--- title: Creo Reviews meta_title: Creo Parametric Reviews 2018 | G2 Crowd meta_description: Read over 60 reviews of Creo Parametric - a suite of 3D CAD tools to help accelerate product development. See if Creo Parametric is the right tool for you. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 203 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # Creo Reviews **Vendor:** PTC **Category:** [Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/mechanical-computer-aided-design-mcad) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 203 ## About Creo Creo helps you deliver your best designs in less time with numerous productivity and usability enhancements. Manufacturers rely on PTC to deliver innovative CAD tools for designing composites, conducting real-time simulation, driving generative design, and streamlining additive and subtractive manufacturing. And Creo continues to expand Model-Based Definition capabilities, as well as several core modeling functions that make Creo easier for every user. Creo 11 provides an on-premises solution, while Creo+ delivers a SaaS solution that drives cloud-enabled collaboration and license management / deployment tools. ## Creo Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Creo's **ease of use** invaluable, especially for newcomers adapting to CAD modeling. (10 reviews) - Users value the **engineering discipline** of Creo, which enhances structural thinking and supports complex designs and simulations. (9 reviews) - Users find the **easy interface** of Creo simplifies part modeling, enhancing productivity and efficiency in their work. (7 reviews) - Users value the **modeling efficiency** of Creo, appreciating its easy interface and robust correction tools. (7 reviews) - Users praise the **easy part modeling** in Creo, thanks to its intuitive interface and powerful parametric tools. (6 reviews) - Assembly Ease (6 reviews) - Users value the **efficiency** of Creo, benefiting from its easy workflow and model accessibility for teamwork. (6 reviews) - Accuracy (5 reviews) - Users praise Creo for its **flexibility and ease of use** , making complex designs manageable and efficient. (5 reviews) - CAD Integration (5 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Creo's **complexity overwhelming** , with deep menus and parametric constraints that hinder usability for newcomers. (4 reviews) - Users find Creo **not user-friendly** , with a complex interface that can be frustrating for beginners and slow with heavy tasks. (4 reviews) - Users face significant **performance issues** with Creo, especially when working with large assemblies, affecting productivity and workflow. (4 reviews) - Users often face **3D modeling issues** in Creo, finding the interface and surfacing tools less intuitive compared to competitors. (3 reviews) - Users struggle with the **difficult configuration** of Creo, finding its complexity overwhelming and time-consuming to master. (3 reviews) - Large Assemblies (3 reviews) - Users find the **steep learning curve** of Creo challenging, especially for beginners unfamiliar with parametric modeling. (3 reviews) - Missing Features (3 reviews) - Slow Performance (3 reviews) - Steep Learning Curve (3 reviews) ## Creo Reviews ### 1. Easy to learn, quite difficult to master. Best CAD used so far for surfaces and large assemblies. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel V. | Junior Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** First major aspect I noticed when switching to Creo from another CAD software was how versatile it is when dealing with surfaces and how it encourages the use of surfaces even when creating most prismatic (solid) models. Also, I appreciate how it facilitates the management of large assemblies (for instance by using Simplified Representations, saved orientations, Display Styles etc. **What do you dislike about Creo?** It happens more often than I'd like that the program does things in ways that I don't expect (for example, when dealing with rounds on more complex areas). Most of these times, the program provides very little or no information on why this happened. I know this is less of a problem for more experienced users, but it would be nice if the program was able to help more with troubleshooting. Also, there is the occasional fatal error followed by the program crashing. In these cases, it's impossible to recover unsaved data, as there is no autosave or recovery option. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I started using Creo when some of the major clients started working with it. It has now become the go-to program when clients don't have any specific software preferences. ### 2. Creo is very powerful 3D CAD software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mary Grace M. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** Creo Parametric is the best when it comes to Cabling design, you can easily route your desired cable length and specs. It is very convenient to use Creo for this purpose. Also, you can do your own hotkeys/ shortcut keys. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Since Creo is not cloud-based, you need to save your work multiple times so you are very sure that your design/work was saved in your local file. Because if not, it is very hard to retrieve those. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Creo Parametric is very useful whether you're designing small or big assemblies. You can use a lot of features aside from the basics, like piping, cabling, hose routing, and many more. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** As for the consumer electronics industry, we are dealing a lot of cable wires routings from PCBA to PCBA, etc., and Creo is very useful for this. We can save a lot of time in doing cable routings using Creo. ### 3. Invest the time in learning, and never look back **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nigel K. | Managing Director **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** The ability to manage large assemblies quickly, yet maintain full control and stability far exceeds what other packages offer. Creo is something you have to invest time in to appreciate all the capabilities and is overlooked by users of other packages who rather want the quick surface win, rather than the deeper benefits. When you couple this with AAX and being able to manipulate in Pro/Program the inner workings it becomes a very powerful tool **What do you dislike about Creo?** They need to invest more heavily on the transition to effective 2D drawings. The model based annotations is OK, but most people manufacture from drawings still. Some upgrades needed in the creation of the 2d drawings space **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fully parametric and programmed models, offer ultimate flexibility with the addition of keeping ERP data managed and linked. We are able to accelerate the design and repetition process ### 4. Parametric Modelling as per manufacturing using CREO Parametric **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinay V. | Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** CREO Parametric is a precise modelling software, by using this you can do 2d , 3d Modelling, with Precise assembly of models with real feasibility. CREO Parametric is real manufacturing feasibility software. