CREO Elements/Direct (CoCreate)

CREO Elements/Direct (formerly CoCreate)

Introduction

Simplicity of 2D, Power of 3D

Creo Elements/Direct 17.0 offers numerous enhancements that enable all users to adopt 3D, using similar concepts and tools available in 2D, and applying them to 3D to enable team-wide design productivity.

Make real-time design changes easier and predictable!
Real-time direct modeling will help you create and modify 3D models easier and more predictably than ever before. See results instantly as you make design changes on-the-fly. Like ‘rubber-banding’ found in the 2D world, real-time direct modeling makes 3D design totally intuitive and predictable.
Work in absolute clarity with real-time rendering.
You’ll achieve absolute clarity and realism through all stages of product design through high-performance real-time rendering of the 3D design, including materials, realistic shadows, and a mirror plane.
The Result: Accelerate Design Productivity by Up to 2x.
With the new ways of working in 3D, such as real-time direct modeling, context sensitive mini-tool bars, and streamlined tasks you can improve design efficiency and reduce time-to-market compared to the previous release of Creo Elements/Direct:
- Reduce time spent creating 2D profiles by 40%
- Modify models up to 2x faster
- Modify models with the New Push and Pull design paradigm 3x faster
- Reduce the time spent creating and modifying advanced 3D patterns by 60%
Drive design changes with intelligent 3D dimensions.
You can add intelligent dimensions to designs with in-context automatic selection of the best dimension type for the geometry selected. To drive a design change, you can simply drag the dimension arrow, or precisely change the value of the 3D dimension, and then decide on-the-fly which geometric area is anchored, or drive symmetrical changes.
Complete manufacturing drawings with Creo Elements/Direct Drafting.
User-driven enhancements, such as projected reference points for arc and fillets; more dimensioning types, including radius dimensions for B-splines and arc angle dimensions; and plotting improvements, improve design efficiency when creating complete manufacturing drawings.
Support for Windows 7 Improves Productivity
Creo Elements/Direct 17.0 runs on Microsoft Windows 7, which will make your entire team more productive than ever.

Creo Elements/Direct 17.0 contains these and many more new capabilities to improve your personal and product development process productivity. For more information about what’s new in Creo Elements/Direct 17.0, read the Top Ten Reasons to Buy Creo Elements/Direct 17.0 document.

Direct CAD AND PDM software

Direct CAD & PDM software

Creo Elements/Direct – formerly CoCreate – is a complete design environment, offering 3D CAD and 2D CAD, CAE and integrated product data management (PDM). A broad set of add-on design modules brings additional product development capabilities to Creo Elements/Direct CAD and PDM products. Creo Elements/Direct provides speed, flexibility, and responsiveness-to-change for customers facing short design cycles, one-off product designs, or companies demanding a lightweight design process. This direct approach to 3D CAD software design delivers faster design cycles and flexibility to the 3D design.

By investing in Creo Elements/Direct today, you can immediately realize the proven performance benefits of PTC’s industry leading direct modeling technology, with the confidence in knowing that your investments will be fully compatible with Creo, the design software solution set to deliver break-through productivity gains. What’s more, all current CoCreate 2D and 3D data are also fully compatible with the Creo product family.

Features and Benefits

Lightweight design process driven by an direct approach to 3D CAD
Fastest way to create and modify 3D designs
Easiest 3D CAD system to learn and use
Flexible approach for unexpected and radical changes to 3D designs or design teams, and flexible for working with multi-source CAD data
Connected product family that leverages CAD data for downstream applications
Scalable environment for all sizes of companies and products