Working with suppliers, customer and even other teams in your organisation inevitably brings with it challenges. You’re probably familiar with the difficulties of working with multiple CAD systems and the inevitable problems that come with importing and trying to recreated CAD data.
PTC Creo has extensive simulation capabilities, enabling designers to analyse both parts and assemblies. It means you can investigate the structural, thermal and motional behaviour of your designs under real-life conditions. To begin your analysis, Creo provides you with an easy to follow process, which include an intuitive user interface.
Routing cables and pipes can be a long and complicated element to product design, and with products becoming more and more complex, it’s important that your design process for piping and cables is optimised and as quick and easy as possible. Enter the PTC Creo Piping and Cabling Extension, or PCX. Create routed systems with ease, either directly into a 3D environment, or driven by a 2D schematic.
What are some of the common themes, issues and problems that are currently being talked about in industry on concept design and its importance to the product development process? PTC recently did a survey and they found that 92% of their customers, when asked, said their businesses could benefit financially if they had a better platform for exploring concept designs.
With Creo Parametric, designers are able to build assemblies using mechanical connections. This enables them to investigate the motion behaviour of their designs in real-life conditions.
Where do you stand on the parametric vs. direct modelling debate? For some design engineers, the openness and flexibility of direct modelling makes it the ideal design tool. Others, however, prefer the control that comes with using a parametric approach.
For many designers, being able to change and modify a concept design to evaluate new ideas is technically challenging. It can be a frustrating process, particularly when you’re working on a complex assembly, with many interdependencies.
Creo Simulate provides the capabilities necessary for structural and thermal simulation analysis. It gives users that all-important early insight into how their product will perform. It can also reduce the time and cost associated with physical prototying.
You’re probably familiar with the challenges that are associated with increasing product complexity. It’s an issue that’s resulting in many companies reviewing their CAD capabilities, to see how they match up to their CAD needs. But, actually, there’s a lot that can be achieved by emulating the way best in class companies use their CAD tools. In fact, according to research by Aberdeen, these exceptional CAD users are able to decrease their product design time and costs by nearly double the amount compared to the industry average. So what are the product design secrets that enable these results?
Right from the start of the process, the proverbial drawing board, there are real design challenges involved in creating large assembly lines. This can be for several reasons. Often the customer will not know exactly what they want their automated assembly line to do, so this inevitably impacts on the design process. On top of this, there can also be changes made to the underlying product, which mean the design of the assembly needs to be altered.