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About This Guide
The Creo View MCAD Adapters Installation and Configuration Guide describes the steps to install, configure, and use the Creo View MCAD Adapters and Document Support. The guide also includes steps for validating your configuration. The guide is intended for system administrators who manage the installation of company-wide tools.
Examples in this guide with third-party products are for demonstration purposes only. For additional information about third-party products, contact the product vendor.
Prerequisite Knowledge
Using this guide requires a solid understanding of terms and concepts related to Product Data Management (PDM) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems.
Organization of This Guide
The guide is organized as follows:
Chapter
Content
About This Guide
Introduction to and organization of this guide, related information
Introduction to the MCAD Adapters
An overview of the conversion process, general prerequisites, and basic workflow for installation and configuration
Installing and Configuring the Adapters
Installation and configuration of the Creo View Adapters for MCAD on Windows and UNIX and the configuration of multiple workers on a single machine
Editing the Recipes for Using Creo View MCAD Adapters
An introduction to recipe editing and an overview of the Recipe Editor
Performing Recipe Editor Tasks
Additional steps for configuring recipe settings
Configuring the Creo View Thumbnail Generator
An introduction to thumbnail generation, how to configure your system to run the Thumbnail Generator
Configuring the Creo View Adapter for PDF
An introduction to the Adobe Experience Manager Server used for generating PDF representations of Office documents and how to configure the adapter to use it
Configuring the Batch Print Engine
An introduction to, and how to configure the Creo View Batch Print Engine
Configuring the PVS Optimize Utility
An introduction to, and how to configure and publish the Creo View Viewable Compression Utilities
Configuring Creo View Interference Engine
An introduction to, and how to configure the interference detection tool for command line and server controlled publishing, and examples of user-cases
Adapter-specific sections
An introduction to, and how to configure each CAD adapter
Troubleshooting
Command-line and server-controlled publishing issues
Appendices
Property files and utlilities
Documentation Conventions
In this guide, directory file paths use the following naming conventions:
• <installation_directory>—Selected during the installation process.
• <setup_directory>—Set during the configuration process. Contains the adapter configuration files and batch scripts.
• <batch_script>—Created when the adapter is configured. Initiates the publishing process.
These items may be altered in this guide:
• Option names may contain artificial line breaks when they are too long for table columns.
• Code examples may have been reformatted for presentation purposes and, therefore, may contain hidden editing characters (such as tabs and end-of-line characters) and extraneous spaces.
• File paths may contain artificial line breaks to fit on the page.
• The procedures for using the configuration utility and the batch and worker scripts apply to all of the adapters. Therefore, <adapter> is substituted for the specific adapter name in these procedures. For instance, <adapter>_config.exe or <adapter>worker.bat.
If you cut and paste from this manual, check for these occurrences and adjust them before attempting to use the example in your application.