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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
PTC Creo Resource Centers
Knowledge Base
https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/portal/
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
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
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license server for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 or later, PTC Creo Elements/Pro 5.0 or

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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

Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 8.1
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.
Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro. Internet Explorer 10.0.
Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Pro. Internet Explorer 10.0
or 11.0.

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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
Framework Extension
™
PTC Creo Expert Moldbase
Extension
PTC Creo Progressive Die
Extension
PTC Creo Mold Analysis
Extension
PTC Creo Schematics
PTC Creo View and PTC
Creo View ECAD Compare
PTC Creo View Express
PTC Creo View Adapters
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PTC Pro/INTRALINK
PTC Creo Advanced Framework Extension 3.0 F000.
Available with PTC Creo Expert Moldbase Extension 9.0
F000.
Available with PTC Creo Progressive Die Extension 9.0
F000.
Available with PTC Creo Mold Analysis Extension 3.0 M020.
Available with PTC Creo Schematics 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.
Available with PTC Creo View and PTC Creo View ECAD
Compare 3.0 M010.
Interoperable
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.
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.

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Pro/TOOLMAKER Available with Pro/TOOLMAKER 9.0 M070.
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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.

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.

PTC Creo Help CenterHelp, 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.

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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_<app>_customization.ui

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 When the PTC Creo application starts, customization settings are applied from the
following locations in this order:

• Application load point directory:

<creo_loadpoint>\F000\Common Files
\text\creo_<app>_admin_customization.ui
• User’s profile directory
• Application startup directory, if this configuration option is set:
load_ui_customization_run_dir = yes
To facilitate administration and sharing, customization settings for the user interface
can be imported, exported, or reset to the defaults.
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.

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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.

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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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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
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