-------CREO - Design Packages --------

Package AKA Product Short Description Questions

Is it important to you to have 100% confidence that your
N/A Pro/FEATURE 3D modeling using the same terminology as on the shop floor
digital part model represents reality?
Do you need to create accurate, complete and detailed
N/A Pro/DETAIL Produce complete, production-ready drawings
production-level drawings?
N/A Pro/PLOT Prints drawings & extends plotting capabilities Do you produce printed/plotted drawings and images?

N/A Interface Capabilities Import/Export various CAD and image formats Do you import designs using IGES, STEP, DXF, DWG, etc?

Are accurate, up-to-date BOMs, wire lists and other table-type

N/A Pro/REPORT Creates Bill of Material (BOMs)
data on your drawings important?
Create, modify, and delete individual geometric 3D entities. Handle entities contained Do you import designs using IGES, STEP, DXF, DWG, etc?
N/A Pro/LEGACY
in 2D drawings. Do you ever have to modify them?
Enables a design mode specifically for the design of sheetmetal components. Creates
Pro/SHEETMETAL-
N/A both the bent and flattened state of the design. Shows bends and flat patterns in Do you design products that are made of sheetmetal?
DESIGN sheetmetal drawings.
Do you create welds when building assemblies? How many
Documents assembly welds: where they are, what type, weight, required sticks
N/A Pro/WELDING welds are in your assemblies? How are you documenting your
needed to weld, etc.
welds?
Quickly create accurate, photo rendered images of Creo Parametric parts and Do you have a need to produce high-quality, photo rendered
N/A Pro/PHOTOTRENDER
assemblies (great for sales and marketing groups) images for marketing purposes?
Would you like to be able to quickly publish your
N/A Pro/WEB PUBLISH Creates website showing the assembly of parts
engineering/manufacturing data in a web format?

N/A LIBRARY ACCESS Library of standard parts, features, and tools (moldbases, pipe fittings) Do you maintain a library of standard components for reuse?

Automatically takes 2D schematic information from ECAD IDF files (used for PC Do you create PC Boards? Circuit Boards? Do you create 3D
N/A Pro/ECAD
Boards) and converts them into 3D model geometry. models from your 2D schematics?
Allows for customized part definition and automation by modifying the built-in part
definition program Do your part designs ever change based on a logical set of
N/A Pro/PROGRAM (Parts) criteria?
[Note: This item does not appear on the Foundation XE BoM but is functionality that Do you wish to automate variants of your part designs?
is within the license]
titive pricing reasons]
 [Note: the Channel-Only verison of Creo Parametric is offered as a node-locked license for competitive pricing reasons]
Have you established standard design modeling practices in
Enforces company standards (spelling check for Creo Parametric) -- important if
N/A ModelCHECK your organization? Design to model quality and company
company is ISO Certified -- also does part indexing
standards, common names?
N/A Pro/SURFACE Parametric, dimension based surfacing (creates surfaces by boundaries) Do you design technical or complex shapes?

Set of tools to import and manipulate scan curve data (not point cloud) and create Do you use scanned curve data in your designs (not point
N/A Pro/SCAN-TOOLS
best-fit, smooth surfaces through the curves clouds -- see REX for that)?

Allows users to manipulate models (bend, stretch, etc.) regardless of model's creation
Do you need to make changes to imported models? (i.e.,
history or data type
N/A Warp Surface drafting for plastic molding) Manufacture designs/components
[Note: This item does not appear on the Foundation XE BoM but is functionality that
in different sizes?
is within the license]
Updates photo images as Creo Parametric model is moved in real-time
Would it be helpful to design in a photo rendered environment
N/A Real-Time Photorendering [Note: This item does not appear on the Foundation XE BoM but is functionality that
with reflections and textures?
is within the license]
Creo Parametric

How do you visualize and communicate design information

Visualization (movie) of how things are assembled or dis-assembled (great for
DAO Design Animation Option efficiently to manufacturing? Your customers? Create
Marketing or Sales departments or instructional movies for assemblies)
compelling sales/mtg presentations and assembly sequences?

