Pro-E Upgrade Wildfire 4 to Wildfire 5

[ptc-5061493]

Is there a way to upgrade Wildfire 4 to Wildfire 5 offline?

I run Pro-E Wildfire 5 on my XP box but it keeps crashing (PC issue - not Pro-E) so I need to install the same on another box.

Somehow the Wildfire 5 disks have gone missing and all I have is Wildfire 4 M090 disks. I've installed this on a Win7-64 box and pointed it to my old PC to get the license.

The problem is that the Wildfire 4 installation cannot open any files that use family tables. It just refuses to find the files that are sitting in the same folder. I assume that this may have been a new feature in Wildfire 5.

I would have used the same disks when I installed Pro-E on my old XP box. I don't remember but I guess that I must have upgraded that box to Wildfire 5 via an online upgrade. The add/remove programs tool on my XP box shows that Pro/Engineer Release Wildfire 4.0 Datecode M090 is installed as well as Pro/Engineer Release Wildfire 5.0 Datecode M010.

The new Win7-64 machine is not on the internet. To connect it to the internet I would lose the connection to my old box and hence lose access to the license.

How can I upgrade my offline Win7-64 box from Wildfire 4 to Wildfire 5 either without connecting it to the internet or without losing connection to my XP licensed box? Is there an upgrade that I can download?

[TomD.inPDX]

Typically, you need maintenance to get current or back versions of Pro|E. It is a support site function.

If you have current maintenance, you can use any version up the latest. But if your maintenance has lapsed for a significant period of time, you have some bucks to shell out.

I do know that you can still swap the license files from one machine to another without maintenance. It requires you to jump through a few hoops but it is all done with your original purchase order and customer number.

So will PTC give you a disk to the level you last had current maintenance? I'm sure many would love to know.

I download every version, past versions, and support files for backup burning. I definitely don't want to be where you're at now. But I would like to know what PTC is willing to do for you. You might start by contacting a VAR.

That reminds me, I should order the physical media for Creo 2.0 M080.

[MartinHanak]

Michael,

you can simply copy the whole ProE WF5 directory from XP box to W7 box and try to launch ProE. I think the copy on W7 needs some manual modification, but it will work.

Martin Hanak

[dgschaefer · Accepted solution]

Once you copy the installation folder you can navigate to the bin directory inside it (C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo Elements\Pro5.0\bin on my nachine) and run ptcsetp.bat as administrator. This will properly configure WF5 for your Win7 machine.

Good luck.

[ptc-5061493]

Thanks for all of your replies. I am time poor at the moment but hope to try out your suggestions as soon as I can. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[ptc-5061493]

Thanks guys. It worked a treat

[Patriot_1776]

Actually, it's a DOWNgrade, but I digress........