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Error message: File Invalid, may be incomplete. What does it means?

April 26, 2017Error file incomplete invalid means message

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Error message: File Invalid, may be incomplete. What does it means?

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When opening your CATIA file you get this error message: “File Invalid, may be incomplete. Common reasons for that are failure during an ftp transfer or an ftp transfer in ASCII mode rather than binary mode”. The first operation done by CATIA2SolidWorks when importing a file is to test that this file is a valid CATIA file. This Error message appears when it is not. The error message gives two very common reasons but others are possible: • The imported file is not a CATIA file at all (for example an IGES file). • Failure during an ftp transfer: the file is truncated. • Ftp transfer in ASCII mode rather than binary mode: In ASCII mode extra character are added here and there in the file. • Hard drive damaged. Many other reason are possible, in all the cases the CATIA file is physically damaged and you have to re-create the file from CATIA.