PTC Creo

2020: Creo 7.0

On April 15, 2020 the PTC company announced release of the next version of a CAD of Creo 7.0. The next generation of design innovations with ample opportunities in areas of generative design, simulation in real time, additive manufacturing and mnogotelny design is presented in the version of Creo 7.0. The version of Creo 7.0 allows to create better products quicker, than ever, claim in PTC.

Changes in Creo 7.0:

• Generative design
• Additive manufacturing
• Mnogotelny design
• Design on the basis of simulation (structural, thermal and modal) with computing hydrodynamics in real time.

Features of Creo 7.0 mentioned by the developer:

• Generative design. An opportunity to create optimal constructions on the basis of project and production requirements.
• Simulation in real time. Additional functions of computing hydrodynamics and improvement transfer the module Creo Simulation Live to higher level.
• Mnogotelny design. In version 7.0 the opportunity for work in one model with several solid bodies appeared. Instruments of mnogotelny design expand opportunities and increase efficiency of work with solid-state models. The model can be separated into several solid bodies or bodies can be in addition created for:
  • simplifications of process of making changes in model on any blueprint stages. At the same time placement of solid bodies can be managed as well as models in assembly;
  • studies of assembly unit in uniform solid-state master model with the subsequent conversion of this model to assembly unit with parts;
  • carrying out analyses of hydraulic gas dynamics, - the body of a product and a body of water are created within one model by separate solid bodies.
  • developments of models for generative design.
  • developments of models as a part of which there are several materials made by method of casting or three-dimensional printing.

• Updating 3D-CAD. Creation of a digital prototype of a product using effective tool kit for design.
• The analysis of products in real time. Creation and use of digital prototypes of products helps to understand how development will function in actual practice.
• Augmented reality (AR). Technologies of augmented reality allow to share developments with all concerned parties in an every spot on the globe.
• Digital determination of a product. A possibility of implementation of necessary information on production (PMI) directly in 3D models a CAD that everyone could receive access to to data.
• Conceptual design. Studying of options of design of a product and representation more innovation products, along with reduction of excess work and terms of production.
• Intellectual design. Replacement of the project assumptions with the facts thanks to Internet of Things (IoT). Use of real data on a product in the CAD projects.

2019: Creo 6.0

On March 21, 2019 it became known of release of an automatic design system of Creo of version 6.0 in which opportunities in augmented reality are provided, to simulation in real time and additive manufacturing and also a set of other key performance improvements.

Augmented reality

Augmented reality connects users in the digital and physical world. In Creo 6.0 developers updated the cloud AR solution. Thanks to Creo AR Design Share which is built in each workplace of Creo, cooperation with concerned parties became simpler worldwide, claim in PTC.

According to the developer, opportunities which do augmented reality more valuable, thanks to the following are provided to Creo 6.0:

• HoloLens support.
• Possibility of the publication up to 10 models at the same time.
• Model and management of permissions.
• Generation of the QR code

Similar Microsoft HoloLens headsets allow users to interact with digital objects without load of tablets or phones.

Creo Simulation Live

Creo Simulation Live from Powered by ANSYS is the fast and simple modeling in use which is completely integrated into the environment of modeling of CAD. It allows to make thermal, modal and structural analysis of constructions during operation. Is not present any more back and forth with analysts. There is no more simplification and review of models.

"Every time when the user makes changes to the model, he instantly sees effects in the environment of modeling". Brian Thompson, SVP CAD Segment in PTC

Design for additive manufacturing

According to the statement of the developer, with Creo it is possible to project, optimize, check and start check of printing in one environment, reducing the general time of process, costs of time and errors. Creo 6.0 represents trellised structures, transitions, direction finding of assembly and cutting for 3D - printings. The main updates include:

• Support of additional lattice cells, including vokselny, stochastic and determined by the user
• Analysis and optimization of the direction of assembly
• Support of cutting and 3MF

The lattice cells a rotoinversion axis supported in Creo 6.0 minimize need for auxiliary structures - saving material, accelerating printing and reducing quantity of stages of postprocessing, claim in PTC.

