Removing locked parameters

[BenLoosli]

I am looking at updating our old start parts that have Pro/Intralink parameters in them which are useless now that we are in Windchill. I read the steps in Article - CS105842 - How to modify or remove Windchill Parameters in Creo Parametric but the parameters are still locked when I open the files in Creo.

Any suggestions on how to get clean start parts.

I have thought of creating new ones, but we have a lot of parameters that would need added.

I saw an article that said ModelCheck can delete unwanted parameters, but it did not address the issue of locked parameters. Will ModelCheck remove locked parameters?

Creo 10.0.4.0 and Windchill  13.0.2.0

[manjunathrv]

@BenLoosli I remember doing this many years back after moving to Windchill. I was able to delete the Intralink parameters only after changing the Windchill server offline in Creo while deleting those params. Not sure if that works now, but you can try.

[BenLoosli]

My process was to add a couple of hidden confg.pro settings from that CS article as a start. I then did a save-as to the start part and closed Creo. Opened a new Creo session and did not log in to Windchill. Open the start part from my disk location. When going into the parameters, the Pro/Intralink ones still show as being locked and will not allow me to delete them.

[Chris3]

Following the steps in the article work for me. If they aren't for you, I would suggest opening up a ticket with PTC.

[KenFarley]

I had a similar problem, parameters that were locked and I could not delete, caused by a colleague.

In the end, I ended up creating a new file without any parameters, then  copying and pasting the ones I wanted from the "old" model to the "new" one. Luckily, it's you can copy/paste multiple parameters at a time.

If you only have to handle a few parts/assemblies this might be the easiest thing, as long as there aren't a lot of other characteristics of the start parts that are needed. For me it was theoretically better, too, because I was now working with "latest version" parts/assemblies, rather than files that were literally created in Pro/ENGINEER back in the dawn of time, the days when we thought 32 bits was as many as we'd ever need.

[mkajdan]

Try hidden option allow_create_pdm_param = YES

[BenLoosli]

Set config.pro dm_emulate_ilink_sys_parameters=yes and allow_create_pdm_param=yes are outlined in the CS article I referenced and were set.