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Because creo parametric works on real world feasibility so this will not able you to do unrealistic and not feasible modelling. It's user interface is little hard to understand. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** All problems related to Product design and development creo parametric help to solve. BY USING CREO PARAMETRIC we can solve problems related to manufacturing feasibility. Modules like surfacing, weldments, simulation helps in validation of products and it's feasibility. ### 5. Pro software that takes a bit of time to learn **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinayak H. | Product Marketing Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Creo?** Surfacing and sheet metal has a lot of handy features **What do you dislike about Creo?** Navigating through the user interface is not as easy. Takes a bit of time to get accustomed **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** All my sheet metal and enclosure designs are done in creo ### 6. Its a good software to start with **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Syed Shabbar M. | Structural Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Creo?** The ease of making small parts in the part module. **What do you dislike about Creo?** The unease of doing assembly in the assembly module. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allow to put thoughts in to screen in the form of a product. ### 7. Best CAD application for mechanical engineers. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Creo?** The ability to create drawings from parts. I really appreciate the user interface. The best thing about creo is the ability to create complex assembies. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Rendering aspect should be improved. Too few options on rendering. Also the user interface for rendering in not good. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems to create complex assembies efficiently. Also the use of swept blend tool is absolutely amazing. yes the application is very productive. yes it helped the company. ### 8. Best software to design new models with process calculations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahesh A. | Senior BIM Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** Creo helps I'm real time simulation that it allows to enhnance better way to visualize, calculate and design new components. Their is no limit for any complex engineering design. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Creo doesn't give warnings like what is wrong in your model which results in overlapping things or extra part due to which some simulation affect. We have to give so much extra time to recognize what's wrong in the model. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its feature of standard rendering is too good which helps me to produce good images for product catalogs and also its part design can be easily done as it has easy interface . ### 9. Detailed Review of Creo Parametric **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anshuman S. | Research And Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** The best part about CREO parametric is that during sketch mode it automatically takes up the required constraints. Another main advantage of CREO parametric is it's surface modelling feature which is quite better compared to other CAD tools. **What do you dislike about Creo?** The only main downside about CREO parametric is that it misses the feature to make the selected features as the main feature and hide all the features using a single option. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** CREO parametric helps us in creating 3D models as well as the drafting sheet of the same model quite easily. It also helps in analysis of the model and has extensive options especially to convert CAD files into different formats as per one's convenience. ### 10. Creo parametric is one of best software for mechanical design **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rupesh P. | Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** Parametric commands which shown on front framework is the best option. **What do you dislike about Creo?** We can't Switch easily to Creo windows. Like from Creo part to Creo sketch **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Yes **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work on Prototyping of a model. For this purpose Creo parametric is the best software for me ### 11. Best Software for Product Design and Multiple Data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mel Angelo F. | Mechanical Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** The best part of the software is the speed and accuracy of the software in terms of multiple-part data language, and as the main 3D software of PTC, it receives great support from other software under it. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Sometimes the 3d show is not that detailed or less rendered which makes the 3d look cartoonish at times, but this is also a great reason they focus on performance first rather than detail when not yet fully needed. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supports multiple companies primarily in Product Design/ Manufacturing due to its performance and accuracy. With the added support of their PTC software around it, it solves primarily most company requirements. ### 12. PTC Creo Parametric review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** User interface is good and bugs are less **What do you dislike about Creo?** Sometimes it gets stuck and not responding message you will see on the screen. To solve this issue you need to hold for some time and then it works fine. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a very good software for designing..creating assembly and its inbuilt functionalities are awesome. ### 13. "Dynamic software for new engineering designers" **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** I used creo for more than 1 year and when i was learning i used to make a lot of errors while designing but creo's features of creating a new trail file every time i saved my design helped me to continue from where the error initiated. This trail file saving feature of creo is very useful and time-saving for designers and helps them modify only the required sections. this feature of creo makes it user-friendly for new users and professionals too. **What do you dislike about Creo?