PTC Creo

Score5.8 out of 10

64 Reviews and Ratings

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Business Problems Solved

PTC Creo is a versatile CAD software that is widely used by engineering departments in various industries. Users have reported using PTC Creo for a wide range of purposes, including modeling and drawing products, designing manufacturing machine layouts, and creating 2D drawings. With its parametric software nature, PTC Creo offers flexibility in creating part models, allowing users to easily design both simple and complex mechanical engineering products.

One of the key advantages of PTC Creo is its ability to handle large assembly files with 1000+ parts smoothly, making it ideal for projects that involve complex geometries. Clients who use PTC Creo are often described as forward-thinking and creative, utilizing the software as a productivity tool rather than just a CAD system. In addition to its industrial applications, PTC Creo is also used in educational settings to teach engineering and CAD skills to students, helping them create prototypes and gain hands-on experience in STEM fields. Overall, PTC Creo has proven to be a valuable tool for product design and development, reducing lead time in development projects and enabling efficient collaboration through integration with PLM software.

Reviews

14 Reviews

PTC Creo 9: good on some things, bad on a lot of others...

Rating: 2 out of 10

May 16, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm a PTC Creo 9 user since 2008 (it was called Wildfire, back then). In my experience, it's hard to use, doesn't remember most of the settings (i.e. if I need to save something on a specific folder, everytime I'll have to give file type, complete folder etc...), doesn't have autosave, doesn't show a clear message when it has problem saving, doesn't show a message about files not saved if it's replacing a file (i.e. if you change an attribute, it will replace the file that you have on screen and if you didn't saved it before you basically lose the work), it's slow and hard to draw in 2D. In my experience, sometimes it feels connections between *.drw files and files that doesn't exist anymore and can't be removed, sometimes it gives errors so generic that you don't even know where to start. It doesn't have multiprocessor ability (it has just regeneration multiprocessor). I feel it's like a CAD locked in the nineties and proud of it. It's not user-friendly. In my opinion, it's a CAD that doesn't help you, YOU have to remember a lot of things to avoid problems and do a lot of things again and again to work with it. I feel it's basically working against you.
PRO TIP: If it starts regenerating and it's taking some time, don't click continuously mouse buttons or keys, or it will crash.

Pros

In my opinion, make you lose time
In my opinion, make you lose patience
In my opinion, make you lose sanity

Cons

No autosave
No clear message if it has problems saving the file
Not so easy to use
In my experience, has a lot of things missing that other CAD already have in years
In my experience, it's extremely easy to lose work/time

Likelihood to Recommend

I wouldn't suggest it to my worst enemy. My colleagues worked with other CADs and, in my experience, complain every day about this CAD, about how much things it doesn't have or do, etc. One of them keeps telling me, in their opinion, how even CREO Direct is far superior, easy to use, faster and better. In my opinion, it's a CAD that requires constant attention at what you do, how you do, when you do because it doesn't do it for you.

Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

16 years of experience

Best 3D Parametric Software

Rating: 10 out of 10

November 17, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PTC Creo to develop Agricultural Machinery products from concept to prototype using Part, Assembly, and Drawing Modules. PTC Creo helps to make imagination into virtual reality and the final prototype

Pros

Handle Heavy Assemblies with out any lag
Advance Assemblies
Kinematic and dynamic
User friendly

Cons

Feral Error need to improve due to sudden our whole work goes waste
Auto-Save Feature

Likelihood to Recommend

Its Assembly approach of top-down and bottom-up approach is like advanced Assembly scenario. Also, you can give mechanism and check its kinematics and dynamics as well. Its fetal error is very annoying while you are working and suddenly it appears, even you can’t save before one minute of work. Which need to be looked for.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

13 years of experience

PTC Creo Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

October 24, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PTC Creo in our organization for Product Design and development purposes. We use PTC Creo for 2D drawing creation to 3D, various value addition, value engineering activities, reverse engineering & so on. PTC Creo helped us in the development of lead time reduction.

Pros

Product Design
2D Drafting
Computer-aided manufacturing
Product management

Cons

Need to improve when we deals with heavy assemblies, it got stuck
Need improvement in sheet metal design
Improvement required in rendering

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for small-scale Industries. It is user-friendly & beginners can learn this software easily.

Anurag Chaudhary

Product Design/Development Engineer in Engineering at JTEKT India Limited (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Best Drafting and modelling software

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This software is being used to create different types of 3d models like sheet metal parts, .assy of child pars, surfacing modeling, and 2d drawing of various parts.

Pros

User interface
Solid cad modelling
2d drawing creation

Cons

Surface modelling
To deal with large .assy files
Support to customer

Likelihood to Recommend

This software is capable enough to fulfill all requirement of 2d drawing and 3d cad data using extraordinary features.Its less cost make this software as best choice in market.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

PTC CREO - Best in industry CAD software

Rating: 9 out of 10

October 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is one of the best in industry CAD software. Our organization uses PTC creo as CAD software. The primary uses of this software in our organization [are] creating 3D models of our product & creating detailed drawings. [PTC] Creo is only used by our design department which has 30 plus members. As we have [a] large variety of products in our organization, [PTC] Creo makes it easy to design & create detailed drawings & their storage with integrated PLM software.

