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December 8, 2014
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PTC Creo student edition drawing not opening.

  • December 8, 2014
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Working on a project, I incorrectly named my parts, so i went back and renamed them all correctly (Manage File --> Rename --> part name). The Assembly worked and opened up, but the drawing came up with errors for every part used " ____ not found in this directory". Is there anything i can do to recover my drawing in this version of Creo?

    Best answer by Dale_Rosema

    Hopefully you do not have a lot of drawings.

    Go back and rename your parts to their "incorrect" names. Open the assembly and the drawing for the 1st "incorrect" part. Rename the 1st part to it's correct name. Save the drawing, save the assembly and save the part. You can now close the 1st drawing.

    Repeat for the remaining parts that need to be renamed. You can close each drawing after it has been saved after it's model has been renamed to the new name.

    The drawings lost their associativity with the model (part), because they were still looking for the incorrectly named parts.

    If you get stuck, please reply back.

    Thanks, Dale

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    Dale_Rosema
    23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    December 8, 2014

    Hopefully you do not have a lot of drawings.

    Go back and rename your parts to their "incorrect" names. Open the assembly and the drawing for the 1st "incorrect" part. Rename the 1st part to it's correct name. Save the drawing, save the assembly and save the part. You can now close the 1st drawing.

    Repeat for the remaining parts that need to be renamed. You can close each drawing after it has been saved after it's model has been renamed to the new name.

    The drawings lost their associativity with the model (part), because they were still looking for the incorrectly named parts.

    If you get stuck, please reply back.

    Thanks, Dale

    1-Visitor
    December 9, 2014

    Dale is right on. The Creo file name are all dependent on the last time they were opened. If you rename them outside of Creo or without their depnedent files open (drawings, assemblies, UDF's, etc.) the dependent files will all continue to look for the "old" names.

    Getting everying into Windchill will alleviate this problem.

    Dale_Rosema
    23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    December 9, 2014

    That is, only if you have windchill. Many small businesses do not have windchill, so it would be good to learn it both ways. There are a lot of "Pro-work arounds" out there.

    Did this discussion get moved? I don't see it on the board anymore.