Overview
With it advanced tools for top-down assembly design, PTC Creo AAX streamlines the flow of information from design to manufacturing, helping you reach the optimal design, including customized designs, in far less time. |
How can PTC Creo Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX) help your team?
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Key benefits
- Improve performance by simplifying large assemblies. Use top-down design tools to build the skeleton model and share down-stream design intent, giving you greater flexibility and control over the entire structure
- Make changes with confidence, knowing that all modifications are automatically propagated from the design to the manufacturing information
- Effectively manipulate models, enabling you to create higher-quality designs faster, and reuse your product designs in the future
- Quickly and efficiently customize products according to a customer’s unique requirements
- Support your company’s design or build-to-order initiatives and provide better-quality, customized products to customers faster and at less cost than your competition
- Concurrently develop product by efficient collaborate design intent with multiple designers
- Efficiently create process instructions while detecting manufacturing errors as soon as possible
- Manage and control refences and dependencies
Features and specifications
- Top-down design tools
- Plan the framework of an assembly using skeleton models and data-sharing features to enable true top-down design
- Publish and control design interfaces between sub-assemblies and components
- Create one-way associative models, allowing you to inherit the changes from the parent model and then make changes to the new model
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- Simplify large assemblies
- Create simplified parts to substitute for detailed design assemblies and to improve assembly performance
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- Smart design intent
- Programmatically automate the customization of your product lines based on input parameters
- Deliver accurate and updated drawing as well as manufacturing deliverables in record time for a customized product
- Capture design requirements from customers in spreadsheets, layout table, or other programming applications, which can drive product configuration
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- Reference viewer and reference control
- Investigate references and dependencies to understand design intent and flow
- View a graphical representation of interdependencies for a clear understanding of how changes will be propagated throughout the model
- Quickly identify circular reference paths
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- Plan the assembly process
- Have collaboration and communication between engineering and manufacturing stakeholders to reduce cost