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3-Newcomer
July 8, 2026
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Looking for Large Native Creo Assembly Datasets for Plugin Load & Stress Testing

  • July 8, 2026
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Hello Community Members,

We are currently evaluating and benchmarking some plugins for Creo and need large native Creo assembly datasets for load and stress testing.

We have already searched several CAD repositories and community sites, including GrabCAD, but haven't been able to find assemblies that are large enough for our testing requirements.

We're looking for native Creo assemblies with characteristics such as:

Large number of components (preferably 10,000+ if possible)


We'd like to understand how a "large" Creo model is typically defined.
Is it based on:

File size (MB/GB)?

Number of parts/components in the assembly?

Another metric commonly used for benchmarking and performance testing?

1 reply

der_Wolfgang
14-Alexandrite
July 8, 2026

Your information is rather vague. Are you talking about 

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
or 
PTC Creo Parametric 
?

The combination of tags you added to your post do emphasize the / at least my confusion.


I assume none of the PTC customers will give you such a big assembly with native data. 

I recommend: you pick up one of the bigger Models available for free.  Then you do A REAL copy of that one multiple times e.g. 19 times in direction x plus all those  9 times in direction y: ..    ..   That way you have 200 times the loaded start assembly.

For Creo Elements/Direct Modeling: 

  • PKG/BDL files are compressed files. So that number is not that important.
  • Number of  UNIQ parts and assemblies are the key number normally. And specially in combination with a PLM system. 
  • if you have one part or the same part 42 times shared doesn’t really make a significant difference. it just 41 pointers to the same content data.
    • same for assemblies / containers
  • Memory inside the CAD depends on the native model it self :   a cube is just 6 faces +12 straight edges. A hexagon bolt screw with a modeled thread has a lot more faces and edges.
    • look for complex standard parts and copy (not Share!) them few thousand times

 

Here are 2 Screen shots of a counting tool:  https://ww3.cad.de/foren/ubb/Forum29/HTML/004990.shtml#000001    I would like to call 150k or 330k instances a big assembly. The 3D Data is company confidential for sure!

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