Error/File checking tool for SW?

"Unexpected File format", means your file is corrupt and you will need to send it to your VAR and then they can send it to SW for repair. It might have worked yesterday, but at sometime you might have crashed while saving it or just crashed working on it, if so then that can lead to corruption. Just because it was fine yesterday, doesn't mean the last time you saved it, it didn't corrupt on you. There is no fix for this but to send it to your VAR. SW has about 90% chance of repairing the file. the other 10% is due to Coding corruption and that is not repairable.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
faq731-376

Did you have any auto-save or manual backups?


Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091

Couple of things to try:

1. Can you drag the file into another file like an assy?
2. Is there more than one configuration? In the file open dialogue, select one of the other configurations to open.
3. In the file open dialogue, check "Advanced" and try creating another empty configuration and open that one.


Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

Thanks for your replies!
I tried several options like what Jason suggest, except i didn't try option 1 and 3. I will keep that in mind when/if it happens again.
I ended up just restoring yesterday's backup file and continued on my work. Luckly i only had made a few changes to it, so it only took me a few minutes to get back to where i was. I was just hoping there was some sort of recovery/fix tool out there to scan and fix any corrupt files.
SBaugh, does SW (or my VAR) charge money for sending them files to fix? How long does it usually take to get the files back? It good to know that they can do that sort of thing though.

Thanks again for your replies.

-Paul

If you are on subscription service, it does not cost you anything to send a file in to be repaired.

Best Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
faq731-376