Read This First Creo®: Creo Parametric, Creo Simulate, Creo Options Modeler, Creo Layout, Creo Direct 4.0 F000 Directory of Online Information What’s New? Click a link below and in the table of contents, click What’s New Creo Parametric Creo Simulate Creo Direct Platform Support http://support.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=171726 Help and Reference Documents http://support.ptc.com/apps/help_center/help/ for Creo Creo Resource Centers All Resource Centers Creo Parametric Creo Direct Creo Layout Creo Options Modeler Creo Simulate Creo Parametric 30–Day Trial 4.0 F000 English Copyright 2016 PTC, Inc Creo®: Creo Parametric, Creo Simulate, Creo Options Modeler, Creo Layout, Creo Direct Directory of Online Information (continued) Creo eSupport Technical Support Search All Reference Documents Creo 4.0 Academic https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/portal/index.jsp? tab_id=creo https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/search/search.jsp http://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/doc/refdoc.jsp Creo Parametric, Creo Simulate, Creo Layout, Creo Options Modeler, Creo Direct Creo 4.0 Is Available for Installation Creo 4.0 is a scalable suite of interoperable, right-sized design applications for users across the enterprise to more easily participate in and contribute to the product design process With these applications, companies can bring better products to market faster by improving processes such as concept design, detailed design, and verification and validation Installation Creo 4.0 is packaged with a PTC License Server powered by FlexNet Publisher 11.14.0 To run Creo 4.0 you must upgrade the PTC license server to 11.14.0 If you are already running a license server for Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire® 3.0 or later, Creo Elements/ Direct 5.0 or later, PTC Mathcad® 14.0, PTC Arbortext® Isodraw® 7.0, or PTC Arbortext Editor 6.0, PTC recommends you upgrade the PTC License Server to 11.14.0 Using PTC Installation Assistant For a streamlined installation of Creo 4.0 applications, you can use the PTC Installation Assistant on your DVD-ROM Open the installer, enter your Sales Order Number, and the Assistant begins the automatic installation: • Acquires the license file from PTC • Determines whether the license is floating or fixed and installs the licenses server as required • Provides a list of the available products based on the entitlement detailed in the licenses file and automatically downloads and installs that software from ptc.com For the most up-to-date installation information, see the Creo 4.0 Installation and Administration Guide on the Reference Documents page or click File ▶ Help ▶ Reference in the application Licensing Alternatives for Existing Customers Existing customers can alternatively use the online licensing tools to request an updated license pack via e-mail for installation on an existing PTC License Server To run Creo 4.0 your PTC license pack must have updated licenses at version 35.0 See the licensing area at http://www.ptc.com/support/index.htm G-Post and ModuleWorks • In addition to its current solutions for NC in Creo 4.0, PTC is also including support for G-Post V6.6 P14 from Austin N.C., Inc • Vericut functionality from CGTech is removed and replaced with material removal technology from ModuleWorks Operating System Support Operating System Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows 8.1 Microsoft Windows 10 Version Windows Professional, Windows Ultimate and Windows Enterprise Base OS 64-bit Editions and Service Pack 1, Internet Explorer 11.0 Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Pro 64–bit Editions, Internet Explorer 11.0 Windows 10 Professional 64-bit Edition, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit Edition, Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 LTSB 64-bit Edition, Base OS, Internet Explorer 11.0 System Requirements and Hardware Certification Information Visit the Platform Support page for Creo 4.0 for current, detailed system requirements and certified hardware configurations: http://support.ptc.com/partners/hardware/current/ support.htm PTC Product Creo Advanced Framework Creo Expert Moldbase Extension Creo Progressive Die Interoperability with Creo 4.0 Creo Advanced Framework 4.0 F000 Available with Creo Expert Moldbase Extension 10 F000 Available with Creo Progressive Die 10 PTC Product Creo Mold Analysis Creo Schematics Creo View and Creo View ECAD, Creo View ECAD Compare Creo View ECAD Compare Creo View Express Creo View Adapters Interoperability with Creo 4.0 F000 Available with Creo Mold Analysis 4.0 F000 Available with Creo Schematics 