Design Premium Plus

Design premium plus

  • Industry-Standard 3D CAD Capabilities**
    Augmented Reality Design Visualization
    Advanced Assembly
    Prismatic & Multi-Surface Milling
    Advanced Surfacing & Additive Manufacturing
    GD&T & Tolerance Analysis
    Mold Design & Mold Machining
    Extended Collaboration (CATIA V4, CATIA V5 and NX)
    PTC Mathcad
    Simulation, Basic CFD, & Fatigue Advisor
    Production Machining
    Advanced Simulation & CFD
    Options Modeler & Topology Optimization
    Metal Printing & Complete Machining

Additional capabilities for Design Premium Plus:

Advanced Simulation

Avoid product failures to mitigate risk of warranty, service, repair and liability:

  • Materials Nonlinearity (Hyperelasticity and Plasticity)
  • Isotopic and Composite Materials
  • Dynamic and Prestress Analysis


Complete Machining

Comprehensive capabilities to support advanced NC machining strategies:

  • Includes production machining capabilities in previous pacakges
  • 2.5- to 5-axis Milling (Adv. machining strategies)
  • Support for Mill-Turn and live tooling and multi-task machines synchronization


Flow Analysis Plus

Advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities for product designers and analysts:

  • Includes flow analysis capabilities of previous packages
  • Use Multiphase Analysis to simulate gas and liquid together
  • Utilize Dynamics Analysis to simulate fluids and solids interaction


Options Modeler

Create and validate 3D modular products:

  • Interface-based virtual configurable product design
  • Unify platform options rules with virtual modeling
  • Instantly create virtual product configurations by selecting options


Generative Topology Optimization

Generate designs to meet specific design criteria, goals and objectives:

  • Constraint and load definition
  • Integrated simulation and analysis driven design
  • Faceted results are automatically converted to manufacturable geometry


Additive Manufacturing Plus

Connect to 3D metal printers and automatically generate 3D metal support structures:

  • Includes lattice structure creation and optimization capabilities of previous packages
  • 3D metal printer connectivity
  • Generate and customize metal support structures

Fatigue Advisor

Estimate the number of load cycles your model can sustain before failure. Includes all the features of Creo Simulate and the following:

  • Formulation
  • Results
  • Material Library
  • Design Studies
  • Load History

Collaboration Extensions for CATIA V4, CATIA V5 and NX

Improve productivity in multi-CAD environments:

  • Import data from other CAD systems into full Creo data
  • Open and work with non-native data without any conversion effort
  • Ensure changes on imported or opened data are handled seamlessly
  • Exchange Creo models in common CAD formats with presence of licenses from these software systems

PTC Mathcad

Perform, analyze, and share your most vital calculations:

  • Conduct complex engineering calculations to validate your designs
  • Comprehensive unit support for numeric and symbolic calculations, functions, solve blocks, tables, vectors/matrices, and plots
  • Lock content to prevent viewing and hide proprietary information

Interactive Surface Design

Combine the power of parametric modeling and flexibility of freeform surfacing:

  • Combined freeform and technical surfacing in a single environment
  • Focus on design aesthetics and shape rather than constraints and parameters
  • Design precise curves and surfaces to achieve highly-engineered, manufacturable products


Behavioral Modeling

Optimize geometry to solve for design goals and engineering criteria:

  • Automatically solve for design goals
  • Create smart models that adapt to change
  • Define and track custom measures



Mechanism Dynamics

Analyze and optimize the dynamic performance of mechanism designs:

  • Model real-world force, loads and contact types
  • Analyze mechanism behavior and reactionary forces
  • Seamlessly transfer reaction, gravity and inertial loads to Creo Simulate (Structural Analysis)


Tolerance Analysis

Analyze and understand geometric tolerance stack-up and dimensional variation:

  • Evaluate the impact of tolerances on the manufacturability of designs
  • Identify critical dimensions that contribute to the measure variation
  • Automatically generate HTML reports



GD&T Advisor

Simplify GD&T creation and improve MBD compliance with latest standards (ASME & ISO):

  • Wizard-like dashboard to guide the user in the correct application of GD&T
  • Feature-centric view of GD&T
  • Advisor Tree – displays messages to inform and guide the user



Tool Design

Accelerate the design of high-quality production mold and cast tooling:

  • Easy to use process driven UI for Mold and Cast design
  • Automated creation of parting line and parting surface geometry
  • Associative design and tooling updates



Expert Moldbase

Automate manual, time-consuming tasks to speed the creation of moldbase tooling:

  • 2D process-driven workflow for moldbase design and detailing
  • Customizable “smart” mold component library
  • Automatic ejector pin, waterline, and fittings functions, automatic runners and waterline checks



Mold Machining

Deliver rapid production of mold, die, electrode and prototype parts:

  • 3-axis trajectory milling
  • Comprehensive holemaking
  • High speed 3-axis machining powered by ModuleWorks



Creo Layout

Maximize productivity using integral 2D layout and 3D detailed design:

  • Easily create from scratch or edit existing information
  • Directly utilize 2D data to speed the creation of 3D design
  • Implement changes driven from 2D layout information


Multi-CAD Collaboration

Seamlessly integrate and work with data from SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor:

  • Collaboration for SolidWorks (Open, Update and Save As native SolidWorks files)
  • Collaboration for Autodesk Inventor (automatically detect and update Inventor data)


Piping & Cabling Design

Create and optimize routings for cost, manufacturability and service:

  • Automated routing referencing 2D Schematic logic
  • Easily visualize and edit using drag handles and on-the-fly editing
  • Ability to compare/validate 3D data against 2D schematic logic


Rendering (powered by Luxion's Keyshot)

Produce photorealistic images for design review, marketing collateral, and product packaging:

  • Real-time Raytracing powered by Luxion Keyshot
  • Enhanced lighting with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) support
  • Standard library of over 200 predefined materials types


Design Exploration

Rapidly create and explore concepts and modeling alternatives:

  • Explore design changes safely without risking original designs or committing to any change
  • Simultaneously develop different ideas and evaluate all options before making decisions
  • Eliminate manual data duplication and session clean-up for loading and reloading different versions
Fastener Design

Automate fastener geometry creation and hardware assembly:

  • Automate the creation of holes and assembly fasteners
  • Access to standard libraries (ANSI, DIN, JIS)



Advanced Framework Design

Speed design and improve the accuracy of structural framework assemblies:

  • Fully integrated modeling, framework design and analysis
  • Comprehensive and customizable libraries of profiles, joints, connections and equipment
  • Automated beam placement and creation of framework geometry (e.g., joints, connections)
Legacy Data Migration

Support legacy data migration and CAD consolidation efforts:

  • Legacy Drawing Associator (LDA) – automatically connects parametric models to imported legacy data
  • Relink model and drawing to provide associativity (update) and association when checked into Windchill PDMLink
  • Annotation Convertor (AC) – Automatically convert drawing dimensions and notes to 3D annotations
Human Factors Design

Validate and optimize products for human interaction:

  • Quickly insert and customize digital human models to prevent ergonomic mismatches and reduce prototype costs
  • Easily manipulate manikins
  • Visualize human reach and vision

Advanced Assembly

Facilitate and support your concurrent design and development:

  • Data Sharing and Distribution
  • Reference Control
  • Change Propagation


Prismatic and Multi-Surface Milling

Achieve the highest quality, highest precision machining in the fastest time possible:

  • Multi-Surface 3-axis milling with 4- and 5-axis positioning
  • High speed machining (for rapid prototyping and manufacturing)
  • Automatic change propagation and associative update of NC toolpaths
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