How to Use This Guide

This guide supplements the descriptions in the installer and provides installation prerequisites, instructions, and reference information. To generate or update licenses and then install or reconfigure Creo View, see the following chapters:

Chapter	Role	Information
Overview	All users	Describes the materials in your software shipment and lists the prerequisites for installation.
Quick-Start Installation	Existing users	Describes a quick-start approach for users who have previously installed license management and product software.
Obtaining and Configuring Licenses	System administrators This chapter does not apply to users of Creo View Lite and Creo View Express.	Describes how to generate or update licenses for Creo View and how to install PTC License Server.
Installing Creo View	All users	Describes a simple installation process for Creo View.
Starting Creo View and Modifying an Installation	All users	Describes the steps to start Creo View and the procedure to uninstall the software.
Deploying Creo View and Customizing the Installation	System administrators	Describes methods for deploying Creo View and outlines strategies for silent installation.
Updating an Installation	All users	Describes how to update Creo View on your system.

Convention	Item	Example
Bold	Menu paths, dialog box options, buttons, and other selectable elements from the user interface	Click File > New.Click OK.
Courier	User input, system messages, directories, and file names	Processing completed.
Courier with less-than and greater-than symbols (< >)	Variables for which an appropriate value is substituted	output=<LOADPOINT>