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Creo Toolkit Applications for CAD Quality, Productivity, AI Readiness and Digital Thread by Annika Kapoor, Technical Manager at Calypso.

Creo Toolkit Applications for CAD Quality, Productivity, AI Readiness and Digital Thread

Creo 12.0 update with highlights from release which includes over 250 enhancements.

Creo+ 13.2 delivers enhancements to help users collaborate effectively and achieve higher-quality results on their best designs in less time. Surfacing introduces piece-to-piece parameterization and improved control of tangent curve lengths – making it easier to build precise surfaces with fewer iterations. Multibody design is more flexible with better creation and updates of assemblies derived from multibody parts. Simulation-driven design in Creo incorporates the latest Ansys solvers and simplified bolt elements for patterns and preloads, giving teams more accurate studies with less setup effort. Gain major time savings in composite design with significant improvements to reuse existing designs. In manufacturing, Creo+ 13.2 has a new spiral toolpath type, gouge protection, and a closed-loop option to reduce errors in high-speed milling steps. Read the release notes to learn more.  

Check out this video Creo Toolkit Applications for CAD Quality, Productivity, AI Readiness and Digital Thread by Anika Kapoor, Technical Manager at Kalypso.    

Discover how Skarper’s ultracompact clip-on disc drive turns any bike electric, combining sustainable design with Formula One-inspired engineering for urban riders.    

Explore how Gunboat combines racing speed, luxury craftsmanship, and sustainable innovation to create catamarans that set new standards for performance and responsibility.    

Check out this video on Creo Engineering Notebook by Anji Seberino (SME Field Director) and Tom Quaglia (Creo Solutions Consultant).

  Creo+ continues to deliver new enhancements designed to accelerate your workflows and boost productivity. With over 40 new enhancements across user productivity, composites, ECAD, simulation, manufacturing and more, Creo+ 13.1 helps you to deliver your best designs in less time than ever before! Smarter Electrical Design: In Creo+ you can now build harnesses as assemblies for structured data management, component reuse, and easier collaboration in multi-user collaboration sessions. Intelligent MBD: Pattern recognition in GD&T Advisor helps to define patterns, capture design intent, and maintain associativity for faster, more accurate annotations. As your model evolves, the pattern recognition feature will adjust accordingly. Advanced Surfacing: Enjoy smoother, higher-quality surfaces with improved flexibility in control point manipulation and faster performance – even on the most complex models. Simulation Upgrades: ANSYS solvers have been upgraded to version 2025 R2 to deliver enhanced security and improved mesh defaults for greater fidelity and confidence. Composites Enhancements: Greater robustness in solidification, support for draping along curves, and better handling of missing materials. Manufacturing Efficiency: Automated intent chain creation at beam-shell intersections, and a new side milling tool for efficient undercut machining. Collaboration: teams can now delete unwanted branches in collaboration mode to stay aligned and keep projects clean. Creo gets better and better with each release, helping you to deliver the right product at the right time. Read the release notes to learn more.

ARCA Dynamics is transforming space safety with AI-powered satellites, offering real-time tracking to prevent collisions and protect vital services in low Earth orbit.    

Check out this video on Creo Harness Assembly by Adam Manfredonia (Creo Solutions Consultant) and Tom Quaglia (Creo Solutions Consultant).  

Saga Robotics’ robots transform strawberry farms in Britain and vineyards in California—eliminating chemicals and advancing sustainable agriculture.    

Check out this video on Simulation updates by Todd Kraft (Creo Product Manager) and Tom Quaglia (Creo Solutions Consultant).

How slot car racing is turbocharging STEM education—students design, build, and race like F1 engineers using real tools in a nationwide UK challenge.    

Creo+ 13.0 debuts the Creo AI Assistant (Beta) and over 40 other enhancements designed to help you deliver better designs, faster. The Creo AI Assistant (Beta) provides troubleshooting support for specific error messages directly in the Creo environment – saving time and frustration. Creo Simulation Live now includes thermal optimization on ECAD assemblies, and manufacturing updates support design for conformal cooling channels in part mode and easier back boring and back countersinking design. Composite capabilities are expanded with simulation results per ply, flat pattern export enhancements, and dedicated composite material types. Performance enhancements in the model tree provide a 15% improvement in design regeneration and improved global clearance and interference checks have up to a 10x speed improvement. Finally, productivity upgrades for Freestyle and Sketcher enable even quicker workflows to deliver your best designs in less time.   Read the release notes to learn more.

Explore how Ryvid’s modular electric motorcycles are reshaping urban transport—combining sustainability, swappable batteries, and community-driven innovation.    

Check out this video on Modelcheck and Performance Advisor by Irena Roggeveen (Creo Product Manager) and Adam Manfradonia (Creo Solutions Consultant). Original Date Presented: August 14th,  2025.    

