Creo Parametric - Advanced Framework Extension (AFX)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This Creo Parametric tutorial shows the basics of AFX (Advanced Framework Extension) for creating assemblies of structures consisting of steel and aluminum frameworks and weldments. This video shows defining a project, placing beam profiles, and creating basic and advanced joints.
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Would be nice to have a full tutorial on how to create and use our own custom profiles!
Nice work btw!
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I can do that. I’ll add it to the list.
@@CADPLMGuy Thanks for this nice video. It really would be nice to see a video about creating custom profiles (with .tab-file ( different/selectable sizes)). Thanks...
I think that when you use the repeat option on new profile operation, you should pick another profile. When you want to repeat the profile you can do it on Operation > Reuse profile. If you use repeat on the create profile operation, you will end up with many profiles, which are exactly the same, but have different names and will be asked to be represented more than one time on the 2D. If you have a good reason to do this on the way on the video, please let me know.
I really appreciate your videos and your books! Thanks!
AFX is only available for free if you have a subscription license.
Nice simple structure, and the instructions easy to follow, Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
No major updates on Creo AFX since version 2.0...I wish PTC could have introduced 3D dragger for moving/re-orienting the profiles (Other than by using assembly constraints).Every release of other major CAD packages have updates/enhancements in their structural framework modules.
Have you spoken with the PTC product managers about this? They are incredibly accessible.
Thank you Dave!
I learned the basics and that is what i was looking for. I shall make certain we grab a full license so i can dive deeper into AFX.
Hi I love how you teach creo, i have learnt alot from you for work in the past 2 weeks. i was wondering if you teach other CAD software such as solidworks.
Have you watched my SolidWorks videos?
Good information....I ever meke it by revolve feature but this is fabulous
Once again, Thank you Dave.
Hi Sir,
How can we find the section modulus of this table structure
HI Dave, why did you select a skeleton file instead a normal part?
Probably because I wanted the reference geometry to be in a skeleton and not a standard part. I generally assume my CAD data is going to feed into a PLM and ERP system downstream, and I don’t want someone accidentally starting the procurement process on something that’s not actually going to be manufactured.
Hello I got a problem while starting the page it displays that afx failed to load and ifx failed to load and then automatically exits .
Please upload more tutorials related to Creo AFX.
One Question: Creo creates a separate model for each structure member in the working directory. Can this be avoided with some settings?
You can reassemble an existing member as opposed to creating a new one for each as I showed in the video. I believe you can also use embedded components with frameworks.
I have creo 2.0 but framework option is not there
Are you sure you have a license for it? Have you checked your Ribbon customizations to make sure the tab is enabled?
Thank you Dave for your very easy way of working with framework and AFX systems etc.
I'm used to work with it in solidworks, but i must say it actually is quite more simple and works better in Creo ^_^
But i was wondering, about changing names for each profile-part that are created. Creo names them by itself, but in solidworks i could save each profile with it's own name. I know it's possible in Creo as well, but would it be better for me to do it through the PDM-system like windchill or is there some way, for me to name each profile, as soon as it's created??? :-/
Hello Dave ^^
Nevermind, i actually found out myself ;-)
For each profile, open and gå til file and manage file and rename ^_^
Hi David. You won't happen to know how to turn these frames into beam elements (Idealised) (not tetra/block) for creo simulate? The AFX help menu talks about renaming the folder for steel beams, then creating a view rep and using "substitute" and "by rep" as rules. I'm stomped at this. Can't find these options? Any help? Seems to be a really deep end of Creo/Pro/E.
I wouldn’t go through any of that. That sounds like the process from 15 years ago. Substitute reps got deprecated like 6 years ago or more. If you have a sketch that defines where the beams go, it’s much easier placing the beam elements right on that.
@@CADPLMGuy David, thank you very much for clarifying things. I much appreciate your help. I owe you big time.
Thank you for the tutorial but I think that is too many processes for making a simple structure, with Solidworks or other cad softwares you can do it at half time
Then I suggest you use those other packages.
@@CADPLMGuy sure!
Hi David, just curious to know. How was frame modeling done in old pro/e (WF2, 2000) without the efx extension? Back then Inventor already had some frame environment. How did proE users cope?
Thanks
EFX has been around forever. It was definitely available in WF2. I’m pretty certain it was available in the 2000i version. I couldn’t tell you when it was incorporated into Pro E back in the 1990s. So you could say that Pro E users coped just fine.
@@CADPLMGuy really? I must have missed that.
I recently tried out WF5 and efx wasn't there. Looking through online forums I came across a post stating to add "efx_enabled" in the config.pro for it to enable. I did this and the interface came out. Of course with the Creo versions, it's always enabled and in full view.
Haven't seen anything for WF2. Or was it an extra paid option back then? I initially began with WF2 student version back in 05 and didn't see it. Kind of threw me off proE for a while.
There have been so many different licensing packages since WF2 was released in 2003 that I can't tell you if it was a separate license back then. But it's been around since forever. It started as a third party application from a German company (maybe BuW) that got incorporated as an extension in the 1990s, sort of like how HMX today comes from the people at Virtual Interconnect. The student version came from a third party (Liberty Education Systems) and had a number of modules disabled. This allowed it to fit on a single CD as opposed to the 5 CDs required for a full WF2 install.
I always caution people that with CAD, just because you don't know how to do something, doesn't mean the CAD package can't do it.
Hi sir...I want to save my CAD file in CREO as STL file but in save as option there is no domain name as STL so how can I do that????
in PTC Creo Parametric: File - Save as - Save a copy- Type (select Stereolythography .stl) - Customize export and enter the parameters
Hello,
There is a play list regarding this. Go to this channel >playlists> and choose Creo parametric import Export.
Skeleton Model is greyed out for me, what does this mean ?
You probably don't have the Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX).
@@CADPLMGuy Alright well I have the AFX profiles, I guess it's just going to take a little longer to build stuff without skeleton modelling ! thanks
Thank you very much.
Thanks for watching!