Creo 12
What’s New in Creo
PTC’s Creo is a parametric 3D CAD system that helps you deliver your best designs in less time. Manufacturers rely on Creo to get the most value from their CAD system, with fully integrated design, simulation, and manufacturing capabilities. Creo delivers model-based product development, real-time simulation, generative design, and streamlined workflows for composites and additive and subtractive manufacturing. Easy-to-use core modeling tools help improve productivity every day. Creo is fully associative, meaning changes are automatically propagated across the value chain
Exceptional usability and productivity
Creo 12 delivers an intuitive interface coupled with streamlined workflows, helping you deliver your best designs in less time. Customer-inspired enhancements in Creo 12 include feature presets, creation of flat assemblies from multibody parts, and improved Windchill interaction. What’s New highlights and enhanced tool tips provide design engineers with the resources needed to maximize the full potential of Creo.
Creo 12 Composites
Creo 12 delivers market-leading fidelity and accuracy in advanced composite structure design, with innovative tools that enable engineers to effiveintly design, simulate, and manufacture composite parts. Creo 12 provides faster, more accurate create of solid geometry from composite layers and can create an associative manufacturing reference model. You can now merge plies from different zones, expanding your conceptual composite design capabilities. With new industry-leading tools, Creo 12 delivers the world’s most robust, scalable composite design capabilities.
Simulation-driven Design and Generative Design
Creo simulation-driven design helps engineers iterate and optimize designs early in the design process, with award-winning generative design and real-time Ansys simulation tools. With Creo 12, engineers can leverage AI-powered generative design for thermal optimization studies, in addition to structural and model analysis. Creo 12 has updated Ansys solvers (25R1) with simplified and improved results for both Creo Simulation Live and Creo Ansys Simulation. With powerful simulation driven design tools, Creo helps engineers deliver their best designs in less time.
Model-based definition
With a model-centric approach, Creo ensures that all product information is accurately defined within the 3D model, providing the right information to the right person at the right time. Creo 12 offers improved file export capability, including 3D PDF and STEP AP242, Edition 3, GD&T Advisor now supports datum reference features and intent surfaces, and annotations are now easier to reuse. With PTC’s Creo 12, engineers can use model-based techniques to deliver their best designs in less time.
Manufacturing-additive and subtractive
Creo is the ideal choice for designing for additive and subtractive manufacturing. With Creo 12, engineers can now use additive manufacturing to design conforming cooling channels in injection-molded tools, for optimal results. Additive manufacturing also has enhanced capabilities for connecting and customizing latices, and subtractive manufacturing is now better than ever with undercut high-speed milling capabilities. Creo 12 helps engineers deliver their best manufacturing designs in less time.
What is the composite design and manufacturing process?
The composite design and manufacturing process typically involves the creation of ply book drawings, which detail the specific arrangement and orientation of composite plys in a component. These drawings or flat patterns are crucial for ensuring the correct stacking sequence, fiber angles, and material choices to meet design requirements. The process includes design, engineering analysis, layup, quality control, and manufacturing, all guided by the information provided in the ply book drawings to achieve the desired composite part.
Links to Other Pages
- Creo Parametric: Discover the powerful capabilities of Creo Parametric for parametric 3D CAD design.
- Creo vs Solidworks – Comparison Chart: Compare Creo and Solidworks side by side with our detailed comparison chart.
- Creo Simulation Live: Explore how Creo Simulation Live can help you perform real-time simulation directly within your CAD environment.
- ANSYS Simulation for Effective Engineering Analysis: Learn how ANSYS simulation tools can enhance your engineering analysis for more effective results.
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