Pros

Parametric Modelling
Supports all CAD formats like STEP, IGES, shrink-wrap, etc.
Detailed drawings
Provides automatic tolerance in accordance with general tolerance standard

Cons

Cannot make changes to a child part in assembly process
Changes [have] to be made individually in a child part or else it will not reflect
Sometimes DXF file gets corrupted

Likelihood to Recommend

For multinational corporations with [a] large range of products [PTC Creo] is best in industry software available. For industries in [the] automotive sector like OEM's or TIER 1 industries it is best suited. For small-scale industries with [a] small range of products, it is not recommended as it is very expensive. Technically it has no issues.

Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

PTC Creo for designers

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 10, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used PTC Creo for teaching undergraduate students part modeling, and assembly. This product varied from department to department. Started with basics of using a CAD software and basic approaches for modeling, then creating simple geometry, and finally taught best approach to deal complex geometries. Further, taught how to use assemblies to bring different part models to create a product. For example, a dove-tail joint was initial assignment and car scissor lift was more complex and large assembly that was taught using PTC Creo.

Pros

Large Assemblies handled really well and is faster and stable for processing the designs
User have more control over the design
CAD files from other software can be directly opened even without converting the files

Cons

Some selection for switching between advanced control and default user controls while designing. This can help speeding up the design process and give freedom to improve design at specific locations if user needs

Likelihood to Recommend

PTC Creo has a very stable and fast interface. It is well suited for handling large assemblies. For example, I used it for updating utility truck bucket assemblies. It was simpler and faster to update parts. With such assemblies small parts like fasteners can get tricky to update, but Creo was great. However, Creo can get tricky when designing parts. It takes more steps to create a geometry than necessary. This reduces the speed to design and user sometimes need to keep track of steps order to design.

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

PTC Creo a 3d product design journey

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 2, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use ptc creo for modelling of 3d mechanical engineering products. Creo helped me to create from simple model to complex products. Its is very flexible software out ther le present in world. It is very easy to change your view from 3d view to 2d view or vice versa.

Pros

3d products design
Real time simulation
Flexible software to make innovative 3d model

Cons

User interface
Price of software is little bit high
More automation in software

Likelihood to Recommend

I was designing a new bike for a client from scratch. It helped to create a fluid body design with the help of its tools, but sometimes I have repeated tasks to design products which I think they should have a feature where you can copy certain drawing step in a different area of the model.

Verified User

Team Lead in Professional Services (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

PTC Creo is a collaborative designer's dream!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The engineering department at each plant uses [PTC Creo] to model/draw products and manufacturing machine designs. We use PTC Creo for everything from small brackets on the production line machines to entire machine assemblies, forging dies, grinding wheel design, and even product drawings and quality lab gauging and fixtures. We also use PTC Creo with Windchill to organize all our models, drawings, and assemblies company-wide.

Pros

Part import from 3rd party models like fasteners and machine components is super fast.
Deriving new parts from another part's geometry is nice when using PTC Creo's parametric relations features.
Revising models and drawings while retaining the old version is great when using PTC Creo.

Cons

The STL model output is not always as smooth as some other software usually can do.
There are not many 3D full solid file type export options that are not exported as surface-only.
Importing sketches is kind of difficult sometimes depending on how the source sketches are drawn.

Likelihood to Recommend

PTC Creo is great for assemblies that multiple users are collaborating on. Models can reference other models that someone in another department has released and when those models are changed, the referenced parts and assemblies are changed. These changes are very helpful when working on collaborative machine designs and comparing forging dies with the final parts.

Isaac Cogdill

Manufacturing Engineer (Forging) in Manufacturing at Federal-Mogul Powertrain (Global Valvetrain) (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Texas Consulting Firm's Take on PTC Creo

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PTC Creo is one of many tools we use to support our clients. When we have a choice, we prefer to use PTC Creo. Clients using PTC Creo are usually forward thinking and more creative thinking than most. They made the decision to implement PTC Creo as a productivity tool, not as a CAD system. That philosophy aligns with ours.

Pros

PTC Creo is based on a single database for product definition
PTC Creo is designed to anticipate your intentions
PTC Creo is supported by a diverse user base from diverse industries, encouraging cross-pollination of design approaches

Cons

PTC Creo could grow a help-line staff of highly experienced individuals to aid the existing knowledge base article searchers. It would include experts with deep knowledge of certain Creo modules (SMEs) and provide help staff a go to for deeper levels of help when it is needed.

Likelihood to Recommend

PTC Creo is well suited for ideation of competing design concepts, especially with use of fast FEA simulation, sensitivity studies of design variables, optimization, and the integration of disparate analysis types--stress, thermal, dynamic, mechanisms, and CFD, for example.

Randy Speed

President in Engineering at Speed Consulting, LLC (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

18 years of experience

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PTC Creo allows the ability to bring CAD to students!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to help students create prototypes and teach engineering and CAD skills in STEM.

Pros

Modeling.
Ability to make templates.

Cons

Rendering sometimes crashes.
Putting in backgrounds is difficult sometimes.

Likelihood to Recommend

I know that it was great for us with our 3D printers and modeling. We made classroom prototypes with students but also used it to make classroom materials, solve problems in our organization, create images/models, etc. I also know many engineers who use this software. Overall we were able to tailor it to our 4th-6th grade students but would be great if there were some modifications that we could make for students.

Karee Smith

STEM teacher at STARBASE MN (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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PTC Creo 9: good on some things, bad on a lot of others...

Rating: 2 out of 10

May 16, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

In my opinion, make you lose time
In my opinion, make you lose patience
In my opinion, make you lose sanity

Cons

No autosave
No clear message if it has problems saving the file
Not so easy to use
In my experience, has a lot of things missing that other CAD already have in years
In my experience, it's extremely easy to lose work/time

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

16 years of experience