How to change default config file location in creo

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March 10, 2016
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Dear all,

How to change the default creo config file location to our local drive custom config created by us.

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Best answer by dgschaefer

There are actually 3 locations that config files are read from, in this order. See CS28227.

The text folder in the loadpoint
The user's home directory. By default this is the operating system environment variable %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% for the user. You can set %HOME% explicitly if you want to use something different.
The startup directory. This can be set in the properties dialog of the icon used to launch Creo. The "Start In" field is your startup directory.

If you are using a config.sup, it must go in location #1. If multiple config.pro files are loaded, they are cumulative. Where multiple config.pro files contain the same option, the value in the last file read wins.

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smahajan

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There are two locations from where your config files get picked up during launching Creo.

1. <Creo Load Point>\CommonFiles\text

2. (Default Working Directory) (You can get this when you launch the Creo session and just check what is your default directory).

If you copy your custom config file into any of these two locations, you should be able to get them in effect.

Thanks,

Sachin

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dgschaefer

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21-Topaz II

There are actually 3 locations that config files are read from, in this order. See CS28227.

The text folder in the loadpoint
The user's home directory. By default this is the operating system environment variable %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% for the user. You can set %HOME% explicitly if you want to use something different.
The startup directory. This can be set in the properties dialog of the icon used to launch Creo. The "Start In" field is your startup directory.

If you are using a config.sup, it must go in location #1. If multiple config.pro files are loaded, they are cumulative. Where multiple config.pro files contain the same option, the value in the last file read wins.

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dbhensdadia

1-Visitor

Dear Doug,

Regarding the 3rd option I have tried by giving a network location, but still Creo is reading the config file from The text folder in the loadpoint only.

1. Changed the start-in path "\\\\server\share\creo\common" but Creo is still reading the config.pro file from "C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 2.0\Common Files\M200\text"

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Dhimant