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ProE configs and Home Directory

ProE configs and Home Directory

ProE configs and Home Directory

(OP)
I am a long time ProE user that has been away from it for a couple of years.  I am trying to setup a config.pro file on a server directory that serves as my home directory (Not the same as Start Directory).  I do not want the config.pro on my hard drive or in my start directory.  We run config.sub on our harddrive in the text folder of Pro-E and it finds that one just fine.

I have system variables setup called "HOMEDRIVE", points to the drive on my server where my configs folder goes, and another called "HOMEPATH", which points to the folder on the drive where the config.pro file resdides.  "HOMEPATH" is set to: "\PTC_config".  "HOMEDRIVE" is set to "P:"  These are the proper locations on the server for where I want the home directory.

These settings where recommended by a friend of mine who use to work at the same company.  I have had the config.pro settings work before with this same setup, but now Pro-E does not find the config.pro file anymore for some reason.  I have to go out and manually open and load config.pro to get the settings into session.  

My question is, hwo do you set the home directory for Pro-E?  Am I doing the right way.  I knwo what a start directory is and that is not where I want the config.pro file.  I have searched the web thoroughly.  Everyone mentions the existance and function of the home directory, but nobody details how to set the home directory.  Any help would be appreciated.

RE: ProE configs and Home Directory

You need one more environment variable:
home = p:\ptc_config

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications

RE: ProE configs and Home Directory

(OP)
Thanks looslib!  That worked.  What is interesting to me is that I went back and got rid of the two system variables that I put in and it still worked with just the "HOME" variable.  DOes it need the other two?  I am putting them back just to be safe, but it looks like they may not be necessary.  

I am amazed at how little infor there was on the web about this topic.  Hopefully, this one will help other people also.

RE: ProE configs and Home Directory

No, you only need the "home" environment variable.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications

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