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SmartAssembly for Creo

Rules Based Design Automation

SmartAssembly is a process capture tool made for designers. A Creo users can be trained to create automation applications in a simple easy to understand language. Most applications can be written in a few paragraphs

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Key Features

  • Automatic creation & configuration of new parts and sub-assemblies, then automatically assembling them
  • Automatic assembly of newly created or existing parts or sub-assemblies
  • Creation of part level features
  • Support for part family tables and assembly level family tables  
  • Dimensional information provided thru user input or automatically from the program  
  • Automatic relations from analysis features when assembling a component  
  • All components and features created still have full redefine or edit definition capability  
  • When a component is removed, the associated relations are also removed
  • Rich programming flexibility – loops, conditional statements, variables, etc.
  • Manufacturing and Drawing Automation Support  
  • Works with Pro/Intralink and PDMLink

How It Works

  • Define required automation rules using features, standard components and assemblies, SmartAssembly programming, and the required GUI
  • Work either in part mode to add features or at the assembly level to add features or components
  • Define project templates and re-use the data –automatically copy, rename a top-level assembly and all drawings, parts, sub-assemblies, even manufacturing files are copied and associated to the new project
  • Use the SmartAssembly GUI to speed up all design and manufacturing tasks

Key Benefits

  • Standardization of assemblies and parts  New users can be productive in a fraction of the time 
  •  Productivity improvements of 50-80% are commonly recognized  
  • Advanced users create designs faster allowing them to focus on the design process  
  • Re-use company standard libraries – create automation programs from existing components in hours  UDF organization – eliminates common UDF problems such as UDF naming, gph file location, or required references