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Creo

Engineering CAD and product lifecycle management software

Last updated: January 2025

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Last updated: January 2025

What is Creo?

Creo is an engineering CAD software that helps businesses optimize the entire product lifecycle using augmented reality, real-time simulation, additive manufacturing, and generative designing methodologies from within a unified platform. It enables staff members to utilize the sketching and parametric designing tools to modify product drawings, optimizing 3D conceptualization processes.

Creo allows staff members to analyze the performance of 3D prototypes by conduction real-time modal, thermal, structural, and fluid flow simulations. It also lets team members create top-down designs, conduct tolerance analysis, generate mold designs, manage production machining, and more on a centralized platform.

Starting from

2950

/user

Per year

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Creo's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Creo users:

2D Drawing

4.1

(44)

Data Import/Export

4.2

(42)

CAD Tools

4.5

(40)

Design Analysis

4.0

(27)

Manufacturing Design Data

4.0

(26)

3D Design & Modeling

4.4

(25)

All Creo features

Features rating:

4.3

(124)

Sketching and Annotation Tools

5.0

(1)

Design Management

3.5

(4)

Bill of Materials Management

4.7

(10)

Reporting/Analytics

3.8

(11)

Version Control

4.2

(5)

Annotations

3.6

(18)

Animation

3.6

(8)

Component Library

4.0

(24)

Modeling & Simulation

3.3

(3)

Mechatronics

4.0

(3)

3D Imaging

4.3

(16)

Presentation Tools

3.8

(5)

Reference Management

4.5

(6)

Collaboration Tools

3.4

(12)

Document Management

3.7

(9)

For 3D Printing

(0)

For Architects

(0)

For Manufacturers

(0)

Mechanical

(0)

Cost Tracking

(0)

Compliance Management

(0)

Requirements Management

(0)

Supplier Management

(0)

Third-Party Integrations

(0)

Creo awards

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Features

4.3

Value for Money

3.9

Customer Support

4.0

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Free trial

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4.1

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Value for Money

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4.2

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Ease of Use

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4.2

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No pricing info

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.6

Features

4.5

Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

4.9

Creo pricing

Value for money rating:

3.9

Starting from

2950

/user

Per year

Pricing details

Subscription

Free trial

Free plan

Pricing range

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Creo integrations (12)

Integrations rated by users

We looked through 124 user reviews, to identify which products are mentioned as Creo integrations, and what is the users perception.

Windchill PDMLink

Integration rating: 3.8 (4)

“PLM to ERP link. PLM package is impossible to customise or fix without support from distributer which makes running windchill extremely expensive and super wasteful . ”

“Keeping systematic version for cad files created so that product designs can be managed properly with big teams.”

Anthony Cheung

Design Eingeer

1/2

Windchill

Integration rating: 3.3 (3)

Teamcenter

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Ansys Fluent

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

Altium Designer

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

OpenFOAM

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

aPriori

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

Creo support options

Typical customers

Freelancers

Small businesses

Mid size businesses

Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web

Android

iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base

FAQs/Forum

Email/Help Desk

Phone Support

Training options

In Person

Live Online

Webinars

Documentation

Videos

Creo reviews

Overall rating

4.4

124

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend8.15/10

Rating distribution

Pros

“Creo and Windchill allow us to design products with a great level of detail and sophistication with good revision control and change notice processes. It is very powerful once you get used to it.”

Trevor L.

Controls Engineer

“You have to do trainings to know what great functions this software has. Also, if you know all config options and mapkeys, you can work very quick and comfortable.”

Andreas P.

Manager Technical Design

“I love to design parts seamlessly and its really clean. The STL export feature is also very handy.”

LEISLY T.

Photographer

Cons

“Sometimes the options would get you confused as you work on because there's that much options present.”

Ajesh K.

Student

“Software user interface is old styled , its confusing to connect with the database , file size of generated model is high.”

Antony S.

planning engg

“It is little bit difficult to learn because of its advancement.”

Zain U.

student

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Creo FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Creo offer?

Creo has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $2950.00/year
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of Creo?

Creo has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business

Q. What languages does Creo support?

Creo supports the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Q. Does Creo offer an API?

No, Creo does not have an API available.

Q. What other apps does Creo integrate with?

Creo integrates with the following applications:
PTC Mathcad, Windchill

Q. What level of support does Creo offer?

Creo offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum, Email/Help Desk, Phone Support