Advanced Design Capabilities
Creo 12 introduces several advanced design capabilities that cater to specific industry requirements:
- Productivity & Usability Enhancements:
Streamlines design with Feature Presets for quick default setups and a cleaner model tree for easier navigation. You can now create flat assemblies from multibody parts and take advantage of smarter sheet metal tools like dependent mirror and enhanced joins. The updated Enclosure Volume feature also improves packaging workflows with better visibility and access.
- Improvements in Electrification:
Creo simplifies circuit and harness design with tools that support full assemblies—including spools, wiring, and terminators—making collaboration easier than ever. Enhanced ECAD data import ensures smoother integration from schematic to layout.
- Enhanced composite design & Manufacturing:
Quickly generates solid geometry from composite layers, keep manufacturing plans in sync with design changes using associative models, and easily merge plies across zones with common materials and orientations.
- Expanded Model-Based Definition (MBD) Tools:
Creo utilizes a model-centric approach to ensure all product information is accurately defined within the 3D model, providing timely data. Features include enhanced file export, integration of Datum Reference Features (DRF) in GD&T Advisors, and improved reuse of annotations.
- Simulation-Driven Design and Generative Design:
Creo, with its generative design and real-time Ansys simulation tools, helps engineers optimize designs early in the process. It offers thermal, structural, and modal optimization, and includes Ansys solver updates. The system provides simplified results in CSL and CAS and supports bolted structures.
- Advances in Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing Tools:
With Creo 12, designing for both additive and subtractive manufacturing is made easier. For additive manufacturing, the software offers localized seed points and enhanced connections for lattice geometries. In subtractive manufacturing, it provides High-Speed Milling undercut machining for greater flexibility with 3-axis machining.
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