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PTC Creo 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
PTC Creo 3.0 is packaged with a PTC License Server powered by FlexNet Publisher
11.11.1. However, PTC Creo 3.0 can also be used with a PTC License Server powered by
FlexNet Publisher 10.8 or later from Flexera Software. If you are already running a
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license server for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 or later, PTC Creo Elements/Pro 5.0 or
CGTech has removed PTC licensing from the advanced VERICUT products as of release
5.4: NC Verification, Optimization, and Machine Simulation. If you use any of these
products, you must move to CGTech licensing to use it with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0,
PTC Creo Elements/Pro 5.0, and with PTC Creo 2.0 or later.
PTC Creo Advanced PTC Creo Advanced Framework Extension 3.0 F000.
Framework Extension
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PTC Creo Expert Moldbase Available with PTC Creo Expert Moldbase Extension 9.0
Extension F000.
PTC Creo Progressive Die Available with PTC Creo Progressive Die Extension 9.0
Extension F000.
PTC Creo Mold Analysis Available with PTC Creo Mold Analysis Extension 3.0 M020.
Extension
PTC Creo Schematics Available with PTC Creo Schematics 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.
PTC Creo View and PTC Available with PTC Creo View and PTC Creo View ECAD
Creo View ECAD Compare Compare 3.0 M010.
PTC Creo View Express Interoperable
PTC Creo View Adapters Use PTC Creo View 3.0 M010 Adapter for PTC Creo
Parametric to generate viewables.
• To install the PTC 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.
• A seat of PTC Creo Parametric is a prerequisite for
the Adapter.
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PTC Pro/INTRALINK Interoperability planned for PTC Windchill PDMLink 10.1
M040 and 10.2 M020. Creo 3.0 is not supported by
Pro/INTRALINK 3.x. See the Note below.
Note:
• For specific information on PTC Windchill compatibility, refer to the Creo Data
Management Compatibility Roadmap on the PTC Web site.
• Before upgrading from one major release to another of PTC Creo, transfer files from
your workspaces to avoid the loss of any local changes during the process.
Asian and European Languages
Depending on the PTC 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 PTC Creo 3.0 Language Support located on the
Reference Documents page.
OpenGL Library
PTC Creo 3.0 requires a graphics cards supporting OpenGL 4.0 or later.
Note: PTC Creo 3.0 uses advanced OpenGL 4.0 capabilities that are necessary to support
Order Independent Transparency (OIT) functionality. Order Independent
Transparency is not available on systems with graphics cards which support OpenGL
3.x or earlier, such as Quadro FX.
The Help Center provides access to the Help and What’s New for your application and to
other resources such as free tutorials, the PTC 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 PTC Creo 3.0 Installation and Administration Guide
click File > Help > Reference from your application or browse through Reference
Documents.
Product-Specific Information
PTC Creo User Interface Customization
You can customize various aspects of the user interface for your PTC Creo application:
• Ribbon
• Quick Access Toolbar
• Graphics toolbar
• Window layout
• Right mouse button
In all applications, customization settings for the user interface are automatically stored
in the profile directory of the user’s operating system:
%APPDATA%\PTC\ProENGINEER\Wildfire\.wf\.Settings\creo_<app>_customization.ui
In addition, a new licensed API package, PTC Creo Object TOOLKIT Java is released
with PTC Creo 3.0. PTC Creo Object TOOLKIT Java provides the same functionality
capabilities as the PTC Creo Object TOOLKIT C++ with a Java binding. You can use this
new API package to customize both PTC Creo Parametric and PTC Creo Direct. The
development environment supported for building Jlink and PTC Creo Object TOOLKIT
Java applications is Java 7 Update 25.
PTC Creo 3.0 also has a new tool, the PTC Creo UI Editor, for interactively creating and
editing dialog boxes and for generating callbacks in C++ or Java. This streamlines the
process of creating dialog boxes for your PTC Creo Parametric TOOLKIT and for PTC
Creo Object TOOLKIT C++ and Java customizations.
• A new data-sharing feature that supports a tighter integration between PTC Creo
Layout and PTC Creo Parametric. This enables associative and concurrent design of
2D content and 3D models.
• A new Notification Center in which events and changes to models are collected.
This results in the faster identification and handling of issues.
PTC Creo Intelligent Fastener Extension
PTC Creo Intelligent Fastener Extension is a new solution for all PTC Creo Parametric
customers. Use PTC Creo Intelligent Fastener Extension to automate the assembly of
fasteners from a comprehensive out-of-the-box library of screws, bolts, washers, nuts,
and dowel pins.
To turn PTC Creo Intelligent Fastener Extension off, set the configuration option
intelligent_fastener_enabled to no and restart PTC Creo Parametric.
Hardware Libraries
PTC continues to expand online catalogs of 3D models from its software partner
CADENAS GmbH.
The additional community portal provides engineers with instant access to millions of
certified native PTC Creo models from over 400 industrial supplier catalogs at no cost.