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The product development world moves fast, and Creo alone gives you the tools you need to build competitive advantage and win market share. Start accelerating your product innovation and let your teams build better products, faster.
CAD Software Packages for Product Development Experts
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3D CAD/CAM/CAE Solutions
Creo is a 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software and product design and development solution — design your products better and faster, cut costs and increase profitability.
Streamline Your Workflows
Cut down repetitive tasks with parametric modeling and push changes through an entire assembly in seconds.
Expand Your Design and Manufacturing Capabilities
Bring solid modeling, surface design and production-ready drawings together on one platform.
Increase Collaboration Across Your Teams
Let teams work on the same model at the same time, so revisions and feedback never get lost.
Accelerate Your Design Time
Choose the Creo package that fits your needs — we're with you through licensing and deployment.
Creo houses the very latest innovations in design
Creo is continuously developed and packed with the most innovative and powerful technologies built for the evolving world of product design. With Generative Design, Ansys Powered Simulation, Additive Manufacturing and more, it gives you a high-performance edge in reaching your goals fast.
You can open CATIA, Siemens NX, Solid Edge, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, Creo Elements/Direct (CoCreate), STEP, IGES, SAT and VDA files directly in Creo — free, with no additional software.
AI-driven generative design
Creo delivers groundbreaking capabilities in AI-based Generative Design. The new Generative Topology Optimization extension (GTO) and the cloud-based Generative Design extension (GDX) let you develop higher-quality, lower-cost designs that perform better in the real world. GTO helps you optimize designs for a specific material and manufacturing process based on your requirements and constraints, while GDX lets you develop many design studies at once across a range of materials and processes. Both work seamlessly inside the Creo design environment to boost productivity. With Creo Generative Design, build your best designs in less time.
A revolution in simulation-driven design
The PTC–Ansys partnership is revolutionizing simulation-driven design, giving designers the tools to fold real-time structural, modal, thermal and flow analysis into the earliest stages of the design process. This partnership brings you Creo Ansys Simulation — a high-accuracy simulation tool with Ansys solvers embedded directly in Creo. Creo Ansys Simulation is purpose-built for engineers to analyze the performance of 3D prototypes before moving to production, drawing on Ansys's thermal, structural and modal analysis capabilities so engineers can make informed decisions as they refine their designs.
Bring your 3D models into the real world
Creo lets you bring your 3D CAD models into real-world environments. Ready to bring designs to life with augmented reality? You can now try this industry-changing technology and start using it in your designs. Augmented reality offers a new way to share ideas, spot problems, and get the "full effect" of your designs in real-world settings long before you build a physical prototype.
End-to-end additive manufacturing in one environment
Creo includes a complete additive manufacturing solution. With Creo, you can design, optimize, validate and run a print job — all in one environment — reducing overall process time, problems and errors. Take advantage of the built-in tools to reduce weight in your design, and print with any material. Define your print settings and send the file straight to the 3D printer of your choice. Because all of these capabilities are fully integrated with Creo, there's no need to switch between software packages.
Full-coverage CAM for precision machining
Creo CAM solutions give you everything you need to achieve the highest-quality precision machining in the shortest possible time: multi-surface milling, four-axis turning and wire EDM; custom tool definition and mold machining; NC sheet metal and progressive dies; computer-aided verification. Manage every aspect of the manufacturing process on one platform — from mold/die design and advanced CNC to 3D simulation and validation.
Cut design time, operational time and cost with Creo — built for the best innovative designs
PTC's 3D CAD software solution, Creo, streamlines workflows and makes product design a seamless, creative experience. Our customers see a reduction in design time, prototype cost and time to market, alongside an overall increase in operational efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
Computer-aided design (CAD) lets users create digital 2D drawings and 3D models. Building these models allows users to develop and optimize their products to meet the design intent. It lets users test real-world conditions, loads and constraints on the design, improving overall design quality by creating a virtual prototype of any object.
2D CAD and 3D CAD are the broad classifications of the different types of CAD, and with the addition of CAE (computer-aided engineering) and CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) software elements, CAD has become standard worldwide.
It's far easier to accurately present 3D objects in CAD software than to rely on hand-drawn sketches. Once modeled, a 3D object can be analyzed, optimized and edited with technologies like generative design to produce the best version of that object within the design intent.
CAD software is used by designers, engineers and enthusiasts to build virtual models of objects. Anyone can use CAD, but it's most heavily used in manufacturing. Any company responsible for designing and building a product — from homes to industrial facilities, toys, electronics, cars and everyday objects — can put CAD software to work building its products.
Creo CAD software is easy to learn and known for its ease of use. We offer Creo training programs that will get you up to speed as an expert Creo user.