PTC Creo 3.0 Assembly Best Practices and Design Exploration

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1 PTC Creo 3.0 Assembly Best Practices and Design Exploration Moshe Baum Product Manager PTC Creo November Nov , 2015 Stuttgart, Benelux Germany

2 Agenda Best Practices recap Design Exploration Extension in Creo 3.0 Demo Q&A 2

3 Top-Down Design Best Practices 3

4 Advanced Assembly and Large Assembly Management Is it not the same?? Not the same But highly complementing 4

5 Top-Down Design and Large Assembly Management Large Assembly Management tools Design in Context Open Subset Lightweight Graphics On-demand Retrieval Locate, filter and distribute design contexts 5

6 Top-Down Design and Large Assembly Management Top-Down Design tools Skeletons Data-Sharing Features Reference Control Smart Replace Basic Modular Design Automation tools Create and iterate content efficiently and concurrently 6

7 Simplified Representations ( Simpreps ) short history 100% Master ~70% Geometry ~30% Graphic ~10% Lightweight 0% Exclude Typical memory consumptio n Level of details Assembly level graphics Assembly structure Part level graphics Reference geometry Features and parameters Filter retrieved content Concurrent design in shared context Comprehensive drawing views and process steps Fast scenery with thumbnail graphics 7

8 Skeletons Top-Down Design Skeletons Central object to capture design intent Abstract system outlines Common associative references Distribute design spaces Automatically excluded from Mass calculations Easily identified and located Common uses Geometry references Placement references 8

9 Data-Sharing Features Associatively share design intent across models Reuse and manipulate designs of multiple objects by single parent Top-Down Design Usage: Skeleton to sub-model Model to model Merge B A Data-Sharing Features Publish Geometry - Copy Geometry Design Part Geometry Varied Inheritance - Varied 9

10 What does it have to do with working on Large Assemblies? #1: Level of details Skeleton-based modeling allows completing design tasks with Full Filtered Minimal bare-minimum required data 10

11 What does it have to do with working on Large Assemblies? #2: Process efficiency Distribute work with common context/intent Automate massive design changes from single object Integrator / Lead designer Components designers Integrator / Lead designer 11

12 Motion Skeletons The fastest way to setup Mechanism top-down Create schematic assembly up-front Attach design models to skeleton bodies Automatically share reference geometry to bodies and parts Maximize simplification and predictability 12

13 Reference Control Top-Down Design Reference Control Reference restrictions Scope of creation Scope of selection References backup Dependency handling Applicable context Global settings (Options) Model-specific settings (RMB / Prepare) Component-specific settings (RMB) 14

14 Design Exploration Extension 15

15 Challenges of Product Evolution What do you do when you Try out ideas for next version of the product?? About to perform significant changes to a complex design? Evaluate different concepts for a product design? Incorporate new ideas into the official design??? 16

16 Challenges of Product Evolution What do you do when you Typically these involve Back-up and duplicate models to ad-hoc folders Multiple times Repeatedly closing/clearing session to reload different design versions Take a lot of screenshots to use for Design Review Manually identify/incorporate design changes to carry forward for real 17

17 A Sandbox for your designs Snapshot entire session content Capture incremental changes Instantly toggle checkpoints Accept changes or revert risk-free 18

18 Explore: Ideate Evaluate Decide Split to different directions Develop simultaneously different ideas Evaluate all options before making decisions 19

19 DEX Session Content Storage Start Design Exploration session Models iteration Default behavior Paths only to unmodified models Backup modified models only in checkpoints Optional setting Full backups all models in DEX session file Upon Entry, Retrieval, or Manually Add models?.tmz Sharing with other users? Same file system? Keep default behavior w/o backup Different files accessibility? Use full backup Accept checkpoint and/or save session Content Encrypted and Compressed 20

20 Useful Operations Checkpoint properties Quick Search Shows instant results By checkpoint names By keywords Shows previously searched names Filters tree to found checkpoints Review Changes Compare to pre-modified or to other Checkpoints 21

21 Session content while connected to PDM Can initiate with already modified items Start models captured: Pre-modified Modified models: Entry checkpoint PDM Object PTC Creo Parametric session A.1 A.2 A.3 A.4 A.2 A.2.1 A.2.3 One-way download when in active Design Exploration session Can only upload legit designs from regular session Store TMZ file Design Review Documentation Revisit decisions Design Exploration Session CP10 CP13 Pre-modified CP8 CP11 CP9 Entry Checkpoint CP3 CP6 CP12 CP1 CP4 CP2 CP5 CP7 CP14 DEX_name.TMZ 22

22 Store and access.tmz file on Windchill Distinct common top object? Yes No Attach as Secondary Content Create common context My_Awesome_ideas.asm Product1.asm Product2.asm 23

23 Coming up: TMZ TMU as Primary Content Dec 2015 To be supported in Creo 3.0 MOR Windchill 11.0 (X-26) onwards Session content to be captured in a TMU file fully recognized as a CAD object in Windchill Related models and required versions will be registered in TMU and linked as Reference objects Check-in TMU as regular Primary Object Will be recognized by Windchill as Design Exploration Session To restore a DEX session Download TMU Set dependencies to All Set requested versions to As Stored (instead of default Latest ) FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION SUBJECTED TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE 24

24 Update Control for Advanced Assembly users Confidently handle consequences of design change Intermediate update state Data Sharing Features Live notifications of outdated items Legacy Dependent Legacy Independent *Restorable Break Dependency *Permanently Preview changes Before/After Isolate Selective Update Or explore update consequences Can accept changes Or revert to entry-point 25

25 Update Control for Layout users Entity level changes tracking Selective children update Propagate to all children in one shot or update only some 26

26 DEMO 27

27 Time What s the benefit? Iterate Review and share Integrate Time to store new iteration Backup models Clear session Change folders Reload models Classic DEX # of iterations feasible in a typical day Cla ssic DE X Iterations DEX allows exploring x7 more design iterations Design Exploration Extension workflow allows creating Checkpoints that backup only modified and new models. Switching checkpoints in single click only incremental differences are reloaded. New_version Final Final_01 Real_final New_version_02 Classic Better Final_final DEX DEX allows 500% more efficient review process Design Exploration Extension workflow allows sharing a single compressed file and live instant toggle of checkpoints without data duplicates time and # of human errors # of models Classic DEX *Bubble size indicates relative # of errors DEX allows nearly instantaneous integration and ZERO errors Design Exploration Extension workflow allows integrating only changed and new models with a single click of accepting a checkpoint 31

28 Summary Unleash creativity Evaluate all possibilities Confidently handle consequence of complex design changes Interactive Design Reviews Efficiently incorporate design changes Document decision making process 32

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