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Creo Parametric®
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Directory of Online Information
• Creo Help Centers
• Creo View Clients and Toolkits Software Matrix
• eSupport
• Creo 10.0 Hardware Notes
• Reference Documents
• Technical Support Search
• Update Advisor

• What’s New? Click the link below:

○ Creo Parametric

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Creo [Link] Is Available for
Installation
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Installation ..................................................................................................................5
System Requirements and Hardware Certification Information........................................6
Asian and European Languages...................................................................................7
OpenGL Library ..........................................................................................................8
Upgrading Versions of Java..........................................................................................8
Support for JAVA 11 and OpenJDK Amazon Corretto .....................................................8
Storage and Order of Customized Settings for the Creo User Interface............................8
Recommendation for Configuration Files and Working Directories...................................9
Default Embedded Browser in Creo ..............................................................................9
Creo Help Center—Help, What’s New, Tutorials, Reference Documents........................10
PTC Learning Connector ...........................................................................................10
Information Related to Windchill .................................................................................10
Creo Parametric TOOLKIT Is Updated to Support the Multibody Environment................ 11
Changes Since Release of Creo Parametric [Link] (First Customer Shipment) ........... 11

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Creo [Link] 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
Creo [Link] is packaged with the PTC License Server powered by FlexNet
Publisher [Link]. PTC recommends that you upgrade your PTC License Server.

Windows Update for C Runtime Is Required for Creo [Link]

Creo [Link] is built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (VS2019), which is a
compiler change. The machine on which you are running Creo Parametric must
have the Windows update for C Runtime installed. When installing Creo, the
installer detects if the correct Windows update for C Runtime is installed. This
applies both to a local installation and when installing from a network.
If you do not have the required Windows update, the steps below describe what
occurs and what action you need to take:
1. The message The Windows update for Universal C Runtime is required in order
for the installation to continue. appears during installation and you are
redirected to a Microsoft web page.
2. There is an automatic exit from the installer.
3. Open the Microsoft web page Windows 10 Universal C Runtime.
4. Install the required update.
After you complete the update, you can install Creo [Link].

Using the Creo Installation Assistant

For Creo [Link] and later, use one of the two executables available on your
installation media to launch the Installation Assistant:
1. [Link]—Launches the Creo Installation Assistant for the following
operations:
• Installs or upgrades your Creo installation for the following cases:
○ Uses an existing node locked license file for the installation.
○ Specifies an already installed license server to use.
◆ Specify a license server with the format: 7788@<server_
name>.
◆ Specify a triad license server with the format: 7788@<server1_
name>; 7788@<server2_name>; 7788@<server3_
name>.

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 • Reconfigures node locked licenses for an existing installation.
• Generates a node locked license file using an SON (Sales Order Number)
for a node locked license.
2. install_license_server.exe—Launches the Creo Installation
Assistant for the following operations:
• Installs a license server for the following cases:
○ Uses an existing license file.
○ Generates a simple license file to install a single license server using an
SON (Sales Order Number) for a license server.
○ Generates an advanced license file to install a triad license server using
an SON for a triad license server or uses an existing triad server license
file.
For the most up-to-date installation information, see the Creo 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 Creo [Link], your PTC license pack must have updated licenses at
version 41.0. See License Management.

G-Post
In addition to the current solution for NC in Creo Parametric [Link], there is also
support for G-POST V6.7 P17 from Austin N.C., Inc.

System Requirements and Hardware

Certification Information
Visit the Creo 10.0 Hardware Notes page for Creo [Link] for current, detailed
system requirements and certified hardware configurations.
PTC Product Release that is Interoperable with
Creo [Link]
Creo Expert Moldbase Creo Expert Moldbase [Link]
Creo Progressive Die Creo Progressive Die [Link]
Creo Schematics Creo Schematics 8.0 and later releases.

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PTC Product Release that is Interoperable with
Creo [Link]
Creo View Product Family: Creo Creo View 10.0 and later releases.
View and Creo View ECAD, Creo Note
View ECAD Compare, Creo View
• A seat of Creo Parametric is a
Express, and Creo View Adapters
prerequisite for the Adapter.
• For information about the latest (10.1)
Clients and Adapters, see the Creo
View Clients and Toolkits Software
Matrix and the Creo View Adapters
Software Matrix for details.
Windchill Creo [Link] is supported with Windchill
[Link] and later, with Windchill
[Link] and later, and with Windchill
[Link] and later. See the note that
follows.

Note
• For specific information on Windchill compatibility, refer to the Creo Data
Management Compatibility Roadmap.
• Before upgrading from one major release to another of Creo, transfer files
from your workspaces to avoid the loss of any local changes during the
process.
• Using Creo [Link] and later versions for the publishing of server side
viewables may require the Windchill server to be updated to a minimum
CPS level. Refer to the Creo-Windchill Compatibility document for
additional details.

