Creo Elements/Direct Advanced Design
Extended 3D Design Capabilities for Your Creo Elements/ Direct Modeling Environment
Creo Elements/Direct Advanced Design is a comprehensive set of five integrated Creo Elements/Direct Modeling modules. These modules work together to resolve potential manufacturing issues and extend the use of 3D CAD data beyond product design.
Essential for any size design team, Creo Elements/Direct Advanced Design can establish physical and mechanical relationships within assemblies, add parametric features to parts, design plastic parts faster and protect intellectual property with suppressed or simplified product details.
The software can also help you create design variations, simulate realistic motion, simplify design geometry, define inspection plans, and utilize dedicated design capabilities such as parameter-driven features and core and cavity commands for plastic parts.
Benefits
Visualize mechanisms in motion within Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, and easily identify design interference
Generate product design animation sequences or simply add motion simulation to parts and assemblies to visualize assembly, disassembly, and mechanism studies – with or without physical simulation relationships
Simulate mechanism behavior to identify interferences
Analyze physical behavior through animations and simulations
Enhance recorded simulations for playback with photorealistic frames using the optional AVI animation output
Design plastic injection molds with industry-standard moldbases, and automatically generate all required components
Prepare and export dimensional measurement plans for Quality Control departments by providing accurate measurement points for comparing manufactured products with 3D CAD specifications
Use 3D documentation to attach tolerances and design specifications to your design for inspection
Generate and create design variants with part and assembly relationships, constraints, and conditions
Define positional relationships and dynamically push, pull and rotate assembly mechanisms to simulate physical behavior
Provide accurate metrology measurement points for a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
Save time and reduce errors by directly using your 3D model to create mold designs with parting surfaces, and automatically produce accurate core and cavity mold blocks
Capabilities
Review multiple simulation studies for identical parts and assemblies
Run predefined mechanism motions, including rack, gear, screw, cam
Detect interferences dynamically and "stop on interference" based on model data
Attach logical relations, value relations, and measure relations to product design data from both PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and imported CAD data
Define formulas for value relations and table editing
Establish relationships on both native and imported parts and assemblies to automatically create design variations (such as family of parts), build relations-based feature patterns, and add intelligence for design modification
Support curve and surface modification
Design and analyze with a broad range of predefined plastic form features, user-definable design rules, isotropic and anisotropic scaling
Analyze undercuts, draft, and wall thickness
Automatically detect and remove features such as through holes, bosses, pockets, rips, slots, blends, and helical surfaces
Remove certain features based on parameters such as height, depth, radius, and box size
Remove small parts, hidden parts, and selected parts
Maintain assembly structure and simplify all parts in one step
Merge assemblies to create a single geometrically merged structure
Maintain associativity between original and simplified parts in Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager™
Create, modify, and analyze surfaces, and design ergonomic products with confidence
Automatic detection of gaps, ideal for repairing imported designs
All operations also work on designs imported through standard interfaces or optional CAD interfaces