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Bhoopathy1-Visitor
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April 3, 2018
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How we can change the Creo versioned file to creo part file

  • April 3, 2018
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Dear PTC Users,

 

How we can change the Creo versioned file to creo part file format. (After creation)

Let assume i have 50 files as in creo versioned file format. How we convert these 50 files into creo part file. 

 

Note:

1) we can control through save_file_iterations as false. 

2) we can purge the directory. (utilities -> open system window) or (windows explorer -> shift + right click -> purge)

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23-Emerald III
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
April 3, 2018

The versioned files are basically backups of your work. They have no value to you UNLESS your lastest part file is somehow corrupted or you want to go back to a design iteration that you have previously saved. 

 

If you want to remove the versioning, simply create a batch file that renames the files to remove the versioning.

 

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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
April 3, 2018

A versioned file is still a part file, there's no need to change it into one.

 

You also already mentioned how to turn off versioning and how to purge the directory. Those are the two solutions to having too many files built up in your directories.

 

I'm not sure what you are asking to do, can you clarify?

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
April 3, 2018

This goes way back in the gray matter, but doesn't manually removing the version extension make it a "master"?

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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
April 3, 2018
@TomD.inPDX wrote:

This goes way back in the gray matter, but doesn't manually removing the version extension make it a "master"?

I don't think so, highest number wins I think.  If you open a file named thing.prt and save it, I believe it becomes thing.prt.1, or the next highest number if other versions are in that folder.  Next time you open it, you'll get the versioned file.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
April 4, 2018

Just tested this for grins...

If you remove the .1 from a part file and you save it, it adds .2.

Creo also opens the latest version automatically.  Of course, you can still see the un-versioned file with the tools option All Versions.

Somewhere in the library of things Creo there are templates that don't have versioned file names.

Never quite understood it.

 

 

However, I see a nice Pro|WorkAround^tm

 

How to keep your library parts from being over-written!

Just keep blowing away other user's versioned revisions when they show up in your shared library 🙂

A great way to maintain a master library. 

If a change is actually required to a library file, the new part/assembly should be submitted as a new un-versioned library part/assembly.

 

 

 

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gleonard314-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
June 28, 2018

Back in the old Solaris/UNIX days, I had a script called stripv that would remove all version numbers.  So for example I could do a purge in a directory then a stripv *, and end up with a nice clean directory full of non-versioned filenames.  Anyone know of an equivalent DOS version of stripv?  I really miss that capability.  I'm sure it can be accomplished with some semi-advanced batch file technique, but it would take me a while to perfect on my own.

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