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November 3, 2021
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Top Down design functionality in Creo Design Essentials vs. Essentials Plus

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I am using Creo Parametric 7.0 7.0.4.0

What is the difference in assembly functionality between Creo Design Essentials and Creo Design Essentials Plus? I can see that Creo Design Essentials has ASSY_PERFORMANCE module compared to Creo Design Essentials Plus has ASSEMBLY module. Existing PTC Article CS58879 has a great list of Top Down Design functionality but it is not clear which functions are available with the new Creo Design Essentials licenses.
    Best answer by DJNewman

    Well, you do need AAX to enable critical top-down design techniques, as shown in CS28079 "Merge/Inheritance, Publish Geometry, Copy Geometry and Shrinkwrap options are grayed out in Creo Parametric" or CS29037 "Unable to create skeleton model or edit definition of skeleton model features in Creo Parametric".

     

     

     

    Actually, I found a list in a PTC sales presentation. "Creo Parametric" is a proxy for what you get in Creo Design Essentials:

     

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    Edit: I'd recommend you reach out to your PTC sales rep regardless.

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    VladimirN24-Ruby III
    24-Ruby III
    November 3, 2021

    Here's what's on the official website:

     

      DJNewman
      DJNewman19-Tanzanite
      19-Tanzanite
      November 3, 2021

      Well, we don't have a package called Creo Design Essentials Plus, but it goes from Creo Design Essentials to Creo Design Advanced.

      Creo Design Advanced has the Advanced Assembly Extension as part of the package. There's some top-down design things you can do without AAX, but you definitely want AAX.

       

      I attached our datasheet for AAX which tells you more about what you can do with it.

       

      We also have a detailled info session available here:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnROwfqTWkg

      PTC Marketer for Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
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        rfaulk12-AmethystAuthor
        12-Amethyst
        November 3, 2021

        My mistake! You are correct, the package name I meant to compare to is Creo Design Advanced.  

         

        The reason for this is to provide my users with a list of functionality differences between Creo Design Essentials and Creo Design Advanced.  PTC Article CS298294 lists the module differences, but functionality difference between ASSEMBLY vs. ASSY_PERFORMANCE is not clear.

         

        Do you have a list of the "top-down design things you can do without AAX"?  That sounds like what we're looking for.

         

        Thanks!

         

         

        DJNewman
        DJNewman19-TanzaniteAnswer
        19-Tanzanite
        November 4, 2021

        Well, you do need AAX to enable critical top-down design techniques, as shown in CS28079 "Merge/Inheritance, Publish Geometry, Copy Geometry and Shrinkwrap options are grayed out in Creo Parametric" or CS29037 "Unable to create skeleton model or edit definition of skeleton model features in Creo Parametric".

         

         

         

        Actually, I found a list in a PTC sales presentation. "Creo Parametric" is a proxy for what you get in Creo Design Essentials:

         

        DJNewman_0-1636035075885.png


        Edit: I'd recommend you reach out to your PTC sales rep regardless.

        PTC Marketer for Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
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          MartinHanak24-Ruby III
          24-Ruby III
          November 4, 2021
          @rfaulk wrote:
          I am using Creo Parametric 7.0 7.0.4.0

          What is the difference in assembly functionality between Creo Design Essentials and Creo Design Essentials Plus? I can see that Creo Design Essentials has ASSY_PERFORMANCE module compared to Creo Design Essentials Plus has ASSEMBLY module. Existing PTC Article CS58879 has a great list of Top Down Design functionality but it is not clear which functions are available with the new Creo Design Essentials licenses.

          Hi,

          my suggestion >>> ask PTC Support.

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            VladimirN24-Ruby III
            24-Ruby III
            November 4, 2021

            "Open a Support Case": https://support.ptc.com/apps/case_logger_viewer/cs/auth/ssl/log

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