Asian and European Languages

Depending on the Creo application, the user interface and documentation are
translated to varying degrees into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Brazilian
Portuguese. A detailed list of translated materials is available in the matrix Creo
10.0 Language Support.

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OpenGL Library
Creo [Link] uses advanced OpenGL 4.3 capabilities that improve the overall
display and graphics performance of Creo. To take advantage of this enhancement
and for overall improved display and graphics performance, Creo [Link]
requires graphics cards which support OpenGL 4.3 or later. PTC recommends you
consult with your hardware manufacturer or graphics card vendor.

Upgrading Versions of Java

Java is not installed with the installation of the Creo application. Java is only
required if you are using J-Link, Java Object Toolkit, Creo Product Insight
connected to ThingWorx or Windchill PLM Connector. You can use your existing
installation of Oracle Java, but will require Java version 11 for Creo [Link].
If Java version 11 is not installed, then a message appears during the installation.
The message notifies you that your version of JRE (Java run time environment) is
out of date and recommends installing the latest version of Java 11 to optimize
performance.

Support for JAVA 11 and OpenJDK

Amazon Corretto
Along with the existing Java 11 provided by Oracle, PTC now provides support
for Amazon Corretto OpenJDK. The version of Amazon Corretto follows the
standard JAVA support matrix for Creo. You can refer to the Platform Support
notes at Creo Future Platform Support Summary page to see details about the Java
versions supported by PTC.
You must install one of the following Java 11 JDK distributions:
• Oracle Java —Creo detects and uses the installed version automatically.
• Amazon Corretto —If you install Amazon Corretto JAVA 11, then set the
environment variable PRO_JAVA_COMMAND to point to the location of the
installed JAVA 11 package.

Storage and Order of Customized

Settings for the Creo User Interface
You can customize various aspects of the user interface for your Creo application,
including those in the list below:
• Ribbon
• Quick Access Toolbar

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• Shortcut Menus
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Graphics Toolbar
• Window layout
In all applications, unless the environmental variable, PTC_WF_ROOT is set,
customization settings for the user interface are automatically stored in the profile
directory of the user’s operating system in one of the locations listed below:
• When not connected to Windchill PDMLink, the file is created in
%APPDATA%\PTC\ProENGINEER\Wildfire\.wf\.Settings\
creo_customization.ui
• When connected to Windchill PDMLink, the file is created in the %PTC_WF_
ROOT%\.Settings folder.
When the 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 the configuration option load_ui_
customization_run_dir is set to yes.
Refer to Support article CS37185 for details.

Recommendation for Configuration Files

and Working Directories
When your Creo application starts, stored configuration options from the
[Link] file or the [Link] file, or from both files, are applied from
the same locations and in the same order as they were in Creo 9.0.

Default Embedded Browser in Creo

Starting with Creo 9.0, the default embedded browser in Creo is Chromium.
Internet Explorer is no longer supported and thus, the configuration option to
choose Internet Explorer as a browser is removed. This is due to the fact that
Microsoft has announced the official end of life date for Internet Explorer as June
15, 2022.

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Creo Help Center—Help, What’s New,
Tutorials, Reference Documents
Help Centers are available on [Link] or you can download a Help Center for a
local installation. Refer to the Creo Installation and Administration Guide. The
Help Center provides access to the Help, including What’s New for your
application and to other resources such as free tutorials, Reference Documents,
and the Creo Community. To open a 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 Creo Installation
and Administration Guide, click File ▶ Help ▶ Reference from your application or
browse through Reference Documents.

PTC Learning Connector

The PTC Learning Connector for Creo, available by clicking in Creo
Parametric, provides context-sensitive recommendations for topics, articles, and
videos as you work. You can search the PTC Learning Connector using one or
more keywords. The PTC Learning Connector provides results from the following
sources:
• PTC University Precision LMS—eLearning topics and videos
• Support Knowledge Base—Knowledge-based articles
• Help Center—Help topics and links to other materials
By default, the Learning Connector is active. To disable the Learning Connector
set the configuration option enable_learning_connector to no.

Information Related to Windchill

Single Sign On (SSO) Authentication
The embedded browser for Creo supports authentication to a Windchill server that
is configured for SAML 2.0 single sign-on (SSO) authentication. If you
previously authenticated with a standalone web browser, you will see an
additional login request from the embedded browser for Creo.

