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JimTVancouverCa1-Visitor
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June 1, 2015
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Tip: ModelCHECK DIR_REPORT path for Windows environment

  • June 1, 2015
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Hello all,

When configuring ModelCHECK and setting DIR_REPORT in config_init.mc the path is interpreted as Windows if you specify a static path, for example:

DIR_REPORT c:\myusershomebaseetc\subfolder\mc_reports

But let's say you want the report to live in a subfolder based on the windchill username?  You might want to do this if you don't use the windows provided %USERPROFILES% which is c:\users\<username>\ in most cases.

Here's what I found works on Windows 7 professional:

DIR_REPORT $homedrive/home/$USERNAME/mc_reports

(Note the forward slashes, this is opposite to Windows convention of '\' backslashes for paths.)

If you do want to use %USERPROFILES% you would use this:

DIR_REPORT %USERPROFILE/mc_reports

These below options do NOT work in my testing:

DIR_REPORT $homedrive\home\$USERNAME/mc_reports

DIR_REPORT $homedrive\home\$USERNAME\mc_reports

DIR_REPORT c: \home\$USERNAME/mc_reports

DIR_REPORT c:\home\$USERNAME\mc_reports

All results in Creo Parametric 2 M120 defaulting to the folder where Creo was started, as documented in the Creo help system.

Related PTC articles: TPI 31240, CS116772.

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JimTVancouverCa1-VisitorAuthor
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June 1, 2015

Hello Everyone,

Note if you turn on option: MC_METRICS it will write that as a separate file.  You specify the location of that file with: DIR_METRICS setting in config_init.mc  It does not follow DIR_REPORT.

- Jim

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JimTVancouverCa1-VisitorAuthor
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June 17, 2015

Hello all,

Another follow up on this.  It seems any variable set in your Creo startup script that contains valid path information can be used to set the DIR_REPORT path in config_init.mcc


I now have our set to:

DIR_REPORT $homedrive/home/$windchill_username/mc_reports

For info on HOMEDRIVE see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/101507 ‌this seems to apply to Win 7 in our environment.

/home is just where the previous admin here parked all user local files.

$windchill_username is a set variable I set in our site's Creo startup script.  Because I do NOT use setlocal in that script, it appears to be available to the Creo sessions started from that script.  Note the script can be run from a desktop shortcut, you don't have to start it from a command line.

Hope this is useful to someone!

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Brndn_41-Visitor
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June 7, 2017

I tried using the %USERPROFILE% variable in different formats, but kept getting an error about write access, which makes little sense to me since I have full access on the local directory I created to store the reports. I verified this by using a static path, which worked. Eventually, I found that using $HOMEPATH works all the same.

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