Creo SDK will Not Start Unless Short Path to parametric.exe is Used

[robertowens]

The CreateAssembly program downloaded from
https://openmeta.metamorphsoftware.com/
will not run with Creo 3.0.

The reason it will not run is because the long path name to parmetric.exe is being used. The short path should be used as shown on the following example:
C:\Progra1\PTC\CREO11.0\PARAME~1\parmetric.exe

The problem is in the following file:

https://github.com/metamorph-inc/meta-core/blob/master/src/CADAssembler/CADCreoParametricCommonFunctions/CADSoftwareEnvirUtils.cpp

The RetrieveFromRegistryCreoInstallLocations should have a call to

GetShortPathNameA( installDir.c_str(), installPath_ShortName, bufferSize );

The attached file shows where this should occur:

CADSoftwareEnvirUtils.cpp.txt

[ksmyth]

We run it with Creo 3.0 with spaces in the path. Can you post the error message?

Short paths can be disabled. We've had customers whose machines have short paths disabled.

[robertowens]

The following are logs from a failed case and a case that works:
cad-assembler_failed_case.log
cad-assembler works case.log

The failed case uses CreateAssembly.exe from MetaMorph OpenMeta download. Downloaded a couple of weeks ago.

The works case is from a CreateAssembly.exe from a couple of years ago.