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Concept: Customizing the Cabling Ribbon Interface

Customizing the Cabling Ribbon Interface
You can create new tabs and groups as well as reorder them. You can customize the ribbon, In Graphics toolbar,
and Quick Access toolbar in numerous ways to personalize them for your work style. You can also customize
commands in the In Graphics toolbar. You can drag almost any icon onto the Quick Access toolbar so that it is
available.

The different ribbons that display when switching between modes are customizable. Furthermore, the In Graphics
and Quick Access toolbars that display with each ribbon are independent as well, enabling you to maintain
separate toolbar customizations for each mode.

You can perform the following high-level ribbon customizations:

• Collapse or display the ribbon using Minimize the Ribbon . You can also use the CTRL+F1 shortcut to
minimize or restore the ribbon. You can even double-click the tabs to minimize or restore it.

• Create new ribbon tabs.

Within the ribbon, you can perform the following customizations to the tabs:

• Reorder the tabs.

• Select up to three groups to be included in a tab.

• Create custom tabs.

Within the tabs, you can perform the following customizations on the groups:

• Customize group contents.

Figure 1 – Default and Customized Route Group

• Create custom groups.

• Collapse groups. The first icon in the group is shown as a large icon with a drop-down menu.

Customize the collapse priority. As the Creo window is made narrower, groups begin to collapse, and they

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Figure 2 – Collapse Priorities

Within the groups, you can perform the following customizations on the icons:

• Specify small icons or large icons.

• Specify whether the icon image is displayed.

• Specify whether the command label is displayed.

Saving Customizations and Restoring Defaults

You can export your new ribbon, Quick Access toolbar, and In Graphics toolbar settings to a *.ui file. These *.ui
files are read by Creo Parametric in the following order:

1. <loadpoint>\text\admin_creo_parametric_customization.ui
◦ Note the admin_ prefix.

2. <user_profile>\AppData\..\creo_parametric_customization.ui
◦ This is the system default location.

3. <working_dir>\creo_parametric_customization.ui
◦ This file is read only if the config.pro option load_ui_customization_run_dir is set to yes.

You can always restore the default Creo Parametric settings.

Settings and defaults are maintained between sessions in Creo Parametric.

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