Border lines disappearing when re-opening a drawing

[ptc-4404610]

Hi, I have made a new format with a table as the title block and used the offset tool from the edge of the sheet to create my in margin boarders. This works great for all my drawing formats and sheet sizes but I have noticed that when I exit CREO and try to re-open the drawing, that has my custom format in, the boarder lines are gone. The table used for my title block is still there and intact but I have to re-insert my format to get the boarder lines to come back.

Is there some way to keep them from disappearing? I am using CREO 3.0.

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[Mahesh_Sharma]

Andy,

Can you upload the format file?

[ptc-4404610]

Sure thing!

[Mahesh_Sharma]

It is working for me without disappearing the border lines. I created a new part and used the format for drawing creation. Saved the drawing > Exit Creo and Start a new session and in that drawing was retrieving correctly.

As Bill suggested, set the config option pro_format_dir with value as location of format.

[BillChapman · Accepted solution]

Tables are copied to the drawing itself, and it seems like that is what you have when you re-open. You may just need to tell Creo where to look for the format files. Set the config.pro option:

PRO_FORMAT_DIR Z:\ProE_Library\formats

You can confirm this is the issue, by loading the format into session first, then retrieving the drawing.

[ptc-4404610]

I added the PRO_FORMAT_DIR and pointed it to my format files, closed CREO and restarted. It is working now! Just one more question about that. Does that mean I should be saving my work in the same location as my config file or should I copy my config file to all my saved location?

Thanks for your help.

[Mahesh_Sharma]

You can have config file in strat-in location for application.

[MartinHanak]

Andy,

Creo Parametric 2.0 (used without Windchill) automatically reads config.pro from three locations:

1. CR2_loadpoint\Creo 2.0\Common Files\Mxxx\text
2. %HOME% directory
3. Start in directory defined in Creo Shortcut

Martin Hanak