Creo Integration with Nora IPLM
Sync your Creo models, assemblies, and drawings with Nora IPLM without extra steps or manual uploads.
Unify CAD and PLM for a Smarter Product Workflow
Nora IPLM’s Creo integration connects your design data with the full product lifecycle in one unified platform. Manage revisions, sync BOMs, and link items to change requests, projects, and documents without leaving your design environment.
What is Nora IPLM - Creo Integration?
The integration connects PTC Creo with Nora IPLM to provide reliable and automated CAD data management.
Designers continue working inside Creo while their models, assemblies, drawings, and metadata sync directly with Nora IPLM. This keeps product data accurate, up to date, and linked to the rest of the product lifecycle without extra steps or manual uploads.
Direct CAD-to-PLM Sync Without File Duplication
With Nora IPLM, CAD data flows directly from your design environment into the PLM system -without creating duplicate files or manual uploads.
Every model, drawing, and assembly is synced in real time, ensuring engineers always work with the latest information while maintaining a clean, unified product database. This eliminates version conflicts and keeps your entire product lifecycle accurate and aligned.
How the Creo Integration Works
Work in Creo and stay in sync with your PLM as Nora IPLM keeps every model, assembly, and drawing automatically updated in the background, so your product data stays accurate, connected, and ready for the next step in the lifecycle. No extra uploads. No manual effort.
With Nora IPLM, Creo users no longer need to export files or move between tools to keep data updated. The Nora IPLM Desktop App and Desktop Widget take care of the entire process in the background.
Key capabilities include:
- Automatic detection of changes in parts, assemblies, and drawings
- One-click check-in and check-out from the desktop
- Organized parent and child CAD relationships
- Immediate reflection of design updates in PLM
- Fast sync, revision, and iteration actions
This keeps engineering, manufacturing, and all downstream teams aligned with accurate, validated, and current product data.
A Direct Connection Between Creo and Nora IPLM.
Once the Nora IPLM Desktop Services App is installed, Creo will be connected to your PLM workspace.
This lets designers:
- Save, upload, and sync CAD models from Creo straight into Nora IPLM.
- Manage revisions and iterations with the correct lifecycle states.
- Access linked data such as assemblies, drawings, references, and metadata.
- Maintain complete traceability across product development.
- Avoid duplicate files or outdated versions with real-time synchronization.
This creates a smooth design workflow where CAD data flows straight into your PLM environment with accuracy and control.
How to Get Started with the Creo Integration
The widget provides a quick view of whether the connection is active, so you can start your design work with full confidence. This helps maintain smooth data syncing and a seamless CAD-to-PLM experience.
Launch Creo
Open the Desktop Widget
Go to the Select App section
Confirm integration status
How to Download the Desktop Services Application
Follow these steps to download and install the Nora IPLM Desktop Services application on your system. This tool enables seamless CAD integration, file syncing, and secure communication with the PLM platform.
Open the Desktop Widget in Nora IPLM from the left sidebar.
Click the three dot menu (⋮) and select Download Desktop Services.
Run the installer by double clicking the Nora IPLM Desktop Services package.
Launch the app by double clicking the Nora IPLM Desktop Services icon on your desktop.
Confirm it is running by checking for the Nora IPLM icon in your system tray.
What Are the Prerequisites
1
Creo 10 or later installed
2
All API toolkits included during the Creo installation
3
Nora IPLM Desktop Services downloaded and running
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Frequently Asked Questions
The integration connects Creo directly to Nora IPLM, allowing automatic syncing of models, drawings, assemblies, metadata, and revisions. All updates flow seamlessly into the PLM without manual uploads.
No. The integration eliminates manual file handling. Your Creo data is synced in real time to Nora IPLM, ensuring a single source of truth and preventing file duplication.
No. The Desktop Services application ensures lightweight, background syncing so you can work normally without slowdown or interruption.
Yes. Every save, update, and revision is tracked in Nora IPLM with full version history and traceability, ensuring accurate change management across your product lifecycle.
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