how to use creo libraries

[bagarospo81]

Hello everyone,
I would like to ask you today the following question.
I use the ptc version 2.0 m100 (not installed by me) and I would like to use preinstalled minutery...in particular, in the assemblies, when I add a component I can select pro-library directories on the side (default or created aside???) and navigate between the folders and select for example a tcei m5.. opens a configuration mask that makes me choose for example the length etc.
all right here...the problem is that if I delete the file from the session or if I close create, after obviously having saved, at the reopening of the same gives me the classic warning of missing component. ...because in practice "I believe" he goes to look for the components in the same folder of the .asm file and obviously does not find them.
who worked before me, I noticed, that it obvious to the problem by brutally copying the files of the minute that he needed inside the folder of the various .asm files... but I honestly don't like it like it.
I imagine and hope you have to set the config.pro file somehow ..or is a little more complicated than that?
Thank you.

 

[Fabietto]

Bye.
in the config file you must set the voice:
pro_library_dir
setting the path that takes you inside the library folder
in my case:
pro_library_dir q:\ptc_library

 

[AndreaTerzi]

in general the problem of missing components solve it with search.pro a file where you put all the folders you use during work so I create them.

 

[bagarospo81]

Bye.
in the config file you must set the voice:
pro_library_dir
setting the path that takes you inside the library folder
in my case:
pro_library_dir q:\ptc_library

Thanks for the answer.
I have verified however that the pro_library_dir item is actually set correctly in the sense that it points to a chimata folder in my house "family_table" in which there are a whole series of subfolders with all the components ....but it does not work in any case.
I did a test and if I copy or transfer a file from inside one of these sub-folders directly to the main folder "family_table" then save it correctly but if I try to insert files into the under folders no longer see them at the reopening of the file.

in general the problem of missing components solve it with search.pro a file where you put all the folders you use during work so I create them.

Thanks for the answer.
Where do I find this file? Do I have to create an ex-novo? How?

 

[bagarospo81]

in general the problem of missing components solve it with search.pro a file where you put all the folders you use during work so I create them.

hello to all
x andreaterzi: I actually found and modified the search.pro file and it works add the single path of the single component ....but the question arises spontaneous....I have to add all the paths corresponding to all the files inside my "family_table" folder? because it turns out a stillicide!! is there no way to make him understand or better to have him look inside the folder in question and inside all the various subfolders without eavesdropping the paths of all the various files? ?
Thank you.

 

[Fabietto]

on the search.pro file put the path to the directory, and not to the single file. .
search_path l:\accessori\elettrici\termocoppia

 

[bagarospo81]

on the search.pro file put the path to the directory, and not to the single file. .
search_path l:\accessori\elettrici\termocoppia

It was the passage I missed! !
Thank you very much x help! ! !

 

[bagarospo81]

on the search.pro file put the path to the directory, and not to the single file. .
search_path l:\accessori\elettrici\termocoppia

Sorry to bother again... but if you wanted to do something like that for textures?
I explain: I downloaded textures on a folder and applied them to a piece but when I reopen it there are no more because in fact there is a setting in the config.pro "pro_texture_library" that somehow imposes the path from which to withdraw the textures...in fact if I copy them brutally in the path indicated by the setting everything works.
Then I tried to add to the search.pro the path I wanted... but nothing.
I also added the "texture_search_path" setting by pointing it to the newly modified config.pro file (i.e. applying the same logic as the pieces library) ...but also in this case nothing.
Obviously I can change the pro_texture_library setting but I would really like to look for the textures in multiple paths.
I hope I explained.
Thank you.

 

[AndreaTerzi]

search.pro only works with cad files .. you could try to plead pro_texture_library but to nose I would say that he will see only one.

 

[bagarospo81]

search.pro only works with cad files .. you could try to plead pro_texture_library but to nose I would say that he will see only one.

