PTC Creo 11.0.5.0 with HelpCenter

PTC has released Creo 11.0.5.0. This release is packed with exciting new features and enhancements that promise to streamline your product development workflows and empower you to create better products faster.

PTC's Creo 11 brings significant updates that promise to revolutionize the way engineers, designers, and manufacturers approach product development. As the best CAD software for engineers in 2024, Creo 11 offers enhanced design tools, improved simulation capabilities, and advanced 3D modeling features, making it a must-have for those looking to streamline workflows and boost productivity. One of the standout Creo 11 release highlights is its integration of generative design features, which enable engineers to design more efficient and optimized structures. This Creo 11 generative design capability allows users to create complex geometries that would be impossible with traditional methods, resulting in more sustainable products and cost savings in manufacturing.


Fundamentals

Enhancements in Mapkeys and User Interface Customizations
User Interface Location: File > Options
Description
In Creo Parametric, enhancements have been made to the loading process for mapkeys and user interface customization files
The enhancements include:
- Mapkeys and UI Customization
. The mapkeys.pro configuration file can now be placed and loaded from the application's Start in directory AppData\Roaming\PTC\ProENGINEER\Wildfire\.wf\.Settings or the run directory (run_dir). To enable this, set the new configuration option load_mapkeys_run_dir to yes.
. Use load_mapkeys_run_dir along with load_ui_customization_run_dir to load both mapkeys.pro and creo_parametric_customization.ui from the same directory.
. creo_parametric_customization.ui now loads exclusively from the Start in directory if load_ui_customization_run_dir is set to yes.
- Mapkey User Interface Enhancements
. Admin node is collapsed by default.
. Automatic save when a mapkey is deleted.
Benefits: Improved administration flexibility.

Data Exchange
User Interface Location: N/A
Description
You can now apply a default layer export status for individual layers when exporting STEP AP242 Edition 3 parts. Previously, the export status of layers had to be manually assigned for each model using Customize Layers (accessible after checking the Customize Export checkbox in the Save a Copy dialog box). With the new functionality introduced in Creo Parametric 11.0.5.0, you can now save the layer export status of Creo Parametric part layers and then use it as a template when exporting parts to STEP AP242 Edition 3. When this template is applied, layers with the same name as the layers in the template are assigned the corresponding export status by default. Any layer name present in the template but not in the part will not be modified or added by the template. Similarly, any layer name in the part but not in the template will not be modified by the template.
To create and assign templates, this new functionality introduces two new concepts:
- The Layer Customization File (LCF), which contains a list of layer names and their export status.
- The Part layer template option in the STEP Export Profile Settings allows you to specify the path to a layer customization file.
To create a Layer Customization File:
1. In the Save a Copy dialog box, select STEP (*.stp) as the Type then select Options.
2. Set the Application protocol to ap242_e3 then select OK to return to the Save a Copy dialog box.
3. Check the Customize Export checkbox and click OK. The Export STEP dialog box opens.
4. Select Customize Layers. The Choose Layers dialog box opens.
5. You can select the Export Status for each layer: Ignore or Exclude Content. The default is Ignore.
6. You can save the changes as a text file. Select Options  > Save As LCF file.
The figure below shows the Part layer template option in the STEP Export Profile Settings dialog box.


Benefits:
- Less time spent manually setting layer export statuses
- Export multiple STEP files in batch mode with more consistent results


PTC Creo is the 3D CAD solution that helps you accelerate product innovation so you can build better products faster. Easy-to-learn Creo seamlessly takes you from the earliest phases of product design to manufacturing and beyond. You can combine powerful, proven functionality with new technologies such as generative design, augmented reality, real-time simulation, additive manufacturing. and the IoT to iterate faster, reduce costs, and improve product quality. For CAD software, Creo 11’s features are a significant step forward. With enhancements in 3D modeling, generative design, simulation, and collaboration, Creo 11 provides engineers with the tools they need to design better, faster, and more efficiently.

Top Enhancements in Creo 11 and Creo+


PTC is proud to introduce the latest version of our award-winning, powerful, yet easy-to-use Creo CAD system. Creo 11 helps you deliver your best designs in less time with new composites tools, enhancements to design for electrification, MBD, simulation-driven design, and manufacturing. Creo+, our SaaS version, combines the power of Creo 11 with innovative cloud-based tools for real-time collaboration and entitlement management.
PTC enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and service innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we don’t just imagine a better world, we enable it.

Owner: Parametric Technology Corp.
Product Name: Creo
Version: 11.0.5.0 with HelpCenter
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.ptc.com
Languages Supported: multilanguage
System Requirements: Windows *
Size: 8.5 Gb