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CREO PARAMETRIC − AUGMENTED REALITY (AR)
Rapidly define, publish and distribute AR experiences from Creo
Who Needs It?
Every customer that needs to communicate, collaborate and share CAD data with engineers, suppliers, partners and non-CAD
users
• CAD-based viewing limits productivity and usability
Business Value
• Enhance the customer experience using AR to visualize products in the real
world
− Improve communication and understanding using scale and real-world
environment
• Accelerate sales, marketing and customer loyalty with an AR experience
• Enable virtual design collaboration using AR to facilitate
effective design reviews
− Solicit and apply expertise and knowledge using AR to connect disparate
teams
• Enable non-CAD users to interact, explore and engage using AR
− Easily distribute and enable non-CAD users to interact with CAD geometry
• Protect IP by preventing access to CAD data
Process
Improvement
• Design communication, collaboration and review
Technology/
Capability
• AR Setup, Publishing, Distribution and Viewing via Vuforia View
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CREO PARAMETRIC − UNITE TECHNOLOGY
Capabilities to support multi-CAD Collaboration and Consolidation
Who Needs It?
Every customer that needs to integrate and work with design data from OEMs and outsourced design partners (components,
subsystems, etc.)
• The typical company uses an average of 2.7 CAD systems
Business Value
• Reduce product cost
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Improve product quality and innovation
Process
Improvement
• Multi-CAD Design Collaboration
• CAD Consolidation
Technology/
Capability
• Easily integrate and work with data from any CAD source
• Directly import CATIA V4/V5, SolidWorks, Solid Edge and
Inventor formats
• Directly open CATIA V4/V5, SolidWorks and Siemens NX
data
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CREO PARAMETRIC − IMPORT DATA DOCTOR (IDD)
Automate the “repair” and “clean-up” of imported geometry
Who Needs It?
Customers that work with imported data and require the ability to repair translated geometry that has missing information,
geometry gaps and errors
• Data does not always translate 100%
Business Value
• Reduce product costs
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• Repair and modification of imported data
Technology/
Capability
• Tools to Repair, Modify and Featurize imported
geometry
• Repair tools – used to make geometry solid or
improve the quality of imported surfaces and edges
• Modification tools – used to move, replace, and
manipulate imported geometry
• Featurization tools – used to convert non-analytic
geometry to analytic geometry and create curves and
surfaces within the imported data
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CREO PARAMETRIC – 2D DETAILING AND DOCUMENTATION
Specialize capabilities to manage component display and system performance
Who Needs It? Every customers that needs to document product specifications and manufacturing details
Business Value
• Reduce product cost
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• 2D drawing and documentation
Technology/
Capability
• Automated creation of drawings using standard
templates
• Fast drawing “cleanup” of dimensions, notes and
annotations
• Automatic creation of associative BOMs
• Automatic creation of views and balloon callouts
• Easily creation of dimensions, geometric
tolerances, annotations, etc.
• Support for all industry standards (ANSE, ISO,
ASME and JIS)
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CREO PARAMETRIC – 3D MODEL ANNOTATIONS (aka MBD)
Define a single source of truth for design, manufacturing and process information
Who Needs It?
Customers that want to improve the documentation and sharing of digital
product information for design review and manufacturing
• The goal is to reduce reliance on 2D detailed drawings and eliminate lost
time documenting non-critical information
• Unlike 2D data, 3D information is easily visualized and interrogated
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development
cost
• Improve product quality and
innovation
• Improve collaboration and
communication
Process
Improvement
• Model-based documentation and GD&T
• Streamline communication using a drawing-free process
Technology/
Capability
• Streamline product documentation via drawing-free process
• Eliminate human error and miss-interpretation of 2D information
• Define a single source of product development and manufacturing
information
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Powerful, parametric design capabilities to create complex geometry and capture
design intent
CREO PARAMETRIC – PART AND ASSEMBLY MODELING
Who Needs It?