** creo is very efficient for small component designs, i have experienced a very frequent crashing error while rendering large files or working on a large file. this is the only drawback of using creo that i have faced. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** i used to learn to design sheet metal parts and components for the automobile industry, it helped me a lot in completing the designs on time. ### 14. Good software for product design **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maulik P. | Project Engineer - CAx Automation , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** It has great part modelling and assembly modelling capabilities.good for drafting too. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Lake of options in surfacing as it is not good compare to other software **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is one of the best 3d modelling software we use in our organization for 3d design our products ### 15. after being in R&D industry for about 2 years and continuing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** omer s. | Electrical and electronics engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** designing cad prototyping models , good for simulation **What do you dislike about Creo?** less user contribution globally , very expensive **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** fast prototyping ### 16. Creo Parametric Powerful 3D Modelling Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zeel S. | Aeronautical Analyst , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** - It is very user friendly software & its GUI - It's design capabilities and complex product making performance. - Easy to make model of any part and assembly of parts with creo. - It provides the wide range of features, ranging from simulation to computer aided manufacturing and product data management. **What do you dislike about Creo?** - Due to it's many capabilities and high functionality, first time user often find creo difficult to navigate, regardless of previous experience with other cad softwares. - Simulation gives many errors. - Creo is a costly software compare to any other tool in the market. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** - One can use this software for engineering purpose. - It can perform multiple complex design at a time. - User friendly GUI **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** - It can Create, Analyze, View and Share design downstream using 2D & 3D CAD. - It can also be used downstream in finite element analysis, rapid prototyping, tooling design and CNC manufacturing. ### 17. Creo Parametric tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavan A. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** Creo parametric is a good tool, used for the last 10years. The best features are solid modeling, piping and sheetametal. For surfacing compared to other software little bit difficult. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Plastic parts using surfacing using creo is difficult. Using the radius Option is quite challenging in creo. Most of the time while using copy geometry creo will fatal error. I dislike these things. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** In creo, the components we are making using parametric will give good confidence that parts can be manufactured from the supplier end. this will helps us to get manufacturing knowledge too. ### 18. Very good software to use for analysis and design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ABHISHEK MAMIDI . | Advanced Harness Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** Easy for doing analysis and structural creation. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Linkage with plm not very strong. Can be improved on the cad and plm together **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Good for product designs and analysis **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy wiring diagram creations ### 19. Creo is easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** Creo is easy to use with integrated windchill plm. Easy to do drafting and modelling.Structure update is also easy. **What do you dislike about Creo?** It is a bit heavy software. Stresses the cpu very much and my laptop gets tremendously hot. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think they are working on it as the speed is faster from the previous versions. ### 20. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hiren C. | Design Engineer r&d, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** It has lots of options for customization for creating your own user experience, also it is very easy to learn new things in creo, it's best among all of the CAD sofwares, also it's good in most of design domains **What do you dislike about Creo?** Its not that good while using it for sheet metal projects, it doesn't provide much flexibility while using for sheet metal parts, it needs to improve in sheet metal like it's competitors **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to design machines, for which assembly is important part. And creo does great job for complex assembly design. Also it offers mechanism analysis, which works great ### 21. Creo - Best design software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rupesh P. | Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** User interface is best and commads available are also good. Sheetmetal, part and assembly have different framework. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Nothing to dislike. Best software available in market. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Yes. Definitely **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on sheetmetal domain. ### 22. Great for CAD designing and data management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karan S. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** How creo saves each version of the file every time you hit save is one of a kind feature, I use it often to go back to a particular stage of development **What do you dislike about Creo?** Creating planes every time for viewing a particular section view is a little tedious **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** I can suggest going ahead with creo, no as such problems occurred with the software. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** All our designing work is done on creo parametric. Once you get a hold of the software, it becomes very fast to handle different activities necessary, Also working in wireframe model and updating parts accordingly has been a problem solver in our case. ### 23. Windchill+Creo Administrator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** There is parametric relations to automate the deaigns **What do you dislike about Creo?