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dpasholk1-Visitor
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September 11, 2018
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Where is appearance.dmt ?

  • September 11, 2018
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If nothing is set in the config.pro

global_appearance_file

pro_colormap

where is the appearance.dmt being read from?

It is reading an old dmt file I created and I cannot find it.

Your help is most welcome

Danny P.

 

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    SavageFrog10-Marble
    10-Marble
    September 11, 2018

    If the config.pro has no settings for global_appearance_file or for pro_colormap_path, I've been told by PTC that you get the defaults which point to the load-point …\Common Files\graphic-library\appearances directory to find the global.dmt and appearances.dmt files respectively.

     

    We have the same problem.  We've pointed our options elsewhere, but our Creo seems to be reading our own custom appearances.dmt file, but from ages ago.  Dunno where it's reading it from...

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    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    September 11, 2018

    I am using pro_colormap_path X:\PTC_Settings\Configs in Creo2,0 m240 but when it is called the first time, it is defaulting to the PTC default appearance.dmt file. If I navigate my users to the one in X:\PTC_Settings\Configs then the system remembers that location and all is fine.

     

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    SavageFrog10-Marble
    10-Marble
    September 11, 2018

    Hey Ben,

     

    I went so far as to rip out every .dmt file in my chosen pointed-to directory, and Creo STILL comes up with this outdated rendition of my customized appearances.dmt file.  Can't figure it!  It's gotta be coming from somewhere!

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    dpasholk1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    September 13, 2018

    I open a part. Click on View, Appearances drop down. In My Appearances window it populates with spheres of different colors. Where is this being read from? Can I save this?

    My Appearances.JPG

    Pro_colormap_path does not work.

     

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    23-Emerald III
    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    September 13, 2018

    Pro_colormap_path does work.

    You need to manually find the appearance.dmt file 1 time.

     

     Read my reply earlier in this thread.

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    ptc-7787814-Participant
    4-Participant
    July 27, 2020

    I too struggled with getting the pro_colormap_path config.pro option to do what it was supposed to. After a bunch of trial and error, here's what I discovered, and here's how I finally got it working:

    A) The .dmt file you create, and what you want to have read in via pro_colormap_path, has to exactly be named "appearance.dmt". This is detailed within the Creo help files. Name the file anything else, and the file won't get read in.

    B) Contrary to just every other config.pro option that I've come across (whose value includes a folder location), if you have spaces in your folder/network path, the pro_colormap_path option doesn't seem to work. For example, a value of pro_colormap_path set to something like: \\server1\Creo stuff\config files, won't cut it. However, if you add quotes around this same path (i.e. "\\server1\Creo stuff\config files"), you should be good to go. 

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