PTC Creo Simulation Extension - Floating License - Subscription

PTC Creo Simulation Extension Floating License gives designers and engineers the power to evaluate structural and thermal product performance on your digital model before resorting to costly, time-consuming physical prototyping. By gaining early insight into product behavior, you can greatly improve product quality while saving time, effort and money.

Features and Specifications

Analysis Capabilities

• Linear Static Structural Analysis
• Static Structural Analysis with Small Displacement Contact
• Modal Structural Analysis
• Linear Buckling Structural Analysis
• Linear Steady State Thermal Analysis
• FEM mode: Use of NASTRAN solver
• Linear Static Structural Analysis
• Modal Structural Analysis
• FEM mode: Use of ANSYS solver
• Linear Static Structural Analysis
• Modal Structural Analysis
• Linear Steady State Thermal Analysis
• Fatigue (optional module)

Convergence

• P-type Finite Element methodology
• Single Pass Adaptive
• Multi-Pass Adaptive
• User control on convergence criteria
• Automatic sizing and special treatment of elements near singularities

Design Studies

• Parameters as independent variables of the Design Study
  PTC Creo Simulate Measures as dependent variables of the design study
• Local Sensitivity
• Global Sensitivity
• Optimization

General Modeling Tools

• Units Manager
• Material Library
• Coordinate Systems
• Function Manager
• Process Guide

Structural Boundary Conditions

• Boundary Conditions specified on geometry
• Enforced Translations and Rotations
• Mirror and Cyclic Symmetry Constraints
• Planar, Pin and Ball Constraints
• Force and Moment Loads
• Pressure Loads
• Bearing Loads
• Gravity Loads
• Centrifugal Loads specified by the angular velocity or angular acceleration of the structure
• Inertial Loads
• Loads imported from PTC Creo Mechanism Analysis
• Temperature Loads

Thermal Boundary Conditions

• Boundary Conditions specified on geometry
• Prescribed Temperatures
• Convection Conditions
• Cyclic Symmetry constraints
• Heat Loads

Materials

• Isotropic Material Properties assigned to geometry
• Isotropic Material Failure Limits
• Temperature dependent material structural properties

Element Types and Idealizations

• Continuum elements: Bricks, Wedges, Tetrahedra
• 3D Shells: quadrilateral, triangular
• Automatic and semi-automatic Compression of solid geometry to surfaces for Shell modeling
• Curved Beams
• Constant Stiffness Springs
• Concentrated Masses

Meshing Tools

• Surface Regions - History-based, associative, parametric features
• Volume regions
• Fully Automatic Mesh Generation

Connections

• Contact Interfaces
• Fasteners
• End Welds
• Perimeter Welds
• Spot Welds
• Automatic import and modeling of PTC Creo Parametric Weld Features
• Rigid Links

Results

• Multiple Result Window display
• Saved Result Window definitions
• Result Window Templates
• Full Results post-processing
• Results recorded as Measures
• Linearized Stress report
• HTLM report
• Export Formats

Process Tools

• PTC Creo Simulation Extension Model is an integral part of CAD model and fully supported by PTC Windchill
• Results optionally uploaded to PTC Windchill and automatically associated to the model
• Distributed batch processing across multiple compute servers

Language Support

• English, German, French, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese.

Specs

Installation Requirements

In order to work properly, your copy of PTC Creo Simulation Extension Floating License - 1-Year Subscription requires:

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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