LiveLink™ for PTC® Pro/ENGINEER®: Changing the Installation Path

If you have licensed LiveLink™ for PTC® Pro/ENGINEER®, you need to provide the installation path for PTC Pro/ENGINEER or PTC Creo Elements/Pro during the install process. The installer registers an add-in with PTC Pro/ENGINEER called LiveLink for COMSOL (5.2a). The add-in should be listed in the Auxiliary Applications dialog box that is accessible from the Tools menu in the PTC Pro/ENGINEER user interface. The add-in provides functionality for selecting dimensional parameters that can be synchronized with COMSOL.

After the installation you can configure the interface to work with a different PTC Pro/ENGINEER installation. Go to the Preferences window, which you can access from the Options menu inside the COMSOL Desktop. There find the LiveLink products section and edit the PTC Pro/ENGINEER installation folder. It should point to the root directory of the PTC Pro/ENGINEER installation, typically

C:\Program Files\proeWildfire 5.0

or, for an installation of PTC Creo Elements/Pro,

C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo Elements\Pro5.0

If you have installed both LiveLink for PTC Pro/ENGINEER and LiveLink for PTC Creo Parametric, you can use only one of those during a COMSOL Multiphysics modeling session. The default is to connect to PTC Creo Parametric. To connect to PTC Pro/ENGINEER select LiveLink for PTC Pro/ENGINEER from the Use list.

Restart COMSOL for the changes to take effect.

Note that changing the PTC Pro/ENGINEER installation folder in the Preferences window does not re-register the add-in with that PTC Pro/ENGINEER installation. To do this you can reinstall COMSOL, or follow the instructions from the following links “Parameter Selection is not available in the PTC Pro/ENGINEER user interface”:

http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1159

If COMSOL cannot connect to PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0, follow the instructions from the following link:

http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1162