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PTC Creo Elements/Direct is for innovative leaders in discrete manufacturing and other industries who are facing intense time-to-market pressure. Many of the world’s best-known product development companies depend on PTC Creo Elements/Direct for a direct 3D product development process in order to meet shorter design cycles, create one-off product designs quickly, and respond to unpredictable design requirement changes.

If you are looking for maximum ease and flexibility in creating one-off designs or radically repurposing designs, a “direct modeling” approach to 3D design is the right choice. Most companies add 3D modeling to their product design process to overcome increased pressures in manufacturing, such as shortened time-to-market, customer demand for new products, and increasingly complex customer requirements. PTC Creo Elements/Direct addresses these challenges with direct 3D CAD, CAE, and product data management that provide the optimal level of design flexibility.

PTC Creo Elements/Direct is a comprehensive design environment for engineering teams that require a direct modeling approach.

PTC® Creo® Elements/Direct®

A Comprehensive Environment for your Direct Approach to 3D CAD Product Design

Lightweight. Flexible. Fast. Connected

PTC Creo Elements/Direct delivers speed, flexibility, and responsiveness- to-change for customers pursuing a lightweight design strategy. As the pioneer and leading provider of direct modeling, PTC Creo Elements/Direct provides you with unique flexibility throughout your entire product development process:

• Lightweight: Intuitively design products using direct, on-thefly interactions with model geometry

PTC Creo Elements/Direct uniquely captures less model definition information for a genuinely lightweight and flexible product design process. Product designs evolve freely without designers needing to anticipate downstream design changes or maintain embedded design logic such as tangency conditions. As a result, lightweight model geometry is central to the PTC Creo Elements/Direct 3D CAD system. Consequently, your direct modeling files are, on average, one-third the size of parametric modeling files which makes your models easier to access, modify, archive, and share.

Flexible: Easily address unexpected and radical product design changes

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Since you’re creating and modifying model geometry using direct, on-the-fly interactions, you have ultimate flexibility throughout your design process. Therefore, you can easily pick up a design where others left off, much like the way you can open up and immediately continue working on an existing Microsoft Word® document. PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling provides flexibility in several other ways, by giving you the ability to respond to changes in design team composition or work easily with design data from any 3D or 2D CAD system as if it were native design data.

• Fast: Easy to learn and intuitive to use, PTC Creo Elements/Direct lets engineers shave weeks – even months – from project schedules

For engineers and designers who need an easy-to-learn user experience, PTC Creo Elements/Direct provides an intuitive, ribbonbased user interface consistent across all PTC Creo applications. It lowers the learning curve for new users while enabling expert designers to be more productive. Additionally, existing 2D designers can transfer their skills and quickly adopt 3D direct modeling in a matter of weeks. PTC Creo Elements/Direct offers the simplicity of 2D with the power of 3D.

• Connected: Realize more value from product development with PTC’s integral Product Development System

As part of PTC’s integral Product Development System (PDS), PTC Creo Elements/Direct gives you a seamless user experience with other PTC product families, including other PTC Creo applications, PTC Arbortext® , PTC Mathcad®, and PTC Windchill®.

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling–the world’s #1 direct 3D CAD system

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling is the easiest 3D CAD system to learn and use. PTC Creo Elements/Direct provides a lightweight 3D design approach that can help you advance many of your engineering processes, including:

• Concept development

• Verification and validation

• System design

• Design outsourcing

• Detailed design

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling makes creating and modifying 3D designs fast, easy, and flexible. PTC Creo Elements/ Direct Modeling is packed with an extensive list of features for innovative customers who demand speed, flexibility, and responsiveness-to-change.

A direct approach to 3D CAD design makes creation and modification of 3D designs fast, easy, and flexible. You can rapidly evolve a product design in unpredictable and new directions when modifications cannot be anticipated in advance.