Customers that require the power and flexibility to model any geometry
regardless of shape, size or complexity
Business Value
• Reduce product costs
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Develop and define new markets
Process
Improvement
• 3D part modeling
• 3D assembly modeling
Technology/
Capability
• Create precise geometry, regardless of model complexity without compromise
• Capture engineering requirements using feature parameters, constraints and
relations
• Easily create and manage complex assemblies using tools to manage and
improve system performance
• Perform global clearance and interference studies using static components
and real-time collision detection (component drag)
• Seamless integration with PTC Solutions to facilitate concurrent engineering
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CREO PARAMETRIC – WELD DESIGN
Accurately define weld geometry and the associated weld fabrication documentation
Who Needs It?
Customers that need to define and capture the weld fabrication process
and manufacturing requirements
Business Value
• Reduce product costs
• Design to realize price premium
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• 3D Weld definition (modeling)
• 2D Weld documentation (detailing)
Technology/
Capability
• 3D welds are required to support downstream activities
− Reference weld geometry to create accurate structural
analyses
− Perform accurate mass properties and interference checking
− Accurately assess costs and time estimates (manufacturing)
− Accurately create weld symbols and weld fabrication
documentation
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CREO PARAMETRIC – FREESTYLE DESIGN
Capabilities to speed the creation high-quality freeform surface geometry
Who Needs It?
Any customer that creates freeform surface geometry to satisfy aesthetic,
ergonomic and functional design requirements
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Improve product styling and competitive
differentiation
Process
Improvement
• Conceptual design
• Freeform and stylized surface creation
Technology/
Capability
• Fast creation of high-quality surface geometry
− Directly manipulate primitive shapes to
create surface geometry
• Enable novice users to create high-quality stylized surface
geometry
− No need to define curves and surfaces
− No need to understand curve and patch structure
• Ability to align Freestyle geometry to external entities
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CREO PARAMETRIC – SURFACING
Define parameter and constraint driven entities to create complex free-form and
analytical surfaces
Who Needs It?
Customers that want to define free-form and analytical surfaces using parameters, constraints and
calculations to define variable geometry and capture design intent
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Increase styling and design to realize price
premium
Process
Improvement
• 3D part design and surface modeling
− Complex part design frequently requires surfacing
to handle complex geometry and design
scenarios
Technology/
Capability
• Easily model and edit complex surface geometry
• Develop complex surface geometry using sweeps, blends, and boundary
surfaces
• Create analytic surfaces using extrude, revolve and fill tools
• Drive complex surface geometry using mathematical equations and
functions
• Edit surfaces using trim, copy, merge and surface transform
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CREO PARAMETRIC – SHEETMETAL PART DESIGN
Fast creation of accurate sheetmetal designs and flat pattern geometry
Who Needs It? Customers that need to design accurate sheetmetal parts and flat pattern geometry
Business Value
• Reduce product costs
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• 3D sheetmetal part design
• Flat pattern geometry creation
Technology/
Capability
• Fast creation of complex sheet metal parts
• Pick and place creation of walls, hems, notches, bend relief,
etc.
• Direct editing of sheet metal walls and features
• Fast creation and placement of sheet metal form features
(louvers, bosses, ribs, etc.)
• Automated creation of sheet metal flat patterns with
accurate bend allowance calculations
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CREO PARAMETRIC – PLASTIC PART DESIGN
Specialized features to speed the creation and analysis of plastic and “thin walled”
parts
Who Needs It?
Customers that design plastic parts and “thin
walled” geometry
Business Value
• Reduce product costs
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement • 3D plastic part design
Technology/
Capability
• True 3D thickness checking
• Fast analysis and verification of draft
geometry
• Specialized features to speed the creation
of thin walled parts
• Integral capabilities to analyze molding
conditions and optimize geometry
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CREO PARAMETRIC – DESIGN REUSE AND AUTOMATION
Automatically create part variants using design rules and family tables
functionality
Who Needs It?
Any customers that creates standardized components
and part geometry
Business Value
• Reduce product cost
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• Part standardization and reuse
Technology/
Capability
• Automatic creation/verification of “table-
driven” part variants
− Specify variable dimensions, features,
geometry
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CREO PARAMETRIC – ASSEMBLY MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE
TOOLS
Specialize capabilities to manage component display and system performance
Who Needs It?
