There are a number of things that can wrong during the running of AutoNEST, from corrupted file, wrong software versions, non-conformance of file formats, etc. Generally, these errors will be trapped by the program through enabling  button. Click the button to display the error message. A disabled View Error button simply means no errors found during processing.
 button. Click the button to display the error message. A disabled View Error button simply means no errors found during processing.
If there are errors, internally, error messages will be stored in a ASCII file called ANEST.ERR. ANEST.ERR contains the name of the executing task (e.g. DXF2VEC, Nesting ..etc.), followed by a brief description of the error and the actions to be taken to correct them.
Categories of Errors
We have grouped errors into the following six categories with corresponding numbering procedure.
| 
 | Error Number | Category | 
| a. | 100-199 | I/O Error | 
| b. | 200-299 | Limits Conformance Error | 
| c. | 300-399 | File Format Conformance Error | 
| d. | 400-499 | Warning Message | 
| e. | 500-599 | System Error | 
| f. | 600-699 | Fatal Error | 
The detailed explanation of each possible error is in an ASCII file called ERROR.MSG. It is structured with a prefix each error number as follows:
#E Error number with error message
#D Error number with description
#S Error number with proposed solution to overcome problem
The contents of the ERROR.MSG are given as below.
# AutoNEST English Version
# File Name: error.msg /* AutoNEST V9 */
# Date: Dec. 2002
# 100-199: I/0 Error
# 200-299: Limits Conformance Error
# 300-399: File Format Conformance Error
# 400-499: Warning Message
# 500-599: System Error
# 600-699: Fatal Error
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