Key benefits

• Optimize concept development, detailed design, and system design processes

- Quickly create and modify 3D parts and assemblies

- Shave time off design cycles by repurposing – or radically transforming – existing designs into new and completely different products

- Accommodate major, unexpected design changes at any stage of development, while keeping the transition to manufacturing on schedule

• Increase engineering productivity by eliminating resource bottlenecks and project delays via flexible design teams and better support for design outsourcing processes

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• Directly leverage multi-source CAD data from suppliers and subcontractors in the design process

• Easily move from 2D to 3D, and switch smoothly from other 3D CAD systems confidently knowing that all legacy 2D and 3D CAD data carries forward in PTC Creo Elements/ Direct Modeling

• Broaden your design possibilities by using downstream PTC Creo applications such as PTC Creo Parametric™, PTC Creo Simulate™ , and PTC Creo View MCAD™

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Drafting – for professional 2D CAD design and drafting

Companies that use a 2D CAD system for conceptual, visual, and detailed design processes can leverage PTC Creo Elements/ Direct Drafting. Exclusively developed for mechanical engineers and designers, PTC Creo Elements/Direct Drafting helps you achieve new levels of productivity with innovative part and assembly capabilities and powerful 2D commands.

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Drafting is a complete 2D CAD system tuned to the specialized needs of mechanical engineersand designers.

Key benefits

• Satisfies the 2D needs of designers and mechanical engineers in product development

• Applies an innovative part and assembly structure that matches how engineers design and manufacture products, making 2D product development fast and easy

• Automates development processes and is customizable and programmable so it can be tailored to fit companyspecific needs

• Offers an easy migration path to PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, the industry’s #1 direct 3D modeling software

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager and PTC Creo Elements/Direct Drawing Manager – integrated 3D and 2D product data management

Integrating your 3D and 2D Product Data Management (PDM) is simple with PTC Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager and PTC Creo Elements/ Direct Drawing Manager. You can effectively orchestrate team design processes and manage associated product design data within a central database. Plus, with a fast, intuitive installation, you can immediately benefit from a preconfigured, best-practice data management solution.

Key benefits

• Speed development and cut costs – Cut engineering time and drive down manufacturing costs by managing multiple product configurations with high cross-leverage, and by reusing shared parts and assemblies across product platforms

• Allows engineers to use PTC Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager as the centralized workgroup database and share released design data with other enterprise systems (such as ERP) for the flexibility to support a broad range of enterprise data management strategies and systems

• Scales from the global enterprise down to the single-person shop

- Any size company can easily move into an orchestrated 3D product development and lifecycle management process.

- With support for Web Services and a web-based client access, extended teams and users can take advantage of the product content as the system of record assemblies

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Stay up-to-date with integrated PTC Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager status and revision notifications from inside the PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling structure browser.

• Streamlines processes and eliminates the time and expense of manual data management processes.

- Ensure design integrity and work with up-to-date revisions of design data across the development team, with safeguards against accidental data loss.

- Connect to PTC Windchill, PTC’s leading PLM solution, for deep support of product development processes across the enterprise

Extended capabilities for 3D CAD productivity

The PTC Creo Elements/Direct design solution provides key 3D productivity-enhancing capabilities for users in specific lines of business and industries. Easily extend the use of 3D throughout your design projects and organization with these fully integrated capabilities as you quickly develop products from concept to manufacturing:

• Cable and harness design: Create cables, harnesses, and bill-of-materials documentation with PTC Creo Elements/ Direct Cabling, including drawings for electrical cables, harness routes, and nail boards

• Mold base design: PTC Creo Elements/Direct Mold Base reduces the effort of designing plastic injection molds through its highly interactive and intelligent tooling.

• Sheet metal design: With PTC Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal, build design and manufacturing advice into sheet metal parts and simulate design and manufacturing behaviors

• Industrial design: Designed for companies and industrial designers who want to create appealing and ergonomic products, PTC Creo Elements/Direct Surfacing provides the perfect combination of freeform surfacing and solid modeling in one environment

The PTC Creo Elements/ Direct Sheet Metal knowledge database, with its manufacturing tools, ensures the manufacturability of the design.

• Plastic design: Speed up the design of plastic parts by using streamlined, parameter-driven features and core and cavity commands. Automatically create mold cavities and cores, and use digital prototyping to detect undercuts and constant wall thickness

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• Structural and thermal analysis: With the simulation and digital prototyping capabilities of PTC Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis, you can validate your product designs to meet your customers’ physical demands and streamline your verification and validation processes.

• Advanced analysis: Fully evaluate and optimize your design, improving product quality while reducing physical prototyping expense, with PTC Creo Simulate Advanced Extension.

Platform support and system requirements

Visit the PTC support page for platform support and system requirements.

