Meet the Creo AI Assistant
PTC’s approach to AI in Creo is practical: help engineers in their daily work, with the engineer always in control. It’s built around three levels.
- Advise (included in every Creo seat): Ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in Creo documentation and best practices, without leaving your design.
- Assist (beta, separate extension): Get model-specific insights, troubleshooting, and validation based on what you’re actually working on.
- Automate (alpha, separate extension): Let AI understand your geometry and help create, modify, or optimize designs, with you in the loop.
Faster performance where you feel it most
Large assemblies shouldn’t slow your team down. Creo 13 delivers measurable speed gains:
- Up to 70% faster assembly retrieval from Windchill over a wide-area network
- Up to 11x faster global clearance checks
- Up to 5x faster interference detection
- More regeneration control and visibility when working with large assemblies
Everyday usability that adds up
Creo’s simulation-driven design enables engineers to quickly iterate and optimize early in the design process using award-winning generative design and real-time Ansys simulation tools. In Creo 12, AI-powered generative design now supports thermal optimization, along with structural and modal analysis. The latest release also includes updated Ansys solvers (25R1) with simplified, improved results for both Creo Simulation Live and Creo Ansys Simulation. These powerful tools help engineers work faster and deliver better designs with greater confidence.
Model-Based Definition (MBD)
Make the 3D model your single source of truth and share product information more clearly.
- Customizable 3D PDF export templates for standardized deliverables
- Improved ISO standards compliance in Creo GD&T Advisor
- Easier tolerance stackup control in Creo EZ-Tolerance
Simulation-driven and generative design
Validate ideas earlier and avoid costly late-stage changes.
- Assembly-level generative design keeps constraints aligned as your design evolves
- Multiphysics analysis and inertia relief for more realistic studies
- Creo Simulation Live now supports ECAD assemblies
- Bolt and preload patterning in both Creo Simulation Live and Creo Ansys Simulation
Composites and advanced manufacturing
Go from design to production with more precision and less rework.
- Composites: Copy and paste to reuse designs, up to 60x faster ply transitions on complex models, and more accurate curve-based draping
- Additive: Greater control over lattice structures
- Mold design: Automatic connection of conformal cooling channels for single inlet/outlet paths
- Subtractive: New swarf milling toolpaths for higher-quality surfaces, plus a redesigned NC parameters list
Design for electrification
Nearly every product has electrical components now. Creo 13 helps mechanical and electrical design come together sooner.
- Harnesses as independent components for easier reuse across teams
- Improved cabling tree usability, plus the ability to create empty bundles
- ECAD updates, including IEC 81346-2 standard support and automatic IDX naming
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