CoLab vs. Creo View

If your team uses Creo to design products, then you may use Creo View to share your designs with teammates. However, as product development becomes more complex, many companies search for a Creo View alternative that can handle more file types and manage increasingly complex design feedback. That’s why we built CoLab.

What's the difference between a CAD viewer vs a design engagement system?

Creo View is a CAD Viewer that lets teammates without a CAD license view design files. CoLab also lets you share CAD with anyone. However, unlike Creo View, CoLab isn’t just for viewing CAD – it’s a Design Engagement System with all the tools you need to make better design decisions, faster.

With CoLab, you can:

Share CAD and drawings from Creo, CATIA, Solidworks and more, with support for over 70 file types
Pin comments directly to models and drawings, and have your feedback instantly visible to your team and partners
Understand why every design decision is made, with feedback that is tracked and organized automatically

View drawings

View Creo 3D models

View all major CAD files

Extra modules required

Create markups and comments

Markups and comments instantly visible to everyone

Windchill integration

Automatic tracking of feedback and change requests

Notifications of changes, feedback and revisions

URL based sharing (no software download required)

“Creo View is a snapshot in time of the model and has no tracking of rev levels, nor a quick way to scroll from past to latest rev. It also has no relationship to the parametrics. This was one of the strong benefits in selecting CoLab.”

Michel Oskam
Former Director of Design Operations
Johnson Controls International

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