When you upload a Creo drawing, the CoLab integration automatically converts it to PDF. You can customize the output using a Creo PDF export profile (.dop) and, optionally, a pen table.
Configure the CoLab integration
Locate or create the colab.properties file. The CoLab integration checks these locations when Creo starts:
Creo's working directory at startup.
The installation folder containing colab-creo.dll (by default
C:\Program Files\CoLab Creo Integration).
The first readable colab.properties file is used. If both locations contain one, their settings are not combined.
Add the following line, replacing the example path with the full path to your profile:
colab_creo_export_pdf_profile_path=C:/Creo/ExportProfiles/CoLab.dop
Use a full path without quotation marks, even if it contains spaces. The file must be accessible to the user running Creo.
Add a pen table (optional)
If your organization uses a pen table to control line weights and colors, add its full path to the same colab.properties file:
colab_creo_export_pentable_path=C:/Creo/ExportProfiles/table.pnt
The integration applies the configured pen table during PDF export. A pen table can be configured with or without a PDF export profile.
Apply the settings
Save colab.properties and restart Creo to apply the updated configuration.
Default behavior and troubleshooting
Without a configured profile, the integration exports PDFs in monochrome with all fonts converted to strokes.
If the configured PDF profile is missing or unreadable, the integration logs a warning and uses its default PDF settings. If the configured pen table is missing or unreadable, the integration continues without applying it.
If your settings are not applied, confirm that:
You edited the colab.properties file loaded by the integration.
The configured paths point to files that exist and are readable.
You restarted Creo after changing the properties file.
If PDF export fails with a configured profile, try using that profile to export the drawing manually in Creo and check that the profile is valid.