Easily optimise your designs
CAD software that will find the best design for you, by using three key capabilities:
- design studies
- smart models
- open environment which uses calculated results from external programs
Solve real-world problems and meet a variety of design goals by applying multiple objectives to a design scenario. When you have multiple design objectives to meet, such as maintaining a product’s strength while reducing its weight, it can be very time consuming to attempt to find the optimum design. As evaluating all the possible iterations is impossible, so how do you know when you have the best design?
Creo Behavioural Modelling Extension (BMX) automates this process for you, using design studies. To run a design study, you define:
- Your engineering goals, and
- Where your design is flexible
Behavioural Modelling Extension automatically analyses countless alternatives before arriving at the best solution.
Objective-Driven Design Studies
- Add statistical attributes to dimensions and parameters, enabling analysis of statistical effects on any measurable goal in the model
- Conduct feasibility studies to determine if there is a possible solution that meets the design constraints of the model
- Optimise designs to satisfy cost-reducing requirements such as decreasing a product’s weight to minimise costs
- Perform sensitivity studies to evaluate “what-if” scenarios to understand the impact of changes
Smart Models
- Adapt to design changes instantly, while preserving the design intent
- Capture, group and store comprehensive design measurements as analysis features that can drive the design
- Leverage the power of analysis features to ensure that design changes do not alter the design intent
- Flexibly iterate the design, trusting the analysis feature’s embedded intelligence to ensure engineering criteria is maintained
Open Extensible Environment
Increase design flexibility using calculations from external tools without programming or scripting
Access Engineering Information More Easily
- Apply custom measurements to relations
- Capture custom measurements that are not easily dimensioned, such as cross sectional area or light reflectivity
- Define engineering requirements, such as desired weights, angles of reflection, mass property requirements, assembly connection information and other measurements
- Monitor critical design measurements and safety margins against design requirements
Track Model Performance with Analysis Features
- Track measurements, such as volume, mass or minimum clearance, during a structural analysis of solid geometries and quilts
- Measure force and torque while analysing mechanisms
- Use results from external applications to drive analysis features