PTC Creo 3.0

Design Exploration Extension

Moshe Baum

Product Manager – PTC Creo

Nov 2014

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Challenges of Product Evolution

What do you do when you…

• Try out ideas for next version of

the product?

• About to perform significant

changes to a complex design?

• Evaluate different concepts for a

product design?

• Incorporate new ideas into the

“official” design?

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Typically these involve…

Challenges of Product Evolution

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• Back-up and duplicate models to ad-hoc

folders… Multiple times

• Repeatedly closing/clearing session to

reload different design versions

• Take a lot of screenshots to use for

Design Review…

• Manually identify/incorporate design

changes to carry forward for “real”

What do you do when you…

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A “Sandbox” for your designs

• Snapshot entire session content

• Capture incremental changes

• Instantly toggle checkpoints

• Accept changes or revert risk-free

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Explore: Ideate – Evaluate – Decide

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• Split to different directions

• Develop simultaneously different ideas

• Evaluate all options before making decisions

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Demo

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DEX Session Content Storage

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Accept checkpoint and/or save session

Content Encrypted and Compressed

Models iteration

Add models Start Design Exploration session

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.TMZ

• Default behavior – Paths only to unmodified models

– Backup modified models only in checkpoints

• Optional setting – Full backups all models in DEX session file

• Upon Entry, Retrieval, or Manually

• Sharing with other users? – Same file system? Keep default

behavior w/o backup – Different files accessibility? Use

full backup

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Session content while connected to PDM

PDM Object

• Can initiate with already modified

items – Start models captured: Pre-modified

– Modified models: Entry checkpoint

• One-way download when in

active Design Exploration session – Can only upload “legit” designs from regular

session

• Store TMZ file – Design Review

– Documentation

– Revisit decisions

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A.1 A.2 A.3 A.4 …

A.2 A.2.1 A.2.3

Pre-modified

Entry Checkpoint

CP1

CP4

CP2

CP5

CP8

CP9

CP11 CP10

CP3

CP7 CP6

CP12 CP13

CP14

Design Exploration Session

PTC Creo Parametric session

DEX_name.TMZ

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Store and access .TMZ file on Windchill

Attach as Secondary Content Create common context

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Distinct common top object

Yes No

My_Awesome_ideas.asm

Product1.asm

Product2.asm

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Update Control for Advanced Assembly users

Confidently handle consequences of design change

• Intermediate update state – Data Sharing Features

• Live notifications of outdated items

• Preview changes – Before/After

– Isolate

• Selective Update

• Or explore update consequences – Can accept changes

– Or revert to entry-point

Legacy “Dependent”

Legacy “Independent” *Restorable

Break Dependency *Permanently

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Demo

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Update Control for Layout users

• Entity level changes tracking

• Selective children update – Propagate to all children in one shot

– or update only some

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Useful Operations

• Checkpoint properties

• Quick Search – Shows instant results

• By checkpoint names

• By keywords

– Shows previously searched names

– Filters tree to found checkpoints

• Review Changes – Compare to pre-modified or to other

Checkpoints

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Supported Modes and Models

FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION SUBJECTED TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

Supported in PTC Creo 3.0: Part mode

Sheetmetal

Standard Assembly

Layout 3D integration * Not available for editing in 2D mode

Mechanism

Welding

Notebook

• To be enhanced – (Currently) Limited – no open/ create/ edit

□ UDF □ Interchange Assembly

□ Process Assembly

□ Mold/Cast □ Piping-&-Cabling

* Application entry blocked but assembly with piping data can be opened with limited editing

– (Currently) Unsupported modes/models ▫ Sketch mode ▫ Drawing mode

▫ Layout 2D

▫ Configurable Assembly/Modules

▫ Manufacturing/NC

▫ Animation

▫ External Simpreps object ▫ PTC Creo Direct

▫ PTC Creo Simulate

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Summary

Unleash creativity

Evaluate all possibilities

Confidently handle consequence of

complex design changes

Interactive Design Reviews

Efficiently incorporate design changes

Document decision making process