Start parts and template locations

[plymouth4406]

Hi, 

I am new to Creo and have a few questions on how to best configure the software. We've purchased two seats of Creo parametric 4.0, I would like to store start parts in a location that both myself and our other designer can access along with mapping Creo to look for them. How do I best approach this? 

Thank you in advance. 

[BenLoosli]

I would create a shared drive location on one of the computers and then map it to another drive lettter, like P: or X:. Create a folder on that drive named Templates and store your templates and formats in that folder. To protect the contents from being changed, make the folder read-only.

[plymouth4406]

Then how do you configure Creo to look to that folder?

[BenLoosli]

There are config.pro settings to point to templates and start part folders.

Here is an example from another company's config.pro. They mapped the S: drive as their shared location.

!=================================================================================!
!== PRO SEARCH DIRECTORIES & FILES      ==!
!=================================================================================!
!$PATH
drawing_setup_file s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\dwg_setup\std_metric.dtl
format_setup_file s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\dwg_setup\std_metric.dtl
!mdl_tree_cfg_file s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\configs\mdl_tree\tree.cfg
pro_colormap_path s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\configs\color.map
pro_dtl_setup_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\dwg_setup
pro_format_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\formats
pro_group_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\groups
pro_library_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_library
pro_material_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\materials
pro_note_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\notes
pro_plot_config_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\plot_config
pro_symbol_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\symbols

!  Files & Directories on the local workstation:
plot_file_dir D:\prowork\pro_trail
trail_dir D:\prowork\pro_trail

!=================================================================================!
!  TEMPLATE FILES & LOCATIONS       ==!
!=================================================================================!
!$PATH

start_model_dir s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\start_models

! Use the following settings to set the default template files for
! different types of objects.

template_designasm s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\start_models\startassy_in.asm
template_solidpart s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\start_models\startpart_in.prt
template_drawing s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\start_models\startdrawing_in.drw
!template_mfgmold
!template_mfgcast
!template_sheetmetalpart

[Dale_Rosema]

Ben

Do you know why the following line is commented out (i.e.   !)

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@BenLoosli wrote:

!mdl_tree_cfg_file s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\configs\mdl_tree\tree.cfg

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[BenLoosli]

I am thinking it was commented out so we didn't 'force' a model tree config on the users. Let them define their own in their personnel config.pro or use the default system model tree view.

[dgschaefer]

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@plymouth4406 wrote:

Then how do you configure Creo to look to that folder?

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Use this config.pro file option to set the start model folder.  It should be set to the full path to the folder.

start_model_dir

Additionally, you can set these options to specific template files that you want to use:

template_designasm
template_sheetmetalpart
template_solidpart 

BTW, this area is for questions about the community itself.  Questions like this really beling in https://community.ptc.com/t5/Additional-Creo-Questions/bd-p/OtherCreoTopics probably under the "Best Practices" or "Customization" labels.

@Jaime_Lee, can you move it?

[VladimirN]

@Jaime_Lee Please move this discussion in Creo forum, here: https://community.ptc.com/t5/Creo-Modeling-Questions/bd-p/CreoModeling