Article - CS346905
Creo View Adapters: SolidWorks worker daemon fails to start when run as service in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 24-Nov-2025
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 12.0 to 13.0
- Creo View Adapters 7.1 to 11.1
- Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
- SolidWorks
- Windchill Workgroup Manager (WWGM)
Description
- SolidWorks worker fails to start in service mode but can be started manually by runnig swworker.bat in advance
- The following error is thrown in the Worker_#.log:
sw2pv Error:58000: Failed to start SolidWorks
- The following message is reported in the monitor_#.log file:
Could not start worker: Could not spawn worker
- In some scenarios, there is no worker_#.log generated
- The worker is failing to start when trying to run worker daemon from service or in foreground via task scheduler
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