** Software crash, bug.. long time for enhancement implementation **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Simple software to design products **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creo Mechanism used design to understand how product will work. ### 24. Best software for sheet metal design **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** It is one of the best tool for designing sheet metal products. It gives detailed information for easy manufacturing and assembling. **What do you dislike about Creo?** It creates a large number of files for each part design you save, or while assembly. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used to design outer shell for my project ### 25. I am working on Creo parametric since last 2 years. The software is very good for use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sourabh P. | Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** The software has lots of commands for modelling but for sheet metal this software is best as compaired to others. For making assembly also Creo has very user friendly. **What do you dislike about Creo?** If we want to create surfacing parts in Creo there is only few commands available in the software. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** In Creo software assembly creation is very very easy. If you want to do reverse engineering then for parametric Creo is best for part creation. Also it has very good graphics. ### 26. PTC Creo - The greatest 3D parametric software for Designing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tushar C. | Executive Engineer E-ll, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** I am Using Creo parametric 4.0 M080 version, using this I can create 3D model designs and 2D drawings for manufacturing. I can do simulation using creo. Data of 3D model can be converted into IGES, STEP, Stereo lithography files. Feel commnad is more powerful. PTC Creo Parametric can import just about any file format from other 3D CAD software. I can change system appearance colour of background, dimensions, geometry etc. to my choice. Very Impressively arrangements of Commands. Also trail file creation in background is a great add using/playing trail file i can restore my lost data. Like sculpting, topology, drawing creation, piping, wiring harness, sheet metal, Library etc. Map keys is a great toolprovided by creo. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Surface modeling is not that much Good, but for basic to mid level we can use Creo. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Use Creo parametric for your products design as it is parametric chances of mistake in dimension are minimal. Also simulation works good in Creo. Drawings GD&T symbol and BoM making is Very good **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating 3D models of my company products and creates 2D drawings for manufacturing. I am doing simulation using Creo. Importing and exporting 3D date to and for customers and cross functional teams in different types of format like iges, step etc. ### 27. Creo Parametric **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ABHISHEK N. | Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** Parametric modeling is the best feature .whatever changes occur can automatically be updated in drawing too which can help in reduces your extra work out as well. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Copy of same 3D Model can also be affected if updated in the previously original one . And one of the dislikes is that simulation gives many errors and is unable to perform analysis. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** 3D Modeling is very useful and updated like other modeling software in the market. In the framework, many features like fasteners feature for visualization of fasteners in 3d models. ### 28. Good experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LAXMAN G. | Product Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** Assembly in creo software. Good working software **What do you dislike about Creo?** Editing is to hard please do some thing now **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Assembly should be easy **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fetal error resolves ### 29. Review for Creo 6.0 parametric **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bharanidharan N. | Product cost Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** It is the best tool for modeling 3D models and 2D drafting it; it has sophisticated features to work easy for the design enginners **What do you dislike about Creo?** Surface modeling has less freedom to work with it, nature of formats is a little bit difficult to understand **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** It is a very useful and supportive application for Design engineers ; we have windchill option for PLM **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creo simulation also gives good results for our analysis works; Modelling is very fast ### 30. Design parametrics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Santosh R. | Sr manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** Easy nature of design and pattern building with ease and transmitting the designs for analysis **What do you dislike about Creo?** Nomenclature glitch for surfacing . Keep crashing when cylinder design **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design Surfacing. Pattern Piping 3d modeling Cae Simulation ### 31. It is the best and most used app for 3d modelling and Drafting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanket P. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** Interference and commonds are memorisable. Easy to learn and handle. Graphical interference and command line are good than other CAD softwares also User friendly. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Not useful for operating scan data. It will hang the system. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is the best software for 3d modelling and drafting. Also we can use for running actual mechanism easily which helps u lot when your working on big machine. ### 32. Creo - Bring your imagination into "Virtual" reality **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kishor K. | Cad Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Creo?** First thing is like, everyone suggests same software that they are using.. I always prefer creo.. As name suggests Parametric is the thing where everything is managed to save users working time.. User interface is the best, simple and very productive that we can get only from Creo.. it provides lots of core enhancements.. like lots of mini toolbars are given. makes designer easier.. making an Assembly is very intuitive with Creo.. Mapkeys and family tables are really best.. Which saves time while doing repeating work.. It provides better management for external references.. rendering is very enhanced but simple to use.. lots of improvements are coming in next versions.. Linked with lots of other modules like analysis, simulation, animation.. it has the capability of importing CAD file format.. which helps the user to customize the old files. **What do you dislike about Creo?