CREO 5.0 provides tools to help streamline product design and innovation. It offers solutions for design exploration and validation such as the CREO Design Exploration Extension which allows users to rapidly explore multiple design concepts. CREO also has tools for digital product definition, such as CREO Layout for 2D conceptual design and the CREO Advanced Assembly Extension to enable top-down design. Additional capabilities include augmented reality for design reviews and PTC Mathcad for performing and documenting engineering calculations.