Article - CS67337
What's the rule of the file name and directory path in Creo Parametric
Modified: 30-Oct-2025
Applies To
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- Windchill PDMLink 10.1 to 11.2
- Creo+
Description
- Rule of file name and directory path
- What is the limit of characters in file name and folder path
- Is it possible to change the limit of characters in file name
- Unable to use brackets, spaces and punctuation marks in file names
- File name restrictions
- Which special characters are not allowed (considered illegal) to be used in the file names of Creo Parametric like Model names (*.prt, *.asm, *.drw etc.), material file names (*.mtl), Secondary input files like PROGRAM, Pattern tables, drawing tables etc.,
- Materials with long file names cannot be displayed in the material selection dialog
- PTS (*.pts) with long file names cannot be displayed in Open dialog box.
- When selecting a material with a longer name, the error "Material name is too long" is displayed
- How to use space character in file name
- The length of file name is limited to 31 characters, how to set the length to 80 characters
- When importing a step file, assembly and part name is shorten unexpectedly
- Folders with long name cannot be displayed in the Creo File > Open window
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