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OE_126206551-Visitor
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December 18, 2024
Question

Creo View Unix - How to "Open in Creo View" from Windchill - Unix URI handler for creoview://

  • December 18, 2024
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Version: Windchill 12.1

 

Use Case: I want to open parts from Windchill in Creo View for Unix.


Description:

I have installed Creo View for Unix on my work laptop, but I still cannot use "Open in Creo View" from Windchill in a web browser. I see the browser trying to open a URI of the form
creoview://?wcparams=<base64-encoded JSON with Windchill + session details>

but even when I try to manually pass this as an argument to pview
creoview_unix/bin/pview 'creoview://?wcparams=eyJh...'

I get the following error

creo_view_err.png

Most parts in Windchill are not available for download, so my only option is using the "Open in Creo View" menu item from Windchill.

 

 

 

3 replies

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Hari_Vara16-Pearl
16-Pearl
December 19, 2024

Hi,

What is your OS?

Creo View is supported only in Redhat in the Linux /unix world. Take a look at the below reference document.

 

https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/support/refdocs/Creo_View/10,-d-,1/CVClientsAndToolkitsSoftwareMatrix.pdf?sc_lang=en

 

Hari

avillanueva
23-Emerald I
avillanueva23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
December 19, 2024

I am not sure this is an OS issue. It looks like Creo View is installed and launching. Its an issue with the content that it is getting.  Can you enable trace logging?

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS62972?source=search

Post the logs but be sure to blank out any sensitive data from your site or install.

Catalina
CatalinaCommunity Manager
Community Moderator
December 30, 2024

Hi @OE_12620655,

I wanted to see if you got the help you needed.

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SvenR14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
June 13, 2025

Hello @OE_12620655 , did you come to a successful conclusion of the issue?

We also have the same problem, and when looking at how it's on Windows, there is an additional thing called launch_pvagent.exe, which is executed from the browser. Since I didn't find any related thing in the Linux binaries, I wonder how Creo View should then find the server at all if we just pass it the creoview://... uri which is encoded. Even if it's decoded, it does complain about not supporting the file type.

 

greetings

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