Creo Parametric 4.0 Basics
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If you like to learn by doing, then this book shows you to design and document mechanical components one-step at a time. Brief explanations followed by step-by-step instructions, and a real-world example make it a good starting point to learn Creo Parametric.
The author introduces the user-interface, and then starts solid modeling. You will learn to draw sketches, create 3D parts and assemble them, create drawings, sheet metal parts, and design complex shapes using surface modeling tools. The examples in this book help you to discover the use of various tools and capabilities of Creo Parametric. Following are some of the skills you acquire after completing this book:
• A good command over the user-interface
• Create and edit parametric sketches
• Create basic and complex solid models
• Create assemblies using Bottom-up and Top-down approaches
• Create manufacturing drawings
• Sheet metal design
• Create and edit splines
• Create complex and ergonomic surfaces
Creo Parametric 4.0 Basics is a self-study guide. You can learn various tools or work with examples. In both ways, you can develop a good foundation in solid modeling.
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Contents
Introduction
Topics covered in this Book
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Creo Parametric 4.0
Introduction to Creo Parametric 4.0
Environments in Creo Parametric 4.0
Part environment
Assembly
Drawing
Sheetmetal
Parametric Modeling
Associativity
File Types in Creo Parametric
Starting Creo Parametric 4.0
User Interface
Quick Access Toolbar
File Menu
Ribbon
Part environment
Assembly environment
Sheetmetal environment
Drawing environment
Status bar
Command Search
Model Tree
Dashboard
Mouse Functions
Left Mouse button (MB1)
Middle Mouse button (MB2)
Right Mouse button (MB3)
Background
Shortcut Keys
Chapter 2: Sketching
Sketching in the Sketch environment
Sketching Commands
The Line Chain command
3-Point/Tangent End
Center and Ends
3 Tangent
Concentric
Center and Point
3 Point
3 Tangent
Concentric
Corner Rectangle
Slanted Rectangle
Center Rectangle
Parallelogram
Line Tangent
Centerline
Axis Ends Ellipse
Center and Axis Ellipse
Points
Spline
Dimensions
The Dimension command
Resolve Sketch
Modify
Constraints
Coincident
Horizontal
Vertical
Tangent
Parallel
Perpendicular
Midpoint
Symmetric
Turning ON/OFF Dimensions and Constraints
Construction Mode
The Circular Trim command
The Circular command
The Chamfer Trim command
The Delete Segment command
The Divide command
The Corner command
The Mirror command
The Rotate Resize command
The Offset command
The Thicken command
Palette
Examples
Example 1
Example 2
Questions
Exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Chapter 3: Basic Features
Extrude
Revolve
Project
Creating Extruded Cuts
Creating Revolved Cuts
The Plane command
Offset from plane
Plane and Point
Plane and Edge
Through three points
Through two Edges/lines
Point and Line/Curve/Edge
Tangent to surface
Mid Plane
Axis
Point-Point
Point and Edge/line
On a planar face
Additional options of the Extrude command
Depth
Thicken Sketch
Extruding Open Profile
Add taper
Editing Model Properties
View commands
Measure Commands
Summary
Length
Distance
Examples
Example 1
Example 2
Questions
Exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Chapter 4: Holes and Placed Features
Hole
Simple Hole
Coaxial Hole
Radial and Diameter Holes
Standard Hole
Tapered Hole
The Cosmetic Thread command
The Round command
Conic Rounds
Corner Transition
Variable Radius Rounds
Chordal Round
Face-Face Round
Face-Edge round
Full round
The Edge Chamfer command
Draft
Split Drafts
Variable Pull Direction Draft
Shell
Profile Rib
Trajectory Rib
Examples
Example 1
Example 2
Questions
Exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Chapter 5: Patterned Geometry
The Mirror command
Mirror the Entire body
The Pattern command
Direction
Axis
Reference
Curve
Point
Examples
Example 1
Questions
Exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3 (Inches)
Chapter 6: Sweep Features
The Sweep command
Remove Material
Helical Sweep
Helical Sweep cutout
Examples
Example 1
Questions
Exercises
Exercise1
Chapter 7: Blend Features
The Blend command
Creating Blend Cut-outs
Types of the Cross-sections
Blends between existing model faces
Cross Sections with different number of sides
Rotational Blend
Blend feature
Rotational Blend feature
Swept Blend
Examples
Example 1
Questions
Exercises
Exercise 1
Chapter 8: Modifying Parts
Edit Sketches
Editing Feature Definition
Edit Feature Dimensions
Suppress Features
Resume Suppressed Features
Changing the Feature References
Examples
Example 1
Questions
Exercises
Exercise 1
Chapter 9: Assemblies
Starting an Assembly
Inserting Components
Fixing the first Component
Inserting the Second Component
Moving and rotating components
Coincident Constraint
Distance Constraint
Angle Offset
Parallel Constraint
Normal Constraint
Copying Components with Constraints
Repeating Components with Constraints
Collision Detection
Editing and Updating Assemblies
Redefining Constraints
Change Constraint
Replace Component
Top Down Assembly Design
Creating a New Part in the Assembly
Sub-assemblies
Mirroring Components
Creating Sub-assemblies from individual parts
Mirroring Sub-assemblies
Examples
Example 1 (Bottom Up Assembly)
Example 2 (Top Down Assembly)
Questions
Exercise 1
Chapter 10: Drawings
Starting a Drawing
Setting the Drawing Model
