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Creo Piping and Cabling Extension

®

ACCELER ATE YOUR PIPING AND CABLING DESIGN PROCESS

Traditional mechanical products are becoming more and more

complex due to their increased reliance on electrical and
hydraulic technology. Control systems are also advancing at
an astonishing rate, forcing product designers to pay much
more attention to electrical and fluid requirements.

As designers move to take advantage of the IoT and • Fully automate your routing so you can quickly
sensors are added, the requirements for piping and determine the optimum path for manufacturing,
cabling increase. All of this means that designers cost, and serviceability
are now dealing with more complicated piping and
• Ensure design rules and schematic logic rules are
cabling routings, which traditionally have taken a enforced through specification-driven design
low priority during product design.
• Increase design speed through the reuse of
To be successful, designers must make electrical standard symbols, connectors, and fittings
and fluid design a higher priority and a more contained in a customizable library
integral part of the detailed design process. Yet,
• Reduce costs and design time by eliminating
as product complexity increases and schedules the need for physical prototypes, made possible
continue to shrink, where will you find the time and through virtual interference checking and
tools to design these increasingly complex routings? automated manufacturability verification

Creo Piping and Cabling Extension (PCX) is the • Enable cost-effective manufacturing through
perfect 3D solution because it supports all types of accurate documentation, such as isometric
drawings, bend tables, and BOMs
industries and styles of piping and cabling, so you
can streamline and accelerate the entire design
process. Whether you’re designing products with
a complex web of cables and harnesses, hydraulic
or pneumatic hoses, high and low pressure tubing,
copper work, or even large bore pipes, Creo PCX
can handle the job, no matter how intricate.

Key benefits

• Capture and document schematic information

and manufacturing documentation

• Minimize errors and reduce time-consuming tasks

by automating the capture of all relevant system Automated cabling design capabilities make it easy to move
information, such as the schematic design, virtual components and connectors without manually rerouting
prototype, or manufacturing documentation wires and cables.

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Accelerate 3D routed systems design Creo Harness Manufacturing Extension (HMX)

A time-consuming, error-prone process Creo HMX dramatically reduces the time to create
documentation and the user expertise required to
Determining the routes of pipes and cables can create standardized manufacturing documentation.
be a difficult, time-consuming task. Beginning with At a touch of a button and at any stage of the design
the creation of a physical prototype and then process, manufacturing documentation can
manually routing the pipes through it, this long, becreated for purchasing to obtain the most
tedious process is typically error-prone. Because competitive manufacturing cost.
of the time and effort involved, the engineer often
must accept the first route that works — not Key benefits:
necessarily the optimal one.
• The intuitive, easy-to-use user interface
Even worse, when an engineering change is made enables any engineer to create manufacturing
to the design, it means the engineer must start documentation to a pre-defined standard
over by recreating the physical prototype and • New streamlined solution improves user
rerouting the cabling or piping — thus wasting efficiency and productivity
valuable time. Additionally, most companies that
create the cabling prototypes don’t document the • Easily accommodate late-stage changes to your
cabling routes, which make it difficult to service engineering design faster and with less frustration
these products.
• Documentation is automatically created to a
preconfigured standard
To solve these issues, a company will often send a
service engineer to the field, which can be very costly.
With Creo PCX, these problems can be avoided.

Creo Harness Manufacturing Extension (HMX).

Creo Schematics™ Lite

Creo Schematics Lite provides all the capabilities

that designers of piping and cabling systems
With Creo PCX, you can immediately determine the best need to easily capture the logical connectivity
piping routes between even the most complex systems. information in 2D schematics. Included with Creo
PCX, Creo Schematics Lite is an introductory
schematic tool that can grow with your design
needs. Advanced capabilities, such as design reuse
support, multiuser capabilities, customization for
design automation, and central catalog, can be
added optionally.

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Capabilities and specifications The fully associative nature of Creo Parametric™

