Article - CS32479
How to customize and distribute Creo View Preferences for all users
Modified: 24-Dec-2025
Applies To
- Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 12.0
- Windchill ProjectLink 9.1 to 12.0
- Windchill MPMLink 9.1 to 12.0
- Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.1
- ProductView and Creo Elements/View 9.1 to 10.0
- Creo View 1.0 to 12.1
- Visualization Services (WVS)
Description
- This Solution provides an explanation of 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 (i.e. server-side preferences)
- Lock preference to prevent it being overridden or edited at a lower level
- Order of precedence and a preference value in one is overridden as each subsequent preference file
- Ability to set default preferences
- How to set user Creo View preference to be default at the site level
- How to set certain Creo View preferences globally to all clients
- Where are default settings saved for Creo View, such that settings can be customized on one computer and copied over to another?
- How to set the smart selection method applied in Creo View setting to all users
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