what is CREO?
Creo is the 3D CAD solution that helps you accelerate product innovation so you can build better products faster. Easy-to-learn Creo seamlessly takes you from the earliest phases of product design to manufacturing and beyond.
You can combine powerful, proven functionality with new technologies such as generative design, augmented reality, real-time simulation, additive manufacturing. and the IoT to iterate faster, reduce costs, and improve product quality. The world of product development moves quickly, and only Creo delivers the transformative tools you need to build competitive advantage and gain market share.

Creo 11 updates include:
- New composites design and analysis tools to leverage composite materials, ensuring the strongest and lightest results possible.
- Improve your products with updated simulation-driven design and generative design.
- Enhanced additive and subtractive manufacturing improvements, making it easy for you to deliver high-quality manufacturable products.
- Improved design tools for cables and harness design to help you create and manage wiring harnesses.
- Enhancements to design for ergonomics that allow you to account for the range of movement, the field of vision, and the uniqueness of users.
- Improved productivity with updates to areas such as multi-body design, surfacing, and model tree management.
- Powerful model-based definition tools to provide greater clarity with less effort.
New Release
Creo 11 is here
This latest release of PTC’s powerful CAD solution was developed with customer-driven input. Creo 11 is packed with numerous usability enhancements, productivity tools, and innovative technologies to help you reduce development costs and deliver your best designs in less time.
Usability and productivity
New customer-driven usability and productivity enhancements will help streamline your daily work. Model tree management has never been easier, and a new divided surfaces function allows for even better analysis and definition. Sketcher, multibody, Freestyle and ECAD have all been improved to simplify and speed up your everyday work. productONE together with PTC’s commitment to bringing you productivity and usability enhancements to help you deliver your best designs in less time in areas such as full-fidelity and real-time simulation, ergonomics, model-based definition, and additive/subtractive manufacturing.
Capabilities
PTC’s developers created Creo Parametric as a sound foundation software that allows its users the ability to expand deeper functionality with each component. As your products become more complex in their engineering, Creo offers expanded capabilities to meet your requirements.
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Creo design packages
Creo design packages provide comprehensive 3D software that you can expand and upgrade at any time to meet the changing demands of your engineering and business requirements.
Download the Creo Design Packages Overview brochure to understand how our packages are structured.
CREO Packages
CAD software packages for product development professionals
Meet the changing demands of your business by subscribing to a Creo design package. Create high-quality designs with the flexibility to choose exactly what you need, when you need it. Subscribing to a Creo design package ensures you’ll always have access to the latest capabilities and premium support—and you can upgrade your package at any time.
PREMIUM
DESIGN PREMIUM & DESIGN PREMIUM PLUS
Creo 11
Feature | Design Essentials | Design Advanced | Design Advanced Professional | Design Engineering | Design Engineering Professional |
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Industry Standard 3D CAD Capabilities | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Augmented Reality Design Visualization | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Top Down Design & Concurrent Engineering | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Prismatic & Multi-surface Milling | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Engineering Notebook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Advanced Surfacing & Additive Manufacturing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
GD&T & Tolerance Analysis | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Mold Design & High-speed Milling | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Advanced Multi-CAD Collaboration | ✔ | ✔ | |||
Simulation & Fatigue Advisor | ✔ | ✔ | |||
Production Machining | ✔ | ✔ | |||
Interface for JT | ✔ | ✔ | |||
IoT-driven Product Insight | ✔ | ✔ | |||
Advanced Simulation | ✔ | ||||
Options Modeler Topology Optimization | ✔ | ||||
Metal Printing & Complete Machining | ✔ | ||||
Clearance and Creepage Analysis | ✔ |
Creo+
Feature | Design Essentials | Design Advanced | Design Advanced Professional |
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PTC Control Center | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Real-time Collaboration with Creo+ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Creo Brochures
Checklist for updating to Creo
Creo Brochures
Creo is a 3D CAD solution that helps you deliver your best designs in less time.
Checklist for updating to Creo
Creo helps you design better products faster. Your team will appreciate the continued improvements in ease of-useand new capabilities, including Model-Based Definition (MBD), simulation, generative design and additive manufacturing, to name a few.