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pimm15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
June 30, 2015
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Does Advanced Assembly Extension include shrinkage?

  • June 30, 2015
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Our Engineering work group has been discussing the direction we would like to go with die design as we have been learning more about Creo and how others use this product.

We presently have Pro Mold, but we have been running into a number of limitations and disadvantages with this product.

There is only one feature that has us holding on to Pro Mold and that is that it includes Shrink.

We are wondering whether the Advanced Assembly Extension, or for that matter any other Creo extension includes the Shrink option.

We only need the Shrinkage by Scale.

Shrinkage by scale.JPG

It also is important that this is added in the feature tree so we have a visual link that this is added in the model. (We also use this feature ON and OFF in a family table)

Shrink in tree.JPG


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Best answer by TomU

Nope.  Just tried it.

shrink.PNG

19 replies

StephenW
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
June 30, 2015

I have never seen anything like that. I may be wrong, but with assemblies, shrinkage is usually not a consideration like it is with mold design. Welded assemblies usually have some shrinkage (based on construction methods) but I don't believe the software has any way of compensating for it.

pimm15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
June 30, 2015

So if you have AAX installed and you went to File/Prepare/Model Properties/Shrinkage it will not allow you to modify the model value?

I thought AAX had Shrink, but I might have got this mixed up with Merge Inheritance.

TomU23-Emerald IVAnswer
23-Emerald IV
June 30, 2015

Nope.  Just tried it.

shrink.PNG

Ehlers5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
December 18, 2015

Hello,

what about buying Molddesign and getting AAX? I think that makes sense!

The Prize should be the same.

pimm15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
December 18, 2015

Even if Pro Mold and AAX were the same price we still would have to buy extra seats of AAX to go along with the Pro Mold seats we've already purchased and pay maintenance for.

We have to share a license of Pro Mold because of cost.  Management would not allow us to make an additional purchase adding on to what we already have.

If we dropped maintenance for Pro Mold perhaps we could pick up AAX, but then we would lose Shrinkage by Scale.

We are a small company without a big budget.

Ehlers5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
December 18, 2015

You got me wrong!

I meant: Buying Mold means getting also AAX-Functionality.

The AAX-Functions are included in Mold (Tooldesign Option).

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