Creo Parametric 7.0 Multibody Modeling First Look!

[@tr3design]

it's about time PTC!!! 😁

[@CADDIA]

Wow really really great update I lack this feature on Creo that I get on solidworks Thank you to bring us this nice detailed video

[@CADPLMGuy]

You're very welcome!

[@tanleproe]

I'll give the MB a try in my course this year. My students will give feedback.

[@Rampamrampapapapam]

Is "select regions" option available in some special, extra paid version of Creo? Company I work for, has 7.0. With colleagues we have tried to achieve what you did in this video, but without success. Every week with Creo I miss Inventor or SW more and more...

[@CADPLMGuy]

Nope, it's been available out of the box since Creo 5. I recommend you return to Inventor or SolidWorks (I like both programs).

[@trentoncarr]

Here we go!

[@jamiegoddard2495]

Yayyyyy. Creo level up!

[@wralvares]

Finally 👏🏻👏🏻

[@cfgosnell]

Agreed. Its about time along with absolute accuracy being default. Now, is this is all versions of CREO 7 or just some advanced extension?

[@CADPLMGuy]

As stated in the video, this is part of the basic functionality in Creo 7.0.

[@RnioBB]

Great update! I can see a lot of potential, one of the top of my mind, when you are going to model low number of 3D printed "components" with out the need to create an assembly and multiple parts. Furthermore, when you subtract let say body 2 (bracket-1) to body 4(bridge) you don't have the option to give the two components (materials) some clearance. That would be nice feature in the next updates. Or the philosophy of multibodys are very different and I'm mistaken.

[@CADPLMGuy]

I recommend that you propose those suggestions through PTC/User and the PTC Community. Martin has two working groups there where he is soliciting input for future enhancements to Multibody.

[@CADPLMGuy]

Watching Martin Neumueller's presentation on Multibody at the virtual LiveWorx conference, I now realize you can already provide for clearance using the Offset Surfaces command in Flexible Modeling. I will make a video in the next couple weeks to demonstrate this.

[@RnioBB]

That would be very interesting, thank you for the reply!

[@RnioBB]

The link for the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKfKaYmfmceBsLc

[@tiagofigueiredo2848]

Nice one! Can you make the video with the sketch enhancements?

[@CADPLMGuy]

That will probably be the next video. I may post it later today.

[@1940mina]

Finalmente!!👍👍

[@CADDIA]

This feature help to design top to bottom assembly and materials and rendering sedation will be easy

[@CADPLMGuy]

I'm writing a second edition of my "Top Down Design in Creo" book updated for 7.0 and there will be a chapter on Multibody - once I figure out the implications and ramifications.

[@CADDIA]

@@CADPLMGuy many Indian students saying to me to make tutorial on our language Hindi so I am making videos too I am starting from part then surface and style and then weldment Your videos solve many hurdles, no other teacher on KZbin of creo like you.

[@CADPLMGuy]

@@CADDIA Thanks. I am trying to translate more of my videos into different languages. India is actually my largest source of viewers. I use KZbin's automatic captioning function but I don't know how good it is. Probably only 10% of my videos come with Hindi captions.

[@CADDIA]

@@CADPLMGuy sir I will be thankful if you give me chance to translate Because I have good knowledge and I understand very well Except creo I have many other software knowledge of mechanical and civil engineer. So if you give me chance to translate I feel very thankful to be a part of this

[@CADPLMGuy]

@@CADDIA Wow, that is very gracious of you. I will turn Community Contributions on for my videos, which will allow people to submit translations. I hope that will help students that you come across. If there are any specific videos, let me know.

[@SeanMcDonnell33]

Awesome video thank you for putting this together so quickly and sharing! One question, when a 'new part' is created from a body (as shown near the end of the video) is the new part now starting off with a feature which is fully dependent (i.e. parametrically linked) to the original part in which the body was created? In other words does that 'new part' from body functionality behave similar to a dependent merge inheritance?