Customers that want to manage the assembly design process
and system performance
Business Value
• Reduce product cost
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• 3D assembly modeling
Technology/
Capability
• Work efficiently using on-demand simplified Reps
• Define envelope parts to reduce memory usage
• Work efficiently using “zones” to control clipping and
component display
• Create associative and non-associative “shrinkwraps”
• Define lightweight components
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CREO PARAMETRIC – MECHANISM DESIGN (KINEMATIC)
Model assemblies using true mechanism constraints to support and enable kinematic
motion analysis
Who Needs It?
Customers that need to visualize and understand mechanism
behavior using real world constraints to validate mechanism
design and range of motion
Business Value
• Reduce product costs
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product lifecycle cost
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• Mechanism design
• Kinematic motion analysis
Technology/
Capability
• Define assemblies using true mechanical joints
• Design and troubleshoot complex assembly mechanisms
• Perform kinematic analysis to validate and optimize mechanism behavior
• Create motion envelopes to define “keep out zones” occupied by moving
parts and components
• Drag components to easily visualize and validate assembly mechanism
design and range of motion
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CREO PARAMETRIC – MODEL ANIMATION
Easily create assembly animations to demonstrate real-world behavior and
assembly/disassembly instructions
Who Needs It?
Customers that create documentation and collateral to
demonstrate functional and procedural product specifications
and details
Business Value
• Reduce product costs
• Lower product lifecycle cost
• Reduce product development cost
• Develop and define new markets
Process
Improvement
• Design and functional product review
• Work instructions and /Shop floor procedural
documentation
Technology/
Capability
• Easily define display states, orientations, and motion behavior using a graphical
timeline to create and manage the animation
• Define assembly and disassembly animations for shop floor service and repair
• Reduce or eliminate the need to create lengthy documentation
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CREO PARAMETRIC – DESIGN FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Reduce lengthy product development and manufacturing lead times
Who Needs It?
Any customer that needs to rapidly create prototypes, short run production tooling and
end-use components for evaluation and production use
• Additive manufacturing allows engineers to directly manufacture fully functional
prototypes and end-use sellable goods
• Additive manufacturing eliminates manufacturing process limitations (freedom to
innovate)
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Accelerate new product introduction
• Improve product quality and innovation
Process
Improvement
• Rapid prototyping, tooling design and part
manufacturing
Technology/
Capability
• Easy 3D printer selection and configuration
• Simplified 3D model prep
• Printability verification
Note: Extended function with Creo AMX
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Creo Parametric includes basic Additive Manufacturing capabilities
• OOTB 3D Printer Support
– Support for Stratasys and 3D Systems
• Model Preparation (Tessellation)
– Chord height and angle controls
• Printer tray setup
– Auto position parts in Printer Tray
• Global Scale
– Scale all models
• Printability Validation
– Check models for Thin Walls and Narrow Gaps
• Model Interrogation
– Clipping
– Display Support Material (approximation)
• Calculate Build material
– Rapid cost estimating
• Option to Order 3D Print
– Direct connection to i.materialize online print service
CREO PARAMETRIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OVERVIEW
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CREO PARAMETRIC – PERFORMANCE ADVISOR
Unprecedented visibility into your Creo-related hardware and software
environment
Who Needs It?
Every Creo customer that wants to optimize
hardware and software performance and
monitor install base usage
Business Value
• Reduce IT support and administration cost
• Maximize and improve software utilization
• Reduce cost of system downtime
• Speed issue investigation
Process
Improvement
• CAD administration and IT support
Technology/
Capability
• Hardware and software performance monitoring
− Proactive investigation and resolution of stability and
compatibility issues
• Feature and usage monitoring
− Identify training requirement
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Learning Connector delivers on-demand access to training content and materials
• Integrated eLearning promotes rapidly learning and enhanced user skills
ELEARNING LIBRARIES INCLUDED WITH SUBSCRIPTION PURCHASE
Context sensitive learning provides
training as it is needed, when it is
needed,..