Performance improvement

According to the developer, Creo 6.0 can make work easier thanks to key performance improvements for quickly changing world of design of products. In Creo 6.0 the user interface and also the following is improved:

• Model-based determination. Creo 6.0 expands possibilities of the Creo MBD tools, offering separate notes, the improved behavior of parents / descendants for summaries, distribution of summaries for functions of sharing of data and additional performance improvements which will help to manage summaries easier.
• Intellectual expansion of fixture (IFX). With Creo IFX it is possible to transfer old fasteners to the existing library to create own configured library. In Creo 6.0 there is a support of several openings, an opportunity to check whether there is fixture, and easy access to commands for the mini-toolbars. When choosing links to fixture it is possible to check whether there is fixture in the database.

Cable laying

In Creo 6.0 the number of mouse clicks for determination and placement of ties and markers was reduced by 50%, and there were additional opportunities providing bigger control for more effective placement of these functions. For example, the user can manage placement of couplers and markers since any end of a cable, to save clicks using a command of repetition and even to allow Creo to appoint automatically a name for a tie and a marker. Then, when the design is checked for Windchill, it is possible to see ties and markers in the specification.

Main improvements of modeling

According to the statement of the developer, Creo 6.0 continues to increase convenience of using and performance to developers of products, including more quick and intuitive direct access to parameters of functions using the mini-toolbars, the toolbars of measurements and the upgraded panels of functions. Improvements of representation of a tree of models and elements and also basic functions of modeling simplify use. It is also possible to expect performance improvement of regeneration for cuts from sheet metal and functions of flat walls from sheet metal which in the provided version automatically detect the next walls and create for them angular reliefs and angular seams. For example:

• At design of a spiral it is possible to create a permanent spiral curve of a trajectory. Thus, it is possible to use a curve when modeling for the general subsequent actions, for example, for visualization in 2D types on the drawing.
• Depth by default used in the Extrusion tool is updated therefore it is possible to avoid scaling of interactions in different contexts.
• During the work with functions of the mini-toolbar provide quick and direct contextual access to the most important parameters.^[1]

2018: Creo 5.0

On March 22, 2018 the PTC company announced release of the latest version of an automated design engineering system of Creo 5.0 which allows users to pass from the concept to production in one design-time environment. In Creo 5.0 five features for dynamically changing world of development and production of products are added and also performance of design work is increased.

Creo helps the companies to accelerate development of the innovation products and creation of versions of products due to reuse of the best projects and replacement of the assumptions with the facts. With Creo 5.0 concepts can be embodied in intellectual, connected products by means of connection of their physical and digital representation with opportunities of augmented reality (AR). Creo 5.0 also offers functionality in the field of topological optimization of geometry, settlement hydraulic gas dynamics, additive (AMF) and traditional production technologies (CAM).

Topological optimization

The physical design of products is often limited to the existing practical practices. The Creo Topology Optimization expansion allows to generate automatically optimal project geometry on the basis of the existing tasks and the purposes in the project and does not limit work of the designer as a framework of traditional solutions. It helps customers to save time and quicker to implement the innovative solutions in the products.

The module Creo Topology Optimization allows to determine target parameters and restrictions then Creo creates the optimized, parametrical geometry.

Additive and traditional manufacturing

Creo helps to develop, optimize and control 3D - printing of parts from additive materials without the need for conversion of formats in the third-party software. Thanks to optimization of workflow and reduction of quantity of the recreated models an opportunity more time appears to give to quality of models in the project.

The module Creo Additive Manufacturing Plus Extension for Materialise which expands printabilities, including from metal materials (steel, aluminum, titanium, inconel, etc.) is added to Creo 5.0, allowing clients to send to printing component parts directly from Creo. Besides, expansion allows users to be connected to online library of drivers and profiles of printing.

The updated release of the Creo Mold Machining expansion includes the specialized opportunities of high-speed processing optimized for release of compression molds, stamps, electrodes and prototypes of forms. Creo 5.0 supports three-axial and five-axial (3+2) CNC processing.

