Take the AAX to Complex Assemblies

By DE Editors

The Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX) add-in tool from PTC (Needham, MA) integrates with the Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE Package to give you a top-down 3D design environment complete with advanced data sharing features that ensure that engineering changes are communicated and shared between every component in a assembly instantly. And in the Pro/ENGINEER AAX environment, you can both create complex assemblies of the highest order and manage them easily.

Pro/ENGINEER AAX

The Pro/ENGINEER AAX add-in tool offers advanced tools for top-down assembly design, assembly configuration rules management, and assembly process planning, all of which streamline the flow of information from design to manufacturing and help you achieve your optimal design quickly. For example, using its top-down design tools, you can plan-out the skeleton of the assembly so that you can design individual components in the context of the overall structure. This, in turn, is said to simplify the management of the complex relationships between components. Further, because you are leveraging Pro/ENGINEER, you can share key geometry features among multiple design teams simultaneously, collaborate on designs, enabling you to compress design cycles.

Pro/ENGINEER AAX

Pro/ENGINEER AAX facilitates design-to-order initiatives by giving you the ability to drive designs based on specific custom criteria rapidly and with minimal effort. Since Pro/ENGINEER AAX updates all downstream deliverables, such as production drawings and manufacturing information, automatically with each change, customization becomes simpler, error-free, and faster.

PTC describes its Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Assembly Extension as the perfect add-on tool for designers who work with large assemblies because of its many specialized functions intended to make the creation and management of the most complex designs easier. For a limited time, when you purchase the Pro/ENGINEER Foundation XE Package, you can save 40% on Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Assembly add-in. Click here to sign up for information more about this offer or to see a demo of Pro/ENGINEER and Pro/ENGINEER AAX.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.