For more information, visit: http://www.ptc.com/product/creo/creo-cocreate-customer.htm

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The PTC Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal Productivity Package is a complete set of direct 3D design modules – packaged specifically for sheet metal designers. It enables you to create highly precise sheet metal designs while carefully managing all product development data. By leveraging the strengths of PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, the world’s #1 direct 3D CAD system, you have the power to get products to market faster, reduce ECO frequencies and lead times, improve team collaboration, and ultimately decrease development costs.

Package includes the following PTC Creo Elements/Direct modules:

• PTCCreoElements/DirectModeling

• PTCCreoElements/DirectSheetMetal

• PTCCreoElements/DirectModelManager

Key benefits

• Generatemodelgeometryandnewdesignsfasterusingtheflexibleandlightweightdesignprocessofadirectapproachto3DdesigninPTCCreoElements/DirectModeling

• Reactinstantlytounanticipateddesignchangesatanystageoftheproductdevelopmentprocess

• Designsheetmetalpartsfasterasyourapidlyiterateproductdesignsforbuild-to-orderproducts

PTC Creo® Elements/Direct® Sheet Metal Productivity PackageAccelerate Sheet Metal Design using the Leading Direct 3D CAD System, Plus Sheet Metal Tools with Full Data Management

• Avoidthetrial-and-errorassociatedwithtraditional2DsheetmetaldesignandmanufacturingInstead,use3DCADtoseeandanalyzethecomplicatedphysicalbehaviorsandmaterialdeformationsfrommanufacturingprocessessothatyourfirstprototypeisoftenyouronlyprototype

• Expandyourdesignoptionstoincludethecustomtoolingavailablewithinyoursupplychainbyincorporatingyoursuppliers’customsheetmetalmanufacturingcapabilitiesintoyour3DCADprocess

• Calculatemanufacturingcostsinjustminutes,eithertoprovidefastandaccuratebidsforsheetmetalprojectstocustomersortosupportcost/benefitanalysisforsheetmetalcapitalequipmentpurchases

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• Optimizeproductdesignbyusingindustry-standardsheetmetaltoolingwithinthemanufacturingprocesswhileeliminatingunnecessary,customizedtoolingcosts.

PTCCreoElements/DirectSheetMetalProductivityispackedwithanextensivelistoffeatures.Youcaneasilyaddevenmorecapabilitieswithacompletesetofadd-onmodules.

Drive major new initiatives

Reduce ECO frequency and lead times

Createdigitalprototypesforvisualizing,validatingandanalyzingproductdesignsunderreal-worldconditionssoyoucanreduceerrorsinmanufacturingandsavetimebybuildingfewerphysicalprototypes.

Build robust and appealing products faster

Createcomplexindustrialequipmentquicklyandeasilybyincorporatingmanufacturingprocesses,thusensuringdesignformanufacturability(DFM).Avoidre-creatingmodelsbyusingstandard,off-the-shelfpartsandcomponentstoaccuratelycreatethebill-of-materials(BOM).Savetimeandmanagebuildto-orderproductswithintegrateddatamanagement.

Eliminate physical prototypes: Simulate real-world conditions on the desktop

Simulatereal-worldoperatingconditionsvirtually.Identifyandreduceerrorswhendesigningforphysicalbehaviorsandmaterialdeformationsofsheetmetalcomponents.

Streamline working with design and manufacturing partners

Promotetheuseofpreferredanduser-definedsheetmetalmanufacturingcapabilitiesintoyour3DCADprocess,andexpandyourdesignoptionstoincludethecustomtoolingavailablewithinyoursupplychain.Leverageandreuseexistingparts,assemblydesigns,andcommonlibrarycomponentstospeedproductdevelopment.

Buildcompletedigitalprototypesandaccuratelysimulatereal-worldoperatingconditions.

Minimize component and tooling costs

Generatesheetmetaldrawingsofpreciseflatpatternscontainingtheexactdimensions,toolingandprocessinformationneededtomanufacturetheparts.

Design products in a single, integrated environment

Design,validate,andsimulatepartsandassemblies,aswellasmovingmechanisms–allin3D–usingthesameenvironmentyouuseformechanicaldesign.

Integrated data management

Provideareal-time,seamlessdatamanagementexperiencefortheworkgroupusingPTCCreoElements/DirectModelingandPTCCreoElements/DirectModelManager.

