Article - CS329282
CAD worker is not starting with the error "Don't know how to process $WORKER2$ PROE<!!>" in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 06-Jul-2026
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 11.1 to 13.1
- PTC Product View Adapters (Formerly Creo View Adapters) 3.0 to 10.1
- Creo Parametric 6.0 to 11.0
- Creo+
Description
- Creo Parametric Worker cannot start, showing in Background Method Server (or Method Server) output following error:
ERROR [Thread-89 ProcessMessages] wt.wvs.workeragent.ProcessMessages - Don't know how to process $WORKER2$ PROE<!!>
ERROR [Thread-89 ProcessMessages] wt.wvs.workeragent.ProcessMessages - CADAgent error, no worker: $ERROR$ Helper: timed out trying to connect to worker
ERROR [Thread-89 ProcessMessages] wt.wvs.workeragent.ProcessMessages - CADAgent error, no worker: $ERROR$ Helper: timed out trying to connect to worker
- Worker shows "Fails to start" in Worker Agent Administration utility
- It hangs with below message in worker_x.log
- Starting ProE ...
- Creo Parametric exit unexpectedly when starting it via proepublish.bat
- After launching proepublish.bat receives error Application did not have permission to write to the destination folder
- Worker does not start for Creo parametric node locked license
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