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Recently posting an idea to the PTC Creo Ideas page and was getting an error stating to check the highlighted portion and fix..   What I didn't realized is that I had to scroll down quite a bit to find the errors on the bottom right of the page below the screen window that I was filling out for the idea.   Not very intuitive that the "error" is off the screen and I have to scroll down to find it. It would be better if this error was visible or if you click on the error, it show you the "highlighted" error. Thanks, Dale          

On a side note, when entering my question I got the error message as below. I could not identify any "highlighted" error and had to guess that I have to select a location first. An actual highlighting of that button or any kind of hint in that direction would be very helpful.   Thank you Benny    

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Last October we launched a new podcast, The Third Angle to give our customers a voice when we go behind the scenes at their locations. We produce our episodes in a bi-weekly cadence and feature customers across all PTC product lines.   This award winning podcast is designed to be immersive and transport listeners on a journey from conception to completion of some of the most inspiring products being developed today. The podcast literally ‘travels the world’, to spotlight engineering genius that has produced flying cars, high-tech football helmets, light sabres for everyday jedis, homes of the future and so much more. The guest’s passion and pride as they explain the makings of their brainchild really hold the listener’s attention.    We kicked off the series with Creo customer Arc, featuring Mark Truman, the man behind the world’s most advanced, fully electric motorcycle, appreciated and owned by many, including celebrity Ryan Reynolds. Completing the year with Onshape c

How Employees Register For the PTC Community Anyone that is a PTC Employee or a Partner using the @ptc.com domain can register for a PTC Community username and participate in the PTC Community public discussions and private groups. Step 1:  Go to eSupport and sign in without your @ptc.com domaineSupport URL:  https://support.ptc.com    Step 2:   Once your eSupport registration is complete (by signing in), you need to access http://community.ptc.com  and accept the PTC Community Terms of Service.   Step 3:  Select a more community friendly username (instead of default XY_123456) Once you have a community username that can access and engage in the "overall" community, you can also request to join any "closed" User Group or Working Group.  Reach out to a moderator or any Community Manager if you have questions about registration!

Is there an option we can toggle to permanently hide the community tip banners that now appear at the top of the boards?

After hoovering over a community members id, a pop-up shows up with (2) options: Send message or View profile. (I'll use one of my older post as an example.)     If you click on Send Message, you are brought to the messaging part of the app, but it hasn't started a new message, also you still have to search and find the member id you just clicked on in order to send a message.       I would think that a new message would be started and addressed to the appropriate ID.

If you need to share code in a community post, you can use the "Code" option in the three dots menu. A new window for you to insert your code pops up, with a code preview at the bottom.There is syntax highlighting available for a variety of languages.ApacheBashCC#CSSDiffHTMLHTTPINIJavaJavaScriptJSONMakefileMarkdownNginxNQEObjective-CPerlPowerShellPHPPythonRubySQLSwiftVBScriptXHTMLXMLYARA Last edited by Catalina, April 2026

We receive a lot of feedback that some questions on the community are lacking necessary details and information, so we put together this list of tips that will improve your chances of receiving the answer you are looking for. Search first. If you have a question that you need answered fast, chances are someone has asked it before. So, take advantage of the community search. There are a variety of options to help you find answers!   Make sure you are on the right forum. If you ask a Creo question on our community feedback forum, chances are no one able to answer it is ever going to see it. Here is a list of product forums for your convenience: Creo Codebeamer Mathcad Windchill ThingWorx Kepware Vuforia SSE Arbortext Education   Choose a clear title that summarizes your question. We have hundreds of questions with some variation of the title "HELP ME". This is unlikely to be seen by someone with knowledge relevant to your question.   Context is important. Don't just ask for a solution

Exciting News!   https://www.ptc.com/en/about/ceo-succession      

Hello, is it possible to download the training from ELearning? 

It would be nice if the signature line would be populated in the text box as soon as a message is started so that it could be modified or removed as desired, similar to how signatures are created in Outlook.  

I tried to post a new idea to the Creo Cad board and received this error message:     This is the first Idea post I have done in a long time.

Hi, PTC Community!   I just wanted to let you know that we have confirmed that you can now log into the community (and eSupport) without an error message on your mobile device.  Please set us know on the feedback board if you find that you have any issues.   Also, we updated the ability to edit your own posts up to 12 hours.  If you find you need to edit your own content outside the 12 hour time frame feel free to contact a moderator and they will be happy to do so for you!    

Hello Olivier,It's a pity that customers have to fight (or beg) for possibilities to be more efficient and that you archive ideas instead of collecting and clustering them. A possible negative interpretation of that practice would be: Archiving ideas that have not enough votes after a certain period of time is a way to get rid of problems that your customers have. The suggestion would help every single user that works with family tables.   Unlock quickly a full family table (instances + ge... - PTC Community

Why can i not suggest an idea for the PLM Windchill product? I work at my company with Windchill and support the colleagues with question regarding the software. I would like to suggest improvement when i see opportunity or my colleagues suggest them to me.The button is not active.        

My reply via email this morning looks like its in a foreign language.  

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Hello, I have noticed that often people rarely use the Insert/Edit code sample in the thingworx developer forum. Either do not know how to do it (or ignore it), so I was thinking that perhaps it would be good to put a sticky post letting forum users know that the functionality exist.Or move the button from behind the three dots to the first "row" so it is easier to find.Perhaps even change the icon to just say "code" or something. Other possibility could perhaps be some type of automatic code detector(?), don't know how feasible that is though. Regards,Jens

Hi All, Can any of you point me to the key to the tags that are applied to us in the community? They look like Number-Mineral, for example I am 7-Bedrock, but I haven't found an explainer for what they mean. Thanks guys!

Obviously I don't understand how this Community works. It is not clear in the slightest     

I tried updating the following document with some additional information: Creo/ProE Drawing Repeat Region/BOM Syntax...This ... - PTC Community Although I could edit it the website wouldn't let me save it and got the following error: "Message cannot exceed 20,000 characters." Yet, when I copied and pasted the contents into Word and count the characters I get 3725 characters (including spaces) When I look at the "source code" in HTML I get 80,287 characters (including spaces)   Based on this I am thinking that it is rejecting my edits due to HTML being ridiculously verbose.  Is this intended?  Can the limit be increased?  Can you have it count text only instead of HTML code? Anything else that can be done?   It is noteworthy that I only added a few lines and it was otherwise as the post existed prior to me touching it today.

PTC Community members can subscribe to email notifications for their favourite content and for things like private messages. The notifications will come from our sender address community-mailer@ptc.com This is extremely useful, but the community's email address may create occasional confusion. If you receive email notifications from community-mailer@ptc.com, this is a legitimate community email. Last edited by Catalina, April 2026

Anyone else seeing this?  Their username randomly changing to some text string?  PTC STILL doesn't have a fix for this.

Hello everyone!How do I change my email in PTC Community Settings? it seems impossible!Thanks for answering me.