Managing Creo Parametric Start Parts In Windchill
To set up start part management:
1. In Windchill, create a new library to store your start part files in.
For more information, see Creating Libraries
2. In Creo Parametric do the following.
a. Create a new workspace.
b. Open the start part files for each Creo Parametric object type (for example, by clicking > , and then navigating to the start part and opening it in Creo Parametric).
c. Save the start part to the workspace.
d. Repeat steps b and c until all of the desired start part files have been saved to the workspace.
e. In the workspace, check in the start part files to the library that you created in step 1.
3. In Creo Parametric, do the following to set a configuration option for each of the start parts that you want to manage with Windchill.
a. Click > .
The Options window opens.
b. In the Options field, type the name of the configuration option associated with the desired start part and press Enter.
A table containing each of the configuration options is provided in Creo Parametric Configuration Options.
c. Click Browse and navigate to the corresponding start part file in the library that you created in step 1.
d. Repeat the two previous steps until all of the desired object types are pointing to the correct start part files in Windchill.
4. In Windchill, create new CAD document templates for each of the desired object types that point to the appropriate start part files.
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The name that you chose to assign to the server when you registered the Windchill server in the Server Management window is used in the path created in the previous steps. For more information, see About the Server Management Utility. If you change the name of the server, you also need to update the values of these config.pro options.
Setting any of these options causes Creo Parametric to validate that it has access to the templates on startup. This causes an authentication window to appear when you start Creo Parametric, requiring you to log in to the Windchill server. This is normal behavior. Once authenticated, you are not required to authenticate again in the same session.
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