Creo Parametric is a powerful computer-aided design (CAD) software that has been helping engineers and designers bring their ideas to life for over 30 years. With the release of Creo 10, users can expect a number of new features and improvements in productivity, designs, and more!

What’s New in Creo 10

Discover Creo 10’s newest improvements and enhancements.

User Interface Enhancements

PTC has made a big splash with the release of Creo 10, including an enhanced user interface.

Split & Trim Tool

Use this tool to quickly and easily split or trim a model, making it painless to work with and modify your model. Additionally, the ability to propagate appearances and references during Boolean operations makes it easier to maintain consistency throughout a project.

Stretch Tool in Warp

Utilize the Stretch Tool to select defined references to stretch models, making it easier to create complex shapes and designs. Users now have the ability to select Datum Planes, Points, Axis, Coordinate Systems, Surfaces, Curves, Facets, and more.

Freestyle and Style Tools

Both tools are enhanced with Rotational Symmetry and Smooth Normal Connection, making it easier to create organic shapes and designs. These tools are perfect for designers who want to create complex, freeform shapes that are difficult to create with traditional CAD tools.

The Model Tree

Creo’s Model Tree tool has been improved, making it easier to restructure and reorder assemblies to reduce confusion and improve the management of complex projects.

New Pattern Parameters

Finally, the pattern capability in Creo 10 enables users to drive pattern member count for nested patterns. Create complex patterns quickly and easily, saving you time and improving overall productivity.

Optimize Your Design

Take your design process to the next level with Creo 10’s newest additions.

Composites

Designing composite materials has never been easier with the new features in Creo. The software now offers a broad set of functionalities for defining ply layup, ply sections, transitions, and ply order. This allows you to create a resulting solid geometry and inner mold line (IML) quilt that meets your exact specifications.

In addition, Creo’s new Splicing and Darting operations, makes it easier to create complex composite designs. Once a design is complete, you can automatically generate a complete plybook documentation of the final layup sequence.

With new composite design features in Creo 10, you can easily create high-quality composite materials that meet your needs and specifications. Whether you’re designing for aerospace, automotive, or any other industry, Creo’s composite design tools can help you create the perfect product.

Electrification

Creo 10 presents new features that streamline and enhance the process of designing for electrification.

Split/Merge Harness Tool for Cabling

One of the most significant additions is the Split/Merge Harness Tool for Cabling. This tool allows users to split a harness into two separate pieces and later merge them back together. This feature is particularly useful when working on complex designs that require multiple harnesses.

Simultaneous Harness Design

Another key feature of Creo 10 is the ability for multiple users to work on the same harness design simultaneously. This collaborative design approach saves time and ensures that everyone is on the same page. The application-centric tree is another useful addition, which provides three different views, including Cables, Bundles, and Connectivity, to make it easier to navigate.

New ECAD Capabilities

Creo 10 includes new ECAD capabilities, such as paste masks and hole parameters. These features make it easier to create accurate designs that meet the specific needs of each project with greater precision and accuracy.

Ergonomics

Creo 10 optimizes and simplifies the design process for ergonomics.

The Visual Field

Perform Reflection Analysis to analyze the reflective properties of objects in the environment and how they impact the user’s visual experience. The reflective object orientation can be controlled by adding a rotation value around one or two axes, giving you greater control over the design process.

Creo Manikin

Another key feature of Creo 10 is the Manikin, which now support multiple reach envelopes, including the index and middle finger, thumb, and center of the palm. Creo Manikin allows designers to create more accurate models of human movement and reach, making it easier to design products that are comfortable and easy to use. Additionally, the Manikin libraries are now stored as inseparable assemblies to provide better management and user access.

Enhancing Model-Based Definition and Implementing the Digital Thread

Creo 10 introduces significant updates to Model-Based Definition (MBD) and Digital Thread capabilities, to better create, manage and access real-time product data across the entire product lifecycle.

Enhanced 3D Model Annotations

One of the most significant additions is the ability for users to relate symbols or surface finishes to other annotations in the 3D model. This feature allows designers to create more accurate and detailed models, making it easier to communicate design intent to other stakeholders and downstream activities.