[@CADPLMGuy]

It's got an External Copy Geometry feature with Update Control set to Automatically Update, so the geometry will update with changes to the Multibody model provided both are in session.

[@SeanMcDonnell33]

@@CADPLMGuy great! thank you for your crystal clear answer :)

[@spawnage170]

I would love to see how drawings can be used with multi-body parts. For example, can you model a welded frame structure as a single multi-body part, then create an inseparable assembly drawing per Y14.24 and detail all the individual bodies in their own drawing views? Sounds like it could be a clean way of making inseparable assemblies without cluttering up your model tree, and it would make drawing BOMs that have inseparable assemblies in them a whole lot easier to manage. However, I’m also worried that the introduction of multi-body part models could encourage poor modeling practices, such as modeling entire assemblies as multi-body parts when they really should in fact be separate parts in an assembly. I know you’ll get to all this and more in due time, and I’m looking forward to it when you do! 👍

[@CADPLMGuy]

I'm going through the PTC Help material and will be doing a video on Multibody and drawings. I did a video a couple weeks ago on part-level Simplified Reps as Martin from PTC mentioned it in January as a means of controlling visibility. (If you watch any of the PTC videos on Multibody, it's most likely his voice that you hear. I've known him for about a decade and he's a great guy.)

[@PTC_Creo]

@@CADPLMGuy Martin Neumueller's videos make up the plurality of the new Creo 7.0 Learning Connector content that'll be reuploaded to this channel in... short order. He's the product manager for multibody and many of the core enhancements.

[@CADDIA]

Multibody is great feature for adding different part and can assign different material so that we can get rendering Easley on keyshot or here That's why this is great great feature I specifically feel lack it here

[@CADDIA]

@@PTC_Creo really thank you so much creo My love getting more with creo

[@paolozago6123]

@@CADDIA Agreed, this is another good use when you don't want (or can't) to do a complete assembly with different parts for each material. I do a lot of ceramic substrates with metal patterns on top, and multi-body can help there too

[@vandermegath]

no me gusta esta mal e incompleto, no tiene cierta logica, si esta en un ensamble, y ahi creas un componente, y ahi lo divides, te va a mandar los archivos generados a guardar, pero para dejarlos en el ensamble que estas trabajando, tienes que volver a hacer la reinsercion, y ocultar el modelo original del cual provienen, en inventor o solidworks por lo menos te permite genera el ensamble de forma directa, a partir del solido, en Creo solo creas los componentes

[@volkerklusmeier2973]

This example is a unfitting one since every designer should see that this would be an assembly of parts anyway! Anyway Catia v5 and before always used to work with multiple solid bodies that can be combined, intersected and trimmed, which is recomended when creating complex mold parts for example.

[@CADPLMGuy]

Missing the forest for the trees...

[@paolozago6123]

I won't use this feature to build a complete top-down assembly, for real assemblies the current skeleton model approach is way better than this. But multi-body is useful for things like a multi-body skeleton model (instead of using different surface extrudes as you can do now) that you use then to drive a multi-body assembly. I think not being able to revert the "keep objects" toggle is a let down though...

[@CADPLMGuy]

I expect that being able to toggle Keep Objects will be a maintenance release enhancement. This is the FCS (First Customer Ship) build code.

[@deanlong7995]

An open door for lazy and sloppy modeling.

[@CADPLMGuy]

These kinds of complaints make me really feel for PTC. Before April: it's crazy Creo doesn't support Multibody. April: why did it take Creo so long to get Multibody? Now: Creo should have never added Multibody.

[@deanlong7995]

@@CADPLMGuy Don't feel for PTC man. I've had over 30 years of their schtick moments like this. I've used 8 other software besides Pro...oh sorry...Creo...over the years and have seen more than my fair share of this type of stuff. Don't get me wrong, I'll go my grave defending it as the best one out there. But this latest "shuffling of the deck" to basically do Top Down Booleans in the "cool" way is too much. IMO, this is nothing but another "go along" with everyone else jumping off the cliff mentality.