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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
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September 16, 2025
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Removing locked parameters

  • September 16, 2025
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I am looking at updating our old start parts that have Pro/Intralink parameters in them which are useless now that we are in Windchill. I read the steps in Article - CS105842 - How to modify or remove Windchill Parameters in Creo Parametric but the parameters are still locked when I open the files in Creo.

Any suggestions on how to get clean start parts.

I have thought of creating new ones, but we have a lot of parameters that would need added.

I saw an article that said ModelCheck can delete unwanted parameters, but it did not address the issue of locked parameters. Will ModelCheck remove locked parameters?

Creo 10.0.4.0 and Windchill  13.0.2.0

 

Best answer by BenLoosli

I finally got the old parameters deleted.

  1. Exported the files to disk
  2. Removed the Windchill servers from Creo (not just turn then offline)
  3. Restart Creo
  4. Set the referenced config.pro settings
  5. Open the files in Creo from disk
  6. Remove unwanted old parameters
  7. Save the file back to disk
  8. Start a new Creo Session
  9. Connect to the Windchill server
  10. Put the old file into your workspace
  11. Open the new file from disk
  12. Save the file to your workspace and overwrite the old file with a new iteration
  13. Check the new file back into Windchill

While I have only done steps 1-7, the 8-13 steps have worked for other files, so they should work for the start templates.

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manjunathrv17-Peridot
17-Peridot
September 16, 2025

@BenLoosli I remember doing this many years back after moving to Windchill. I was able to delete the Intralink parameters only after changing the Windchill server offline in Creo while deleting those params. Not sure if that works now, but you can try.

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BenLoosli23-Emerald IIIAuthor
23-Emerald III
September 16, 2025

My process was to add a couple of hidden confg.pro settings from that CS article as a start. I then did a save-as to the start part and closed Creo. Opened a new Creo session and did not log in to Windchill. Open the start part from my disk location. When going into the parameters, the Pro/Intralink ones still show as being locked and will not allow me to delete them.

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Chris321-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
September 16, 2025

Following the steps in the article work for me. If they aren't for you, I would suggest opening up a ticket with PTC.

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mkajdan14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
September 16, 2025

Try hidden option allow_create_pdm_param = YES

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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald IIIAuthor
23-Emerald III
September 16, 2025

Set config.pro dm_emulate_ilink_sys_parameters=yes and allow_create_pdm_param=yes are outlined in the CS article I referenced and were set.

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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald IIIAuthorAnswer
23-Emerald III
October 2, 2025

I finally got the old parameters deleted.

  1. Exported the files to disk
  2. Removed the Windchill servers from Creo (not just turn then offline)
  3. Restart Creo
  4. Set the referenced config.pro settings
  5. Open the files in Creo from disk
  6. Remove unwanted old parameters
  7. Save the file back to disk
  8. Start a new Creo Session
  9. Connect to the Windchill server
  10. Put the old file into your workspace
  11. Open the new file from disk
  12. Save the file to your workspace and overwrite the old file with a new iteration
  13. Check the new file back into Windchill

While I have only done steps 1-7, the 8-13 steps have worked for other files, so they should work for the start templates.

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