Creo 10 adds the ability for annotations to inherit their annotation plane from the parent during placement. This feature ensures that annotations are placed correctly and in the right location, saving time and improving accuracy. Additionally, any movement of the related parent annotation would also be applied to related symbols, behaving as a group when being assigned to other combination states.

GD&T Advisor Updates

Creo 10 includes improvements to GD&T semantic behaviors, including general profile tolerances and enhanced compliance with detailing standards. These changes make it easier for designers to create accurate and detailed models, ensuring that the design intent is communicated effectively throughout the product lifecycle.

Furthermore, any changes made to GD&T annotations will automatically update the corresponding semantic references of general profile tolerance. Additionally, Creo 10 now supports straightness and profile of Line Geometrical Characteristics for ISO GPS models. Create more accurate and detailed models, ensuring that the design intent is communicated effectively.

Advanced Simulation and Optimization Capabilities

Creo 10 presents a range of new features that enhance and streamline the process of simulation and optimization.

Support for Non-Linear Materials

This includes Neo-Hookean hyperplasticity, linear orthotropic elasticity, and bi-linear plasticity.

Combined Thermal & Structural Analysis

Another key feature is the support for combined thermal and structural analysis. Enable your designers to easily simulate how a product will perform under both thermal and mechanical loads, ensuring that the design is optimized for real-world conditions.

Support for non-linear contact, including new contact types such as frictional and rough, helps to create more accurate simulations of real-world contact.

Expanded Contact Simulation Options

PTC included improvements to Creo Simulation Live, to improve result options for fluids and structures. Furthermore, Creo Flow Analysis and Creo Simulate now have better Animation and Multi-Body Support.

Rotational Symmetry

Allows designers to create more accurate simulations of rotational components.

Point Mass & Remote Loads

Finally, Creo 10 introduces the ability to add Point Mass and Remote Loads to create more accurate simulations of real-world loads.

Creo 10: Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing

With Creo 10’s latest features, manufacturing processes are now more efficient and effortless. One of the most significant additions is the support for additive manufacturing.

New Lattice Types

This enables your designers to create new beam-based lattice types, including rhombic, rhombic+diamond, dodecahedron, and elongated dodecahedron. For formula-driven lattices, Creo 10 supports simulation-based variable wall thickness and highly efficient I-graph-wrapped (IWP) lattice cell. Additionally, Creo 10 supports Auxetic Cells Structures for 3D printing. Auxetic Cell Lattices produce geometry that exhibit a negative Poisson ratio.

High-Speed Milling

High-Speed Milling supports barrel tools for both wall and floor 5-axis finish, reducing tool path time and improving surface finish quality. Additional control for CUTCOM and clearance has been added to Area Turning, making it easier to create accurate and efficient toolpaths for subtractive manufacturing processes.

Get started with Creo 10 Today

Creo 10 is an exciting new release from PTC that brings a plethora of new features to the design table. Whether you’re a designer or an engineer, Creo 10 is a game-changing tool that will help you create complex shapes and designs, manage projects, and improve productivity for more innovative products.

Curious to see how Creo 10’s features compare to other versions of Creo? Check out how Creo is continually enhancing its tools to provide you with the most up to date features for your design process.

To learn more about how Creo 10 can positively impact your business or to experience the new features first-hand, book a free demo now.

Mastering change management with Windchill has its complications, but the secret is out. There’s an easier way to do change management with PTC Windchill Product Lifecycle Management software, and this new Windchill “cheat” may be what changes the game completely.

It’s true, PTC Windchill really is the best PLM software on the market, but along with its seemingly uncapped capabilities comes divine complexity.

And with complexity, well, often comes…frustration.

In a world where we can virtually have anything instantly at our fingertips, why should anyone be forced to learn and memorize an ever-changing, complex PLM system?!

Yet, it seems that in order to successfully capitalize on a PLM system and utilize all the features a company invested in – it’s almost unavoidable.

Time after time, we hear of instances involving Windchill users’ wasted time, energy, and clicks.

So, our company, EAC Product Development Solutions, thought to ourselves – how could we make PLM easier?

