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## Pro/ENGINEER Direct CAD Interface

Follow the procedures in this section to install PC-DMIS and configure your system to use the Pro/ENGINEER Direct CAD Interface.

- If you haven't already done so, install Pro/ENGINEER Revision 2000i2 or higher. You must install it on a system running Windows 98, NT, 2000, or XP. Pro/ENGINEER is not supported on Windows 95.

- To avoid potential problems, be sure the directory pathway used to install Pro/ENGINEER does not contain any spaces. By default, the installation will recommend installing Pro/ENGINEER into a sub-directory located within C:\Program Files\. However, you should change this to a pathway without spaces. We recommend, for example, installing it into something like C:\PTC\Proe<version>, where <version> is your version of Pro/ENGINEER. So, if you were installing 2000i2, the installation directory pathway would look like this: C:\PTC\Proe2000i2.

- If installing Pro/ENGINEER to a Windows NT, 2000, or XP computer, make sure you have full administrator rights before proceeding.

- You must install Pro/ENGINEER on the same computer system as PC-DMIS. You may use either a floating (network) license or locked license to run Pro/ENGINEER, however, the Pro/ENGINEER process must be running on the local machine in order to interface with PC-DMIS. If you do not have a license available, you may purchase one from PTC (see http://www.ptc.com).

- For Pro/ENGINEER to run properly, you may need to modify certain paths or executable names to fit your system (depending on the version that you have and the location of needed files). The steps below show how to do this for a Windows XP system running Pro/ENGINEER 2000i2 and PC-DMIS.

- IMPORTANT! You should ensure that all the latest patches have been downloaded and installed for your version of Pro/ENGINEER. These patches can be found at www.ptc.com.

More:

Step 1: Creating the PRO_COMM_MSG_EXE Environment Variable

Step 2: Installing PC-DMIS

Step 3: Editing the Registry with Pro/ENGINEER Information

Step 4: Testing the Pro/ENGINEER Direct CAD Interface