With no disruptions
“Hey Bob, how do I create a variable
section sweep?“
• Easy access to training, tutorials, help
center and knowledge base
• Rapidly adoption and utilization of new
and advanced functionality
• Elevate users skills and increase
productivity
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CREO PARAMETRIC – “LITE” CAPABILITIES
Capability Limitations
Creo Simulate limited model size (200 surfaces), process wizard UI, and partial access to loads and constraint types
Creo Manufacturing basic 2 ½ -axis milling of prismatic parts in 5-axis positioning, partial icon-driven UI
Creo Schematics scaled down version of Creo Schematics (included with Creo PCX)
Creo HMX limited number of connectors (5) and wires (50), partial reporting and features (included with Creo PCX)
ECAD Collaboration bi-directional data exchange with printed circuit board solutions
Creo Photorender real-time rendering powered by Luxion Keyshot
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CREO PRODUCT INSIGHT EXTENSION
Design for connectivity to capture relevant data streams and return real-world
data from physical objects
Who Needs It?
Any customer that wants to obtain real-world product data and validate critical
values throughout the product development process
Business Value
• Use real-world data to support engineering and other business functions
− Improve new Product Designs – validate and replace assumptions with real-world data
− Improve New Smart Product Design – optimize the use of sensors to capture and collect data for downstream
consumption
− Improve Existing and Next Generation Product Designs – identify and correct design flaws to improve current and next
generation products
− Enable Extended Organization with the Right Data Streams – support new revenue streams and opportunities
positioning connected products to provide pro-active service and support
Process
Improvement
• Define smart, connected products to obtain real-world product data
and customer usage information
Technology/
Capability
• Specialized functionality to define physical and virtual sensors to support
data capture (measure), calculation and reporting
• Seamless connection and access to data via data files
• Seamless connection and access to data via ThingWorx
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CREO AR DESIGN SHARE
Easily create and securely share AR experiences managing models and viewer access
Who Needs It?
Every customer that needs to securely communicate, collaborate and share CAD data with
engineers, suppliers, partners and non-CAD users
• Fully control authoring and accessibility of your company’s AR experiences
Business Value
• Enhance the customer experience using AR to visualize
products in the real world
• Enable virtual design collaboration using AR to facilitate
effective design reviews
• Solicit and apply expertise and knowledge using AR to
connect disparate teams
• Enable non-CAD users to interact, explore and engage
using AR
• Protect IP by preventing access to CAD data
Process
Improvement
• Design communication, collaboration and review
• AR model and viewer administration
Technology/
Capability
• AR Setup, Publishing, Distribution and Viewing via
Vuforia View
• Secure management of AR models and viewer access
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CREO COLLABORATION EXTENSIONS
Easily integrate and work with data from CATIA V4/V5, SolidWorks, Siemens NX
and Inventor
Who Needs It?
Every customer that needs to integrate and work with data from
CATIA, SolidWorks, Siemens NX and Inventor
Business Value
• Reduce product cost
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Improve product quality and innovation
Process
Improvement
• Multi-CAD Design Collaboration and Consolidation
− CATIA V4, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, Siemens NX and Inventor
Technology/
Capability
• PTC Creo Collaboration Extensions are available for CATIA
V4, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, Siemens NX and Inventor
− “Save As” native CATIA V4/V5, SolidWorks and
Siemens NX file formats
Note: Inventor Collaboration Ext. does NOT support Save
As
− Automatically detect and update out of date
information
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CREO UNITE TECHNOLOGY
Format Import Open Update Save As
CATIA V4
CATIA V5
Siemens NX /
Unigraphics NX
SolidWorks
JT
CADDS 5
Creo Elements/Direct
STEP
Autodesk Inventor
Rhinoceros
SolidEdge
AutoCAD DXF
AutoCAD Drawing
Base license of Creo
Parametric
For the latest support information, please view the
compatibility matrix.
NEW IN CREO 5.0
Requires Collaboration
Extension Purchase
Requires Creo Interface
for JT
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CREO FLEXIBLE MODELING (FMX)
Capabilities to directly edit any 3D geometry in Creo
Parametric
Who Needs It?
