Creo 1.0: New FreeStyle capabilities demonstrated

By Geoff Hedges | Published: July 21, 2011

In a recent post, we showed you how Creo Sketch could replace the familiar napkin when you want to capture your earliest design ideas. If you’re a Creo Parametric user, the natural next step would be to turn that 2D idea into a 3D model. Unfortunately, while you’re still working on a concept design, you may not yet want to commit to a detailed parametric model.

No matter. Creo Parametric now includes FreeStyle, a set of capabilities that you use to quickly create fast flexible surface modeling either directly, or by simply working with your 2D sketch, and pushing and pulling your concept into a 3D form. The curved continuous surfaces you create can then be reused later for the detailed 3D design.



In this demo, Paul Sagar, PTC director of product management, shows you how to use FreeStyle design capabilities to:

• Bring in a 2D sketch with trace sketch
• Position and scale it
• Push and pull a primitive to match the 2D sketch
• Turn on symmetry
• Punch a hole
• Add/extrude new geometry
• Offset faces
• Add fillets
• Perform a reflection analysis
• Thicken the model walls
• Handle a last-minute change

Remember, FreeStyle is not a module or an add on. It’s part of every Creo Parametric App. That means if you’re using Creo Parametric already, you’ve got all the tools you need to start experimenting with these new capabilities.