Welcome to Blog Post #21 in Our Multibody Series!   In today’s post, we’re diving into a powerful new capability introduced in Creo 11—the ability to reference an existing point/coordinate system based pattern in a geometry pattern of type "point" pattern. This enhancement can significantly streamline your workflow, especially when working with complex body patterns. To get started, check out the What’s New video linked below. The first section highlights the benefits of the new “From Pattern” option in point patterns, which helps accelerate regeneration using the “Identical” or “Flexible” regeneration modes. Around the 50-second mark, the video also demonstrates some useful body patterning techniques.     While the video covers the basics, here are a few key tips and tricks to help you get the most out of this feature: Patterning Bodies with Coordinate Systems Use a pattern of coordinate systems to define both the position and orientation of each body pattern member precisely. Using Curves for Placement of Coordinate Systems If your bodies lie on a plane, consider sketching a curve with points that define their future locations. Then, replicate a coordinate system along that curve using the “Follow the Curve” option. This approach makes it easy to align all coordinate systems—for example, pointing them inward. Leverage the “From Pattern” Option When creating a Point Pattern, use the new “From Pattern” option to inherit the structure of an existing pattern. Set the Alternate Origin When defining the body pattern, be sure to select the first coordinate system as the alternate origin for the lead pattern member. This step ensures the correct orientation relationship is maintained during replication. Merging Patterned Bodies When merging patterned bodies, always select the body pattern feature in the Modifying Bodies collector of the Boolean Merge feature. This ensures the model updates parametrically if the number of bodies in the pattern changes.   Thanks for reading.  I hope it was informative. If you liked it, give it a Kudo.   Back to Creo Multibody Home: Start Here!   Enjoy!....Martin  

Creo Parametric: Multibody Home --  Start Here!   I'm creating this blog to be the central home page for anyone interested in trying out the new capabilities first introduced in Creo 7.0  that support multibody design. Below will be links to other blog posts on specific detailed topics under the general heading of multibody. I'm interested in getting your feedback on all the new stuff, but I also want to try to do this in a somewhat organized fashion. So, you can think of this blog as the top node of a tree that will have a number of branches below it for the various multibody related topics.   In parallel to the list of blog posts below, I also plan to maintain a Multibody Infos post that provides you with links to further information, documentation, presentations, and any other information bits and pieces around multibody design in Creo. To get going effectively, I encourage you to first go through the What’s new material and tutorials that you find there, so that you have an overview and high level background on the use cases and capabilities. That will allow me then to go one level deeper and include some tips, tricks etc. in the blog posted here. I hope to be able to post new information regularly and hope you tune in, find it beneficial and give feedback in return.   If you want to send me private messages, that’s fine, too. In particular if you have any suggestion on future blog post topics or questions, feel free to contact me at mneumueller@ptc.com . Enjoy…Martin   Blog posts: Multibody – Intro, Model tree interaction and What’s that default body doing? Multibody- Seven 90sec-Tipps & Tricks around Booleans & Split Multibody - So many ways to trim a body Multibody - Creo 7.0.1 Enhancements  Multibody -  Windchill 12 & Creo 7.0.1 Multibody –How to display a body parameter in the model tree  Multibody – How to display, use or call-out a body parameter – Part 1  Multibody - How to display, use or call-out a body parameter – Part 2 Multibody - Body selection, Body object vs Surface referencing Multibody - How to get rid of a body? -  Show/Hide vs Remove Body vs Delete Body Multibody - How to save out a single body to .stl or step? Multibody - How does this all work with reference parts for MoldDesign and  NC?  Multibody - What are these Construction bodies? and all the details around them…. How to create a body intersection curve and what might it be good for? Multibody - How do I >position< bodies?  Multibody - A simple body-based motion envelope cutout example Multibody - Clearance & Creepage Analysis Multibody - Model Tree Auto-locate capability: Update – Creo 7.0 vs Creo 8.0 & Creo 9.0 Multibody - External Copy Geometry (ECG) and body attribute propagation Multibody –  A "Geometry Re-use"- Use Case that became possible with new capabilities in Creo 10.0 Multibody – Another look at patterning bodies with Creo 11 and higher  ..... And more to come…

Mazak Europe cuts carbon with solar and smart tech—powering sustainable precision for MedTech, motorsport, and more.    

Check out this video on Creo Harness Manufacturing Extension from PTC & Virtual Interconnect. Presenters: Tom Quaglia (Solution Consultant, Fellow), Kieran Gilhooley (Software Development Manager, Virtual Interconnect), Scott Ferguson (Project Development Manager, Virtual Interconnect)  Original Date Presented: June 26th,  2025.