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Capabilities and specifications

ThePTCCreoElements/DirectSheetMetalProductivityPackageincludesthefollowingproductsandadd-onmodules:

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling:theindustry’smostpopulardirect3DCADsystemthatprovidesafast,lightweight,andflexibleapproachto3Ddesign

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal:aprecisionsheetmetalmodulethateliminatessurprisesinmanufacturingbyembeddingsheetmetalknowledgewhendesigningpartswithpredefinedbends,cornerreliefs,andstamp&punchtools

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager:anintegrateddatamanagementsolutionthathelpsyouorchestrateproductdevelopmenteffortsandmanagesall3Dand2DCADdesigndataassociatedwiththeproductdevelopmentprocesswithinacentraldatabase

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling

• Naturallycreateandinteractwith3Dgeometryusingfamiliarbehaviorssuchascut&paste,copy&paste,anddrag&droptechniques

• Createandmodify3Ddesignsfasterthroughdirect,on-theflyinteractionswithmodelgeometry,enablingyoutoreachagivendesignsolutionasquicklyaspossible

• Effectivelycommunicateyourdesignsusing3D-to-2Dassociativedrawings,includingshadedandrenderedviews

• RepurposedesignsasiftheywerenativedesigndatabyimportingIGES,STEP,ASICSAT,andPrintedCircuitBoardIDFformats

• Renderinrealtimeasyoudesignandcreatephotorealisticimagesformockups,illustrations,orproductwalkthroughs

• Createproductmanufacturinginformation(PMI)suchas3Dnotes,geometricdimensionsandtolerances(GD&T),symbols,andanalysisresultstoimprovedownstreamcommunication

• Maintainlegacy2DdrawingswithPTCCreoElements/DirectDrafting,astand-alone2DCADsystem,fordocumentcontrolandengineeringchangeorders(ECOs)

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal

• Designready-to-manufacturesheetmetalpartsin3D

• Embedsheetmetalknowledgeandpreferredmaterials,andleveragepre-definedpunch&stamptools

• Simulatefoldingandunfolding

• Generateassociative2Dflatpatternsformanufacturingdrawings

• Performcostestimationonsheetmetaldesignspermanufacturingrequirements

Integrateddatamanagementimprovesteamdesignanddownstreamcommunicationwithotherdepartmentsandsuppliers.

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager

• IntegrateddatamanagementforPTCCreoElements/DirectModelingandPTCCreoElements/DirectDraftingdesigndataandotherintegratedadd-onmodules

• Easyout-of-the-boxinstallation

• Manage3D-to-2Dassociativedrawings

• Intuitiveworkspace,includingconvenientaccesstoMyRecentItems,favorites,andsavedsearches

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• Manualworkflowincludingownership,revision,andstatecontrol

• Real-timestatusandnotifications

• Improvelargeassemblyperformancethroughlightweightgraphicsandpartialloadcapabilities

Language support

English,French,German,Italian,Japanese,andSpanish

Platform support and system requirements

VisitthePTC Support Pageforthemostup-to-dateplatformsupportandsystemrequirements.

For more information, visit:

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The PTC Creo Elements/Direct Machine Productivity Package gives you all the fast and flexible 3D design and data management tools you need for high-quality industrial machine design. The package features PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, the world’s #1 direct 3D CAD system, along with a library of standard 3D parts plus fully integrated data management and an advanced design module. Altogether, this package helps you deliver higher-quality, innovative products to market faster, and decrease product development costs.

The PTC Creo Elements/Direct Machine Productivity package lets you easily create highly precise 3D designs, and quickly modify them through on-the-fly interactions with model geometry. This powerful toolset includes essential assembly, parametric, and part library capabilities for streamlining the design and manufacturing of industrial equipment. Additionally, its integrated data management capabilities help you orchestrate development efforts without imposing overhead on the team, and let you manage every form of CAD and design data associated with the development process within a central database.

Drive major new product development initiatives

• Reduce both the number and impact of engineering change orders (ECOs)

• Decrease time-to-market by building robust, appealing products, fast

• Eliminate physical prototypes by simulating real-world mechanisms on the desktop

PTC® Creo® Elements/Direct® Machine Productivity PackageA Complete Set of Direct 3D CAD and PDM Tools to Accelerate Industrial Equipment Design

• Increase engineering productivity by streamlining collaboration with design and manufacturing partners

• Minimize component and tooling costs

• Complete 3D machinery design in a single, integrated environment

• Build digital prototypes and easily export a complete bill-of-materials (BOM)

Key benefits

• Reduce the frequency and time spent on ECOs that are the direct result of error-related rework

• Validate assembly mechanisms to increase the quality and refinement of new and revised product designs

• Perform digital prototyping and eliminate the cost of extra physical prototypes, while speeding development

• Find failure-prone areas within a product and resolve issues early, boosting design quality, saving costs, and time

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• Subject your product designs to simulated realworld conditions

• Achieve faster realization of optimal designs and avoid both failure-prone and over-engineered components

Build complete digital prototypes to validate the manufacturability of parts, assemblies, standard library components, and assembly mechanisms.

