Case study: CUPRA racing optimises design and manufacturing with PTC Creo

CUPRA, which was born in 2018,  is the high performance motorsport subsidiary of Spanish automotive manufacturer SEAT.  In 2021, it took part in 70 races in TCR world, continental, and national series and championships. At the same time, the brand continues its electrification strategy through its participation in Extreme E and PURE ETCR. Its goal is to contribute to the future development of this racing car and to gain knowledge about high-performance electric motors that are later applied to street cars.

Being competitive on the track requires countless hours of effort and dedication to make a car fully competitive. And part of that work has to do with the process of designing and creating vehicle components.

This task, in the case of CUPRA, had a turning point in 1998, when it began working with PTC parametric software, which at that time was called Pro/ENGINEER. In fact, before its implementation, there were parts that the team could not even design, simply because of their complexity. PTC parametric software provided the capabilities they needed to evolve components much faster, as well as test their performance