Article - CS66531
Special character support in Creo Parametric file name
Modified: 30-Apr-2026
Applies To
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro 2000i to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
Description
- Special characters support in Pro/ENGINEER file name
- Can I have a dot in my file name
- Error message Illegal characters in <file_name>. Re-enter:
- Which special characters are not allowed (considered illegal) to be used in the file names of Creo Parametric like Model names (*.prt, *.asm, *.drw ect.,), material file names (*.mtl), Secondary input files like PROGRAM, Pattern tables, drawing tables etc.,
- Native File is not displayed in the Open File dialogue box
- Is it possible to to add spaces in model name
- Is it possible to add spaces and special characters in the material file name(.mtl)
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