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Creo Parametric TOOLKIT Is Updated to
Support the Multibody Environment
The Creo TOOLKIT environment supports concepts for multibody part design.
Introduced as part of Creo Parametric 7.0, you can create parts that contain one or
more geometric bodies. Bodies contain only solid geometry. Nonsolid entities,
like datums, curves, and quilts, are not contained in any body. Bodies typically
contribute to the mass properties of the model and you can perform geometric
operations on the bodies, such as splitting a body or merging with other bodies.
You can also select bodies as references for features. For more information on the
multibody functionality refer to the Creo Parametric Help. The existing Creo
TOOLKIT applications continue to work seamlessly for legacy models and
models having a single body. However, you must upgrade your toolkit
applications in Creo Parametric 8.0 to support the multibody environment. Creo
TOOLKIT is updated as follows to support the multibody environment:
• APIs are added
• Some APIs are deprecated and are superseded by new APIs
• Implementation of existing APIs is updated. No visible changes in Creo
TOOLKIT APIs
• Element trees are added to support new multibody features
• Some existing element trees are updated
• Some enumerated data types and their values are updated
• Existing structures are updated
Refer to the chapter, Migrating to the Multibody Environment, in the Creo
Parametric TOOLKIT 10.0 User’s Guide to understand the impact due to these
changes and then update your Toolkit applications as appropriate.

Changes Since Release of Creo

Parametric [Link] (First Customer
Shipment)
Information about what’s new in Creo Parametric is available in the Creo Help
Center. See What’s New in the table of contents for the product. The tables that
follow provide an overview of the functionality added since the release of Creo
[Link].

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What’s New Topic Title Brief Description
Blanking of Exterior Cell You can now blank some or all table cell borders in
Borders in Drawing Tables drawings. This enhancement is useful when you
want to organize and align an array of general
notes, without showing the table borders around
them.
Fixed Scale and Color You can now define PAT hatch patterns in drawings
Support for PAT Hatch and models with a fixed scale that is not dependent
Patterns on the model outline. You can also predefine the
color of PAT hatch patterns.
3D Edit Retention HMX now supports a fully iterative design process.
With 3D Edit Retention, you can edit the harness in
the three-dimensional assembly by adding, deleting,
or editing wires, cables, and connectors while
retaining the previous edits made to the drawing.
Productivity Enhancements The following capabilities have been improved in
in HMX HMX:
• Splice handling for assemblies with increased
splice complexities.
• Additional table customizations.
• Retention of user generated tables.
• Selection of starting connectors for flattening a
harness.
• Retention of selected note types.
• Customization of drawing names.
Enhancement: Streamlined In Creo 10.0, the placement of user-defined features
Placement of Legacy UDFs (UDFs) is streamlined for UDFs that reference just
(User-Defined Features) a single body. The enhanced UDF placement
workflow for these UDFs now automatically
populates the body reference collector with the
default body, if it is valid. This is always the case
for UDFs created in Creo 7.0 or earlier (before the
multibody capabilities had been introduced), but it
also applies to UDFs created in newer versions of
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What’s New Topic Title Brief Description
New ISO Standard- Two new symbols defined according to the latest
Compliant Symbols ISO standards are added to the symbol gallery for
the drawing and model-based definitions. These
symbols provide improved compliance with the
detailing standards.
The new symbols are:
• ISO 13715:2017—It is an edge indicator
symbol.
• ISO 21204:2020—It is an transition symbol.
New ISO 21920:2021 New ISO 21920:2021 surface finish symbol
Surface Finish Symbol defined according to the latest ISO standards is
added to the surface finish gallery for the drawing
and model-based definitions. This surface finish
symbol provides improved compliance with the
detailing standards.

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What’s New Topic Title Brief Description
Composite Design Tutorial You can now use the new comprehensive
Composite Design tutorial to learn and practice the
basics of the Composite Design and Manufacturing
functionality.
When you work with the Composite Design and
Manufacturing functionality, this tutorial will help
you understand the basic steps of the main
functionality introduced in Creo [Link].
Models are provided in a downloadable zip file.
Configuration Option to As a CAD administrator, you can now use the new
Control the Display of configuration option system_patterns_in_
System Hatch Patterns in hatch_gal to decide whether to list the Creo
the Hatch Gallery system hatch patterns along the user created hatch
patterns or hide them from the hatch gallery.

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Expert Mold Base Design The Expert Moldbase Extension (EMX) and Smart
Integration with Creo Hole Chart (SHC) extension are now fully
integrated with Creo. Purchase the EMX and SHC
license to take advantage of these capabilities. The
EMX and SHC help centers are also integrated into
the Creo help center.
Configuration Option to You can now use the new configuration option
Control the Loading of .hol hole_load_system_param_files to
Files control the loading of .hol files. The
configuration option has the following values:
• yes*—Load the system-provided .hol files
that contain the standard screw size parameters.
You can specify an additional location from
which to load the .hol files in the
configuration option hole_parameter_
file_path.
• no—If .hol files that define both TAP and
TAPERED holes are present in the location
specified in the hole_parameter_file_
path configuration option, then do not load the
system-provided .hol files.