Machining of compression molds. This function contains trajectories of the movement of the tool for high-speed machining

Analysis of hydraulic gas dynamics

The Creo Flow Analysis expansion is the solution for computing hydraulic gas dynamics (CFD) which allows developers, engineers and analysts to model the movement of fluid flows directly in Creo directly on the design 3D model. Process of the CFD analysis directly in Creo allows users to estimate quickly operability of the project solutions in few hours (at dimension of KE-grids at millions of cells). The software is specially created for the design engineer — it simple in use, integrated into Creo and provides fast obtaining exact results.

Creo 5.0 provides complete solving of tasks of settlement hydrodynamics (CFD) for users of the CAD system

Performance improvement in development of 3D models

In Creo 5.0 the functionality for productive study of models is also optimized, including became available: the improved user interface, creation of geometry on the basis of sketches and volume spiral geometrical broaches. Among other innovations — the simplified development of surfaces, design of parts from sheet metal and reuse of the draft models created earlier. Now engineers can project in Creo, saving at the same time the perspective mode.

The Creo Collaboration expansion for Autodesk Inventor to the Unite mode allows the organizations to integrate everything 3D - files in a uniform CAD system. It helps to reduce costs and to minimize the efforts connected with support of several systems and their integration and also to provide reuse of the existing practices. Creo 5.0 monitors all communications between geometry and design parameters with files and assemblies of Autodesk Inventor now.

2017: Creo Product Insight

On April 19, 2017 the PTC company announced emergence in an automated design engineering system of Creo of the functional module Creo Product Insight for work in Internet of Things (IoT).

Together with the module of augmented reality provided at the end of March, 2017 for Creo, this module allows manufacturing enterprises to create full-fledged digital doubles of products.

Creo Product Insight will appear in the summer of 2017. The module collects operational data from a physical product in real time, transfers them to the Creo CAD system. The digital double (analog) of each physical product is so created.

Now more and more enterprises release "smart" connected products. Internet of Things allows to exercise continuous control over them. However to use information collected at operation for completion of construction or development of new options, it is necessary to consider these data in parameters at a stage of engineering studies of circuit and constructive solutions. Our new module allows to use data retrieveds directly in a CAD that will be able significantly to increase efficiency of developments. We save up extensive work experience with the solutions for the Internet of things based on our ThingWorx platform which formed the basis of Creo Product Insight. Sergey Butyaga, the technical manager of PTC in Russia and the CIS

IoT is useful to identification of the reasons of failures, abnormal termination of work of products which will need completion or special setup. The data received from sensors can be reproduced in Creo to understand - what led to failure. Real data on work of products allow to avoid assumptions and guesses when developing, relying on information collected during operation of a product.

2016: PTC Creo 4.0

On November 21, 2016 the company PTC announced a release of the version 3D CAD-software — Creo 4.0.

Functionality for preparation of projects with use of technologies of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), additive manufacturing, augmented reality and the model focused design (MBD) was a part of the upgraded Creo.

Advertizing PTC Creo 4.0, (2016)

Among features there are versions:

• high efficiency of design,
• opportunities for addition of products with "intellectual elements"
• the key functionality allowing developers to create products of the next generation.

Possibilities of Creo 4.0:

Development of the connected intellectual products

The product helps developers to apply Internet of Things to the best understanding of features of behavior of products in actual practice of operation to increase quality of design studies. The technology helps to use with design process information from the real world, executes the strategy of "coherence" at which design engineers initially develop products taking into account future information streams going from the sensors implemented in development process.

Graphic display of constructions

The improvements helping to visualize constructions are added to Creo 4.0. The received images do not leave doubts how construction in reality will look.

Screenshot of the software window, (2016)

The software includes improvements of basic functions, the Advanced Rendering Extension add-on module based on the functionality developed by the partner of PTC KeyShot company.

Screenshot of the software window, (2016)

The images received as a result of rendering can be given to partners and clients, without including in them a valuable intellectual component which represents methods of development of the CAD models.

Additive manufacturing

Creo 4.0 promotes effective design of parts which will be made by means of technologies of additive manufacturing. Use of software promotes implementation of "the project for additive manufacturing" and gives the chance to designers to develop and optimize constructions, to control and check "printability" in the environment of Creo. Thanks to a possibility of creation parametrically of the managed (completely digitized) trellised structures, the solution does possible optimization of model according to the purposes or a framework of production process.

