Architects designed a huge cantilevered canopy for the new Francis A Gregory library in Washington DC. Problem was, hanging a canopy 40 feet from its support isn’t an easy engineering challenge, as the engineers from CST Covers pointed out. Vince and Allison walk us through the solution.
Product Used: Creo Parametric & Creo Advanced Framework Extension
Creo Parametric
Creo Parametric is the standard in 3D CAD, featuring state-of-the-art productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with your industry and company standards. Creo Parametric provides the broadest range of powerful yet flexible 3D CAD capabilities to help you address your most pressing design challenges including accommodating late stage changes, working with multi-CAD data and electromechanical design.
A scalable offering of integrated, parametric, 3D CAD, CAID, CAM, and CAE solutions allows you to design faster than ever, while maximizing innovation and quality to ultimately create exceptional products.
As part of the Creo product family, Creo Parametric can share data seamlessly with other Creo apps. This means that no time is wasted on data translation and resulting errors are eliminated. Users can seamlessly move between different modes of modeling and 2D and 3D design data can easily move between apps while retaining design intent. This results in an unprecedented level of interoperability and delivers break-through productivity gains throughout many product development processes.
Creo Advanced Framework Extension
Expert structure design
As essential foundations for a wide range of equipment, steel and aluminum frames are prevalent in virtually all industries. Creo Advanced Framework Extension is tailored for machine designers and equipment manufactures to simplify and speed structure design. The intelligent component library and automatic deliverable creation of this structural design software make frame design up to 10 times faster than standard design techniques.
Features & Benefits
- Simple concept-to-production process for designing any product containing constant section profiles
- Enjoy an efficient transition to 3D CAD from 2D systems
- Explore alternative designs via fast modifications using intuitive functions such as mouse drag, move, and rotate
- Create comprehensive documentation automatically, including bills of materials and beam/assembly drawings
- Realize up to a 10:1 productivity gain over standard CAD techniques for frame design.
