Now let’s dive into an area in which Creo has been strong for many years – the use of industrial design-focused tools for complex shape development. It’s a small, rather subtle difference between the two, but the resulting feature is very different and is required for many different purposes, since volume sweeps are particularly useful for cams for mechanisms and some more complex thread forms (think drill bits). While this works just like a standard sweep feature, the difference here is that rather than sweeping a simple planar profile around the path, in this instance you’re using a geometric lump. The last general update I want to cover is the introduction of volume-based helical sweeps. Whereas other systems require you to split faces, Creo’s draft operation has options to use a mid-plane and handles all of those problematic facesplitting operations for you. On this point, it’s also worth noting how Creo has some very interesting options when adding draft to components specifically, building in drafted faces around a centre or split line. It then applies the draft to the required faces and reapplies the rounds. Rather than trying to wrangle the whole thing, the new operation works in the background, removing rounds. Mini toolbars are also available across a much wider spread of the system’s modules and in both 2D and 3D environments.Īdditional updates to core modelling tools include changes in the way that the system handles adding drafts to parts that also feature rounds. In terms of user interface, Creo has been pretty consistent over the last few releases, with the majority of changes focused on adding in more modern touches that users have come to expect from their software.Ĭreo is incrementally being modernised, but in a manner that’s manageable for its long-standing and highly experienced user community: it now comes with a full-screen mode backed up by context-aware mini toolbars, box selection and geometry regions in sketching (as opposed to fully trimmed sketch geometry).

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