Augmented reality

In this release more evident and informative visual representation of a product by means of combination of digital structures and objects of the real world is offered to developers. Using Creo 4.0 design engineers can reuse data of a CAD for creation of evident, informative visual display in augmented reality with realistic perception of the sizes, scales and a context clear to customers of a product.

The model focused design

A system helps designers to implement the model focused design (MBD) in the processes and to increase efficiency of production processes by means of decrease in dependence on two-dimensional drawings. Now designers can lower number of the errors arising because of the inexact, incomplete or incorrectly apprehended information. With it they will be helped by recommendations for use of data on geometrical characteristics and admissions. In this version of Creo information on geometrical characteristics and design admissions contains in 3D CAD model taking into account semantic (semantic) links, in models check according to the ASME and ISO standards is supported, the geometry of model contains all information for effective subsequent use when developing the production technology and engineering control.

Implementation in a product of capacity of Internet of Things is not just collection of data on use of a product. It is a possibility of application, refining and data analysis for design of the improved options. Creo 4.0 allows at design instead of assumptions about loadings to use data from the real world to make more successful decisions in a work progress and also, thanks to techniques of the model focused design, to receive a complete digital description of a product. New opportunities of Creo 4.0 not only increase efficiency of developments, but also help designers to use possibilities of Internet of Things with the work. Brian Thompson, senior vice president for the direction CAD, PTC

2014: PTC Creo 3.0

On June 15, 2014 the RTS company officially announced a release of the new version of the solution for modeling and design of modern products of any complexity of PTC Creo 3.0.

The new version of PTC Creo increases effective management of projects from development of the concept of a product to transfer to production. In this version a number of significant technical improvements is implemented:

• For successful solving of tasks, the data from a different initial CAD connected with use, the innovative technology of Unite which supports consolidation of a different CAD and expands opportunities for joint work on different platforms is implemented
• For formation new tools for conceptual study (preoutline sketch) which allow to transform constructive concepts to a detail design easily are added to the organizations of the Wednesday promoting implementation of an innovation.
• For performance improvement we optimized workflows and implemented a number of the new and improved functions.

In this version are implemented:

• possibilities of modeling in free style that allows to create and model the stylized constructions of any form parametrically.
• basic functions of modeling, including new chordate roundings off, smoothings of geometrical models of any form, canceling of cutting of surfaces are improved, functions for work with sheet metal are expanded, functions of geometrical templates and many other things are improved
• tools of the analysis and diagnostics, including check of thickness of 3D models, the analysis of biases and molding forms are improved.
• performance and quality of graphic display, photorealistic graphics and full support of images of HDR is increased.
• the functionality of editing reference books, the new interface is improved
• the new Design Exploration Extension (DEX) expansion, the specialized environment for fast and simple studying of alternative preoutline sketches in PTC Creo Parametric.
• the ready libraries of parts and fixture including all necessary for assembly design - from bolts to washers and screws.

2012: PTC Creo 2.0

2.0 users will find in Creo more than 490 technical new products and also the new application for modular design of products which allows to create a set of configurations of products at the earliest stages of development.

In new release, PTC developers added more than 490 improvements in the Creo 2.0 family connected with optimization of work of users and performance improvement of design. For example, in in Creo Parametric such new products as appeared:

• Free modeling – With enhanced capabilities of free modeling, developers can quickly and easily create more perfect surfaces with a large number of parts, without losing sight of the general intention. It considerably reduces time from the sketch to the detail drawing, at the same time allowing to create detailed esthetic design of a product.
• Sections – the Mode of detection of inaccuracies together with 2D representation helps developers to provide completely construction, possible changes and to reveal potential problems at early stages of development. New tools considerably accelerate the general development process and productions.
• Measurements – Developers can manage process of display of results of measurement on the screen, reuse the displayed values in other programs, such as Word document that increases efficiency and correctness of information in design process.
• Change tracking – New opportunities allow developers to browse, accept or reject the changes of model made by other users in Creo Direct (applications for direct modeling). Irrespective of approach to modeling (parametrical or direct) all development team really works now together.

