Article - CS30768

Error when retrieving assembly in Creo Parametric: “Extra/Invalid skeleton component found in assembly. Select YES to delete invalid skeleton component or NO to abort retrieval”

Modified: 12-Feb-2025   


Applies To

  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0
  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.0
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 9.1 to 11.2
  • Creo View Adapters 7.0 to 11.0

Description

  • Error when retrieving assembly: “Extra/Invalid skeleton component found in assembly. Select YES to delete invalid skeleton component or NO to abort retrieval
  • On opening a model with two or more skeletons at one level(in the tree) a dialog appears about invalid skeleton, that gets deleted on continuing
  • Publishing a model results in failure to retrieve (err = -4) error failure to retrieve (err = -1)
    • Trail file indicates model retrieval is aborted
    • Running proepublish.bat results in Extra/Invalid skeleton component error
  • Fail to create a new skeleton model in an assembly
  • A pop-up window appears in Creo 8.0: Extra/Invalid skeleton component found in assembly. Select YES to delete invalid skeleton component or NO to abort retrieval. I want to keep the skeleton, how to cancel this restriction?
This is a printer-friendly version of Article 30768 and may be out of date. For the latest version click CS30768