Creo View MCAD

Creo View Design Check

Verify and Track 3D Design Check Processes

Product View Validate for Model-Based Design (.pdf attached)

Creo View (formerly ProductView) allows you to immediately realize the proven performance of PTC’s industry-leading visualization solutions today while putting you on the path to achieve break-through productivity gains with Creo.

Model-Based Design is a product development methodology that is revolutionizing the way companies design and manufacture their products. By reducing or eliminating 2D drawings, the Model-Based Design process can drive down development costs, reduce product development time cycles and improve product quality.

Creo View Design Check is an optional module providing an interactive tool which is specifically designed to enhance and improve the “Design Checker” role, a critical step in a model-centric product development process.

Replacing the difficult-to-manage pen and paper methods traditionally used for checking 2D Drawings with a robust solution based around the 3D model, Creo View Design Check provides a highly effective communications medium between engineering, manufacturing and other downstream contributors.

Coupled with Creo View MCAD, this module facilitates rapid verification of the design intent captured in the 3D model through the marking of Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) by one or several design checkers, including the ability to approve, reject or question specific design elements – all by using the real-time 3D model as the single representation of the product. Throughout the process, the entire marking history is tracked and maintained with the ability to generate design check reports.

The Creo View Validate for Model-Based Design module helps Design Checkers confirm that all critical Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is present, consistent and meets standards.

Features & Benefits

• Speed design cycles with industry’s only 3D model based design checking
• Eliminate the time and effort required to create and verify 2D drawings
• Ensure critical Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is present
• Maintain electronic marking history of all design check cycles
• Lower the barrier to adoption of a Model-Based Design methodology
• Reduce the non-conformances that arise from inaccuracies in 2D Drawings

Creo View PDF Solutions

Enabling the review processes on PDF documents

Securely Collaborate with PDF Documents using ProductView (.pdf attached)

Easily manage the collaborative review cycle of PDF

Creo View PDF related extensions allow you to easily collaborate with your entire product development team by enabling commenting on PDF documents. The Creo View Adapter for PDF allows you to automatically generate PDF files for secure document reviews. Creo View PDF Review lets users record comments and watermarks without altering the actual document. And PDF Watermarker lets user view documents with watermarks.

All product stakeholders can review concepts and make comments inside important design and manufacturing documents such as specifications, assembly instructions, and scanned legacy drawings—without disturbing the original contents. As an integral part of the PTC Product Development System, Windchill can manage the review process for all of these PDF-based documents.

Extensions

Creo View PDF Review – Full document collaboration includes commenting, viewing and watermarking PDF files

Features & Benefits

• Accelerate document reviews through synchronized collaboration by reviewers whenever and wherever convenient
• Minimize errors with improved operation of extended review teams
• Maintain data integrity using PDF documents without risking the integrity of the original document
• Lower cost of ownership through server-based timely publishing of Microsoft Office documents into PDF format

Creo View Interface Analysis

Detect, analyze and correct errors early in the product development process

Discovering design errors early in the product development process is a fundamental requirement of any manufacturing company. While detecting clashes or interferences between components has previously been time-consuming and resource-intensive, the alternative of not doing so is worse.

Creo View Interference Analysis helps you find, understand and correct interference issues effectively and efficiently earlier in the development process, thus improving design quality, reducing costs, and accelerating time-to-market.

Features & Benefits

• Check for different types of interferences such as physically interfering parts, parts that are in contact or parts that have a required clearance from each other
• Conduct interference tests between groups of parts (such as HVAC vs. electrical parts) as well as automatically compute and display the interference volume.
• Enable the automatic population and creation of component and assembly groupings on the basis of meta-data or product structure hierarchy for maximum flexibility
• Analyze, compare, report and store interference results easily
• Lower overhead costs by viewing and analyzing product designs without requiring CAD licenses
• Improve product confidence and quality

Creo View Animator

High performance animation of digital mockups

To fully evaluate a design, engineers often need to understand the assembled products movement and operation. With the ability to create interactive animations of a digital mockup, engineers can view functional simulations of their product, allowing them to gain greater insight into their designs.

Creo View Animator provides the ability to easily develop and deploy animations without the need for CAD tools or special skills. By being about to validate a product design early in the development lifecycle, Creo View Animator can help reduce design cycles and design time while improving product confidence and time-to-market.

Features & Benefits

• Animate a single part, groups of parts or large assemblies
• Observe product designs from various perspectives, reducing the need for expensive prototypes.
• Capture assembly motion instantly to create assembly sequences, dis-assembly sequences or maintenance operations
• Turn around product design changes faster and shorten development cycles by evaluating functional aspects of the design
• Manage/deploy animations within Windchill
• Import Creo design software animations to utilize previously built simulations

Creo View Adapters

Convert 2D and 3D CAD data to Creo View-compatible formats, quickly and consistently

Creo View Adapters allow organizations to quickly convert essential engineering design data into actionable content for use in downstream processes, including design collaboration and validation, and technical illustrations for product support.

