Article - CS32479
How to customize and distribute Creo View Preferences for all users in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 03-Jun-2026
Applies To
- ProductView and Creo Elements/View 9.1 to 10.0
- Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.1
- Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 12.0
- Windchill ProjectLink 9.1 to 12.0
- Windchill MPMLink 9.1 to 12.0
- Creo View 1.0 to 12.1
- Visualization Services (WVS)
Description
- This Solution explains how the Creo View client preferences can be managed for the purposes of:
- Implementing administrative preferences
- Disabling access to Creo View commands
- Customizing the look and feel of the Creo View UI
- Distributing preferences from a Windchill server (server-side preferences)
- Locking preferences to prevent them from being overridden or edited at a lower level
- Understanding order of precedence and how preference values are overridden by subsequent preference files
- Setting default preferences
- How to set user Creo View preference as default at the site level
- How to set certain Creo View preferences globally for all clients
- Where default settings are saved for Creo View, so settings can be customized on one computer and copied to another
- How to set the smart selection method in Creo View for all users
- Is it possible to set Creo View preferences for all clients without copying the user_prefs.xml file to all client machines
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