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Creo View Adapters: Inventor publishing fails with a "Timeout exceeded" when the Worker Demon running as Windows service

Modified: 18-May-2023   


Applies To

  • Creo View Adapters 1.0 to 9.1
  • Windchill PDMLink 10.0 to 12.1
  • Autodesk Inventor 
  • Visualization Services (WVS)

Description

  • If the Windchill Inventor CAD worker is configured to be started using the Windows GS Worker Daemon service, Part, Assembly and Drawing publishing may fail with timeout errors
  • Affects both Apprentice Server and Full Inventor (non-Apprentice) Modes
  • Reproducible with or without File Synchronization (File Sync) enabled
  • Job Monitor messages:
. . .
Inventor Drawing Conversion
Added request to INVENTOR queue
Job 15 submitted to worker: <host>-INVENTOR:1
LOGID: worker_7.log
  Loading Inventor File...
  Processing <name>.idw
Timeout exceeded waiting for a reply from the CadAgent - Time out 600 seconds
. . .
  • Inventor Adapter hangs and becomes unresponsive
  • When running Worker Daemon as a service, the Inventor is run in silent mode without loading addins 
  • Autodesk Inventor worker fails to publish when GS Worker Daemon is executed as service:
    Downloading file using WWGM
    WWGM ERROR: Sync failed, unable to get Inventor UWGM COM Helper.
    Failed allocate dvfFile.
    Part Processing Returned: $ERROR$ Failed allocate dvfFile.
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