As processes and materials evolve, CAD/CAM/CAE product design solutions will need to keep pace. In the composites space, PTC’s latest release (Creo 10) fully integrates support for composites allowing users to design, simulate, validate and manufacture composite products without leaving the Creo environment.
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Vice President of Product Management Paul Sagar explained that while Creo provides enhanced and new functionality to users across the board, there’s no denying that a significant part of development is in response to the needs of a growing market.
“To take advantage of material stiffness, weight, strength and impact absorption, more of our customers are building products that are composite in nature,” said Sagar. “In the past this meant moving in and out of design, analysis and manufacturing systems. This not only creates unnecessary delays, but just as importantly it breaks the seamless connection between design tools and the digital thread. In speaking with our customers, we knew that this was something that had to be addressed.”
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Creating an integrated product development environment for composites was the result of years of research and development…and came with its share of challenges.
“With traditional materials the part is the final geometry. But this isn’t the case in a composite where that part is comprised of multiple layers,” said Sagar. “How do you define a thousand individual pieces, track those thousand pieces, manage all the interdependencies and references between those thousand individual pieces? Needless to say, building the infrastructure to support this was a particular challenge.”
Technology was another consideration. Providing functionality unique to composites manufacturing, such as draping, meant developing or acquiring new tools and integrating them seamlessly into the Creo environment.
“Fabric is draped to form the shape and when stretched this puts a shear strain on the fabric. Companies must be able to understand and simulate this to determine if a certain fabric can form a certain shape. If not, they have to be able to explore options to determine how to get around it. Once you’ve draped it the same algorithm essentially is used to flatten the design so the fabric can be cut. These are just a couple of challenges we had to overcome.”
Composites allow designers to marry light-weighting with high strength to carry demanding loads. The process involves adding layers of materials to create nearly limitless shapes, intricate forms and a wide range of densities. While this opens the door to a magnitude of innovative options, it also creates challenges not found with traditional materials. The key is geometric accuracy and the ability to easily verify material builds on the fly.
In Creo 10, PTC introduced a broad set of powerful capabilities to make designing with composites flexible while allowing changes to be made easily. While other software systems are making assumptions, Creo leverages draping technology to accurately calculate mass properties. The result is a more realistic, and more precise, representation of the final design.
Creo incorporates simulation-driven design methodology. In this way, designers can perform simulations to quickly check models as they are being constructed to verify that layering achieves the desired effect. This drives innovation and optimization through an uninterrupted design process and the exploration of layer material, orientation and thickness options.
Creo also helps users navigate the waters with process workflow, design, material selection, laminate sections, ply transitions, inner mold lines and so on. Having access to both a feature list and a ply list are especially significant to composites manufacturing.
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