Provides a toolset that assists the user in the cleanup of imported part geometry such Do you work with imported data from suppliers/partners? How
DDO Import Data Doctor
as STEP and IGES files. (saves 60%-80% of time) much time is spend cleaning up geometry?
Web native access to data mangement, part libraries, tutorials, tech support & more..
directly within Creo Parametric. Would you like to utilize the web more effectively for design
Web Connectivity
[Note: This item does not appear on the Foundation XE BoM but is functionality that and engineering tasks?
is within the license]

User-in-the-loop method of builing parametrics into imported models. Allows users

to parametrically manipulate certain selected features of imported geometry. Also
Do you often have to work with imported geometry? Do you
maintains the original geometry for future reference if necessary. Includes functions
FRT Feature Recognition Tool need to modify the geometry reliably? Is the accuracy of that
for: Protrusions, Cuts, Slots, Holes, Chamfers, Fillets and Patterns.
imported geometry critical to you?
[Note: This item does not appear on the Foundation XE BoM but is functionality that
is within the license]
[Note: the Channel-Only veris
Provides basic 2 ½-axis milling capability, allowing machining of prismatic parts in
5-axis positioning
UI is completely icon/dialog driven
Are you currently programming CNC milling? What do you
Includes a generic (Fanuc) GPOST
N/A CAM Lite use to program your CNC mill? How many axes do you
Specific GPOST can be purchased from AustinNC or other vendors
program it to?
[NOTE: Support of this lite extension is available with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0
M070 and later]

Simulate Lite provides:

- Guiding interface walks users through model setup
- Static Structural Analysis for Parts and Assemblies
- Loads: Force/Moment, Pressure, Gravity
- Constraints: Displacement, Pin, Ball, Planar
N/A Simulate Lite
- Full results reporting functionality
- Complete upward model compatibility to full Simulate
[NOTE: the Simulate Lite analysis is limited to models of 200 surfaces or less]
[NOTE: Support of this lite extension is available with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0
M070 and later]
Are you currently perfoming any FEA analysis in-house? Are
you paying for outside consultants to perform FEA analysis?
Have you experienced any issues with product failure due to
force or stress loads? If not, are your products over-
engineered to ensure there will be no failures? What is the
extra cost associated with that?

Creo Parametric Super feature for surfacing. Freestyle uses revolutionary sub-
Do you need to do rapid conceptualization of complex
divisional modeling to meet the needs of today's industrial designer. Start with a
surfaces?
primitive shape and manipulate faces (also edges and vertices) of the control mesh.
Do you want to concentrate on the form rather than what’s
While user models with the mesh, the system applies a subdividing/smoothing
behind the form?
N/A Freestyle algorithm which results in high quality manufacturable surfaces.
Do you need a surfacing solution that allows you to model as
This also includes the Trace Sketch capability that was formerly only found in ISDX.
fast as you think?
Trace Sketch allows the user to import an image (properly sizing & locating it on a
Do you need to create high quality manufacturable surfaces
plane) and use that as a guide for the creation of geometry. The image could be a
quickly, on-the-fly?
photo or have been created using Creo Sketch or any other image tool.

Have your prototypes or released products had failures from

Provides the ability to analyze electrical creepage between two selected parts or
electrical creepage or internal sparking? Have you
quilts.
experienced significant rework, product recalls and /or
[NOTE: Creepage analysis is very computer hardware intensive]
N/A Spark Analysis Lite warranty returns due to this? Are you currently accounting for
[NOTE: Support of this lite extension is available with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0
creepage and clearnace in your devices? If so, how? If not, is
F000 and later]
that a concern?
 Essentials I
Do you…
Provides direct modeling editing capabilities to Creo Parametric. Easily modify 3D
Creo Flex
Flexible Modeling
part geometry whether it is imported (IGES, STEP, Solidworks, etc..) or making late
work with Imported Geometry often?
Extension need to process Late- Stage changes to your designs?
stage changes on a complex native model.
create Bid-Proposal models often?
Essentials II

Do you design assemblies in teams to work on parts of the

Advanced functionality for creating: assembly instruction sheets, top-down designs, same large assembly? Would you benefit from employing
Creo

Advanced Assembly
AAX global layouts, assembly family tables, and automated design changes (using better large assembly management techniques? Are you
Extension Interchange assemblies, assembly programs and linked web pages). performing Top Down design? Please explain what that
means to you...
Progressive

Extension

Provides automated functionality and a 2-D user-interface for designing Progressive

Die

PDX Progressive Die Dies. Includes sheet metal part preparation, strip layout, punch, bend and trimming Do you design progressive dies?
tools as well as plate configurations and automated drawings.
Machining
Extension
Complete

Adds full 5-axis, continuous multi-axis milling and mill/turn machine programming Do you have 5-axis milling work or a mill/turn machine (live
N/A Pro/NC-ADVANCED
(live tooling). tooling)?