Use Creo Manikin to explore the relationship between the physical characteristics of a design and its intended users. You can use either the Creo Manikin Extension or the Creo Manikin Analysis Extension module to examine the fit between people, their activities, equipment, and general environment. This examination ensures that their workplaces, tools, vehicles and surroundings are safe, comfortable, and efficient, without compromising productivity or ease of use.

Use Creo Manikin Extension to insert a wide range of anthropometrically-correct manikins – in a range of percentile values from a broad set of global populations – in any Creo Parametric session to perform a number of human-centric design activities such as reaching, viewing, and posturing in an intuitive manner. Use Creo Manikin Analysis Extension to analyze the compatibility between target users and the products and environments in which they live or work.

After you open a Creo Parametric session, open a design scenario, and choose a manikin from the population database, you must define its location and select a default posture (sitting or standing). Then you place the manikin and use the manipulation tools to explore potential ergonomic issues involving the manikin’s line of sight, vision, and reach capabilities.

When you insert a manikin into a scenario, the default posture will probably need to be amended to fit the design scenario. When the manikin is placed to your satisfaction, save the final posture, position it as a snapshot that you can use when analyzing a design scenario, or save each posture in a library for re-use at a later date.

Any manikin defined and placed in a scenario appears as an assembly in the Manikin Model Tree, as do any snapshots of its position.