Creo Parametric competes directly with CATIA, SolidWorks, NX/Solid Edge, Inventor/Fusion 360, IRONCAD, and Onshape.

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Pro/Engineer was the industry's first rule-based constraint (sometimes called "parametric" or "variational") 3D CAD modeling system.

Creo Parametric provides a complete set of design, analysis and manufacturing capabilities on one, integral, scalable platform.

A product and its entire bill of materials (BOM) can be modeled accurately with fully associative engineering drawings, and revision control information.

Creo Parametric offers a range of tools to enable the generation of a complete digital representation of the product being designed.

These range from conceptual Industrial design sketches, reverse engineering with point cloud data and comprehensive free-form surface.

These tools include human factors, manufacturing tolerance, mould flow and design optimization.