Datasheet-Creo Piping and Cabling Extension-En
Datasheet-Creo Piping and Cabling Extension-En
Datasheet-Creo Piping and Cabling Extension-En
Key benefits
• Increase design speed through the reuse of Creo Harness Manufacturing Extension (HMX)
standard symbols, connectors, and fittings
contained in a customizable library Creo HMX dramatically reduces the time to create
documentation and the user expertise required to
• Reduce costs and design time by eliminating
the need for physical prototypes, made possible create standardized manufacturing documentation.
through virtual interference checking and At a touch of a button and at any stage of the design
automated manufacturability verification process, manufacturing documentation can be
created for purchasing to obtain the most competitive
• Enable cost-effective manufacturing through manufacturing cost.
accurate documentation, such as isometric
drawings, bend tables, and BOMs
Key benefits:
Determining the routes of pipes and cables can • New streamlined solution improves user efficiency
be a difficult, time-consuming task. Beginning with and productivity
the creation of a physical prototype and then • Easily accommodate late-stage changes to your
manually routing the pipes through it, this long, engineering design faster and with less frustration
tedious process is typically error-prone. Because
of the time and effort involved, the engineer often • Documentation is automatically created to a
must accept the first route that works—not preconfigured standard
necessarily the optimal one.
To solve these issues, a company will often send a Creo Harness Manufacturing Extension (HMX).
service engineer to the field, which can be very costly.
With Creo PCX, these problems can be avoided. Creo Schematics™ Lite
-- Drives other 3D CAD routed systems designs Comprehensive suite of tools for fitting insertion:
• Flow violations
• Bill-of-Materials
Automate cabling routing
• Bend machine and detailed fitting reports available
Improved realism in bundle display and better
• Schematic consistency check
downstream use of cable design information
• Communication of piping system layout and detail
• Model tree with extensive information cables,
in the form of isometric, installation, and pipe
cable contents, and wires
spool drawing
• Ability to select a single wire
• Output to CNC bending machines
• Highlights in display
Cabling design
• Wire parameters displayed
Creo PCX gives you the power to extract logical
information from 2D schematics while Electronically document the entire design process
automating your 3D cable routing. Not only can • Automatically flatten 3D harnesses for
you determine a working route quickly, but you can manufacturing documentation
easily find the optimal route that won’t interfere
with the design. Plus, since it’s a Creo Parametric Automate the creation of fully defined
model, it has the advantage of full associativity; 3D harnesses
that means any change made to the model is
• Automate harness routing by referencing 2D
automatically reflected in the cabling routes.
logical information
With fewer (if any) physical prototypes and
shorter design cycles, you’ll save significant time • Digitally define complete 3D harnesses with
and money. connectors and components