PTC Creo
Creo is a family of Computer-aided design (CAD) apps supporting product design for discrete manufacturers developed by PTC. Creo runs on Microsoft Windows and provides software for 3D CAD parametric feature solid modeling, 3D direct modeling, 2D orthographic views, Finite Element Analysis and simulation, schematic design, technical illustrations, and viewing and visualization. Creo can also be paired with the Mastercam machining based software. History 
PTC began developing Creo in 2009, and announced it using the code name Project Lightning at PlanetPTC Live, in Las Vegas, in June 2010. In October 2010, PTC unveiled the product name Creo. PTC released Creo 1.0 in June 2011. Software and features 
Creo Elements and Creo Parametric compete directly with CATIA, Siemens NX/Solid Edge, and SolidWorks. The Creo suite of apps replace and supersede PTC’s products formerly known as Pro/ENGINEER, CoCreate, and ProductView. See also 
 Parametric Technology Corporation
 Creo Elements/Pro
 Creo Elements/View
 SolidWorks
 Autodesk Inventor
 I-DEAS
 Solid Edge
 Siemens NX
 Mastercam

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Product design
Computer-aided design software for Windows