Creo Elements/Direct Drawing Manager

Manage 2D CAD Data and Associated Files Within a Central Database

Creo Elements/Direct Drawing Manager, the integrated data management tool for Creo Elements/Direct Drafting, eliminates the need for manual design data management.

Customized for highly iterative design environments, Creo Elements/Direct Drawing Manager organizes 2D CAD data and associated files within a central database, allowing you to ensure design integrity, work with up-to-date revisions of design data across the team, and safeguard against accidental data loss. With Creo Elements/Direct Drawing Manager, companies of any size can easily track and manage design data across the product’s lifecycle without fear of outgrowing the system.

Benefits

• Automate processes and eliminate errors with ownership, revision and state control such as Work, Approved and Released states

• Eliminate the time and expense of manual data management processes

• Ensure design integrity and work with up-to-date revisions of design data across the development team with safeguards against accidental data loss

• Provide open and controlled access with real-time status alerts, email, and pop-up notifications of updates and revisions

• Use with single-site or multi-site implementations

• Provide high-performance local access and global data consistency to multi-site companies

• Reuse shared parts and assemblies across product platforms and multiple product configurations with Search and Where Used functionality to cut engineering time and drive manufacturing costs down

• Use Creo Elements/Direct Drawing Manager as your centralized workgroup database, and share released design data with other enterprise systems, such as ERP

• Experience a real-time, seamless product data management system inside Creo Elements/Direct Drafting– already pre-configured with industry best practices