Drive major new initiatives

Reduce ECO frequency and lead times

Create digital prototypes for visualizing, validating, and analyzing product designs under real-world conditions, which enables you to reduce errors in manufacturing and save time by building fewer physical prototypes.

Build robust and appealing products faster

Create complex industrial equipment quickly and easily by incorporating manufacturing processes, while ensuring design for manufacturability (DFM). Avoid re-creating models by using standard, off-the-shelf parts and components to create a fully accurate bill-of-materials (BOM). Save time and manage build to-order products with integrated data management.

Eliminate physical prototypes: Simulate real-world conditions on the desktop

Build complete digital prototypes, analyze the physical behaviors of assemblies and components, and identify

collisions within moving mechanisms. Generate an accurate BOM by also including standard components in the top-level product assembly.

Streamline collaboration with design and manufacturing partners

Promote the use of preferred, off-the-shelf mechanical components, manufacturing materials, and processes. Tailor libraries to match parts that are preferred and available to you and your partners. Leverage and reuse existing parts, assembly designs, and common library components to speed product development.

Minimize component and tooling costs

Effectively reuse parts, assemblies and standard components with integrated data management for the workgroup. Manage and track ownership, revision, and state controls both for designers and external suppliers.

Manage the entire design in one integrated environment

Design and validate parts and assemblies, moving mechanisms, and the BOM–all in 3D–using the same tool you use for mechanical design.

Integrated data management improves team design and downstream communication with other departments and suppliers.

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Capabilities and specifications

The PTC Creo Elements/Direct Machine Productivity Package includes:

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling: A direct 3D CAD system that provides a fast, lightweight, and flexible approach to 3D design

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Advanced Design: Allows you to simulate realistic motion, simplify design geometry, create parametric design variations, and define inspection plans for metrology departments

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Part Library: Makes it easy to use preferred parts and supplier parts during design, so you can reduce cost and shorten lead times

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager: A fully integrated data management solution that helps orchestrate product development efforts, and manages all 3D and 2D CAD design data associated with the product development process within a central database

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling

• Naturally create and interact with 3D geometry using familiar behaviors such as “cut, copy, & paste,” and “drag & drop” techniques

• Create and modify 3D designs faster through direct, onthe-fly interactions with model geometry, enabling you to reach a given design solution as quickly as possible

• Effectively communicate your designs using 3D-to- 2D associative drawings, including shaded and rendered views

• Repurpose designs as if they were native design data by importing IGES, STEP, ASIC SAT, printed circuit board IDF, PTC Creo Parametric/Direct, SolidWorks, and Inventor formats

• Maintain legacy 2D drawings with PTC Creo Elements/Direct Drafting, a stand-alone 2D CAD system for document control and engineering change orders (ECOs)

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Advanced Design

• Add assembly relationships and constraints for physical simulation of mechanisms and for detecting clashes in moving assemblies

• Add parametric relationships and constraints for design variants and downstream modifications

• Streamline the design of plastic parts with plastic-specific capabilities, such as creating core and cavities and leveraging predefined rib features

• Simplify part and assembly geometry to protect intellectual property, as well as improve assembly performance

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Part Library

• Take advantage of DIN, ISO, ANSI, and JIS standards with more than 170,000 parts: screws, nuts, washers, rings, bolts, section steel, bearings, and more

• Reuse company-specific standards

• Improve efficiency with the fixture connection wizard

Build complete digital prototypes and accurately simulate real-world operating conditions.

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PTC Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager

• Integrated data management both for PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and PTC Creo Elements/Direct Drafting design data, as well as any other integrated add-on modules

• Easy out-of-the-box installation

• Manage 3D-to-2D associative drawings

• Intuitive workspace, including convenient access to My Recent Items, Favorites, and saved searches

• Manual workflow, including ownership, revision, and state control

• Real-time status and notifications

• Improve large assembly performance through lightweight graphics and partial load capabilities

Language support

• English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish

Platform support and system requirements

Please visit the PTC support page for the most up-to-date platform support and system requirements.