All customers that need to work with and edit multi-CAD from
suppliers, partners and extended design teams
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Improve product quality and innovation
Process
Improvement
• Multi-CAD Design
• Late Stage and Unexpected Change
• Rapid Design Exploration and Reuse
• Model Prep and Simplification
Technology/
Capability
• Support multi-CAD Collaboration and
Consolidation efforts
• Rapidly implement late stage and
unexpected design change
• Speed design exploration and enable CAD
data reuse
• Prepare models for analysis and downstream
use
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CREO LEGACY DATA MIGRATION EXTENSION (LMX)
Support legacy data migration and CAD consolidation efforts
Who Needs It?
Companies that need to migrate IP (models) and
documentation (drawings) from legacy CAD
systems to PTC Creo LDA addresses the issues or
cost and accuracy which are the major roadblocks
to Legacy Data Migration
Business Value
• Reduce product costs
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• Legacy data migration and conversion
− LDA provides three levels of association
Model – View – Annotation
Technology/
Capability
• Legacy Drawing Associator (LDA) – automatically connects parametric models
to imported legacy data
− Relink model and drawing to provide associativity (update) and association
when checked into Windchill PDMLink
• Annotation Convertor (AC) – Automatically convert drawing dimensions and
notes to 3D annotations
• Assembly Collapse Configuration (ACC) – Recreate representation as simplified-
reps and explode states in Creo
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CREO RENDER STUDIO (EXTENSION and APP)
Produce photorealistic images for design review, market collateral, product packaging
and consumer testing
Note: When the App is purchased the customer gets the standalone
functionality AND the ability to run as Creo Render Studio Extension
Who Needs It?
All customers that create product images for
design review, marketing collateral and product
documentation
Business Value
• Lower product cost
• Increase product revenue – first time build success
• Enhance product communication and marketing
collateral
Process
Improvement
• Product rendering and collateral creation
• Design review and product evaluation
Technology/
Capability
• Real-time Raytracing powered by Luxion Keyshot
• Enhanced lighting with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI)
support
• Light attenuation and light fall off
• Support for caustics, final gathering and global illumination
• Image, texture and decal mapping
• Standard library of over 200 predefined materials types
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CREO DESIGN EXPLORATION EXTENSION (DEX)
Rapidly create and explore concepts and modeling alternatives
Who Needs It?
Every customer that strives to create
and foster an environment that
encourages design exploration,
innovation and creativity
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development
cost
• Improve product quality and
innovation
Process
Improvement
• Design exploration
• Design review and evaluation
• Change investigation and
exploration
Technology/
Capability
• Rapidly explore and evaluate design ideas and modeling alternatives
− Safely explore options and ideas using checkpoints to manage files and capture design history
• Conduct interactive design reviews using saved DEX session data to review concepts and ideas
− No need to clear in-session data, change folders and reload geometry
• Easily investigate changes and implement change using “Explore Update” to eliminate risk
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CREO ADVANCED ASSEMBLY (AAX)
Capabilities to facilitate and support concurrent design and development
Who Needs It?
All customers that requires top-down design tools
to capture design intent and manage the
concurrent design process
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Improve product quality and innovation
Process
Improvement
• Concurrent design using top-down design
• Data sharing and distribution
• Reference control
• Change propagation
Technology/
Capability
• Define and manage design intent
• Securely share and communicate design
criteria
• Establish and enforce design best practices
• Implement predictable change
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CREO ADVANCED FRAMEWORK DESIGN (AFX)
Speed design and improve the accuracy of structural framework assemblies
Who Needs It?
All customers that create structural framework assemblies for building
structures, machinery and assembly lines
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Improve product quality and innovation
Process
Improvement
• Structural framework design
• Fastener assembly
• Weldment design
Technology/
Capability
• Intuitive, easy to use process driven UI
• Fully integrated modeling, framework
design and analysis
• Comprehensive and customizable libraries of profiles,
joints, connections and equipment
• Automated beam placement and creation of
framework geometry (e.g., joints, connections)
• Automated creation of BOMs, production drawings and
fabrication data
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CREO INTELLIGENT FASTENER EXTENSION (IFX)
Capabilities to automate fastener geometry creation and hardware assembly
Who Needs It?
