1. PTC Creo Unite Technology
Koen van Boerdonk
19 November 2015

2. Markt Outsourcing Multi-CAD Environment Production
Flexible Engineering Capacity
Concept Department
Main Contractor
Sub Contractor

3. Inefficiencies of a MultiCAD environment
Difficult process to work with and make changes
Lost engineering productivity performing non-value added data conversion
Production
Flexible Engineering Capacity
Limited reuse and repurposing of data
Inability to develop consistent user skills
and expertise across multiple CAD platforms
Concept Department
Lost engineering time and effort
moving data and switching
between different CAD tools
Engineers struggle to collaborate
and share multi-CAD data with
internal and external design partners
Main Contractor
Tedious process to integrate,
manage and update data
Sub Contractor
Inability to directly open and work with data
Reliance on multiple CAD tools
to facilitate and enable
multi-CAD design collaboration
Engineering time is wasted recreating and rebuilding
data to implement change

4. Inefficient Collaboration Summary
Time-to-market
Conversion
Repair / Re-model
Receive Data (different formats)
Change communication
Re-apply changes when source model updates
Sequential process
Share data compatible with other platforms
Lacking user skills multiple CAD platforms
Cost
Incorrect model version
Data management IT cost
CAD training
Open directly without conversion and efficiently work with these files
Update source models with preservation of changes / intelligence
Save data to various formats
Work (and be skilled) with a single CAD platform
Single or associative file
Reduce number of files
Single CAD platform

5. How Unite Technology Can Help You
CONSOLIDATION
Layout the two business use case for Unite Technology:
Consolidate – enabling organizations to standardize on PTC Creo in a cost effective manner
Collaborate – enabling organization to work more effectively with internal and external partners using various CAD systems (requires the collaboration extensions)
COLLABORATION

6. Consolidation with PTC Creo 3.0 Unite Technology
No additional license needed No third party software needed File Formats Versions

7. Consolidation with PTC Creo 3.0 Unite Technology
Original vs Converted
Icons
Both no intelligence
Open
Import
Open
Import
Original file (linked via .creo)
Converted to creo files

8. Consolidate: Edit Opened Files
Edit works on both Import and Opened files
Edit geometry:
Creo Parametric
Flexible modeling
Convert (best practice):
Automatically converts only the necessary non-PTC Creo components into PTC Creo components
Complete geometry is stored in a new .prt/.asm files
Do not Convert:
Stores changes in .creo file as an addition on top of the original file

9. Cumulative Conversion Cost
Consolidate Use Case 1
Company Switches to PTC Creo
New CAD tool
Purchased another company
Legacy data
100% Up-Front Conversion
On-Demand Conversion
Cumulative Conversion Cost
With PTC Creo 3.0 $
Time

10. Consolidate Use Case 2 Production company
Receives all kinds of file formats and prepare for production
Do not receive changes

11. Consolidate Use Case 3 Company Manufactures most of the product
Purchases some standard components (finished status)
Do not often receive changes

12. Consolidate to PTC Creo 3.0 Easily
Benefits
Convert Data as needed, when needed
Easily re-use legacy data with minimal PDM effort
Reduce # of CAD platforms and the associated costs of Software Licenses, Support and Training
Increase Engineering Productivity and IT Efficiency
Explain the benefits of CAD consolidation for the customer’s specific situation and connect these with overall business value
For example: By consolidating to PTC Creo, all designers will work on and be proficient with a single software, enabling the organization to be more flexible (move people more easily between projects) to ensure on-time project delivery

13. How Unite Technology Can Help You
CONSOLIDATION
Layout the two business use case for Unite Technology:
Consolidate – enabling organizations to standardize on PTC Creo in a cost effective manner
Collaborate – enabling organization to work more effectively with internal and external partners using various CAD systems (requires the collaboration extensions)
COLLABORATION

14. Collaboration with PTC Creo 3.0 Unite Technology
Additional license needed No third party software needed File Formats
Functionalities:
Update
Save As

15. Collaboration Update Third Party Native Data
Automatically update new versions of non-PTC Creo data within your designs

16. Collaboration with PTC Creo Unite Technology
Notification Center monitors design changes and helps to identify the impact.
Build design intent across 3D CAD formats easily
Update non-PTC Creo data within your designs
Redefine feature(s) and Reroute references quickly
Non-persistent IDs in non-PTC Creo CAD tools might lead to feature failures from missing references
PTC Creo will display the last successful location of the missing reference to easily reroute it
Keep Multi-CAD manufacturing and documentation information automatically updated

17. Collaborate Use Case 1 Company parallel development
Purchase of custom components (under development)
Do receive regular changes

18. Collaborate Use Case 2 Supplier:
Customer demands their native file type (no intelligence required)

19. Collaborate Use Case 3 Engineering Company
Work for different companies while having expertise in 1 CAD tool

20. Collaborate Effectively in a Multi-CAD Environment
Benefits
Collaborate early and often with partners and suppliers
Easily incorporate non-PTC Creo data early in the design process
Work in parallel
Support the Delivery of Products on Schedule
Reduce the impact of late stage design changes
Reduce the need to create and manage neutral formats
Exchange information in the most common 3D CAD formats
Promote Data Re-use and Sharing
Explain the benefits of effective collaboration for the customer’s specific situation and connect these with overall business value
For example: The ability to incorporate partner information early in the design process enables organizations to achieve higher levels of concurrent engineering, reducing the impact of late stage changes, improving quality and driving on-time delivery.

21. Collaboration with PTC Creo Unite Technology
PTC Creo Unite Technology enables Superior Collaboration
Build Better Designs
Start collaborating between Multi-CAD design teams early
Design in Context of Multi-CAD assemblies with confidence
Build design intent across 3D CAD formats easily
Keep all models updated
Complete Enterprise Process Coverage
Build associative drawings
Build associative structural, thermal, dynamic analyses
Build Multi-CAD modular product architecture
Full support of downstream manufacturing and documentation processes

22. Questions

23. PTC Creo 3.0 licensing
Included in PTC Creo core offering  free of charge!
All supported Consolidation use cases
All supported standard formats (with the exception of the Interface for JT)
All PTC proprietary formats
Additional extensions:
PTC Creo Collaboration Extension for CATIA V4*
PTC Creo Collaboration Extension for CATIA V5*
PTC Creo Collaboration Extension for UG/NX**
PTC Creo Collaboration Extension for SolidWorks
Interface for JT
* rename/replacement for CATIA V4/V5 w/ ATB License
** rename/replacement for Unigraphics w/ATB License