I confirm!
But I solved it anyway!
in practice the pro_texture_library setting defines the default path of the texture bookcases and in fact if you want to change it you have to remember to add within the new directory the subfolder "graphic_library " and to its inteno another subfolder "textures" because it is there that will go to look for the program (e.g. if I want to load all the textures from a new path c:\pippo
this path will be the default one.. .but the "texture_search_path" setting allows you to add another one! But unlike the "search_path_file" , which serves to locate the location of the "config.pro" file, in this setup will be specified the path of the additional folder where to go to load the additional textures.
This is what I have deduced from my evidence...if there are additions or corrections to my explanation are welcome! !
Thank you.

 

[AndreaTerzi]

reading your explanation should be quite correct (I have vague memories) .. I only make you a correction: the "search_path_file" tells you where the search-pro is not the config.pro. Since you're testing the word "texture_search_path" can be used several times as for "search_path"? for knowledge the "search_path" is the equivalent of search.pro but nested inside the config.pro.

 

[bagarospo81]

reading your explanation should be quite correct (I have vague memories) .. I only make you a correction: the "search_path_file" tells you where the search-pro is not the config.pro. Since you're testing the word "texture_search_path" can be used several times as for "search_path"? for knowledge the "search_path" is the equivalent of search.pro but nested inside the config.pro.

It's all right! !
I correct that the "search_path_file" serves to locate the location of the file "search.pro" and not the "config.pro"....of course
I also correct that the first folder to add to the default path set in the "pro_texture_library" setting is "graphic-library" and not "graphic_library" .
I confirm that of "texture_search_path" settings and then additional paths from which to load textures, if you can add more than one!! !

 

[bagarospo81]

Good morning, I received this topic that I hoped was closed and solved as I again encapsulated in the usual problems regarding the missing components taken from pro/library (on the texture side it invences all right!!).
What I just don't understand is that I had done all the tests possible and it seemed to work...every time I closed the program and restarted to control the effect of the changes... today instead I still find the minutery loaded by library that latita.
small recap:
- in the search.pro file I entered the path corresponding to the family table with the words "search path c:\......"
- the search.pro file is in the same folder as my "config.pro" file
- in the program settings (and then in the config.pro file) I set the search_path_file setup by pointing it to my "search.pro" file
What else should I do? But what did he do a couple of weeks ago to make it work??

 

[AndreaTerzi]

hi, in the search.pro file the folders should be inserted row by row without anything in front. search_path should be put if you enter it in the config.pro (unrecommended).

 

[Fabietto]

Bye.
be careful that all routes declared on the search.pro file should not have spaces. .
then the line:
search_path c:\ptc library
is read as
c:\ptc
then you have to rename the path. .

little note.
once also proe/creo could not open files resident in paths containing spaces.
then, I don't know from which version, it has changed, and now I create manages to open file residents on paths with spaces. while the search line still fails. .

 

[nicksoft]

if in search.pro you put
"c:\ptc library"
with quotes, it works

use creo 7

Hi.

 

[Fabietto]

Thank you @nicksoft As soon as I have some time I try.
Good job

 

[bagarospo81]

Bye.
be careful that all routes declared on the search.pro file should not have spaces. .
then the line:
search_path c:\ptc library
is read as
c:\ptc
then you have to rename the path. .

little note.
once also proe/creo could not open files resident in paths containing spaces.
then, I don't know from which version, it has changed, and now I create manages to open file residents on paths with spaces. while the search line still fails. .

I did, but maybe I misunderstood the search_path.
I mean do I have to insert all the paths of every single component family?
I have a situation like this:
c:\luca\family_table\tcei\ and inside tcei I have the various files.prt corisspondenti to the various families of vines m3 m4 etc.
in the search.pro file just write search_path c:\luca\family_table or I must necessarily report to the last level and write search_path c:\luca\family_table\tcei ???

 

[Fabietto]

I always reported the address to the last level. (search_path c:\luca\family_table\tcei)in case (search_path c:\luca\family_table) non I think search_path lets you recover files even in subfolders. .

 

[AndreaTerzi]

You absolutely have to bring back all levels.