Windchill System Administrator's Guide

Customizing Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
Environment Variables and Config.pro Options for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
Environment Variables
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire uses a user-visible workspace to manage work-inprocess
data. Each workspace uses a local disk cache to ensure data integrity and
optimize file transfer between Pro/ENGINEER and the server. The cache (which
is managed by Pro/ENGINEER and is not visible to the end user), is used to store
changed objects prior to an upload to the server, and to keep copies of objects
downloaded from the server to speed up subsequent retrieval into
Pro/ENGINEER.
As a system administrator, you may wish to put the cache on a larger disk
partition than provided by the default location. The following table lists
environment variables that can be set by a system administrator to manage the
placement of the cache into a suitable partition:
Variable Values Description
PTC_WF_ROOT /path/to/dir,
Default on UNIX = ~/wf
Default on Windows =
[User Profile]\Application
Data\PTC\ProENGINEER\
Wildfire\
PTC_WF_CACHE /path/to/dir,
default=$PTC_WF_ROOT/.ca
che/
Overrides the default location of .wf
directory. Setting this environment
variable will cause Pro/ENGINEER to use
the new location as a location for the cache.
Note: Existing cache data will not be
copied to the new location automatically.
Allows the specification of additional
cache space. If you are running out of disk
space in $PTC_WF_ROOT, you can use
this environment variable to define a folder
in which all new workspace caches will be
stored.
Note: This new folder only applies to
newly created workspaces. Existing
workspaces will continue to reside in
$PTC_WF_ROOT/.cache
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