Creo Illustrate: Illustrations, Animation Sequences Powered by CAD Data

Technical illustrations software creating 3D and 2D illustrations in minutes

What is Creo Illustrate?

Creo Illustrate enables companies to transform CAD or engineering data into create rich 3D technical illustrations, 2D drawings, and interactive animated sequences that accurately reflect current product configurations and support formats from hard copy to augmented reality.

What are the benefits of Creo Illustrate?

Improve efficiency

Empower illustrators to develop 3D content in minutes from CAD or engineering data. Deliver your designs with higher accuracy in less time.

Empower illustrators to develop 3D content in minutes from CAD or engineering data. Deliver your designs with higher accuracy in less time.

Increase service and parts accuracy

Deliver up-to-date 3D information from your products faster throughout their entire lifecycle. Keep your service procedures, training manuals, maintenance manuals, or illustrated parts catalogs current.

Deliver up-to-date 3D information from your products faster throughout their entire lifecycle. Keep your service procedures, training manuals, maintenance manuals, or illustrated parts catalogs current.

End-to-end consistency

Enable your technical illustrators, authors, and service planners to repurpose design and engineering data from any 3D format, including 3D CAD, for use in service procedures, training materials, illustrated parts catalogs, and all forms of technical communications having one single source of truth.

Enable your technical illustrators, authors, and service planners to repurpose design and engineering data from any 3D format, including 3D CAD, for use in service procedures, training materials, illustrated parts catalogs, and all forms of technical communications having one single source of truth.

Key features

Repurpose CAD data for 3D technical illustrations and animations

Easily create 3D technical illustrations by importing design data from all major CAD systems. Maintain an associative link to the original CAD file to automate the 3D illustration change process when it comes to modifications to engineering design.

2D and 3D publish and export capabilities

Publish all the steps from a sequence to 2D or 3D formats with a single click in multiple options of vector/raster formats.

Generate illustrated parts lists and callouts

Create an interactive parts list with callouts that reflect the structure of the sBOM, representing the entire bill of materials or a subset.

Service information delivery at Vestas

Service Information Management at Vestas

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas has implemented service information management connecting up- and downstream users through a digital thread in Windchill.

2D and 3D Illustrations at Vestas

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas uses a single source of truth in Windchill to create technical 2D/3D illustrations directly from CAD engineering data.

Service Documentation Authoring at Vestas

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas implemented a modular content strategy with Arbortext Editor to enable faster delivery of content and cost savings.

Electronic Illustrated Parts Catalog at Vestas

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas uses a digital thread to automate the creation of the parts catalog and ensure accurate data is delivered to customers.

Service Digital Thread

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas uses a single source of truth in Windchill to create technical 2D/3D illustrations directly from CAD engineering data.

Service Information Management at Vestas

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas has implemented service information management connecting up- and downstream users through a digital thread in Windchill.

2D and 3D Illustrations at Vestas

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas uses a single source of truth in Windchill to create technical 2D/3D illustrations directly from CAD engineering data.

Service Documentation Authoring at Vestas

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas implemented a modular content strategy with Arbortext Editor to enable faster delivery of content and cost savings.

Electronic Illustrated Parts Catalog at Vestas

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas uses a digital thread to automate the creation of the parts catalog and ensure accurate data is delivered to customers.

Service Digital Thread

Watch Maria discuss how Vestas uses a single source of truth in Windchill to create technical 2D/3D illustrations directly from CAD engineering data.

Customer success with Creo Illustrate

Learn how these companies are using Creo Illustrate to improve their business processes.

Toro

Toro uses Creo Illustrate to increase illustrator efficiency.

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Volvo

Volvo uses Creo Illustrate within end-to-end PLM in Windchill.

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Polaris

Polaris drives a connected enterprise with PTC’s digital thread.

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Additional resources

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Creo Illustrate whitepaper

Learn how to link service content to product design in both an implicit and explicit manner.

Creo Illustrate datasheet

Learn how Creo Illustrate empowers companies to transform complex graphical information into 3D technical illustrations.

News from Munich: Service leaders gather at Arbortext user group

Read the highlights from our recent event in Munich.

Creo Illustrate fundamentals

Get started with Creo Illustrate fundamentals.

Creo Illustrate instructor-led training

Find a Creo Illustrate instructor-led online training class.

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Contact an expert to request a demo and trial license

More than 100,000 Creo Illustrate users rely on the advanced illustration capabilities to communicate complex engineering CAD data in a simple, visual way. Creo Illustrate is part of the Arbortext suite of products that help enable your teams to create, manage, and deliver service and parts information seamlessly across the value chain to maximize efficiency, reduce costs, and more.

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