The target customer creates products that require
assembly fabrication and/or scheduled service
and maintenance
• Fastener assembly allows equipment to be
assembled and dis-assembled for transport,
service and maintenance
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• Fastener standardization and selection
• Clearance and alignment geometry creation
• Fastener and configuration hardware assembly
• Fastener validation
Technology/
Capability
• Rapid fastener and hardware selection
• Automatic creation of fastener geometry
• Automatic placement of fastener and
configuration hardware
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CREO PIPING AND CABLING DESIGN (PCX)
Create and optimize routings for cost, manufacturability and service
Who Needs It?
Any customer that requires integral 3D routing
capabilities to optimize manufacturing, cost
and serviceability
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Lower lifecycle cost (optimize routings for service
and manufacturability)
Process
Improvement
• 3D cable and pipe routing and optimization
• Verification and validation (2D schematic logic)
• Automated creation of manufacturing deliverables
Technology/
Capability
• Automated routing referencing 2D Schematic
logic
• Easily visualize and edit using drag handles and
on-the-fly editing
• Ability to compare/validate 3D data against 2D
schematic logic
• Fast creation of fully associative drawings and
manufacturing deliverables
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ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK POWERED BY PTC MATHCAD
Capabilities to connect geometry calculations and documentation to Creo data
Who Needs It?
Any customer that wants to document design
intent and use engineering calculations to
support analysis driven design, verification and
validation
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Improve product quality and innovation
Process
Improvement
• Document design intent
• Support analysis driven design
• Enable design verification and validation
Technology/
Capability
• Capture design intent inside your model
− Mathcad worksheets are embedded and saved with
the Creo model or assembly
• Create smart geometry driven by calculations
• Analyze and validate geometry using parameter driven
calculations
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CREO HUMAN FACTORS EXTENSION
Validate and optimize products for human interaction, usability and safety
Who Needs It?
Customers that need to optimize products for human interaction,
safety, comfort and usability
Business Value
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
• Validate product usability and human interaction
Process
Improvement
• Perform “worst case analysis” using single
direction i.e., 1D tolerance analysis
Technology/
Capability
• Quickly insert and customize digital human models
− Manikin libraries speed the selection and reuse of
manikin data
• Easily manipulate manikin posture using standard Creo
Parametric functionality
• Define vision cones and reach enveloped to validate design
considerations and field of view
− Create vision windows to “see” what the manikin can see
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CREO HUMAN FACTORS ANALYSIS EXTENSION
Validate designs and demonstrate compliance with safety, health and
workplace standards
Who Needs It?
Customers that need to analyze human interaction and
demonstrate compliance with safety, health and workplace
standards
Business Value
• Standards compliance
• Reduce time-to-market
• Reduce product development cost
Process
Improvement
• Conformance with safety, health and workplace
standards
Technology/
Capability
• Validate designs against workplace standards and guidelines for:
− Material Handling (RULA), Pushing/Pulling (Snook), Lifting/Lowering
(Snook), Carrying (Snook) and Lifting/Lowering (NIOSH)
• Define and save manikin postures associated with the analysis
− Reuse and apply saved positions for target populations
• Identify and validate acceptable limits for the desired population
− Reuse and repeat the analysis for different populations and criteria
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CREO PRISMATIC AND MULTI-SURFACE MILLING EXTENSION
Achieve the highest quality, highest precision machining in the fastest time
possible
Who Needs It?
Any customer that manufactures prototype products and/or tooling for
plastic injection molded and casted components
• High speed machining is effective for machining intricate core and
cavity geometries in mold machining, and for quickly machining large,
complex structural components out of solid blocks of aluminum
Business Value
• Accelerate time-to-market
• Reduce development and manufacturing costs
• Improve quality of manufactured products
• Increase customer satisfaction and win new business
Process
Improvement
• Multi-surface 3-axis milling with 4- and 5-axis positioning
• High speed machining (for rapid prototyping and manufacturing)
Technology/
Capability
• Integral CAD/CAM supporting concurrent design and manufacturing
• Automatic change propagation and associative update of NC toolpaths
• Eliminate data translation and errors
• Automated creation of manufacturing process documentation
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