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Creo Packages
Creo Packages. Choose your capabilities.
Start with the CAD foundation, compare specialist engineering capabilities and choose a buying route that fits your team. Bring your parts, workflows and delivery requirements into the package decision.
Start with the work. Build your Creo capability set.
A Creo design package brings a defined set of modeling, documentation and engineering tools into one CAD environment. The useful starting point is the work your users must complete: the parts they create, the assemblies they coordinate and the information they release.
Begin with the shared design foundation, then identify the specialist tasks that justify a broader package or an individual extension. Keep capability selection separate from licensing and deployment so each decision reflects your actual team.
One product can bring together part design, assembly relationships, documentation and specialist engineering work.
People, capabilities and delivery
Find your team’s fit. Choose how you buy and deploy.
Team size starts the conversation; responsibilities make it useful. Identify who creates geometry, who investigates performance and who prepares manufacturing information before choosing the mix of tools.
Solo designers
Focus on the complete deliverable you own, from imported geometry to a finished model or drawing. Choose specialist tools around the work you perform repeatedly.
Coordinate shared modeling practices, assembly interfaces and handoffs. Consider which capabilities every designer needs and which belong with a specialist.
Map different roles to different capability sets. Evaluate administration, training and collaboration alongside the demands of increasingly complex products.
See what each package adds. Compare Creo side by side.
Use the capability matrix to build a shortlist. A broader package adds specialist tools; it is most useful when those tools match a defined engineering task. The package names below are distinct from role-focused suites and individual extensions.
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Capabilities included in each Creo design package
Capability
Design Essentials
Design Advanced
Design Advanced Professional
Design Engineering
Design Engineering Professional
Design capabilities
Industry Standard 3D CAD Capabilities
✓Included
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Creo AI Assistant (Advise)
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
Top-Down Design Engineering
—Not included in shown package
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
Prismatic and Multi-Surface Milling
—Not included in shown package
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
Engineering Notebook
—Not included in shown package
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
Advanced Surfacing and Additive Manufacturing
—Not included in shown package
—Not included in shown package
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
GD&T and Tolerance Analysis
—Not included in shown package
—Not included in shown package
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
Mold Design and Mold Machining
—Not included in shown package
—Not included in shown package
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
Advanced Multi-CAD Collaboration
—Not included in shown package
—Not included in shown package
—Not included in shown package
✓Included
✓Included
Simulation and Fatigue Advisor
—Not included in shown package
—Not included in shown package
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✓Included
✓Included
Production Machining
—Not included in shown package
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—Not included in shown package
✓Included
✓Included
Interface for JT
—Not included in shown package
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✓Included
✓Included
Advanced Simulation
—Not included in shown package
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—Not included in shown package
—Not included in shown package
✓Included
Options Modeler and Topology Optimization
—Not included in shown package
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✓Included
Metal Printing and Complete Machining
—Not included in shown package
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✓Included
Clearance & Creepage Analysis
—Not included in shown package
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✓Included
Creo+ services
PTC Control Center
✓Included
✓Included
✓Included
—Not included in shown package
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Real-Time Collaboration
✓Included
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✓Included
—Not included in shown package
—Not included in shown package
Creo+ service entries apply to the relevant SaaS offering. Confirm the selected release, licensing basis, package and individual extensions in your proposal. A dash does not rule out a separately available extension. Creo AI Assistant (Advise) provides general guidance; it does not imply every advanced AI capability is included.
A strong CAD foundation. Included with every design package.
The shared foundation supports everyday design work. These capabilities provide a starting point for your evaluation; the comparison above identifies additional specialist scope. Check supported formats, workflows and release details for your environment.
Shape and document
3D part and assembly design
Create product geometry and organize the relationships between components.
Automatic 2D drawing creation
Develop drawing views from the model for downstream communication.
Parametric and freestyle surfacing
Use dimension-driven features and freeform surfaces to develop shape.
Sheet metal design
Model sheet-metal parts with the relevant manufacturing characteristics.
Plastic part design
Develop molded-part geometry as part of the product definition.
