Concurrent Engineering Blog

Additive manufacturing is a process where 3D design data is used to manufacture a component by layering up a depositing material. Increasingly, it's being used synonymously with 3D printing.

Typically, multiple software packages are often required to make additive manufacturing a reality, which results in designers having to export, redesign and optimise - costing time and resource. However, the Creo 4.0 Additive Manufacturing extension resolves these issue.

For anyone interested in learning more, here are the five key benefits of additive manufacturing for product designers

If you need to add pipes to your design, it’s easy to do so with the Cabling and Piping module in Creo 4.0. But what happens when you encounter errors in the piping database?

Some time ago, PTC introduced the “flexible modeling” extension into Creo. Changes to models and retaining design intent are now easy thanks to the direct modelling capabilities within Flexible modelling in PTC’s traditional parametric 3D CAD System.

When your to-do list is long (and keeps growing), it's easy to get stuck doing the same thing. Before you know it, your competitors are using new and innovative technologies - and leaving you behind.

At their base level, lattices are repeating structures. Spoked wheels and trusses are examples of lattice-based objects that have a basic topology that repeats either consistently or with a degree of variation.