PTC Introduces AI-Powered Guidance in Design Environment with Creo 13

AI Assistant: Provides engineering guidance, best practices, and troubleshooting information, reducing onboarding time and dependency on external documentation.

Beta Feature: AI that reads 3D models enables teams to detect issues earlier and accelerate design validation.

Enhanced Capabilities: Numerous improvements across design, simulation, and manufacturing domains reduce repetitive tasks and accelerate workflows.

PTC (headquartered in Massachusetts, USA; CEO: Jim Heppelmann; NASDAQ: PTC; Japanese subsidiary: PTC Japan Co., Ltd.; President & Managing Executive Officer: Tomonobu Kamiya) has announced the availability of the latest versions of its on-premise and SaaS Creo® computer-aided design (CAD) solutions: "Creo 13" and "Creo+ 13.3." This release introduces the new "Creo AI Assistant" and delivers numerous enhancements in model-based product development, simulation-driven design, and manufacturing, empowering engineering teams to achieve superior designs faster.

Integrating AI into the Design Environment

The Creo AI Assistant delivers expert resources directly within engineers’ workflows. Through Creo’s chat interface, engineers can receive immediate, best-practice-based guidance without searching documents or waiting for colleague responses. Whether new to Creo or experienced, users can accelerate work, make better decisions, and reduce time spent searching documentation when navigating unfamiliar workflows.

Additionally, a new beta feature enables AI to read and extract insights directly from 3D models. This allows teams to detect design issues earlier, perform compliance checks, and retrieve required design data on demand. This represents an early example of AI being actively embedded into the design process, rather than serving as a generic add-on tool.

Brian Thompson, General Manager of PTC Creo, stated: "AI in the design environment is transforming how engineering teams work, accelerating tasks and enabling more confident decision-making. With Creo AI Assistant, our customers are no longer limited by the depth of knowledge held by individual experts. This fundamentally changes how businesses scale, adapt, and compete."

Comprehensive Enhancements Across the Design Process

In addition to the new AI Assistant, Creo 13 and Creo+ 13.3 deliver powerful enhancements across the entire product design workflow:

Improved User Productivity: Expanded feature presets and improvements to surfacing, sketching, sheet metal, welding, and multi-body design allow engineers to focus on design itself.

Faster Assembly Management: Loading assemblies from Windchill over wide-area networks (WAN) is up to 70% faster, improving performance for remote users handling large CAD data.

Model-Based Definition (MBD): Expanded 3D PDF output and improved annotation tools make it easier to share design intent across stakeholders in product development.

Composite Design and Manufacturing: Copy-and-paste reuse of composite designs improves efficiency. New composite design and manufacturing tools, including transition calculations up to 60x faster, enable high-performance material teams to move from concept to production more efficiently without sacrificing accuracy.

Simulation-Driven Design: Expanded simulation scope across entire assembly and printed circuit board scenarios allows engineers to identify and resolve issues in digital models before they become costly physical problems.

Generative Design: Enhanced scope for multi-physics scenarios and constraints in assembly environments enables faster derivation of optimal designs.

Advanced Manufacturing: Expanded 5-axis machining toolpath capabilities, improved toolpath setup workflows, and enhanced mold design options give manufacturers finer control over part quality and production cycle times.

Design for Electrification: Enhanced workflows for harness assembly design and early-stage cable routing further improve integration between electrical and mechanical design.

Creo 13, Creo+ 13.3, and the Creo AI Assistant were introduced at "PTC NEXT Chicago," held in Chicago, USA, from June 9 to 10. The "PTC NEXT On-Demand Experience Hub" provides access to event content and additional resources for all customers and partners, regardless of attendance.

Through its product portfolio, including Creo, PTC is advancing its vision of the "Intelligent Product Lifecycle," helping manufacturing and product companies build a product data foundation, extend its value across the enterprise, and accelerate AI-driven transformation. Broad utilization of product data enables companies to bring higher-quality products to market faster and more effectively manage product complexity, regulatory compliance, and other challenges.

For more information on Creo, visit:

www.ptc.com/en/products/creo/whats-new

★This content is a translation of a press release issued by PTC US on June 10, 2026.

About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)

PTC is a global software company supporting manufacturers in the digital transformation of product design, manufacturing, and service. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PTC employs over 7,000 people who support more than 30,000 customer companies worldwide.

For more information, visit http://www.ptc.com/.

About PTC Japan Co., Ltd.

The Japanese subsidiary of PTC (headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo). Key products include Creo, a highly scalable and interoperable 3D CAD; Onshape, a cloud-native platform integrating CAD and PDM; Windchill, a product lifecycle management (PLM) system for centralized management of product content and business processes; Codebeamer, an application lifecycle management (ALM) solution supporting software development and management; and solutions for maintenance, service,