Article - CS278826

Unable to open any *.brd files in Creo View due to error messages when there are spaces in the design file path

Modified: 14-Jan-2025   


Applies To

  • Creo View 4.0 to 11.0
  • Creo View Adapters 5.1 to 11.1
  • Cadence Allegro 

Description

  • Unable to open any *.brd files in Creo View due to error message
  • Fail to import any *.brd files in Creo View due to error message
  • Failed to ECAD checkin .brd file to Windchill PDMLink
  • When publishing an .brd files which contains space in design file via pvecad2pvs.exe or allegrobatch.bat command, the .eda and .pvs viewables were generated with same error message, but it shows empty in Creo view
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  • Unable to run Allegro's extracta utility when opening any *.brd files in Creo View due to error message
Errors:
Selected file could not be imported
The requested file could not be loaded

 
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Error: Unable to run Allegro's extracta utility. Please check for spaces in design file path.
Path to log file C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\<folder name>\pvecad2pvs.log

 
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