Creo View Adapters also support leading ECAD formats such as Cadence, Zuken and Mentor Graphics and other formats such as Microsoft Office documents, STEP, JT, DGN, and many legacy formats.

Creo View Adapters are available either as a server-based installation, to run alongside Windchill, or client-based, to accommodate the precise needs of the organization.

Features & Benefits

• Automatically convert multiple CAD and non-CAD data to an ultracompact standard Creo View format for utilization by the entire Creo suite
• Control which geometric and non-geometric information will be published
• Speed up collaboration/design cycles by using Creo View across the collaborative landscape
 
• Accelerate the creation of 2D and 3D technical illustrations using Creo Illustrate by leveraging native 3D CAD data directly from Creo View Adapters
• Maintain high-fidelity, complex 3D design elements throughout the visual collaboration process without requiring the original authoring softwareIP protection of your data through a wide range of flexible options (ex. choose tessellated data output over analytical data)
 
• Provides back-annotation of Creo View ECAD markups to the native EDA tools
• Cross-select equivalent design data between Creo View ECAD and native EDA tools

Creo View Toolkits

Create fast, interactive visualization applications

Creo View Toolkits Data Sheet (pdf attached)

Product development organizations have unique collaboration needs that sometimes require novel uses of visualization technology. Some want to use the Internet to share information, such as printed circuit board (PCB) designs, or to improve engineering design insight among suppliers and design partners. Others would rather deploy their own specialty-built visualization applications for their internal product design team.

With either of PTC’s two Creo View Toolkits, you can achieve these objectives and create engaging, high-performance visual applications and stunningly interactive web pages by reusing Creo View software technology.

• Familiar Creo View Lite User Interface. accessible from within the PowerPoint slide
• PowerPoint slide powered by Creo View Office Toolkit
• Creo View technology embedded in a Java application using Creo View Java Toolkit
• Creo View technology embedded in a web page using Creo View Web Toolkit

Features & Benefits

• Make viewable data—such as a PCB layout-- accessible to your extended product development team in ways never before attainable
• Gain productivity advantages by using a high-performance architecture and highly compressed files
• Support your unique requirements by enabling flexible development options
• Creo View Web Toolkit to embed Creo View technology into Web pages
• Creo View Java Toolkit to embed Creo View technology into Java applications
• Allow support for a variety of visual collaboration use cases
• Infuse high levels of visual interactivity into existing product development applications to support internal team members
• Unlock your visual content throughout your supply chain by providing highly interactive web pages

Creo Division Reality

Immersive Visual Collaboration

DIVISION Reality Data Sheet (.pdf attached)

DIVISION Reality allows engineers to develop virtual worlds, animate them with intelligent and realistic properties and experience the resultant virtual environment.

DIVISION Reality greatly reduces the need to build expensive and time-consuming physical prototypes. With powerful, interactive tools for designing and implementing virtual reality applications, DIVISION Reality allows engineers to immerse themselves within a virtual environment to experience the product’s capabilities and validate product operations. In an increasingly global and competitive market, utilizing a realistic and interactive virtual reality prototype can reduce product development costs and accelerate time to market.

Features & Benefits

• Accelerates time-to-market through rapid product visualization and dynamic product analysis, allowing potential issues to quickly be resolved
• Reduces product development costs by significantly reducing the need for physical models with immersive and functionally rich virtual prototypes that can be quickly created on-demand
• Improved product quality by allowing engineers to investigate realistic part behaviors and real time mechanisms earlier in the product lifecycle, uncovering any potential problems in the development process

Creo Division MockUp

Large-scale, realistic digital mockups

Division Mockup Data Sheet (.pdf attached)

Usability, manufacturability, and design reviews are generally conducted across geographic boundaries and with physical prototypes. Both pose major obstacles. But DIVISION MockUp overcomes these challenges with capabilities for real-time design collaboration, analysis and simulation – regardless of location.

Compatible with Creo and many other CAD systems and graphical standards, DIVISION MockUp significantly reduces product development costs and time.

Features & Benefits

• Improve collaboration by conducting real-time, interactive, multi-site, collaborative reviews of entire product design
• Integrates with existing CAD systems
• Reduced cost and reliance on physical prototypes
• Improved communication and collaboration through early visibility to realistic, interactive digital mockups
• Accelerated decision making through rapid presentation of design alternatives