Setting up Creo with the appropriate Config file
If you already have Creo set up to use a default configuration file, you can skip this section. If you don't have a specific config.pro file that you use for every Creo session, then you can use the information from the following link to set this up:
How to set up Creo for an optimal Bild experience
If you want the full experience Bild has to offer, we need to do some setup work on the config.pro file for Creo.
In Creo, by default, the file extension has a numerical value at the end of it (for example a Creo file name could be test.prt.2). Every time you save a file in Creo (by default), Creo creates a new file and increases the version number by 1 (so if you saved a file called test.prt.2, the new file generated would be test.prt.3). This leads to the read/write capabilities to be suboptimal because Bild only applies a lock for a specific file. Since Creo technically creates a new file every time you save a file, it bypasses the lock that Bild applies. Therefore, a user could theoretically edit and save a file without having it checked out.
As a result, we recommend turning off Creo file extension versioning. This will allow you to do read/write permissions with check out/in seamlessly. After turning off this behavior, a file must be checked out in order to edit and save it. This is a standard PDM feature that forces users to follow a proper workflow.
Below are the steps to set up your Creo environment to disable the Creo file iteration feature:
Open up your config.pro file (the one that by default is referenced in every session)
Add this as a line to your config.pro file and save it:
save_file_iterations noEnsure that your Creo session is using the config.pro file you just edited. As a test you can create a new Creo file. Try saving it and you will notice there is no numerical extension at the end of the file name. This is the expected behavior.
NOTE: Even if this feature is disabled, if any file has a version number as part of its file extension, when you save it, Creo will still up rev the version number and create a new file. Also, even if you remove the file extension number of a file, and there are other files (that have the same name) with an extension number, then the system will still up rev the version number and create a new file.
If you have a large amount of data and want to migrate it to Bild, we suggest you run our conversion script that will clean up your file data so that the two above conditions are avoided. This migration script will be provided during the onboarding process.