Ptc Creo For Startups

[Kayleen Dauteuil]

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Katherine Brown-Siebenaler is the Marketing Content Manager for PTC's CAD team. Based in Austin, TX, Katherine is responsible for editing the Creo and Mathcad blogs. She has six years' experience as a content creator for various corporate marketing teams, primarily in SaaS environments. Katherine holds two degrees from the University of Florida, a BS in Journalism and an MA in Mass Communication. She enjoys learning how PTC customers bring software to life in real-world applications every day, leading innovation in their various industries.

We use Creo Parametric with Windchill PDMLink. Creo is set to "start in" a folder named "Config". This is where my config.pro, appearance files, lighting files, etc. are kept. I like to keep that folder free of clutter.

Is there a way to automatically have my Working Directory set to another location when I start the program? If I leave it set to Config & start working in a linked session with WC, all sorts of log files, BOM files, etc. get written to my Config folder. To avoid this I've made a practice of changing my Working Directory whenever I start Creo. Surely there must be a way around this?

Perhaps there is simpler method but I know of two ways to accomplish this; by having creo run a set of commands upon startup or before Creo startup via a batch file. If it's the former, by the time Creo has loaded and sets the working directory, it may have already created some clutter files based on errors it finds in the config file, etc. Hence the reason I say below to create a "backup" location for your config files. Here are the two methods:

Method 1 is straight forward - have your startup icon point to a batch file that runs what commands you want and then starts Creo. A method 1 batch file might look something like this (or you could just modify your parametric.bat to the following):

For method 2, first you need to start a normal session of Creo by doing things you typically do at startup i.e. loading a config file, changing working directory, closing the browser, minimizing the UI toolbar, etc etc...anything you want automated. Then copy your trail file of the session you just started to a safe location and rename it Creo-startup.txt or something you prefer.

Finally, change the target of your Creo icon to this batch file. This assumes you have a parametric.bat that runs your parametric.exe file. If not, you can create one similar to method 1 above but without the delete and copy lines.

Upon startup it will run everything in the trail file you created, almost like a giant mapkey. We use it to load multiple configs and to close a few standard dialog boxes, etc. Hopefully that makes sense; post again if you get stuck.

Batch files are limited in how many parameters they can pass as an argument. %* allows all parameters to be output. I've never tried omitting the %* but I suspect you won't get much of the trail file processed.

The last one, where your configs reside, is also set as the initial working directory. You could set that as your preferred initial working directory and put your configs in one of the other two places. The text folder gets overwritten when Creo is upgraded, so be careful storing them there. It's better to use a batch file to copy them there from another location.

If its just the working directory you are wanting switched. If you use a shortcut icon, go to the properties of the shortcut, and in the "Start in:" text box designate the location you want your working directory to be.

I am facing an issue with the CREO parametric startup. I installed CREO in C: drive. And by default, the parametric.exe is located in the BIN folder. But firstly I do have write access in this location. And I do not understand why CREO is having this issue.

If I choose another location (let's say the same location as my working directory), it throws an error with AFX and IFX failed to load. And closes creo. I understand it should not work in theory because my working directory doesn't have parametric.psf file.

Windows usually doesn't let regular user to write to Program Files directory and its subdirectories; it looks like you're trying to start Creo directly by running parametric.exe from \bin directory and Creo tries to create a trail file in the directory but has insufficient write permissions.

You can try running parametric.exe as an administrator (with elevated permissions) but I wouldn't advise it. Better way is to create a shortcut to run Creo (just put it on your desktop) and define startup directory using "Start in" field in shortcut properties. Try setting "Start in" to a folder inside your documents (e.g. C:\Users\[your_username\Documents\Creo) and see if that will help.

I understand that windows wouldn't allow writing in program folders. Thinking the same thing, I tried running with Administrator access too. This time, it didn't throw an error to choose a startup directory for trail creation. But still, it throws an error with AFX and IFX failed to load. And closes creo.

I am not starting Creo directly by running parametric.exe from the \bin directory. I have a shortcut on my desktop, which is targeted to parametric.exe in the \bin directory. And by default, the start in location is also directed to \bin directory. As you said, I tried changing it to a separate folder specifically for Creo. But again, it throws an error with AFX and IFX failed to load. And closes creo.

I did get a solution though and for now, it seems to be working. I started the "reconfigure" application in the \bin directory. It reinitiated the licence file and reconfigured it. And luckily, now it did not throw an error and ran normally. I don't understand it though.

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