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Search path config issue

  • July 5, 2016
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Hello all, anyone have any idea why a search path config option keeps defaulting back to (null). This option worked fine, finding the directory it pointed to, in older versions of Creo, but in Creo 3 it keeps defaulting to (null). I keep opening my config file, i locate the search path option, i browse to the specific directory, i save the config file. All seems ok until i close out the session. When i fire up Creo 3 again, the option displays (null). Very weird. Any ideas?

Regards

John


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    Best answer by BenLoosli

    Try creating a search.pro file with your folder locations in it. Then replace Search_Path with Search_Path_File and point to the location of the search.pro. Use the full path name to the file!

    SEARCH_PATH_FILE c:\creo_configs\search.pro

    See if this helps.

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    BenLoosli23-Emerald IIIAnswer
    23-Emerald III
    July 5, 2016

    Try creating a search.pro file with your folder locations in it. Then replace Search_Path with Search_Path_File and point to the location of the search.pro. Use the full path name to the file!

    SEARCH_PATH_FILE c:\creo_configs\search.pro

    See if this helps.

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    John.Pryal1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    July 6, 2016

    Thanks for your reply. I am experiencing some very weird behaviour here. I come into work today, & suddenly my search_path option appears to work fine, like it has done for years. Its worth mentioning, that I only started seeing this since installing M70 date code recently. I am having issues printing my drawings since updating too. If this falls down again, I will try your suggestion, but for now it appears to be ok.

    Regards

    John

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    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    July 8, 2016

    A sample search.pro file would look like this.

    p:\vendors\cummins\model

    p:\vendors\detroit\model

    p:\vendors\duetz\model

    p:\vendors\kubota\model

    p:\vendors\skf\model

    plus whatever other directories you have parts located in.

    In config.pro, you would have: search_path_file c:\ptc_user\search.pro

    Since you have $CREO_COMMON_FILES\afx\parts\prolibrary\search.pro, try to open a command window and then CD $CREO_COMMON_FILES to see if it can find the folder structure. You may be better off hardcoding the $CREO_COMMON_FILES location as h:\engineering or whatever it actually is instead of using the variable.

    I have found that PTC coders do not always use variable translation code when do OS functions.

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