I NEED TO RUN Creo3 and wildfire 5 with windchill 11 and 9.1

[ahavassy]

hAS ANYONE EVER BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN USING CREO3 WITH WINDCHILL 11 AND

WILDFIRE 5 WITH WINDCHILL 9.1 ON THE SAME COMPUTER AND THE SAME USER@

[BenLoosli]

Should be possible since Windchill is not running on the same computer as the CAD software.

Use different shortcut icons to Wildfire 5 and Creo 3, each pointing to their own cache file folders.

Then register each CAD program to its respective Windchill server.

Minimum 3 computers required, 2 servers and 1 workstation. Realistically it would be 5 computers, 2 Windchill/Apache servers, 2 dadabase serevrs and your 1 workstation.

[ahavassy]

‌Ben, thanks for that answer there is one issue and that is how do you set up a seperate cache location for each cad instance. I have never had much luck with doing that but maybe I was doing that wrong.

[BenLoosli]

Use different Start-In folders for each version and then it is automatic since the WF_Cache is placed in the starts-in folder. It only becomes complicated when you use the same start-in folders, then you need to use a config.pro setting to set the cache.

Also do NOT use a common config.pro since many settings have changed/ been obsoleted/added between Wildfire 5 and Creo 3.

[mdebower]

Ben, doesn't the WF_Cache folder end up in:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\PTC\ProENGINEER\Wildfire

...for Wildfire 5.0?

-marc

[BenLoosli]

Yes, it has been a while since I ran any Wildfire.

Bottom line is the cache folders will not clash between the versions.

[ahavassy]

‌mmany thanks for you help

[mdebower · Accepted solution]

I found a Tech Support Article that explains the steps: Document - CS62457

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS62457&source=Article%20viewer

Note that you will need an active PTC support account to access it.

[ahavassy]

‌aawesome this is perfect exactly what I needed