** nothing to dislike.. sometimes.. only sometimes working on large assembly files leads to unknown errors.. or it crashes.. and major drawback.. rendering crashes.. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** for a beginner.. easy to learn software... nothing is hidden like other software.. each command is visible.. which makes a new user to get/learn everything of it.. people highly recommend usage of Creo to any engineering or architectural firms who are in need of better CAD modeling... **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** daily cad related work... we have lots of configurations in our daily work/assignments.. creo makes us easier to manage everything.. rendering is the best parts that we are using daily.. ### 33. Creo Parametric Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** It has a wide variety of uses like 2D Dimensioning and 3D Modelling. **What do you dislike about Creo?** They must introduce more features so it will be easy to use like Solidworks **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do 3D solid modeling most of the time. I use it to produce machine drawings also. ### 34. It is an advanced CAD software for 2D & 3D modeling. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajeev K. | Section Engineer - Purchase, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** In this software, we can design any part in 2D & 3D model. One thing which I like most is, it set dimesional constraints automatically, some time we do not to apply constraints. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Appearance of the designed part is not good as compared to other software. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** I will definitely recommed this software those are willing to learn designing on an advance software. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** After making product Assemy, We can analyse the actual working of that product and can do modification before actual productions. ### 35. Simply effective tools for CAD MODELLING **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Creo?** View selection and Datum plane selection is easy when compared to other CAD softwares. Moreover integrated Windchill or teamcenter is very smooth and simple to use. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Not having option to convert 3D pdf which is widely used for representative purpose now a days **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAD MODELLING , DRAFTING, ANALYSIS ### 36. Best software for modelling and mechanical designing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash B. | Mechanical Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** I am very happy with creo parametric. It is very user friendly software. It is very easy to make model of any part and assembly of parts with creo. I like design capabilities of this software. Creo provides wide range of features to make use of software easy and simple. **What do you dislike about Creo?** I had faced issue like fetal error that i dislike. In fetal error creo crack without any backup of running design and we lost our work. Many times it happens when we use some complex features. And if we not saved our work then we lost our work. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** I recommend this software because it is very easy to use for new user also and we can easily make new design with wide range of features provided by creo parametric. It ia very good software for industries to make new design **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** With creo parametric i am doing very complex mechanical designs easily in our industry. Creo is best to me for prepare cad model and assembly of cad parts. ### 37. Creo Parametric review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bharani D. | Senior Should Cost Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** It is the best tool to use it for 3D modeling and 2D drafting tool **What do you dislike about Creo?** It is not much usable for surface modeling features **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to update the model features and support for simulation results for our analysis ### 38. User friendly and excellent interface for designing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** Simplicity of using features while creating 2d drawing or 3d cad data is what i liked most about this software. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Surfacing in creo required lot more improvement i think this is what creo need to improve the most **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Creating Part modelling 2. Sheet metal and solid modelling 3. Assy of various parts 4. 2D drawing 5. For creating Vehicle coordinate system 6. Skeleton assy for system level cad ### 39. Creo is a absolutely wonderful CAD software, but sometimes it is too capable. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ian A. | Mechanical Engineering Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** What I like most about Creo is the ability to do absolutely anything and everything. **What do you dislike about Creo?** My main issue with creo is the fact that it crashes, and sometimes if you don't have your settings right, the view will be compromised or will be an overall bad experience **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creo allowed me to learn more complex CAD tricks and to be able to do more with more. ### 40. Good in Skelton Model **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** User friendly software for 3d and 2D drawing preparation. Sketching is very easy and also conversion from 2d to 3d is also easy. Tree management for each history event is good. Drafting is good comapred to Catia. Very good in Forging part design. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Sheet metal design is not much user friendly as compared to other 3d software. Also constraint management during 3d assembly is also not much user friendly, lot of confusion in this section. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I prepare design for Forging parts mostly and it is really good. Also I work in Skelton mode where I prepare CAD in vehicle coordinate system. ### 41. Creo is one of best available softwares for design engineers. It makes CAD work like piece of cake **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** Interface is very simple (different tabs for different set of commands) and it is easy to use even for new designers **What do you dislike about Creo?** During assembly process it is difficult to make changes in child part. It has to be done seperately in child part or else change will not reflect in child part. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAD models, drafting,prototyping and it is parametric so it makes easy for bottom down approach CAD assemblies. ### 42. Great tool to use for mechanism designing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruv T. