Hello everyone!
I am working on Creo Parametric 3.0 Student Edition without Windchill (student here). I have one main assembly file with some sub-assemblies in it. I was working on one of the sub-assembly's parts and constantly saving it between creation of parts. The gist of it is that my laptop fans turned all the way up, and I felt that the laptop was about to hang (has happened before) so I saved the assembly (It saved), did a "Erase not displayed", and exited the program. On restart, it said that one of my fasteners (from the Intelligent Fastener Extension) was unable to be found and I clicked "Ignore". The model that opened was an incomplete one that was missing many parts. All parts, assemblies, sub-assemblies are saved in the same local directory. I had imported some STEP files too, which were there, some of the others from later were missing. Something I noticed was that my working directory was now set to my "temp" folder, where I found tiny Trail files. I find these hard to read and I cannot get them to play as the option is grayed. Other information that may help:
So, what happened exactly? And is there any way I can recover the parts using the trail file or another method?
I would have a few regeneration errors from some parts I suppressed (mean to deleted those later), though my model loaded fine with these. Any input is appreciated. Thank you very much!
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Hi,
just a note...
If your config.pro does not contain following option
file_open_default_folder working_directory
and you changed working directory during Creo session
then your models can be saved in different directories.
Hi,
just a note...
If your config.pro does not contain following option
file_open_default_folder working_directory
and you changed working directory during Creo session
then your models can be saved in different directories.
Thanks Martin, I just did this along with changing the start in directory. I also saw this thread on trail files.
However, when I open Creo the option Play Trail File is grey / cannot be selected and I don't know why. Also tried running it from the command prompt. Does not show up under Manage Session either. In any case, I did manage to find the sub-assembly I was working on in another directory, so thank you for pointing that out. From some reading, it seems I should not move the sub-assembly back to the older folder with my main assembly as there may be problems with part names. I plan to use search paths for the config.pro file.