Creo Parametric

Creo Parametric, formerly known, together with Creo Elements/Pro, as Pro/Engineer (commonly referred to as Pro E) and Wildfire, is a solid modeling or computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and associative 3D modeling application, that runs on Microsoft Windows. Creo Parametric should not be confused with Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, formerly CoCreate ME10 (2D) and or ME30 (3D) CAD Products. The ex-CoCreate CAD Products are now owned by PTC and renamed Creo Elements/Direct Drafting and Creo Elements/Direct Modeling. Creo Parametric is an application of a suite of 10 that provide collaborative solid modeling, assembly modelling, 2D orthographic views, finite element analysis, parametric modelling, sub-divisional and non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) surface modeling, technical drawing (drafting), and numerical control (NC) and tooling functionality for mechanical designers. Creo Parametric competes directly with CATIA, SolidWorks, NX/Solid Edge, Inventor/Fusion, IRONCAD, and Onshape. It was created by Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) and was the first of its kind to market. The software uses a specific file naming scheme, not allowing certain characters like ä, ö, é, ő, ł, Đ, ... (including spaces).