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October 5, 2026
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PTC Product View 2027.0 and PTC Illustrate 2027.0 have Released

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PTC Product View 2027.0 and PTC Illustrate 2027.0 have Released!

 

The Visualization family of products, PTC Product View Clients & Toolkits, PTC Product View Adapters and PTC Illustrate have released. When considering updates to any of these products, it is recommended to update all Visualization products to maintain compatibility across the Enterprise.

 

Key Highlights

 

Effective with the 2027.0 Release, Creo View and Creo View Adapters have been rebranded to PTC Product View and PTC Product View Adapters, additionally, Creo Illustrate has been rebranded to PTC Illustrate. See CS476655 for details about the rebranding of the Visualization products

 

PTC Product View Web 2027.0

  • 3D Visualization
    • Improved navigation capabilities
    • Introduced section cut creation and viewing
    • Simple explode view support
    • SOLIDWORKS Navigation mode.
  • 2D Visualization
    • Introducing PDF Visualization support for Drawings and Documents.
    • 2D View navigation capabilities
  • Measurement – extending validation capabilities with advanced measurement capabilities
  • Introducing Review capabilities:
    • Support multiple markups like leaderline, shapes, freehand
    • Introducing Saving annotation set to Windchill.
  • Undo / Redo capabilities for creational or edit workflows.

 

PTC Product View 2027.0 (Desktop Client)

  • Improved clarity for Part, Face selection highlight with Filled/Wireframe mode
  • Section view – geometry selection highlight improvements
  • Support for SOLIDWORKS Mouse Navigation Mode
  • Support for IDX 5.0 in PTC Product View ECAD

 

PTC Product View Toolkits 2027.0

Product View WebGL Toolkit:

  • Improved part and face selection highlight capabilities
  • Improved section view geometry selection highlight.
  • Support for creating simple Markups
  • New Advanced Measurement capabilities
  • Simple APIs and WebGL Sample to demonstrate how to edit Section Views
  • Simple View Manipulation Commands

Product View Desktop Java & Office Toolkits:

  • Support for Java 25 LTS
  • Removal of Microsoft Office 2021 Support for the Office Toolkit

 

PTC Illustrate 2027.0

  • Associativity Added to Colors of a Palette
  • Option to Apply a Mask to Elements in 2D Figures
  • Ability to Import IsoDraw Files from a Windchill Workspace
  • Option to Select S1000D Profile when Exporting CGM Files
  • Additional Inset Alignment Options
  • Ability to Edit sBOM Attributes at the Figure Level
  • Add and Modify Text Elements in 2D Figures
  • Support for Formatted Text when Editing Step Descriptions
  • Option to Arrange and Categorize Templates for Callouts and Insets
  • Applying Section Cuts to Highlighted Geometry

PTC Product View Adapters 2027.0

  • MCAD & ECAD application support updated
  • Certificate-Based Authentication support for file-sync based publishing workers
  • Publishing support for SOLIDWORKS Model-Based Definition (MBD) data
  • Logging Improvements for adapters for clearer error reporting
  • Improved Associative Movement for Attached Annotations
  • Selective Conversion of Default Representation for Publishing
  • Removal of Microsoft Office 2021 Support for Office Publishing
  • Deprecation of Product View Adapter Support for Allegro X Design Entry HDL

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