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khimani_mohiki15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
April 29, 2019
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Creo License selection

  • April 29, 2019
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How can we tell Creo which psf file to use without going through this dialogue? I want to replace this dialogue with a custom form where the users can select the license, manage their cache and their config.pro. Any help much appreciated.

 

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
April 30, 2019

Hi,

if you create several startup commands during Creo 5.0 installation then you will get several file pairs (.psf+.bat) in Parametric\bin directory.

For example, parametric.bat can contain ...

"E:\PTC\Creo5_040\Creo 5.0.4.0\Parametric\bin\parametric.exe" "E:\PTC\Creo5_040\Creo 5.0.4.0\Parametric\bin\parametric.psf"

You can create your own startup batch file and launch specific Creo startup command using the line similar to the above one.

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khimani_mohiki15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
May 9, 2019

What we have done is put the psf files in a sub folder within parametric\bin directory, then our custom Creo Launcher executable copies the psf file (based on the users selection from our custom windows form) into the parametric\bin directory and re-names it default.psf then waits 0.5 seconds then start parametric.exe which then only find one psf file, this way we don't get the Creo license pop-up but we are still able to select licenses from our Custom Creo Launcher. The Launcher is still beta testing at the moment but we would be happy to share the code for anyone interested in making something similar.

 

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manjunathrv17-Peridot
17-Peridot
May 10, 2019

What is the advantage of this over what Martin has suggested above?

We have just dumped all the psf and corresponding .bat files in the bin folder and when the user launches Creo it asks for which psf to select. This is simple or did I miss anything?

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RPN18-Opal
18-Opal
May 12, 2019

I don’t use a static psf file, I write the ProE Startup File on demand. Let the user select his requested option, next write the psf with the lic info, which is called by the parametric exe. Most of this file is static, we add as well the lic server location and the language. The bat file we don’t use any longer.

 

Don’t forget, the user is idle if the trail file date data will not change. This gives you all you need to free his lic whenever you, the admin, want. Even if the user is idle for only 10 minutes.

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