Creo VIZid Bridge

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The VIZid Bridge commands in Creo.

The Creo VIZid Bridge is a J-Link plug-in that streams the current part or assembly to VIZid Suite, where VIZid Mesh tessellates it. Each part is exported as an exact STEP file and sent over TCP; VIZid Suite does all of the meshing from its own quality preset.

The plug-in provides three commands:

Export to Blender

Send the whole current part or assembly as a full scene.

Update Blender

Send only what has changed since the last send.

VIZid Bridge Settings

Set the VIZid Suite server host and port, and the up-direction.

The plug-in ships separately from the Studio installer because it installs into Creo rather than into VIZid Suite.

Installation

  1. Extract the VIZid Bridge-Creo-Setup package.

  2. Double-click Install.cmd and approve the administrator (UAC) prompt. The installer copies the plug-in to C:\Program Files\VIZid\VIZid Bridge-Creo\ and registers it with every Creo loadpoint it finds, by adding a single non-destructive line to that loadpoint’s Common Files\text\config.pro.

  3. Restart Creo.

If Creo is installed in a non-standard location and is not detected automatically, the installer prints the exact line to add to config.pro by hand:

protkdat C:\Program Files\VIZid\VIZid Bridge-Creo\protk.dat

Adding the Ribbon Buttons

The plug-in registers its three commands but does not place them on the ribbon automatically. Add them once per Creo installation:

  1. Open File ‣ Options ‣ Customize Ribbon.

  2. Set Choose commands from to All Commands.

  3. Find and add Export to Blender, Update Blender and VIZid Bridge Settings.

Usage

  1. In VIZid Suite, start the VIZid Bridge server from VIZid Mesh ‣ VIZid Bridge ‣ Start Server.

  2. In Creo, open VIZid Bridge Settings and set the host and port to match the server in VIZid Suite. The defaults are host 127.0.0.1 and port 8765.

  3. Click Export to Blender to send the whole part or assembly.

  4. After editing the model, click Update Blender to send only the changes.

Progress is shown per part in the Creo message area as each part is exported.

Uninstall

Double-click Uninstall.cmd, or remove VIZid Bridge (Creo) from Apps & features.

Requirements

  • Creo Parametric 7 or newer. The plug-in runs on Creo’s bundled Java 11 runtime, so no separate JDK is needed to run it.

  • VIZid Suite, with the VIZid Mesh VIZid Bridge server started.