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 Available with Creo View and Creo View ECAD 4.0 Interoperable Use Creo View 4.0 Adapter for Creo Parametric to generate viewables • To install the Creo Parametric adapter run proe2pv_config.exe You must set the environment variable IA_ CREOPMA3_OPTION during the installation and configuration in order to generate compatible viewables • Pro/INTRALINK Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink A seat of Creo Parametric is a prerequisite for the Adapter Interoperability planned for PTC Pro/ INTRALINK 10.2 M030 CPS 21 and 11.0 M020 See the Note below Interoperability planned Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink 10.2 M030 CPS 21 and 11.0 M020, See the Note below Note • For specific information on Windchill compatibility, refer to the Creo Data Management Compatibility Roadmap on the PTC Web site • Before upgrading from one major release to another of Creo, transfer files from your workspaces to avoid the loss of any local changes during the process Asian and European Languages Depending on the Creo application, the user interface and documentation are translated to varying degrees into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese A detailed list of translated materials is available in the document Creo 4.0 Language Support OpenGL Library Creo 4.0 uses advanced OpenGL 4.3 capabilities that improve the overall display and graphics performance of Creo To take advantage of this enhancement and for overall improved display and graphics performance, Creo 4.0 requires graphics cards which support OpenGL 4.3 or later PTC recommends you consult with your hardware manufacturer or graphics card vendor Creo Help Center—Help, What’s New, Tutorials, Reference Documents There is a separate Help Center for each of the Creo applications Help Centers are available on ptc.com at http://support.ptc.com/apps/help_center/help/or you can download a Help Center for a local installation Refer to the Creo 4.0 Installation and Administration Guide The Help Center provides access to the Help, including What’s New for your application and to other resources such as free tutorials, Reference Documents, the Creo Community, and PTC Customer Support To open the Help Center, click in your application Alternatively, you can learn about user interface items with context-sensitive Help using the F1 key To access reference information such as the Creo 4.0 Installation and Administration Guide click File ▶ Help ▶ Reference from your application or browse through Reference Documents Creo Resource Centers—Web Tools and Tutorials Web-based tools and tutorials can assist you with learning to use this release Each Creo application has its own resource center which is available from the Creo browser or on the internet The Creo Resource Centers are accessible from the Creo browser, or on the Internet PTC University Learning Connector The Learning Connector for Creo, available by clicking in Creo Parametric, Creo Direct, Creo Layout, Creo Options Modeler, or Creo Simulate, provides context-sensitive recommendations for topics, articles, and videos as you work You can search the Learning Connector using one or more keywords The Learning Connector provides results from the following sources: • PTC University Precision LMS—eLearning topics and videos • Support Knowledge Base—Knowledge-based articles • Help Center—Help topics and links to other materials By default, the Learning Connector is active To disable the Learning Connector set the configuration option enable_learning_connector to no Product–Specific Information Windchill Limitation for Creo Unite Technology with Creo Elements/Direct When working in a Creo Unite scenario, you should not use the Model Manager Extractor and Windchill Bulk Migrator to migrate Creo Elements/Direct Modeling data from the Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager, to Windchill You cannot directly open and insert a Creo Elements/Direct Modeling part or assembly from Windchill in Creo Parametric when using Creo Unite technology See Support article CS248441 for details Chromium Embedded Browser When using Chromium as the embedded browser in Creo to interact with Windchill, you cannot view the 3D Creo View based thumbnails on the details page of the Creo models Chrome and Chromium based browsers not support plug-ins, which is the technology currently used to display the 3D Creo View based thumbnails in Creo See Support article CS197208 for details Creo View and Windchill Publishing of Non-Native 3D CAD Models Checked into Windchill Is Supported In Creo Parametric 4.0 you can natively open CATIA V5, NX, SOLIDWORKS and Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 3D parts and assemblies from the file system and save and check-in these designs into Windchill 11.0 M020 and later The Creo View Adapter for Creo Parametric also provides the ability to publish CATIA V5, NX, SOLIDWORKS, and Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 3D parts and assemblies checked into Windchill to the Creo View format This capability is supported for Windchill 11.0 M020 and later, using the Creo View 4.0 or later, Adapter for Creo Parametric Single Sign On (SSO) Authentication The embedded browser for Creo supports authentication to a Windchill server that is configured for SAML 2.0 single sign-on (SSO) authentication If you previously authenticated with a standalone web browser, you will see an additional login request from the embedded browser for Creo Geometric Tolerances (GTOLS) and 3D Printing Tray Assembly Are Supported in Windchill Additional GTOL parameters are supported in Windchill11.0 M020 and later Compound and multilevel GTOLS cannot be used to make compound and multilevel control characteristics Creo Modelcheck Creo Elements/Direct sdac and sdpc files are not applicable to Creo Modelcheck in Creo Unite scenarios It is not possible to check these files by opening them in Creo Parametric See Support article CS248781 for details Creo User Interface Customization The Creo user interface customization capabilities are significantly enhanced in Creo 4.0 You can customize various aspects of the user interface for your Creo application, including those in the list below: • Ribbon • Quick Access Toolbar • Shortcut Menus • Keyboard Shortcuts • Graphics Toolbar • Window layout In all applications, unless the environmental variable, PTC_WF_ROOT is set, customization settings for the user interface are automatically stored in the profile directory of the user’s operating system in one of the locations listed below: • • When not connected to Windchill PDMLink, the file is created in %APPDATA%\ PTC\ProENGINEER\Wildfire\.wf\.Settings\creo_ customization.ui When connected to Windchill PDMLink, the file is created in the %PTC_WF_ ROOT%\.Settings folder When the Creo application starts, customization settings are applied from the following locations in this order: • Application load point directory: \F000\Common Files \text\creo__admin_ customization.ui\ • User’s profile directory • Application startup directory, if the configuration option load_ui_ customization_run_dir is set to yes Refer to Support article CS37185 for details Configuration for Creo Applications When your Creo application starts, stored configuration options from config.pro or config.sup or both are applied from the same locations and in the same order as they were in Creo 3.0 It is recommended to use separate configuration files and working directories for each Creo application Creo Parametric TOOLKIT and Creo Parametric Object TOOLKIT You can extend the use of Creo Parametric with Creo Parametric TOOLKIT and Creo Object TOOLKIT C++ From Creo 4.0, you can also extend the use of Creo Direct using the Creo Object TOOLKIT C++ The default development environment for building applications with Creo 4.0 F000 is Visual Studio 2012 In a future maintenance build, PTC will be updating the development environment to Visual Studio 2015 To prepare for this support, you can download the compiled Visual Studio 2015 Toolkit libraries from the software download page on ptc.com Applications created using these libraries will be supported with Creo 4.0 F000 and later New workflows supporting Model-Based Engineering (MBE) are introduced into Creo 4.0 As part of the development efforts, PTC introduces a complete set of new APIs for MBE and has deprecated old APIs PTC strongly recommends you review the published Toolkit user guides for a complete list of new and deprecated APIs Jlink is merged with the Java Object Toolkit (JOTK) libraries to help reduce the image size and to avoid installing redundant files used by both JOTK and Jlink To use Jlink, select JOTK from the Creo Parametric Application Features list You not need a special license or runtime license to develop with Jlink 10 ©2016 PTC Inc The information contained herein is provided for informational use and is subject to change without notice The only warranties for PTC products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services and nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty PTC shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein Important Copyright, Trademark, Patent, and Licensing Information: See the About Box, or copyright notice, of your PTC software 11 ... 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