What's New in Creo 13

With each release, Creo introduces core CAD enhancements to give users more capabilities and easier workflows. Creo 13 improves the user experience with top-level assembly filtering, opening models in tabs, improved assembly retrieval (70% faster) and regeneration control to give you greater control and performance in Creo. Core enhancements to feature presets, advanced surfacing, multi-body workflows, and sheet metal exporting help you to save time when designing. Finally, new capabilities like corner blend, vertex selection, and 3D curve patterns give you greater control.

Composite structures are renowned for enabling lighter, stronger, and more innovative product designs than traditional manufacturing. Creo 13 expands the industry-leading fidelity and accuracy of composite performance with new features to design even faster. Copy and Paste functionality is now available to significantly reduce repetitive work for similar design ideas. Spatial offset transitions achieve up to 60X faster calculation of transitions for complex models, and curve-based draping algorithms support improved accuracy of model outputs.

Simulation-driven design in Creo helps designers explore innovative ideas early in the engineering process, with award winning generative design and Ansys simulation tools. In Creo 13, generative design workflows support assembly-level optimization of part models, Multiphysics analysis, and inertia relief. Creo Simulation Live now supports ECAD assemblies, and for both CSL and Creo Ansys Simulation, there is expanded support for patterning of bolts and preloads to easily analyze designs. Deliver your best designs in less time with the power of Creo simulation-driven design.

Creo is the ideal choice to connect your 3D model to the manufacturing environment, offering integrated CAM capabilities directly within the CAD environment. In Creo 13, engineers designing for additive manufacturing have greater control over lattices. In mold design, conformal cooling channels can be connected automatically to create efficient mold designs with single inlet/outlet cooling paths. For subtractive manufacturing workflows, Creo 13 introduces a swarf milling tool path for higher quality surfaces, and a UX redesign of the NC parameters list for easier understanding of what changes you are making.

Creo continues to build up routed systems design capabilities as more products grow in complexity. Creo 13 delivers working on harnesses as an independent component. Designing harnesses as assemblies improves usability and reuse of electrical components between teams. In addition, Creo has improved usability of the cabling tree, aligned cabling and schematics functionality on bundles, and can create empty bundles. In ECAD, Creo supports the IEC 81346-2 standard, automatic IDX naming conventions, and leverages part level parameters during export.