Article - CS44835
How to suppress the Creo Parametric "Check Out on the Fly" pop-up dialogue when opening a model from Windchill
Modified: 31-Oct-2025
Applies To
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0.4.0
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 3.0 M130 to Wildfire 5.0
- Windchill PDMLink 9.0 to 13.0
- Windchill MPMLink 9.0 to 11.1
- Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 9.0 to 11.1
- Creo View Adapters 1.0 to 10.0
- ProductView Adapters and Creo Elements/View Adapters 12.0 to 13.0
Description
- When opening models from Windchill, Creo Parametric may, for whatever reason, determine that the model has been modified and request the user to perform a check-out by launching a related Check Out on the Fly dialogue
- Message The object is read only as it is not checked out appears upon check out
- For Creo Parametric sessions running in batch mode, e.g. as part of a WVS CAD Worker, in '-no_graphics' mode, this Check Out on the Fly dialogue might interrupt the batch job or cause a WVS Publish Job to fail with time-out errors
- When read only permissions are applied to the top level of an assembly and a layer is created with propagate layer setting on, a Single UI window per file asks Check Out or Continue
- How to avoid Check Out on the fly prompt for released object
- How to avoid Check Out on the fly for interchange assemblies
- How to turn off conflict dialogue box when opening CAD objects from Windchill
- How to auto checkout CAD objects without "Conflict" dialogue box interface
- How enable Check Out on the Fly pop-up dialogue in Creo Parametric when opening a model from Windchill
- How to disable the dialogue asking if the drawing need to be checked out every time the drawing is opened?
- A prompt "check out" appears when saving CAD document after modifying. Is it possible to set the dialogue continue or suppress it?
- In the CS44835 article, it is mentioned how to make the "Check Out on the Fly" window not display, would like to ask if there is any effect or side effect to pay attention to after setting this setting value?
- When using Creo Parametric to open a model file stored in Windchill, why is there a prompt to check out? Can I set it to continue by default through config.pro
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