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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.
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.
Then how do you configure Creo to look to that folder?
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
Ben
Do you know why the following line is commented out (i.e. !)
@BenLoosli wrote:
!mdl_tree_cfg_file s:\Eng\Pro_Files\pro_stds\configs\mdl_tree\tree.cfg
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.
@plymouth4406 wrote:
Then how do you configure Creo to look to that folder?
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?
@Jaime_Lee Please move this discussion in Creo forum, here: https://community.ptc.com/t5/Creo-Modeling-Questions/bd-p/CreoModeling