Drawing Properties
Projection View
Auxiliary View
Section Views
Offset Section View
Half Section View
Aligned Section View
Creating Section Cuts
Detailed View
Partial View
Broken View
Breakout View
Exploded View
View Display
View Movement
View Alignment
Bill of Material
Balloons
Centerlines
Dimensions
Adding Dimensions
Linear Dimensions
Radial Dimensions
Baseline Dimensions
Align Dimensions
Ordinate Dimension
Auto Ordinate Dimension
Angle Dimensions
Unattached Note
Leader Note
Examples
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Questions
Exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Chapter 11: Sheet Metal Design
Starting a Sheet Metal part
Sheetmetal Model Properties
Planar Wall
Flat Wall
Sketch Based Fall Wall on Edge
Extrude
Flange
Corner Relief
Bend
Angled Bend
Rolled Bend
Transition Bend
Unbend
Bend Back
Punch Form
Die Form
Sketched Form
Creating the Pierced Sketched Form
Flat Pattern Preview
Flat Pattern
Extruded Cuts
Revolve
Conversion
Examples
Example 1
Questions
Exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Chapter 12: Surface Design
Extrude
Revolve
Datum Geometry
Splines
Boundary Blend
Fill
Offset
Trim
Merge
Moving a Surface Copy
Rotating Surfaces
Solidify
Adding geometry using a surface
Thicken
Example
Questions
Introduction
Welcome to the Creo Parametric 4.0 Basics book. This book is written to assist students, designers, and engineering professionals. It covers the important features and functionalities of Creo Parametric using relevant examples and exercises.
This book is written for new users, who can use it as a self-study resource to learn Creo Parametric. In addition, it can also be used as a reference for experienced users. The focus of this book is part modeling, assembly modeling, drawings, sheet metal, and surface design.
Topics covered in this Book
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Creo Parametric 4.0
, introduces Creo Parametric. The user interface and terminology are discussed in this chapter.
Chapter 2, Sketching
, explores the sketching commands in Creo Parametric. You will learn to create parametric sketches.
Chapter 3, Basic features
, teaches you to create basic 3D geometry using the Extrude and Revolve commands. You will also learn to create datum features, which will act as supporting geometry.
Chapter 4, Holes and Placed Features
, covers the features, which can be created without using sketches.
Chapter 5, Patterned Geometry
, explores the commands to create patterned and mirrored geometry.
Chapter 6, Sweep Features
, teaches you to create basic and complex features by sweeping a profile along a path.
Chapter 7, Blend Features
, teaches you to create features by using different cross-sections.
Chapter 8, Modifying Parts
, explores the commands and techniques to modify the part geometry.
Chapter 9, Assemblies
, explains you to create assemblies using the bottom-up and top-down design approaches.
Chapter 10, Drawings
, covers how to create 2D drawings from 3D parts and assemblies.
Chapter 11, Sheet Metal Design
, covers how to create sheet metal parts and flat patterns.
Chapter 12, Surface Design
, covers how to create complex shapes using surface design commands.
Getting Started with Creo Parametric 4.0
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Creo Parametric 4.0
Introduction to Creo Parametric 4.0
Creo Parametric 4.0 is a parametric and feature-based system that allows you to create 3D parts, assemblies, and 2D drawings. The design process in Creo Parametric is shown below.
Environments in Creo Parametric 4.0
Creo Parametric offers many environments to carry out different types of operations. For example, Creo Parametric provides you with the Part environment to design a part. Likewise, there are many environments to perform advanced operations such are manufacturing process, process diagrams, assemblies, and so on. However, in this book we cover the basic environments such as Part, Assembly, and Drawing. A brief introduction to these environments is given next.
Part environment
The Part environment provides you with commands to create parametric solid models. You can start a document in this environment by clicking the New icon and selecting Type > Part on the New dialog. To create solid models, you must draw parametric sketches in the Sketch environment, and then convert them into solids.
However, you can add some additional features to the solid models, which do not require sketches.
Assembly
The Assembly environment (click Type > Assembly on the New dialog) has commands to combine individual parts in an assembly. There are two ways to create an assembly. The first way is to create individual parts and assemble them in the Assembly environment (Bottom-up assembly design). The second way is to start an assembly file and create individual parts in it (Top-down assembly design).
Drawing
The Drawing environment (click Type > Drawing on the New dialog) has commands to create 2D drawings, which can be used for the manufacturing process. There are two ways to create drawings. The first way is to generate the standard views of a 3D component or assembly. The second way is to sketch the drawings, manually.
Sheetmetal
The Sheetmetal environment (click Type > Part and click Subtype > Sheetmetal on the New dialog) has commands to create sheet metal models. You can create a sheet metal model either by building features in a systematic manner or by converting a part geometry in to sheet metal.
