Article - CS23977
How to specify the initial working directory in Creo Parametric
Modified: 21-Aug-2025
Applies To
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
Description
- How to start in a specific directory
- How to set the Working directory by default for each user in the same machine
- How to setup start-in folder
- How to set my project folder as default working directory
- How to generate trail files in specific directory
- How to setup multiple search.pro files for individual projects
- Warning Choose start-up directory appears while at startup
- Error "No write access to <directory_name>. Please choose another startup directory for trail creation"
- Dialog appears when opening a Creo file by double clicking it from Windows Explorer (when the file type / extension is associated to Creo)
- How to set the working directory location to a specified location, different from the starting location
- Insufficient permissions due to lack of full access rights to the specified directory
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