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** It has some great parametric aspects, better solvers for kinematic & dynamic linkage simulations, you get much less errors than any other software like Solidworks if you follow a correct procedure. In short you get a closer result to your input than Solidworks. Also it enables us with a wide variety of functions & tools for a wider applications. **What do you dislike about Creo?** It is a bit less user friendly than other 3D modeling softwares, need to work on rendering tools and visual/appearance aspects to be used for brochure making, other marketing or customer related purposes. Need to make user friendly environment for assembly purpose, so that a new user can use it without facing any problems. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have done smart home products designing, linkage simulations, force calculation, parametric modelling, etc. using creo 3.0 ### 43. 3D modelling and concept building Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naman G. | Jr. Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** 3D modelling toolbars is properly arranged We can access any files. Command finding feature Assembly features are good **What do you dislike about Creo?** Sheet metal feature is very bad The surfacing module is also very complicated Consumes a lot of CPU storage Simulation and analysis **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mechanical concept building and 3D modeling. ### 44. Creo Parametric review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mit S. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** It is very simple to understand and powerfull tool to generate 3D models **What do you dislike about Creo?** It is boring to model and sometimes difficult to perform complex operations Some complex models are hard to make in creo parametric **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** You should definitely use creo parametric as it is the best CAD software out there. You can almost do anything that you can imagine using this software. You get a really good feeling after converting your imagination into actual 3D software **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems: I am working on various designs and product and always use creo parametric. It helps me visualize the product that I have designed and check whether what I have designed is actually feasible. It also serves as a language between different product teams to help them understand what I have worked on ### 45. Design to Analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramakrishnan K. | Executive Business Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Creo?** Step by step model creation and easy process improvements, including model modifications and change management are quite easier and convenient to all. Integrated welding and framework option are so cool and provides great visuals. Numerous tools and never ending options for all the manufacturing process methods for Mechanical industry . Regulatory programing on the system make it smooth and top class for industry. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Conversion CAD parts from other native 3 D softwares are not so adaptive to the creo parametric. The constraints in assembly are tedious and even for simple conceptual design it is too burdening to change and make it presentable. Fixing the templates is not so simple, many times the features or some frames mismatches when creating the automated drawing sheet. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Preserving the traditional way of design and trying to switch to modern level of design systems, Creo parametric is the good option to go with. Numerous options will transform your life to ages ahead. When you think of working compatible with the industrial design segment you can consider Creo, as the evolution begins from Proe wild fire, the transformation is much informative and technologically upgraded. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Changing assembly and drawing sheet was too time taking on 2 D softwares, Creo parametric made it quite easier and dynamically changing the drawing sheets, when we change the models. Skeletal modeling optimize the time in changing the models or parts and also prevent us from re - inventing the wheel in design. ### 46. CAD software with user friendly Interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** The arrangement of different tool tabs are systematic and easy to navigate. **What do you dislike about Creo?** The system may lag on complex assemblies and switching between many CADs may create a fatal error. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design of Parts and assemblies which consists of Sheet metal, Plastic and Casting. ### 47. Creo parametric features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish M. | Section Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** Interface while designing part modelling **What do you dislike about Creo?** Shortcut for command need to improve for easy working **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creo model helps in designing proto part for a basic level in which we can make a number of changes before making physical part ### 48. One of best 3D parametric software for design **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rimosh A. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** It's good for 3d modeling and 2d drafting. Good user interface. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Surface modeling is not that much Good . **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** I will recommend to my friends **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used this software for 3d modeling and 2d drafting. ### 49. Easy and efficient to use software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** Creo has a good user interface along with wide range of tools in order to design efficiently. **What do you dislike about Creo?** Multitasking is a problem concerned with creo. **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creo helps in solving day to day design problems concerned with automobile industry. ### 50. CREO PARAMETRIC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Creo?** New interface helps easily for designing, better simulation and good concept for drawing **What do you dislike about Creo?** For beginners sone hints should be provided for better understanding, large assembly files Using may cause system crash. **Recommendations to others considering Creo:** Good interface and easy usage to other apps make it a good software to use **What problems is Creo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better simulation and easy access with windchill makes working very easy. 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