Creo Reader

The Creo Reader provides full access to the assembly, B-rep, view, and PMI data stored within a particular Creo file. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange however the file extensions of Creo files that you can expect to be loaded by HOOPS Exchange are:

Our readers are updated to the latest released version within 90 days of the release of the authoring software. You can see the exact version supported in the current release here.

Assembly

Incremental load is supported by our Creo reader. Datum planes and construction geometry are also supported and accessed through the assembly tree.

Family Table Support

The HOOPS Exchange Creo file reader has the following behaviors when loading a model with family tables:

File reader options related to family tables are as follows:

Because HOOPS Exchange can represent the model more accurately with XPR/XAS files, we recommend you generate them every time you handle family tables.

Boolean operation support

Flexible component support

The generic representation of the flexible component is not loaded anymore by default.

B-rep

HOOPS Exchange extracts the exact B-rep definition from the model. The list of surface types provided is:

The list of available curve types is:

Visualization

The visualization data for this format is generated by the HOOPS Exchange tessellation engine.

Views

There are two types of views supported in Creo:

All view types are fully supported by HOOPS Exchange.

PMI

HOOPS Exchange provides access to all PMI data available in Creo file. This list includes:

Miscellaneous