For more information, visit: PTC.com/product/creo/creo-cocreate-customer.htm

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The PTC Creo Elements/Direct Design Productivity Package is a complete set of flexible design, validation, and simulation capabilities that greatly extends the 3D CAD power of PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling. With this powerful package, you get even more capability and performance from PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, the world’s #1 direct 3D CAD system.

PTC Creo® Elements/Direct® Design Productivity PackageComprehensive 3D CAD Design Solution to Optimize your Product Development Processes

• Minimizecomponentandtoolingcosts

• Completeyour3Ddesignsinasingle,integratedenvironment

• Build3Ddigitalprototypesandtheneasilysimulateandvalidatedesigniterations

Buildprototypesincluding3Dparts,assemblies,sheetmetalcomponents,standardorsupplierparts,andcableharnessing.

WiththePTCCreoElements/DirectDesignProductivitypackage,yougetasetofsevenessentialdesigntools–formodeldesign,cabledesign,sheetmetal,FEA,advancedsurfacing,andmore–soyoucanimproveyourproductdevelopmentprocessesanddrivenew3DCADdesign.Withthisintegraldesigntoolset,youcanbuildrobustproductsfaster,eliminatephysicalprototypes,streamlinepartnercollaboration,reducethefrequencyandleadtimesofECOs,andminimizecosts.

Drive major new product development initiatives

• Reduceboththenumberandtheimpactofengineeringchangeorders(ECOs)

• Buildvirtualprototypesthatinclude3Dparts,assemblies,sheetmetalcomponents,standardorsupplierparts,andcableharnessing

• Decreasetime-to-marketbybuildingrobust,highlyappealingproductsfaster

• Eliminatephysicalprototypesbysimulatingreal-worldoperatingconditionsonthedesktop

• Increaseengineeringproductivitybystreamliningcollaborationwithdesignandmanufacturingpartners

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Key benefits

• ReducethefrequencyandtimespentonECOsthatarethedirectresultoferror-relatedrework

• Increasethequalityandrefinementofnewandrevisedproductdesignsbyincorporatingsimulationanddesignvalidationintoyourdevelopmentprocess

• Performdigitalprototypingandeliminatethecostofextraphysicalprototypeswhilespeedingdevelopment

• Findfailure-proneareaswithinaproductandresolveissuesearly,therebyboostingdesignqualityandsavingcostsandtime

• Achievefasterrealizationofoptimaldesignsandavoidbothfailure-proneandover-engineeredcomponents

Drive new, major initiatives

Reduce ECO frequency and lead times

Createdigitalprototypessoyoucannotonlyvisualize,validate,andanalyzeproductdesignsunderreal-worldconditions,butalsoreduceerrorsinmanufacturingandsavetimebybuildingfewerphysicalprototypes.

Build robust, appealing products, fast

Createcomplexindustrialequipmentquicklyandeasilybyincorporatingmanufacturingprocesses,thusensuringdesignformanufacturability(DFM).Avoidre-creatingmodels,byreusingstandard,off-the-shelfpartsandcomponentstoaccuratelycreatethebill-of-materials(BOM).

Eliminate physical prototypes: Simulate real-world conditions on the desktop

Simulatereal-worldoperatingconditionswithoutbuildingprototypes.UseavarietyofPTCCreoElements/Directmodulesto:

•·Identifyandreduceerrorstypicalinmovingmechanisms

• Simulatethecomplicatedphysicalbehaviorsandmaterialdeformationsofsheetmetalcomponents

•·Detectundercutsandthinwalls

•·Ensuresurfacesmoothnessinplasticparts

•·Validatecableconnectorpositionsandcablelengths

Usefiniteelementanalysis(FEA)toevaluatestructural,buckling,andthermalconditionsanytimeduringproductdesign.

Streamline collaboration with design and manufacturing partners

Promotetheuseofpreferred,off-the-shelfmechanicalcomponents,manufacturingmaterials,andprocesses.Tailorlibrariestomatchthosepartsthatarepreferredandavailabletoyouandyourpartners.Leverageandreuseexistingparts,assemblydesigns,andcommonlibrarycomponentstospeedproductdevelopment.

