Productinformatie Creo Elements/Pro
The power to quickly deliver the highest quality, most accurate digital models–that’s what Creo Elements/Pro is all about. As the primary design offering within PTC’s Product Development System, Creo Elements/Pro details the form, fit and function of products. With its seamless Web connectivity, product teams have access to the resources, information and capabilities they need–from conceptual design to tooling development and machining. And, with Creo Elements/Pro, high-fidelity digital models have full associativity, so that product changes made anywhere can update deliverables everywhere. That’s what it takes to achieve the digital product confidence needed before investing significant capital in sourcing, manufacturing capacity, and volume production.
Where breakthrough products begin
Though most discrete manufacturers invest in computer-aided design and other technologies for product development, their investments do not always generate the returns they expect. Lack of interoperability, capability shortcomings, poor usability, and discontinuities across the concept-design-manufacturing continuum often hamper engineering teams in their search to develop high-quality digital product models more efficiently.
Creo Elements/Pro can help you optimize:
> Conceptual development
> Detailed design
> System design
> Verification and validation
> Design outsourcing
> Variant design and generation
> Manufacturing tooling and equipment design
Engineering departments face countless challenges as they strive to create breakthrough products. They must manage exacting technical processes, as well as the rapid flow of information across diverse development teams. In the past, companies seeking CAD benefits could opt for tools that focused on ease-of-use, yet lacked depth and process breadth. Or, they could choose broader solutions that fell short on usability. With Creo Elements/Pro, companies get both a simple and powerful solution, to create great products without compromise.
Simple.
Easy-to-learn and easy-to-use make Creo Elements/Pro the superior choice for speed-to-value
Through its flexible workflow and sleek user interface, Creo Elements/Pro drives personal engineering productivity like no other 3D CAD software. The User Model enables direct modeling, provides feature handles and intelligent snapping, and uses geometry previews, so users can see the effects of changes before committing to them. Plus, Creo Elements/Pro is based on familiar Windows® standards–providing immediate user accessibility and extending those standards to the unique challenges of 3D product design.
Powerful.
Deep and broad capabilities let engineers design to customer needs, not to the limitations of software
As the two-time recipient of Industry Week’s Technology of the Year Award, Creo Elements/Pro remains the most powerful MCAD solution on the market. Creo Elements/Pro creates seamless digital product information throughout all engineering processes, with associative CAD, CAM and CAE applications spanning conceptual design to NC toolpath generation. And, since it’s built on GRANITE®–PTC’s modeling and interoperability kernel–Creo Elements/Pro excels in multi-CAD environments, and guarantees upward compatibility of data from earlier Creo Elements/Pro releases.
Connected.
Fast, secure collaboration means more productivity and less risk
Creo Elements/Pro offers instant connectivity to valuable resources via an embedded Web browser. As part of PTC’s integral Product Development System (PDS), Creo Elements/Pro provides a seamless user experience with Windchill.®
Conceptual and industrial design
Capture ideas and forms that meet any aesthetic requirement.
Creo Elements/Pro is unmatched for developing and communicating stunning product concepts. It’s a truly open solution you can use to share ideas or refine concepts using freeform surfacing and reverse engineering tools. Designs can be sent directly to a rapid prototyping machine, or transferred to downstream Creo Elements/Pro applications.
• Easy-to-use tools blending 2D or 3D, curves and surfaces, and imported sketches for concept exploration and industrial design
• Advanced photorendering to create photorealistic images
• Interoperable with other CAD systems
Realizable benefits.
• Increase the number of product ideas conceptualized and evaluated
• Improve the richness of product collateral
• Bring higher-quality products to market faster
Detailed design
Refine and fully document any product, regardless of complexity.
Some manufacturers struggle to develop product definitions because of incompatibility across multiple CAD systems or functional shortcomings. With Creo Elements/Pro, design engineers can handle tasks of any complexity, easily connecting and accessing information over the Web–directly from the design environment. Creo Elements/Pro is the scalable choice for small and large companies alike.
• Full geometry capabilities include solid, sheet metal, and assembly modeling, technical and freeform surfacing, weldments, frameworks and mechanisms
• Fast, intelligent, automated capabilities such as Auto Round™, dimensions in 3D drawings, assembly memory management, and feature recognition
• Product documentation capabilities include production drawings, 3D drawings per ASME 14.41, process plans, photorenderings and animations
• Model quality-checking, validation and data reuse
• Interoperability with industry-standard file exchange formats, including STEP, IGES, DXF, DWG, Parasolid®, JT and ASIC import
• Patented technology for associative data exchange with CADDS®, CATIA® V4, CATIA V5, Unigraphics®Realizable benefits.
• Improve productivity and resource allocation by extendingsoftware usage
• Standardize design infrastructure
• Improve collaboration across multiple CAD systems
• Reuse legacy 2D/3D data• Reduce product and development cost with less reliance on engineering drawings and early resolution of design conflict
• Validate products with full digital product mock-up
Simulation/analysis
Validate product performance and optimize product design.
