Where is the Creo View configuration file located and how to share it?

• Published: 20/11-2019
  

• Reference: PTC article CS32479
  

 Description

• Where is Creo View Settings stored?
  
  

• How to share Creo View settings?

Resolution

• Creo View Settings are stored in the following locations:
  
  1) The server_prefs.xml downloaded from a Creo View Configurations from the Windchill server context hierarchy
  
  2) The admin_prefs.xml read from the <CreoView>\preferences\ProductView directory within the installation
  
  3) The user_prefs.xml read from the user's profile: %APPDATA%/ptc/ProductView/user_prefs.xml
  
  

• To distribute Creo View settings use Windchill PDMLink to distribute preferences for Creo View Client:
  

1. Set up your settings, press OK and exit Creo View:
   
   
   
   

2. Go to: %APPDATA%/ptc/ProductView, copy the user_prefs.xml file

3. Rename the user_prefs.xml file to server_prefs.xml 
   

4. Log on to Windchill PDMLink as administrator --> Site --> Utilities --> Visualization Configuration Administration
   

5. Create a new Creo View Configuration:
   
   

6. Upload the server_prefs.xml:
   
   
   

7. Press Add File
   
   Video demo over how to proceed with this steps (step 1-7):
   
   

    

    
   
   

Further info is found here: CS32479