Creo AAX & Top Down Design

Learn how to use Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX) functionality to enable and provide assembly Top-Down-Design Schemes using various tools as well as considering further aspects of data sharing within an assembly.

Description

This course will explore many advanced assembly techniques based on the following functionality:

  • Skeletons – used for a variety of different applications
  • Publish/Copy Geometry (external or local) for sharing data in a controlled way
  • Engineering Notebooks, a centralised design repository
  • Assembly Program for controlling logic and automating designs
  • Component Interchanges and Program driven component Interchangeability
  • Merge/Inheritance models, e.g. control original casting linked to machined casting
  • Assembly UDF library
  • Individual object Reference Scope Control
  • Default Envelopes, used for fast, lightweight substitutions with detailed components via Simplified Representations

This will provide the foundations for:

  • Capturing flexible “Top-Down Design Schemes” that are robust, efficient and effective.
  • Developing modular or automated design variations.
  • Controlling change propagation from a single centralised source.
  • Controlling external References in a robust and predictable fashion.

This course is for companies who have AAX licenses. This is available as a separate extension or as part of a Creo Design Advanced (T2) license.

Agenda

Module 1 AAX/TDD Scope 

Module 2 Functional Overview

Module 3 Summary Examples

  • Skeletons 
  • Publish and Copy Geometry 
  • Engineering Notebooks 
  • Assembly Program 
  • Component Interchanges 
  • Merge, Inheritance and Multi-Bodies 
  • Assembly UDF 
  • External Reference Control 
  • Unplaced Components
  • Envelopes

Module 4 Exercise 1: Define a Top Down Design Scheme for a bicycle frame

Module 5 Exercise 2:  Use an Engineering Notebook to centralise design relations

Module 6 Exercise 3:  Define an Assembly Automated Interchange

Module 7 Exercise 4:  Use an Assembly Program to drive design variations

Module 8 Exercise 5:  Define a machined casting using Merged geometry 

Module 9 Exercise 6:  Build an assembly jig using an Assembly UDF support structure 

Module 10 Exercise 7:  Control individual external references 

Module 10 Exercise 8:  Build a virtual assembly using Unplaced components 

Module 11 Exercise 9:  Substitute motor core laminations with a default envelope