can't open protab piping_mcat_dir.ptd

[kachten]

hello everyone,

I trying to change a spec database for piping.

My Pro/Table does not load or work. Anybody has a solution herefore?

Greetings, Koen

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[JimBarrettSmith]

From a command prompt you should use just protab

This will launch protable

[kachten]

I tried but it doesn't work. Same story :-).

Any suggestions? 🙂

[JimBarrettSmith · Accepted solution]

hmm thats strange. Can you execute protab.bat from the bin dir under the load point with a double click?

[kachten]

yeah that works. Protable opens 🙂

But I thought you have to open pro/table from within Creo parametric??

[visu]

Myself having error on opening protab,

Please view the error and provide me an a solution.

Thanks & Regards

Viswanathan.K

[JimBarrettSmith]

I just have a protab shortcut on my desktop

[kachten]

hello,

does that shortcut works good for settting up piping specs. I found in the ptc training of Piping the following quote:

"The Pro/TABLE editor is used to edit all specification-driven files. This editor must ALWAYS be started from within a Creo Parametric system window to ensure correct formatting of table cells."

gr. Koen

[JimBarrettSmith]

Its always worked for me. You can also use something like word pad and text pad

[kachten]

thankyou very much for your help :-).

gr. Koen

[kachten]

when I want to open a file, protab crashes....

[JimBarrettSmith]

Sorry to hear that. I would suggest you contact technical support and ask them to investigate your problem via a webshare.

As a workaround use wordpad or Text pad

[kachten]

hellow,

i contacted tech support.

The solution is that you have to add the installation bin folder of creo parametric to your environment variable 'path'

System properties -> advanced tab -> click "environment variables" -> go to Path -> add your bin folder of creo parametric to it (e.g. C:\PTC\Creo 2.0\Parametric\bin)

restart creo Parametric -> it works