PTC Creo Expert Moldbase Extension (EMX) - Subscription

The greatest challenge facing manufacturing engineers today is finding time to improve quality, speed, and innovation in moldbase design and detailing. The solution that the world’s most successful moldmakers turn to is PTC Creo Expert Moldbase Extension (EMX).

PTC Creo Expert Moldbase Extension (EMX) is an indispensable add-on tool for moldmakers and toolmakers that eliminates time-consuming, tedious tasks and the need for data translation that typically slows down the product development process.

Expert Moldbase Extension allows users to create moldbase layouts in a familiar 2D environment and automatically generate a 3D model to leverage the benefits of 3D design. The 2D process-driven GUI guides you toward your optimal design and updates automatically during the development of the moldbase. You can choose from a catalog of standard components (DME, HASCO, FUTABA, PROGRESSIVE, STARK, etc.) or customized components. The resulting 3D models are then used for interference checking during mold opening, as well as for automatic generation of deliverables such as production detail drawings and BOMs.

Expert Moldbase Extension increases design speed because the unique graphical interface gives you quick, real-time previewing before the 3D component or assembly is automatically placed. Once your components are placed, operations such as clearance cuts and drilled and tapped holes are automatically created in the appropriate neighboring plates and components, thus eliminating tedious and repetitive mold detailing tasks. PTC Creo EMX also enables moldmaking companies to capture their own unique design standards and best practices directly within the mold assemblies and components.

If you’re looking to accelerate moldbase design and find more time to development better quality, highly innovative designs, then PTC Creo Expert Moldbase Extension is your perfect solution.

Key benefits

• Realize an immediate ROI based on significant productivity improvements
• Capture company design standards and best practices directly within mold assemblies and components as you preserve in-house mold design expertise
• Enable concurrent engineering between design and manufacturing
• Eliminate data translation with a native, fully associative PTC Creo 3D CAD solution
• Incorporate late changes in the design cycle easily as modifications update automatically
• Reduce the costs of scrap and rework by simulating interferences and by using standard components
• Shorten the learning curve using the intuitive tutorials and documentation

Features and specifications

• Specialized 2D GUI enables instant customization of moldbases and components
• Automatic assembly of components – ‘pick & place’ ease
• All necessary clearance holes, threads, counterbores, etc, are automatically added to plates
• Part-level features already fully dimensioned
• Custom components can be created, saved, and reused
• Automatic layers and simplified representations for easy viewing
• Standard and nonstandard mold components are marked
• Ability to take your customer parts through the complete process
• Supplier catalogs include: DME, DMS, EOC, FUTABA (Misumi), HASCO, KLA, MEUSBURGER, PEDROTTI, RABOURDIN, STRACK, PROGRESSIVE, NATIONAL, PCS, LKM, and others

HW Specs

Recommended System Specification

Manufacturer's system requirements are generally the bare minimum that you need to run the software and insufficient for effective and productive operation of the product. 

Our suggested "real world" mid-range desktop system key specifications to properly run Creo are as follows:

• CPU: Intel Core i7
• Memory: 32GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO RTX4000
• Hard Drive: 1TB NVMe
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Novedge, in partnership with High Speed Computing, can also provide the perfect hardware for your design needs, pre-installed with your software, at a very competitive price. Contact us to discuss custom-configured workstations and laptops.

Suggested Workstation

Gold 3D Workstation CPU: Intel Core i9 Memory: 32GB Hard Drive: 1TB NVMe Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO RTX4000