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:
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
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)
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
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