Although Creo cannot produce very high quality render outputs, there are some distinct advantages to using it for ‘quick and dirty’ renders:

  • full associativity to the model
  • avoidance of data translation issues
  • render setups can be saved in the model and be saved to use on other models

By default, rendered images in Creo (.prt or .asm) will use the module ARX (Advanced Render Extension).  You will see this referred to as Photolux in the Creo environment and is based on the Mental Ray (a division of nVidia) render engine.

All the functions needed to set a scene and to render it can be accessed from the Render tab.

Keeping it simple and experimentation are the keywords for rendered output from Creo.