To ensure that products meet customer expectations, you must be able to predict and accommodate real-world conditions, optimize your design accordingly, and share the results. Creo Elements/Pro simulation solutions allow engineers to virtually test product performance, drive optimized designs based on customer and engineering requirements, and make results available to both the immediate and extended team.
• Explore structural, vibration, durability, heat and motion performance
• Simulate advanced conditions such as nonlinear large deformation, hyper-elasticity, assembly connectivity, and friction-added surfaces
• Track model and geometric information against specifications
• Run full tolerance and variation analyses to improve designs for manufacturability
• Generate sensitivity reports to show how changes will impact product performance
• Automatically find the best overall design through optimization
• Simulate and analyze human-product interactions
• Analyze electrical clearance and creepage characteristics to prevent product failure and ensure product safety
• Predict design performance and drive model parameters and dimensions using the Mathcad® integration
• Capture expert knowledge, and automatically guide users through the analysis process using the Process Guide Realizable benefits.
• Lower product, warranty and development costs
• Enhance engineering creativity by exploring more product designs faster
• Optimize product designs to achieve desired real-world performance
Routed systems
Design and document any electrical or fluid system.
Designs for complex fluid and electrical systems can be fraught with inaccuracies and miscommunication. Creo Elements/Pro routed systems solutions offer comprehensive and associative capabilities for electrical, cabling and piping design–as well as manufacturing. Designers, packaging engineers, and manufacturing engineers can quickly design, route, document and produce complex harness and piping systems.
• Gainfull support for a wide range of 2D diagrams, including block, electrical, fluid and pneumatic schematics
• Create complex 3D electrical harnesses and automated ribbon cables
• Drive 3D harness and 3D pipelines from 2D schematics,to ensure accuracy, and verify before manufacturing
• Create associative manufacturing data from 3D harnesses
• Instantly generate annotated, isometric pipeline drawings and output FIF data for CNC pipe bending machines
Realizable benefits.
• Reduce rework and improve quality by verifying the accuracy of 3D harness and piping systems before manufacturing
• Eliminate or reduce prototyping expense
• Lower development cost by eliminating manual transfer of data between 2D schematics and 3D routing
NC and tooling
Leverage digital models for production.
Tooling development and NC machining often trail product design significantly, resulting in lost time and money. Creo Elements/Pro NC and tooling solutions enable manufacturers to create tooling, NC tool paths, and inspection programs in parallel with product design work. By sharing and directly referencing Creo Elements/Pro designs, production and tooling engineers are brought into the process early and are able to influence designs prior to release.
• Tooling design, development and analysis, including automatic core/cavity splitting, mold base, integral mold filling analysis, and progressive die development
• Fast, automatic tool path generation for toolmaking, prototypes and production machining applications, including 2-to-5 axis milling, 2-to-4 axis turning and live tooling, 2-to-4 axis wire EDM, laser and punch press
• Intuitive user interface and process manager for NC toolpath definition streamlines tasks and improves productivity
• NC simulation, verification, optimization and post-processing
• CMM programming and first-article inspection
Realizable benefits.
• Reduce scrap and scrapped tools
• Improve manufacturing productivity
• Improve product quality
• Reduce time-to-market
Design collaboration
Extend digital models to the entire team.
Efficient collaboration among product teams is key for achieving product development business goals. Yet, software tools have not generally lived up to the challenge. Superior collaboration must support both synchronous and asynchronous information exchange to match the way team members naturally engage.
With Creo Elements/Pro, remote users can share digital product definitions, regardless of their location, for conducting real-time design reviews, collaborative design sessions, or frequent information sharing. Using other PTC products, such as Windchill for content and process management or Creo Elements/View™* for visual collaboration capabilities, design data can be communicated from the desktop to multiple, global team members who can then review designs in real time with other design locations, outsourced design partners, and tooling suppliers. These capabilities even extend to team members who may not have or use Creo Elements/Pro.
• Facilitate design collaboration with:
-Portable workspaces in Creo Elements/Pro, which allow you to share data with design partners offline
-The unique Shrinkwrap™ tool in Creo Elements/Pro, which enables you to easily share lightweight, yet fully accurate product representations while protecting the original data–your intellectual property
-Creo Elements/Pro ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Extension, which improves communication between electrical and mechanical engineers for electromechanical product designs
-Creo Elements/Pro Rights Management Extension, which helps you protect Creo Elements/Pro files persistently and dynamically when they are outside the secure PDM/PLM environment
• Connect seamlessly to PTC’s Product Development System to enable cross-enterprise communication for design collaboration, supplier collaboration, design reviews, remote training, and technical support
Realizable benefits.
• Reduce travel expense through virtual, multi-party design reviews
• Increase information exchange through the ability to advance designs and resolve design conflicts in real time• Decrease time-to-market while ensuring compliance to requirements, by immediately making current information available to all
• Reduce development cost through remote system administration, training and diagnostic support
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