Direct modeling (Flexible Modeling)
Adjust selected geometry while working within the existing design.
Assemble and coordinate
Assembly management and performance
Organize larger models and manage the component context used in design.
Mechanism design
Investigate assembly movement and relationships between moving components.
Multi-CAD collaboration
Work with supported data from other CAD systems and review exchange requirements.
Piping and cabling
Develop routing geometry in the context of the surrounding assembly.
Human factors design
Consider access and interaction in relation to the product layout.
Legacy data migration
Bring existing design information into the new working environment.
Explore and prepare
Additive manufacturing
Prepare design geometry for the supported additive workflow.
Augmented reality
Share design context through supported augmented-reality experiences.
Rendering
Create visual representations for communicating appearance and form.
Design exploration
Investigate design alternatives while retaining useful development context.
Fastener design
Add fastening relationships and hardware to the assembly definition.
Advanced framework design
Develop structural framework geometry around the intended assembly.
Take a closer look. Explore the Creo package details.
Use the technical documents to review package scope, then connect the shortlist to a representative design. Bring any format, analysis, manufacturing or delivery questions into your discussion.
Brochure · PDF · 7 pages
Creo Design Packages Overview
Review the five package levels and the specialist capabilities that distinguish them.
Match the tools to the industry. Plan around your product.
Translate the comparison into the design responsibilities that matter to your industry.
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Aerospace & Defense
Consider complex surfaces, assembly definition, tolerance work and advanced investigation as separate responsibilities within the engineering team. A useful package question Which specialist tasks should drive the package comparison?
Vehicle programs coordinate components across packaging, supplier and manufacturing constraints. Use this setting as a practical example when selecting a CAD package around the work the team performs. Which product interface and review criteria should guide the evaluation?
Match package scope to configurable assemblies, production preparation and the mechanical questions your equipment team investigates. A useful package question Which roles need manufacturing or simulation tools alongside core CAD?
Electronics teams coordinate enclosures, components and the interfaces between disciplines. Use this setting as a practical example when selecting a CAD package around the work the team performs. Which product interface and review criteria should guide the evaluation?
Review the tools needed for enclosure form, mechanisms, product documentation and design investigation around a representative device. A useful package question Which design and review deliverables must each user produce?
Choose with clarity. Your Creo package questions, answered.
Clarify packages, licensing and delivery before finalizing your capability set.
How should we choose a Creo package?+
Start with a representative product and the deliverables each role owns. Use the shared CAD foundation and package matrix to identify the specialist tools required, then confirm the proposed release and licensing basis.
Can individual extensions be added?+
Individual extensions can be an alternative to moving every user to a broader package. Discuss the prerequisite package, compatible release and entitlement for the specific extension with your proposal.
Can a team use a mix of packages?+
Different users can have different capability needs. Plan package assignment together with the locked or floating licensing arrangement so access matches the work each person performs.
How do locked and floating licenses differ?+
A locked license is associated with a designated computer. A floating license permits one user at a time to draw from a shared license pool. Confirm current licensing terms and technical requirements for your environment.
Are role-focused suites the same as the five packages?+
They are different ways of organizing an offer. A role-focused suite can combine a base design package with selected extensions. Compare the actual included capabilities rather than treating similar names as identical.
Does Creo+ run entirely in a browser?+
Creo+ combines installed Creo CAD with cloud services. The design application runs on the workstation; administration and collaboration use the applicable services and entitlements.
Does the AI Assistant entry include every AI feature?+
The comparison names Creo AI Assistant (Advise), which provides general guidance. Model-aware or modifying assistance can have separate release, access and entitlement requirements.
How do we confirm price and upgrade options?+
Discuss your users, existing licenses, delivery requirements and desired capabilities with TriStar. Package changes and upgrades should be scoped to the current proposal rather than assumed from a feature checklist.
Your Creo package discussion
Bring your priorities. Build your Creo package plan.
Tell us about your models, engineering tasks and users. TriStar can help connect capability requirements to packages, extensions and delivery choices.
