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Creo Elements/Direct Resources
Links to PTC resources for installing, licensing, configuring, and supporting Creo Elements/Direct products.
PTC maintains several resources for installing, licensing, configuring, and supporting Creo Elements/Direct products.
The links below provide a starting point for some of the most common Creo Elements/Direct administration tasks.
License Management
PTC's current Manage Licensing experience can be used to view Creo Elements/Direct licenses, assign or move licenses between machines, and retrieve updated license files.
For an overview of the current Elements/Direct licensing workflow, see:
PTC – Creo Elements/Direct Licensing Walkthrough
For additional licensing resources and instructions:
PTC – License Management Guide
Configuring or Updating the License Server
If you need to configure an existing Creo Elements/Direct License Server, add or update licenses, change the license file, or repoint the server to a different license location, PTC provides a dedicated troubleshooting and configuration article:
PTC – How to Configure/Set Creo Elements/Direct License Server (CS95312)
Installing Creo Elements/Direct
For instructions on installing the Creo Elements/Direct License Server, Modeling, and Drafting using the installation media, see:
PTC – Installing Creo Elements/Direct License Server, Modeling, and Drafting (CS345788)
System Requirements & Platform Support
Before installing or upgrading Creo Elements/Direct, review PTC's current platform and system requirements for supported operating systems, hardware, graphics, and license-server environments.
PTC – Creo Elements/Direct Platform Support and System Requirements (CS65690)
Creo Elements/Direct Help Centers
For product-specific documentation covering Creo Elements/Direct Modeling, Drafting, Model Manager, 3D Access, and related applications, PTC maintains dedicated Help Centers for the currently supported releases.