Whereas, in other scenarios, you have to use a third part simulation tool and are constantly required to re-export your files. Creo also makes it easy to share files with others using another program, as the file structure can easily be translated into varying file types.
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