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What is a *.ol file? In 20 years of using Creo and Pro/ENGINEER, I've never used that format with Creo.

don't give me fish, teach me to fish :)

i did some research and found Creo help pages. *.ol files are used in Creo View.

http://support.ptc.com/help/creo/creo_pma/usascii/index.html#page/data_exchange/interface/About_Data_Exchange_Between_ProductView_and.html

i tried to do import/export but i can not open *.ol file on Creo Paremetric and export to *.stp /*.x_t

Interesting. I used to be a Windchill admin but never dealt with .ol as I never bothered to unzip a .pvz file and see what was inside.

Based on the Help, it sounds like an intermediate format. I don't know why your supplier would send you that. Part of the viewable generation process is to ensure that it is one way. You can send someone a .pvs or .pvz viewable file, but then they cannot reverse engineer actual CAD from those files.