Customizing and Saving the Ribbon Locally

Customizing the Ribbon > Customizing and Saving the Ribbon Locally

1. In Windchill, click Product > Utilities > Visualization Configuration Administration and upload the uiconfig.xml file and the referenced image files. (These can have PNG, BMP, JPG, or JPEG format extensions.)

2. Open a file in Creo View.

3. Use the Customize Ribbon page of the Creo View Options dialog box to make changes to the ribbon.

4. Click Apply, and then click OK to add the newly created menu.

5. The new menu appears in the ribbon menu and the customized commands appear in that menu.

6. Exit Creo View and navigate to the %APPDATA%\PTC\ProductView folder. Note that the following files are present in that directory:

◦ user_prefs.xml

◦ user_cust_pvpro.ui

7. Rename the above two files as follows:

◦ server_prefs.xml

◦ server_cust_pvpro.ui

8. Edit server_prefs.xml and add the following preference:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<preferences>
<category name="GUI">
<category name="Customize">
<preference name="Location" value="server"/>
</category>
</category>
<preferences>

9. Save and exit the editor.

10. Zip these files:

◦ uiconfig.xml

◦ server_prefs.xml

◦ server_cust_pvpro.ui

◦ The referenced image files

You have now customized the ribbon menu. To implement your preferences, continue to Uploading the Customized Files to Windchill.