How could we simplify the user interface of PLM systems, such as PTC Windchill, to make a faster, easier and better user experience?

How could we do the same for change management within Windchill easier, better, and faster?

Not only did we figure out a very simple solution, but we also figured out how to make data access simple.

It’s easy to plugin, install, and most importantly – it changes the entire user experience of PTC Windchill.

It makes Windchill PLM easy to use, understand, and it provides an easier way to capitalize on all the features the complex system has.

We call our solution EAC Productivity Apps.

Essentially, we created and designed an easy PLM system plugin that transforms the complex user interface of Windchill and makes tasks such as creating change reports, requests and adding new variances easy!

Applications that make PLM faster

Although our PLM applications might not speed up a Windchill system directly, they will definitely decrease the time any users take to search for information.

With our Productivity Apps, infrequent PLM users no longer need to remember how many clicks they need to make or where they need to go to find information in Windchill.

In fact, anyone with access to the simple desktop applications can easily access any PTC Windchill Product Lifecycle Management information directly through their own simple personalized desktop screen.

This eliminates any and all time needed to train and learn a complex PLM system.  

Our PLM system applications were designed to relieve and entirely combat Windchill user complications.

We built them to initially enhance enterprise-wide Windchill system adoption and usage.

So let’s talk about how our Apps really work.

Our applications plug directly into your PTC Windchill system and display a simplified desktop user experience.

They push and pull data to and from your system, helping to streamline your PLM system usage and functionality.

The accessibility for users that might only need access to information housed in Windchill, perhaps only once or twice a week, will greatly benefit from the implementation of our Apps.

By opening a simple desktop application, without any training, any user can easily navigate the interface, find any product information they need, and do so all while eliminating time and lengthened processes that the basic Windchill interface requires to complete a task.

Our PLM applications give any user the Product Lifecycle Management information they need as quickly as possible. This is exactly how PLM Apps can speed up the time it takes to accomplish a simple task!

Forget the need for PTC Windchill training

The truth is, PTC Windchill systems can be complicated, especially in instances where users are not fully trained to use the software.

This is where infrequent PLM system users oftentimes research how to do this or that within their system. If this is you, you know all too well of the valuable productivity you’ve lost when searching for answers in the system help center.

You may even run into instances where you’re skipping tasks altogether (such as creating a change report), and in fact, you may even risk doing it wrong because you’ve forgotten a few steps.

To make matters worse, you might even need to disrupt others for help.

It’s because of all these reasons and more, our Productivity Apps really can change the game.

With the simple click of a button, our Apps have the ability to alleviate several daunting steps.

Over the years, our organization has worked with hundreds of Windchill users’, allowing us to continually expand our app framework and functionality based on what our customers have told us.

After all, the technology you purchase should be working for you, not the other way around.

We have had customers say, “I want a view. I want to be able to have a guy on the shop floor and a partner both be able to see everything related to a part number. I want them to see a document, a drawing, a part, or a bill of material. etc.”

Over time, what we found our customers were looking for was really any relevant data that was associated together. They wanted their data to be completely available and, in some cases, even to download.

They were unable to easily display all the information they were looking for just by doing one, simple, quick search.

That’s when our Quick Search App was born, and it was really developed just to do that.

Quick Search provides a single easily accessible view where any user can get all the relevant product data and information they need on a simple screen. It’s even downloadable and all.

Connect disparate data from unconnected systems

Our PLM Apps even have the ability to tie together data you need from siloed, unconnected systems.

Not only do these Apps help users easily find Windchill data, pull data, and make that data easier and more accessible without great changes, but they were designed to truly tie and pull data together from other siloed enterprise systems.

They have the ability to pull data from Legacy ERP or MRP systems.

For example, you could connect to your ERP system to pull quantity, along with any other relevant information, and have all your information right at your fingertips.

Forget difficulties with change management

The truth is, many organizations face difficulties with change management, and we wanted to ‘change’ that.

How? Let’s start with how our Apps alter change management in a way that makes a difference, and more importantly, how that difference makes the process easier.

Change management becomes effortless with the ability to easily customize or configure the user interface that is built on top of the ThingWorx Navigate app.

