READ THIS FIRST PTC® Creo® 3.0: PTC Creo Parametric, PTC Creo Direct, PTC Creo Layout, PTC Creo Options Modeler, and PTC Creo Simulate Important Installation and Usage Information Directory of Online and DVD-ROM Information
Platform Support http://www.ptc.com/partners/hardware/current/support.htm
Technical Support https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/portal/
PTC Creo Resource Centers PTC Creo Parametric http://www.ptc.com/community/creo3/parametric PTC Creo Layout http://www.ptc.com/community/creo3/layout PTC Creo Options Modeler http://www.ptc.com/community/creo3/options-modeler PTC Creo Simulate http://www.ptc.com/community/creo3/simulate PTC Creo Parametric http://www.ptc.com/community/creo3/direct PTC Creo 30-Day Trial http://www.ptc.com/community/creo3/parametric-30-day-trial
Knowledge Base http://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/search/search.jsp
Reference Documents http://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/doc/refdoc.jsp
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 license server for Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire® 3.0 or later, PTC Creo Elements/Pro™ 5.0 or
Copyright © 2014 PTC Inc. July 2014 Read This First English PTC Creo 3.0 F000 later, PTC Mathcad® 14.0, PTC Arbortext® Isodraw® 7.0, or PTC Arbortext Editor™ 6.0, you need only update your license file to support PTC Creo 3.0. If you are a new user, or if your license server has never supported any of these products, you must install the new PTC License Server when using floating licenses.
Using PTC Installation Assistant For a streamlined installation of PTC Creo 3.0 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 PTC Creo 3.0 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 PTC Creo 3.0 your PTC license pack must have updated licenses at version 34.0. See the licensing area at http://www.ptc.com/support/index.htm.
G-Post, VERICUT Products, and CGTech Licensing In PTC Creo 3.0, along with its solutions for NC, PTC is also including support for CGTech’s VERICUT 7.1.5 and Austin N.C., Inc.’s G-Post V6.6P14.
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.
Operating System Support Operating System Version Microsoft Windows 7 Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise. Base OS (32-bit and 64-bit Editions) and Service Pack 1, Internet Explorer 8.0, 9.0 or 10.0. Direct3D 10.0 graphics support is available for Windows 7. Microsoft Windows 8 Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro. Internet Explorer 10.0. Microsoft Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Pro. Internet Explorer 10.0 or 11.0.
2 PTC Creo 3.0 F000 System Requirements and Hardware Certification Information Visit the Platform Support page for PTC Creo 3.0 for current, detailed system requirements and certified hardware configurations:
http://www.ptc.com/partners/hardware/current/support.htm Interoperability PTC Product Interoperability with PTC Creo 3.0 PTC Creo Advanced PTC Creo Advanced Framework Extension 3.0 F000. Framework Extension 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. 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.
PTC Creo 3.0 F000 3 PTC Product Interoperability with PTC Creo 3.0 Pro/TOOLMAKER™ Available with Pro/TOOLMAKER 9.0 M070. PTC Windchill® PDMLink® Interoperability planned for PTC Windchill PDMLink 10.1 M040 and 10.2 M020. See the Note below. PTC Windchill ProjectLink™ Interoperability planned for PTC Windchill PDMLink 10.1 M040 and 10.2 M020. See the Note below.
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• 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.
PTC Creo Help CenterHelp, What’s New, Tutorials There is a separate Help Center for each of the PTC Creo applications. Help Centers are available on help.ptc.com or you can download a Help Center for a local installation. Refer to the PTC Creo 3.0 Installation and Administration Guide. 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.
4 PTC Creo 3.0 F000 PTC Creo Resource Centers—Web Tools and Tutorials Web-based tools and tutorials can assist you with learning to use this release. Each PTC Creo application has its own resource center which is available from the PTC Creo browser or on the internet. The PTC Creo Resource Centers are accessible from the PTC Creo browser, or on the Internet. Web tools and tutorials include the following items:
• Getting Started with PTC Creo • Learning Exchange • Help Centers on the World Wide Web • What’s New in PTC Creo 3.0 • Global Support • PTC Events • PTC Communities PTC University Learning Connector The Learning Connector for PTC Creo, available by clicking in PTC Creo Parametric, PTC Creo Direct, PTC Creo Layout, PTC Options Modeler, and PTC 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 • Technical Support Knowledge Base—Knowledge-based articles • Help Center—Help topics and other materials and links By default the Learning Connector is active. To disable the Learning Connector set the configuration option enable_learning_connector to no. 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_
PTC Creo 3.0 F000 5 When the PTC Creo application starts, customization settings are applied from the following locations in this order:
• Application load point directory:
Configuration for PTC Creo Applications When your PTC 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 in PTC Creo 2.0. It is recommended to use separate configuration files and working directories for each PTC Creo application.
PTC Creo Parametric TOOLKIT and PTC Creo Parametric Object TOOLKIT You can extend the use of PTC Creo Parametric with PTC Creo Parametric TOOLKIT and PTC Creo Object TOOLKIT C++. From PTC Creo 3.0, you can also extend the use of PTC Creo Direct using the PTC Creo Object TOOLKIT C++. The development environment for building applications with PTC Creo 3.0 is now Visual Studio 2012. Please select the v110_xp toolset.
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.
PTC Creo Advanced Framework Extension PTC Creo Advanced Framework Extension (AFX) 3.0 adopts the PTC Creo look and feel in its new user interface. To install PTC Creo Advanced Framework Extension 3.0 Lite or PTC Creo Advanced Framework Extension 3.0, complete the following steps:
1. Install PTC Creo Parametric 3.0.
2. Set the configuration option afx_enabled to YES. 3. Restart PTC Creo Parametric 3.0.
6 PTC Creo 3.0 F000 PTC Creo Design Exploration Extension Changing a product design and exploring new ideas is a technical challenge, especially when developing complex systems with many interdependent components. PTC Creo Design Exploration Extension simplifies the process by enabling you to develop and evaluate multiple design ideas simultaneously and explore changes to a design without committing to the change. Design Exploration Extension also extends Update Control capabilities. There is better monitoring of complex design changes through data-sharing features, and better investigation of design changes before propagating the changes to dependent models.
Updates for Assembly Updates for Assembly include the enhancements described in the list below:
• 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. PTC Creo Harness Manufacturing Extension PTC Harness Manufacturing Extension is a new solution for all PTC Creo Parametric Cabling customers. Use PTC Harness Manufacturing Extension to automate the creation of harness manufacturing documentation.
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.
View the portal at http://ptc.partcommunity.com/.
PTC Creo Direct Enhancements PTC Creo Direct enhancements include support for the import of additional non-native CAD formats such as native SolidWorks, Inventor, and NX data. Additionally, there are many part and assembly modeling enhancements.
PTC Creo 3.0 F000 7 PTC Creo Layout Enhancements PTC Creo Layout enhancements include the concept of concurrent layout design. As a result, multiple pieces of the 2D concept design can be developed in parallel and continuously synchronized in a master 2D layout.
PTC Creo Simulate Enhancements In PTC Creo Simulate, the user interface for reviewing analysis results is more modern and follows the standard PTC Creo ribbon interface. Other improvements include enabling contact interfaces with finite friction, leveraging multiload sets in Fatigue Advisor, and diagnostic enhancements.
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