Parametric Modeling
In Creo Parametric, parameters, dimensions, or constraints control everything. For example, if you want to change the position of the hole shown in figure, you need to change the dimension or constraint that controls its position.
Associativity
The other big advantage of Creo Parametric is the associativity between parts, assemblies and drawings. When you make changes to the design of a part, the changes will take place in any assembly that it is a part of. In addition, the 2D drawing will update automatically.
Modified Part
File Types in Creo Parametric
Creo Parametric offers three main file types:
.prt: This type of file has a geometry of individual part. The files created in Part and Sheetmetal environments will have this extension.
.asm: This type of file is an assembly of one or more parts. In fact, it is a link of one or more parts.
.drw: The files created in the Drawing environment have this extension.
Starting Creo Parametric 4.0
To start PTC Creo Parametric 4.0, click the PTC Creo Parametric 4.0 icon on your computer screen (or) click Start > PTC > Creo Parametric 4.0.
User Interface
The following image shows the PTC Creo Parametric 4.0 application window.
On the Home tab of the ribbon, click the New icon.
On the New dialog, select Type > Part.
Type-in the name of the part file in the Name box.
Click OK.
The Creo Parametric part window appears, as shown.
Various components of the user interface are:
Quick Access Toolbar
The Quick Access Toolbar has some commonly used commands such as New, Open, Save, Undo, Redo, Regenerate, and so on. You can add more commands to the Quick Access Toolbar by clicking on the down-arrow next to it, and then selecting commands from the drop-down menu. If the required command is not available in the drop-down menu, then select the More Commands options; the Creo Parametric Options dialog pops up on the screen. On this dialog, select the required command from the commands list available on the left side, and the click Add selected item to ribbon icon. Next, click OK.
File Menu
The File Menu appears when you click on the File button located at the top left corner of the window. The File Menu has a list of self-explanatory menus. You can see a list of recently opened documents in the Recent Files menu.
Ribbon
Ribbon is located at the top of the window. It has various tabs. When you click on a tab, various panels appear. These panels have commands.
Various ribbons available in different environments are given next.
Part environment
Sketch tab
The Sketch tab has commands to create and edit sketches. This tab is activated while creating sketches.
Model tab
This tab has commands to create and edit solid/surface geometry.
Analysis tab
This tab has commands to measure the physical properties of the geometry.
View tab
This tab has commands to zoom, pan, rotate, or change the view of a 3D model.
Assembly environment
The Model tab has commands to create components or insert existing components into an assembly.
Sheetmetal environment
The Model tab has commands to create sheet metal parts.
Drawing environment
Layout tab
This tab has commands to generate and edit standard views of a 3D geometry.
Table tab
This tab commands to insert tables, balloons and other data into the drawing.
Annotate tab
This tab has commands to add dimensions and other annotations to the drawing.
Status bar
This is available below the graphics window. It shows the prompts while using the commands.
Command Search
The Command Search bar is used to search for any command. On the top right corner of the window, click the Command Search icon to display the Command Search bar. You can type any keyword in the Command Search bar and find a list of commands related to it.
Model Tree
It contains the list of operations carried while constructing a part.
Dashboard
When you execute any command in Creo Parametric, the dashboard related to it appears. A dashboard has various options. The following figure shows various components of a dashboard.
This textbook uses the default options on the dashboard.
Mouse Functions
Various functions of the mouse buttons are:
Left Mouse button (MB1)
When you double-click the left mouse button (MB1) on a feature, the dimensions related it would appear. You can edit the parameters of the feature.
Middle Mouse button (MB2)
Press the middle mouse and drag the mouse to rotate the view.
Right Mouse button (MB3)
Select an object and click this button to open the shortcut menu related to it.
Background
To change the background color of the window, click File > Options. On the PTC Creo Parametric Options dialog, click System Appearance on the left side. Set the System Colors and click OK.
Shortcut Keys
––––––––
Getting Started with Creo Parametric 4.0
Chapter 2: Sketching
This chapter covers the methods and commands to create sketches used in the Part environment. In Creo Parametric, you can create sketches in the Sketch environment. You will learn to create sketches in this environment.
In Creo Parametric, you create a rough sketch, and then apply dimensional and geometric constraints that define its shape and size. The dimensions define the length, size, and angle of a sketch element, whereas geometric constraints define the relations between sketch elements.
The topics covered in this chapter are:
Sketching in Sketch environment
Using constraints and dimensions
Learn sketching commands
Learn commands and options that help you to create sketches easily
Sketching
Sketching in the Sketch environment
Creating sketches in the Sketch environment is very easy. You have to activate the Sketch command, and then define a plane on which you want to create the sketch.
On the ribbon, click Model tab > Datum panel > Sketch icon.
Click on the top datum plane located at the center in the graphics window.
Now, you need to define the reference plane. The sketch will be constrained with respect to the reference plane. When, you select the top datum plane, the right and top planes are selected as reference. However, you change the reference as per your requirement.
On the Sketch dialog, click in the Reference box and select a reference plane.
Now, you can define the viewing direction of the sketch. By default, the view direction is from the top. You can reverse it by clicking the Flip button.
On the Sketch dialog,