What does that mean?

Essentially, our Apps still utilize the powerful change management workflow built within Windchill to point at all of the complex, rich data in Windchill.

The difference is, they change how data is visually displayed and how your teams work together.

Hence where the  ‘productivity’ name comes in.

They provide one view into all relevant data, so your users are easily able to fill out all of their relevant change information. This is a huge benefit in comparison to having to jump back and forth between multiple screens to retrieve data or complete things inside Windchill.

By tying all necessary data into one view, not only is the user experience enhanced, but the number of clicks and picks required by a user is drastically reduced as well.

Ultimately, this is what grants your users the ability to quickly submit change requests (while it even presents the information that is needed as users fill out a simple form).

This means your team no longer has to go through the GUI or work step by step to fill out the information they need to kick-start a change request.

This is something most Windchill users don’t understand.

There are easier ways.

The best part? These ‘ways’ don’t change your system configuration, they simply sit on top of your system and re-invent the user interface to enhance the system’s abilities and most importantly, productivity. 

Our applications alleviate the need for siloed departments to interrupt other disjointed departments by providing accessible data in real-time, everywhere.

Easy task management

Not only can you easily submit a change request or problem report, but you also have the ability to easily manage tasks.

Users are able to pull up a dashboard displaying the entire task force. For instance, once a change request is submitted, you have the ability to see if that change request is being analyzed.

They provide visibility and status on task completion. This helps users easily know what they need to do, and what state that task is in.

You might be thinking, “But what about the people using change management to review and approve, and complete tasks?”

No need to worry, our Apps are equipped with that functionality too.

Managers can utilize these Applications to easily see what is going on and help them understand what they might need to review.

Users can even view open tasks, complete them and even assign tasks to other users.

The functions are endless. You can do anything that involves change management, all directly within our EAC Productivity Apps. It really is a one-stop shop.

This means anyone involved in your organization’s change management process now actually has the ability to do everything they need to do, within one single app.

So yes, I guess the truth is out – there really is an app for that.

Creo Parametric

One of the key features of PTC Creo is its parametric design capabilities. This means that users can create models that are based on a set of parameters, such as dimensions or material properties. If any of these parameters change, the model will automatically update to reflect the new values. This can save a lot of time and effort in the design process, as designers don’t have to manually update every aspect of the model.

Creo Simulation

PTC Creo also includes a range of simulation tools using Creo Simulate or Simulate Live, which allow designers to test their models under various conditions. For example, they can simulate how a product will perform under different loads or temperatures. This can help to identify any potential issues before the product is manufactured, saving time and money in the long run on prototype waste.

You save time and money on production runs of components made from materials such as steel or plastic resin molds. There is no worrying about unexpected costs due to mistakes made during manufacturing process because of pre-printing simulation with Creo. Without simulation, there could be overproduction waste due poor quality control measures and lack of environmental testing.

Another useful feature of PTC Creo is its collaboration tools. With this software, multiple users can work on the same model simultaneously. This can be especially helpful for large design projects, where different teams may be responsible for different aspects of the design.

So, who uses PTC Creo?

As we mentioned earlier, it’s used in a wide range of industries. For example, automotive designers may use it to create models for car parts or assemblies. Aerospace engineers may use it to design aircraft components. And manufacturers may use it to create models of production equipment.

The PTC Creo User Interface

The user interface is where you’ll spend most of your time in PTC Creo. It’s made up of four main sections: Design Tools, 3D Model Creation, Drag-and-Drop Feature and the Model Browser.
The Design Tools section is where you can access all the tools needed for creating your models and assemblies. These include sketching tools for drawing 2D sketches on planes or surfaces; editing tools such as move, copy/paste and rotate; drawing aids like grids; dimensioning tools that let you add dimensions to your designs; assembly creation options that allow users to create assemblies from parts imported into Creo Elements/Pro by means of an external CAD system (such as AutoCAD) or built within Creo Elements/Pro itself; plus many more features!

Connect with one of our experts to see where Creo could positively impact your business processes. If you’re looking to learn more, check out how Creo helped Merrick and the race to space.