Support of modular architecture

In Creo 2.0, the PTC corporation submits the tenth application of family of software products Creo - Creo Options Modeler™ which is developed for creation and check of modular constructions of a product in 3D at the beginning of a development cycle. The new application provides the selected, easy in use, powerful set of opportunities for creation exact 3D - assemblies, irrespective of the size and complexity of a product.

When using together with Creo Parametric (the application for 3D parametrical modeling), Creo Options Modeler allows commands to approve such parameters of future product as exact weight, the center of gravity, and even to check and eliminate noises for modular constructions. And having integrated Creo Options Modeler with the platform for data management (Windchill) from PTC, producers will be able to create faithful 3D representations of configurations of future product.

Using Creo Options Modeler, the Russian producers will be able to estimate possible configurations of future product for satisfaction of demand of different segments of the market and obtaining additional competitive advantages.

New versions of Creo Parametric, Creo Direct™ and also free Creo Sketch™ (which is available also on Mac OS X now) and Creo Layout™ considerably simplify joint work and innovations.

2011: Description

PTC Creo is the scalable packet software for designing of products created by company PTC, Inc, the developer of solutions for two-dimensional and three-dimensional design CADCAD (\), product lifecycle managements (PLM), service managements (SLM) and managements of lifecycle of applications (ALM). He allows groups of designers to create, analyze, browse and most effectively to use projects of products at further designing, using 2D - and 3D - modeling of CAD, parametrical and direct modeling. The PTC Creo environment appeared in the market in June, 2011 and is applied in particular in the ship-building industry.

The system of design Creo represents a set of scalable applications for creation of the innovation products, including the Russian industry. Based on unique architecture, the solution Creo meets needs of users which enter a development team of products at the enterprise – from designers to marketing specialists. Thus, customers of RTS can create and make the products quicker and more effectively.

The Creo system consists of four global applications, each of which includes a set of services ("apps").

• AnyRole Apps: the application which allows to select tools and the CAD interface depending on functionality of employees.
• AnyMode Modeling: the multialternative platform for design in several a format at the same time - 2D or 3D.
• AnyData Adoption: the application allows to work with the models created in other CAD.
• AnyBOM Assembly: the application is designed to simplify management of the big configured assemblies thanks to Windchill core.

The first set of applications of Creo is developed to optimize product development, production and processes of service.

• Creo Layout – for work with early concepts in 2D.
• Creo Sketch is the complete solution for fast fixing of the design ideas in 2D.
• Creo Direct is the application for fast creation of three-dimensional geometry and edition using direct modeling. Seamlessly interacts with Creo Parametric, giving an opportunity to the user to switch between the modeling modes.
• Creo Parametric is the application for 3D parametrical modeling. Saving all tools of a popular CAD Pro/ENGINEER which was a part of Creo, the application got new advantages.
• Creo Simulate is the analytical program for structural and thermal calculation.
• Creo Schematics is service for creation of the route schemes 2D, for example cable and pipeline systems.
• Creo Illustrate – will help to provide to 3D difficult service information graphically.
• Creo View MCAD is the facilitated application for viewing, commenting and a marking of geometry of MCAD.
• Creo View ECAD is the facilitated application for work with geometry of ECAD.

The Creo system is the solution which protects investments of industrial enterprises. The solution Creo allows to integrate all available data from different competing a CAD on a single platform. AnyData Adoption is the application which guarantees that consolidation of data in one CAD remains at the discretion of the customer, but is not the mandatory requirement of the CAD developer. The RTS company respects and protects the existing investments into working tools of the designer which the enterprise made earlier, and gives an opportunity to work with data from any CAD system.

"Once RTS already made a revolution in the market of a CAD, having developed the first-ever parametric system of design – Pro/Engineer. Creo 1.0 opens the new page in the history of the industry", – Brian Shepherd, the executive vice president of RTS is sure. "Basic applications and services Creo do the closed product development process which was available only to individual employees earlier, opened for all, allowing the bigger number of people to make a contribution to the project. It is significant progress which will help our clients to generate more ideas and, eventually, to create the best products".

The majority of applications and services Creo1.0 is already available in Russian. Creo Sketch and Creo Layout will be available to downloading a bit later, in July, 2011.

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