What is the Creo Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX)?

• Creo Advanced Assembly Ext is an add-on extension developed to provide
advanced functionality to create assembly designs and manage the
assembly process

Product Capabilities

Advanced functionality to create assembly designs
and manage assembly processes

• Top-down design
- Plan the assembly structure and manage assembly design process

• Assembly configuration
- Define configuration rules and automate the creation of
design-to-order products

• Performance management
- Work with large assembly data and manage system performance

• Assembly process planning
- Streamline the creation of assembly process planning documentation

Manage the large assembly design process

• Define and plan the assembly design framework
- Create skeleton model to define the Top-Down assembly structure

• Distribute and communicate design intent
- Establish and enforce design criteria to support concurrent
development efforts
* Publish and communicate contact interfaces

• Control inter-dependencies
- Manage and control references and unwanted relationships
- View graphical representation of dependencies to understand
component relations and change propagation

Define variant and configurable products

• Define functional interchange groups
- Support configure- and build-to-order initiatives

• Create simple programs to automate customization of product lines
- Create new product iterations based on input parameters

• Add logic to substitute components based on calculations or user input
- Define input logic to automatically switch out components or subassemblies

Work with large or complex data sets

• Define simplified interchange groups
- Easily specify and manage the display of assembly geometry leveraging
simplified reps to define the level of detail (LOD)

• Leverage on-demand and lightweight graphics
- Advanced functionality to maximize system performance