Minimize component and tooling costs

Generatesheetmetaldrawingsofpreciseflatpatternscontainingtheexactdimensions,tooling,andprocessinformationneededtomanufacturetheparts.Forplastics,useyour3Ddesigndirectlytocreatepartingsurfacesandtoproduceaccuratecoreandcavitymoldblocks.

A single, integrated environment for the entire design

Designandvalidatepartsandassemblies,movingmechanisms,wireharnesses,andBOMs–allin3D–usingthesameenvironmentyouuseformechanicaldesign.

Capabilities and specifications

ThePTCCreoElements/DirectDesignProductivityPackageincludesthefollowingmodules:

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling:Adirect3DCADsystemprovidingyouwithafast,lightweight,andflexibleapproachto3Ddesign

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• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Advanced Design:Helpsyousimulaterealisticmotion,simplifydesigngeometry,createparametricdesignvariations,defineinspectionplans,andusededicateddesigncapabilitiesforplasticparts

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal:Aprecisionsheetmetalmodule.Eliminatessurprisesinmanufacturingbyembeddingsheetmetalknowledgewhendesigningpartswithpre-definedbends,cornerreliefs,andstampandpunchtools

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Cabling:Combineselectricalandmechanicaldesigndata,soyoucanfullysimulateelectromechanicalproductsandshortenleadtimes

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis (FEA):EnablesyoutoperformavarietyofFEAstudiesforstructural,buckling,thermal,andfrequencyanalysis,usingvariousworkingloadandboundaryconditionsthatyouapplytoyourproductdesign

Simulateandanalyzedesignsunderstressandthermalcondi-tionswithPTCCreoElements/DirectFEA.

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Surfacing:Helpsyouaddmorestyleandeasilycreatecomplexdesigns

• PTC Creo Elements/Direct Part Library:Makesiteasytousepreferredpartsandsupplierpartsduringdesigntoreducecostsandshortenleadtimes

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling:

• Naturallycreateandinteractwith3Dgeometryusingfamiliarbehaviorssuchascut,copy,andpasteanddrag-and-droptechniques

• Createandmodify3Ddesignsfasterthroughdirect,onthe-flyinteractionswithmodelgeometry,enablingyoutoreachagivendesignsolutionasquicklyaspossible

• Effectivelycommunicateyourdesignswith3D-to-2Dassociativedrawingsincludingshadedandrenderedviews

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Advanced Design:

• Addassemblyrelationshipsandconstraintsforphysicalsimulationofmechanismsanddetectingclashesinmovingassemblies

• Addparametricrelationshipsandconstraintsfordesignvariantsanddownstreammodifications

• Streamlinethedesignofplasticpartsusingplasticspecificcapabilities,suchascreatingcoreandcavities,andleveragingpredefinedribfeatures

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal:

• Designready-to-manufacturesheetmetalpartsin3Dandintheflat

• Embedsheetmetalknowledgeandpreferredmaterialswhileleveragingpredefinedpunchandstamptools

• Generateassociative2Dflatpatternsformanufacturingdrawings

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Cabling:

• Designandroutebothcablesandharnesses

• Createcableharnessdrawingsformanufacturing

• Verifyelectromechanicaldesigns

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Data Sheet

Buildcompletevirtual3DprototypesandtheneasilysimulateandvalidateanyECO.

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis:

• Analyzestresslevels,displacements,resonantfrequencies,andthermalbehavior

• Assignloadsandboundaryconditionsdirectlytopartsorassemblies

• Enableautomaticmeshgenerationwithmeshrefinementandconditioncapabilities

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Surfacing:

• Createandmodifycomplexsurfaces

• Createsolidmodelsfromasetofsurfaces

• Analyzeandvisualizethecurvatureofsurfaces

PTC Creo Elements/Direct Part Library:

• TakeadvantageofDIN,ISO,ANSI,andJISstandardswithmorethan170,000parts:Screws,nuts,washers,rings,bolts,sectionsteel,bearings,andmore

• Improveefficiencywiththefixtureconnectionwizard

Language support

• English,French,German,Italian,JapaneseandSpanish

Platform support and system requirements

VisitthePTCsupport pageforthemostup-to-dateplatformsupportandsystemrequirements.

Formoreinformation,visit:PTC.com/products/creo-elements-direct/design-productivity-package/

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