What's new in Creo 12.0?

Join Mark DeCraene for this Creo 12.0 Update Session.

Creo 12.0 introduces over 250 enhancements focused on AI-driven generative design (including thermal optimization), advanced composite materials, and improved electrification tools. Key updates include faster, simulation-driven design workflows, strengthened model-based definition (MBD), and improved manufacturing capabilities for additive and subtractive processes.

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• 0:00 – Welcome & Introduction Tom Quaglia opens the session and introduces presenter Mark DeKrane for the Creo 12 update webcast.
• 2:29 – What's Covered & Where to Learn More Mark outlines the focus on core capabilities and shows how to use the Learning Connector and Help Center to explore additional Creo 12 topics.
• 4:54 – Engineering Notebook & Config Editor Changes The Mathcad-based Engineering Notebook is now installed with Creo, and Boolean config options can be toggled with a right-click.
• 5:42 – UI/UX: Selection Methods, Tangent Display, Layer Tree & Visibility State Box, lasso, and trace selection are now sticky across contexts. New tangent edge display toggle, modernized layer tree, and a "highlight new" feature for identifying what's new in Creo 12.
• 11:21 – UI/UX Demo & Q&A Live walkthrough of trace selection, tangent display, highlight new settings, and the new capture visibility state tool. Includes Q&A on Creo+ behavior and session persistence.
• 18:08 – Sketcher: Offset/Project Workflow, Midpoint Line & Slot Palettes Major fixes to the offset/project workflow introduced in Creo 9, a new midpoint line tool, updated slot palette options with datum points, and improved sketch validation.
• 25:40 – Enclosure Volume Enclosure volume parameters can now be output to Windchill, and the feature can be placed in the footer for automatic updates — though without box geometry.
• 27:13 – Surfaces: Rolling Ball Offset, Boundary Blend, Extend & Curves Rolling ball offset gets auto-exclude, 10–30% performance gains, and cleaner results. Boundary blend and curve through points now produce smoother tangent transitions.
• 31:11 – Feature Presets, Surface Regions & Approximate Surface Save and reuse feature settings for holes, extrudes, rounds, and more. Surface regions now support feature-based selection, and a new approximate surface tool collapses multiple patches into one.
• 34:26 – Modeling & Surfaces Demo & Q&A Q&A on the Creo 8 hidden config for sketcher and backward compatibility of curves. Live demos of approximate surface, multi-surface offset, and curve behavior in old vs. new models.
• 39:12 – Multi-Body: Save as Assembly, STEP Import & Shrinkwrap Save a multi-body part directly as an associative assembly. Import STEP assemblies as multi-body parts. New option to exclude construction bodies from shrinkwrap.
• 45:22 – Sheet Metal: Multi-Body, Mirror Walls, Join Walls & Surface Offset Fully dependent mirror for sheet metal walls, new join wall methods, multi-body merge with keep body option, and multi-surface offset for wall creation.
• 49:17 – Assembly: Performance Report, Data Sharing & Simplified Reps Improved performance report for troubleshooting large assemblies, reference part info as parameters, and the ability to create simplified reps without opening them.
• 52:49 – Closing Remarks Wrap-up, reminder that slides and recording link will be shared, and thanks to attendees.