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Staging of SolidWorks assembly containing virtual component fails with error "Missing link found" in Windchill Bulk Migrator

Modified: 20-Oct-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill Bulk Migrator 11.0 to 13.0
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager

Description

  • Staging of simple Solidworks assembly dataset containing virtual component fails with Missing link found error
  • Steps
    • Using command line, perform below operations
    1. java -jar Wbmff.jar -operation getattributes -content P:\Dataset
    2. java -jar Wbmff.jar -operation listfiles -content P:\Dataset
    3. java -jar Wbmff.jar -operation processfiles -content P:\Dataset
    4. java -jar Wbmff.jar -operation preload
    5. java -jar Wbmff.jar -operation stage
    • ​​Stage Operation fails with error
Exiting WbmFromFiles, exit code: 4
Missing links found. Count of unique missing links: 1
Missing links report: D:\WBM\FlatFileShared\WorkingDir\missingLinksReport--2017-07-17_17.05.12.csv
  • Missing link report shows the virtual component as the missing member of the assembly
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