Creo Manikin Extension


Digital Human Modelling allows you to connect your products to people

 

Do you design products which people use? Would you like to be able to optimise how easy and comfortable they are to use?

Are ergonomic considerations key to your products?

Is physical access to your products important – such as for installation or maintenance?

Do you need to verify your products conform to health and safety standards?


Now you can connect your designs to their audience, by using human modelling.

This saves time by reducing the need for prototyping and expensive reengineering.

Usability is crucial in today’s global marketplace. Can your product design be manufactured, installed, used and serviced by people around the globe? This module will accelerate your 3D CAD detailed design processes and take the guess work about useability out of your designs.

Creo Manikin Extension is a complete digital human modelling solution that will assist optimise your product for human-product interactions.

Features & Benefits
  • You can quickly insert, customise, and manipulate accurate, standards-based 3D human models
  • Ensure adherence to safety and ergonomic standards
  • Insert manikin models into your 3D CAD product model to optimise designs for a specific target audience
  • Libraries of global populations and manikin postures saves you time

It enables designers to visualise, simulate, optimise and communicate these human-product interactions earlier in the design process. Saving time and reducing product development costs.

Digital human modelling supports a human-centric approach to design by allowing a designer to add a 3D digital human model to their 3D CAD product model. A digital human model – also called a manikin – is an advanced 3D mechanism that provides an accurate representation of human physical characteristics such as size, shape, vision, movement, strength and comfort. The manikin can be customised for a specific gender and ethnic demographic and fully manipulated in real time, thereby helping the designer better understand the relationship between a product and the people interacting with the product, such as a consumer, operator, installer, assembler or maintainer.

 
Capabilities

Quickly Insert and Customise Digital Human Models

  • Using the dedicated manikin toolbar, you can quickly insert a manikin into Pro/ENGINEER and customise it based on gender, nationality, size and other associated variables
  • Anthropometry support for a wide range of global populations helps you assess and maximise your product’s potential in the global marketplace
  • Digital Human Model structure conforms to the H-ANIM standard: ISO/IEC 19774
  • Manikin libraries are included to help you capture and reuse manikin data
  • Create and share your own customised manikin models, accessories and postures

Easily Manipulate Manikins

  • Manipulating the manikin is easy with tools such as:
  • Direct Kinematics capabilities help you fine-tune individual manikin segment positions
  • Inverse Kinematics tools let you quickly manipulate and posture groups of manikin segments
  • 2D Drag, Segment Drag, Rotate and Reset Posture tools let you explore complex manikin posture scenarios
  • Seamless Pro/ENGINEER integration lets you leverage existing Pro/ENGINEER tools with the manikin, including Clash, Collision,
  • Distance, Clearance, Mass and more

Visualise Reach and Vision

  • Generating vision windows enables you to “see” what the manikin can see
  • Vision cones help designers identify what is inside the various human fields of view:
  • Peripheral (global vision)
  • Binocular (the visual field that can be seen by both eyes)
  • Optimal (operational zones)
  • Accurate (reading zone)