ensures that the pipe routing — and accompanying
• Piping diagrams
documentation — will automatically update
-- Supports 2D pneumatic, hydraulic, process whenever a design change is made to the model.
flow (PFD), PI&D, and HVAC
Accurate and efficient routing of pipelines
• Cabling diagrams and fittings:
-- Supports 2D Block Interconnect, Circuit, and • Automate the creation of 3D routes from
Wiring Interconnect design 2D schematics
• Design reuse • Leverage intelligent schematic information for
design reuse
-- Central Design Catalog
• Create piping routes faster using lightweight
-- Data tables
representations
-- Import legacy Pro/DIAGRAM data
• Automate fitting placement based on schematic
information while adhering to design rules
• Electrical simulation
• Concurrently route pipelines in a multi-user
-- Seamless integration to E-Simulate
environment
-- E-Simulate Lite is available only with the full
• Asynchronous piping settings let you change the
version free of charge
pipe shape, bend radius, corner type, or line
-- E-simulate standard can be purchased from stock on the fly
www.virtual-interconnect.co.uk
• Manipulate existing pipelines easily with an
intuitive dashboard user interface, shortcut
• 3D CAD support
menus, and dynamic dragging
-- Drives Creo 3D piping and cabling designs
Comprehensive suite of tools for fitting insertion:
-- Drives other 3D CAD routed systems designs
• Search for fittings that meet the specifications
Piping design of your project so you only work with the correct
pipes and fittings
Creo PCX enables designers to fully automate the • Automatically display the correct fittings based
pipe-routing process. Designers no longer have to on schematic information
build physical prototypes and struggle through the
trial-and-error process; they can determine — • Automate the placement of gaskets, flanges,
virtually — the optimal paths of the pipes in the elbows, and other components
model. In addition, designers can create rules that • Preview the placement of the object to achieve
are based on company best practices or corporate full control over the insertion
policies. By establishing rules, the software can
then verify that this optimal path is compliant Reinforce predefined rules through
with established manufacturing rules. Plus, violation detection:
designers have access to a library of standard
fittings, which can be reused from product to • Maximums and minimums of the bend radius
product, reducing time-to-market and increasing
• Minimum branch separation and branch angle
designer productivity.
• Placement and missing fittings

• Flow violations

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Complete control over flow directions: Capabilities and specifications:

• Automatically set initial flow direction based • Improved Bundle Representation

on routing
• Realistic depiction of shrink-wrap tubing with
• Easily change flow direction for a series or pipe- bundle transitions
line

• Automatically reverse directional fittings with

change of flow direction

Verification of piping routes to prevent errors:

• Electronically verify 3D data — compared to logical

data — to detect missing fittings and other
common missteps

• Check for design rules, such as missing gaskets,

in the model

• Create automatic cut lists, bend tables, and BOMs

Easily extract information from the design

for outputs: Determine the connections either manually or from logical
information. Creo PCX automatically generates a simple path
• Bill-of-Materials which then enables the user to find the optimum path faster.

• Bend machine and detailed fitting reports available

• Schematic consistency check Automate cabling routing

• Communication of piping system layout and Improved realism in bundle display and better
detail in the form of isometric, installation, and downstream use of cable design information
pipe spool drawing
• Model tree with extensive information cables,
• Output to CNC bending machines cable contents, and wires

Cabling design • Ability to select a single wire

• Highlights in display
Creo PCX gives you the power to extract logical
information from 2D schematics while automating • Wire parameters displayed
your 3D cable routing. Not only can you determine
a working route quickly, but you can easily find the Electronically document the entire design process
optimal route that won’t interfere with the design.
Plus, since it’s a Creo Parametric model, it has the • Automatically flatten 3D harnesses for
advantage of full associativity; that means any manufacturing documentation
change made to the model is automatically reflected
in the cabling routes. With fewer (if any) physical
prototypes and shorter design cycles, you’ll save
significant time and money.

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Automate the creation of fully defined The Creo Advantage

3D harnesses
Creo is a 3D CAD solution that helps you build
• Automate harness routing by referencing 2D
better products faster by accelerating product
logical information
innovation, reusing the best of your design
• Digitally define complete 3D harnesses with and replacing assumptions with facts. Go from
connectors and components the earliest phases of product design to a
smart, connected product with Creo. And with
• Modify cabling networks faster with drag handles
augmented reality in each seat of Creo, everyone
and on the fly editing capabilities
can easily visualize your designs. In the fast-
• Automatically route ribbon cables and cable shields changing world of the Industrial IoT, no other
company can get you to substantial value as
• Create ribbon cables faster using automated quickly and effectively as PTC.
capabilities

• Implement engineering changes to the assembly, Language support

confidently knowing that Creo Parametric
• English, German, French, Italian, Spanish,
associativity will automatically update the
Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional),
cabling routing
Korean, and Russian.
• Calculate mass properties and perform
• Creo Schematics Lite is available in English,
clearance evaluations
French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese

Concurrently route harnesses in a multi-user

Platform support and system requirements
environment automate the flattening of 3D
harnesses for manufacturing Please visit the PTC support page for the
most up-to-date platform support and
• Quickly flatten 3D harnesses to create accu-
system requirements.
rate 2D harness documentation with intelligent
dimension, BOMs, and pinouts
For more information, visit:
• Create fully associative, customizable lists and PTC.com/product/creo or contact your local
tables containing all information necessary to sales representative.
create the harness

• Detail the flat harness drawing with parametric © 2018, PTC Inc. (PTC). All rights reserved. Information described herein is
furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and
notes, dimensions, symbols, and tables should not be taken as a guarantee, commitment, or offer by PTC. PTC, the
PTC logo, and all PTC product names and logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of PTC and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
Enable more effective enterprise communication All other product or company names are property of their respective owners. The
timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to
• Produce fully associative detail drawings for 3D change at PTC’s discretion.
and flattened harnesses
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• Create complete documentation, including
intelligent dimensions, BOMs and pinouts

• Share schematics, documentation, and har-

nesses with the entire product development
team using the Creo View™ visualization tool

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