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What’s New Topic Title Brief Description
Composite Design and You can now use a new fully-integrated Composite
Manufacturing Design environment in Creo to design and
manufacture parts built using composite layups.
Composite Material You can now define composite material properties
Definition in the new Composite tab in the Material Definition
dialog box.
Manual Ply You can now use the new Manual Ply command to
create a ply object in the Laminate Tree.
A manual ply consists of a boundary chain, a
material definition, a rosette coordinate system, an
orientation angle, and the drop-off value. In
addition to the required outer boundary loop, you
can also include inner loops.
Core Ply You can now use the new Core Ply command to
create a core ply object in the Laminate Tree.

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A core ply consists of a boundary chain, a material
definition, a rosette coordinate system, an
orientation angle, the drop-off value, and an
optional taper definition. In addition to the required
outer boundary loop, you can also include inner
loops.
You can define a taper on each tangent chain of the
outer and inner loops. You can also apply multiple
taper values per boundary loop if you select several
tangent chains.
Laminate Section, Drop- You can now use the special Laminate Section
off, and Color Mapping command to look inside a composite design and
visualize the layup based on the Laminate Tree
information that correlates the color coding from
the Laminate Tree to the actual section. You can
use the scaling option to avoid excessive zooming
and better see the very thin plies that compose the
laminate design.
You can use the Drop-off command and define the
default drop-off value to control the overall ply and
core drop-off behavior over the underlying ply
contours, making it easier to see material
distribution during the layup.
You can use the Color Mapping command to change
the system-assigned color coding of plies.
Transition Plies You can now use the new Transition Plies command
to shorten or extend one or more plies.
To create a transition effect for multiple plies, the
plies need a common boundary from which you
select the transition chain and specify the offset
value. This results in an adjustment of the selected
ply contours.
Splice Plies You can now use the new Splice Plies command to
split an existing ply into two new ply pieces by
using a curve or edge on the layup surface. You can
splice a ply with a butt connection or an overlap
connection. You can also stagger the splice location
when multiple plies are selected.
Draping Simulation You can now use the new Draping Simulation
command to analyze the ply producibility and to

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create the ply flat patterns. Based on the selected
seed point, it calculates the fiber distortion while
simulating the application of the flat ply onto the
mold.
Export Flat Pattern You can now use the new Export Flat Pattern
command to create one or more DXF or DWG files
of the flat pattern contours of plies. You can export
each ply to a separate file, or export all selected
plies to the same file with several options to control
the positioning of the contours. Optionally, you can
also add several ply properties to exported files.
Ply-based Mass Properties You can now calculate composite mass properties
based on the defined laminate layup material
properties, ply and core boundaries, and the
stacking sequence. You can calculate the mass
properties of a composite in two ways: based on
layup surface and based on underlying plies.
Solidify Plies You can now use the new Solidify Plies command to
create a ply-based solid representation of the
laminate and, optionally, an additional quilt of the
outer surfaces of the solid that represents the inner
mold line (IML).
Export Analysis Model You can now use the new Export Analysis Model
command to export the laminate layup definition to
Nastran (*.nas) or HDF5 (*.hdf5) format
for an analysis in third party applications.
Ply Book You can now use the Ply View and Flat Ply View
commands to create two new view types, a ply
view and a flat ply view, in a drawing that contains
a composite feature as the active drawing model.
Integrated Composite You can now use the Simulate command to analyze
Analysis a composite design in Creo Simulate.
When you analyze a composite design in Creo
Simulate, the laminate properties, such as ply and
core contours, material properties, and sequence
order, are automatically shared with Creo Simulate
to provide a seamless integration.

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Configuration Option to You can now use the new configuration option
Specify the Type of hatch_pattern_convert_all_xch to
Hatches to Be Converted to specify the type of hatch patterns that should get
PAT converted to the PAT format when you run the
Convert All XCH to PAT command in drawings.
The values of this configuration option are as
follows:
• visible*—Converts only the visible
patterns.
• all—Converts all hatches, including the
patterns that are set to be displayed as filled, the
patterns that are excluded from the section, and
the patterns whose hatching lines are hidden by
you.
Offset Enhancement—New You can now use the Rolling Ball option in Offset
Rolling Ball Option Surface that is useful in the following cases:
• When surfaces contain high curvature areas.
• When the offset leads to complex topology
changes and self-intersections during offset.

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