Dear all
My company want to create and share STEP files with our manufacturers.
We are officially providing 2D drawings to our manufacturers. Our manufacturing suppliers then either revert back to creating machine code manually OR ask someone at our design department to provide them the 3D model OR suppliers are creating the 3D files themselves, based on the drawings, and include this additional time in our bill.
We want to create/publish STEP files as a result from the Release Procedure together with the 2D drawings.
I have some questions to the forum:
1. What STEP standard do you use? Is the AP203_is that Creo produces OOTB enough?
2. Is there a way to incorporate the attributes from the Creo origin file to the STEP file?
3. How do you secure the intellectual property (IP) of the file? If the files has gone astray it should stay clear that the file belongs to us.
4. How do you share the files with your suppliers in a secure way? Do you use ProjectLink or any other technical solution?
If anyone is willing to share this information in a more official way, let me know and I will book a meeting.
Thank you
Goran Obradovic
Tetra Pak Packaging Solutions
Sweden