Functional Plastic Parts

Functional Plastic Parts offers a new approach for developing 3D digital models, called "functional modeling". It enables product designers to focus on the functional goals and design constraints of their products.

This guide documents all the functionality available in the following apps:

  • Functional Part Design
  • Functional Plastic Parts

Depending on your role, you may not have access to all functionalities.

See Also
What's New
Functional Plastic Parts Basics
In Other Guides
3DEXPERIENCE Platform
3DEXPERIENCE Native Apps

Functional Plastic Parts provides the following key capabilities:

  • Derive the geometric form through the combination of behavioral features and a minimum of geometric construction. The end result is a significant reduction in the effort required to generate the 3D model by allowing more time for designers to focus on engineering issues, exploring alternative design approaches, and optimizing their design.
  • Provide tools to create volumes and features that contain inherent behaviors and which interact. The behaviors capture different design functions, such as adding material, subtracting material, or protecting space. Because they contain inherent behaviors and they interact, they are called "functional volumes" and "functional features".

As a scalable app, Functional Plastic Parts can be used in cooperation with other current or future companion apps such as Assembly Design and Drafting.

This product might use or depict Intellectual Property (IP) protected data. It is the user’s responsibility to safeguard the IP protected data when allowing others to view, export, or print the data. This includes the thumbnail representations of parts or assemblies used in markup screens. For more information on the use of IP Protection and safeguarding IP Protected data, see Social and Collaborative: Enterprise Modeling and Execution: IP Controlled Access.