With each passing wave of CAD technology breakthroughs, PTC's CAD evolves to help you deliver your best designs in less time. Creo 12, the latest version of our award-winning parametric 3D CAD system, keeps you ahead of the curve with over 250 new enhancements to make every day more productive and improve every design. Additionally, Creo+ is forward compatible with on-premises versions of Creo for better interaction with engineering colleagues and suppliers, so you get the best of both worlds - proven Creo technology combined with cloud-connected collaboration and license management tools.
Productivity is at the center of Creo 12 advancements. Many updates were implemented as a result of suggestions made by users like you, as well as our CAD development team. The updates apply to both on-premises performance and cloud functionality. Those shared challenges work to help us make Creo better every year. Creo 12 is no exception, having added a multitude of improvements made to integrated design, simulation, and manufacturing capabilities; all elements designed to help users realize the most value from their CAD system.
PTC's Creo 12 enhancements cover a wide range of functions, including those you rely on most: industry-leading composite capabilities, expanded Model-Based Definition (MBD), improved real-time simulation, and streamlined manufacturing workflows.
Paul Sagar, VP of CAD Product Management, showcases powerful new enhancements in Creo 12.
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Creo 12 delivers the world’s most robust, scalable composite structure design capabilities with innovative tools that enable engineers to efficiently design, simulate, and manufacture composite parts. You will realize faster, more accurate creation of solid geometry from composite layers and can create an associative manufacturing reference model. You can also now merge plies from different zones, expanding your conceptual composite design capabilities.
With Creo 12, engineers can use model-based techniques to deliver the right information to the right person at the right time. The program ensures that all product information is accurately defined within the 3D model and offers improved file export capability, including 3D PDF and STEP AP242, edition 3. Additionally, GD&T Advisor now supports Datum Reference Features and intent surfaces, and annotations are now easier to re-use.
Award-winning generative design and real-time Ansys simulation tools help engineers iterate and optimize designs early in the design process. With Creo 12, engineers can leverage AI-powered generative design for thermal optimization studies, in addition to structural and modal analysis. Creo 12 has also updated Ansys solvers (25R1) with simplified and improved results for both Creo Simulation Live and Creo Ansys Simulation.
As always, Creo is a fully integrated solution, driving the digital thread across every part of your organization. Design, simulation, and manufacturing processes are all linked together through the 3D CAD model to ensure that any changes are made downstream throughout the entire product development process. And engineers can now use additive manufacturing with Creo 12 to design conformal cooling channels in injection molded tools, for optimal results. Additive also has enhanced capabilities for connecting and customizing lattices, and subtractive manufacturing is now better than ever with undercut high-speed milling capabilities.
Each year Creo gets better. Every annual release brings you productivity improvements, enhancements to core functionality, and the opportunity to integrate emerging technologies into your workflow. The breadth of innovations added to Creo 12 extends to every part of the solution. On-prem or Saas, Creo stands ready to meet the needs of all users, overcoming any challenges to deliver your best designs in less time...and at a lower cost.
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Buy NowSteve is PTC’s Creo Product Marketing Director. In this role, Steve is focused on communicating the competitive advantages of PTC’s award-winning Creo, Creo Elements/Direct and Mathcad solutions. His career spans the aerospace, consumer appliances, and consumer electronics industries.
Steve is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and Business Administration from UCLA.