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FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

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Anyone encounter this issue when launching the software? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone encountered this issue when launching the software?

The only fix I've found so far is to uninstall and reinstall FreeCAD. Is there a better way to fix this? I wish the error message was more descriptive...

Edit: It seems that I can only launch FreeCAD by ticking the "Launch FreeCAD" checkbox in the initial installation wizard. All subsequent attempts to launch FreeCAD seem to fail. I can uninstall the software without removing my user preferences, so it's not terrible, but having to reinstall the software every time I want to close and reopen the software is a bit... undesirable.

Edit2: If it helps narrow things down, I'm on a Windows 10 machine.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The error is too vague for anyone to be able to help. Try running freecad from a terminal and see if there is any error reported there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Double-clicking on FreeCADCmd.exe does nothing. Right-clicking and choosing "Run as administrator" seems to launch FreeCAD in a terminal window:

No idea what to do from here.

If I navigate to the FreeCAD/bin directory in Command Prompt and try to run FreeCAD.exe, I get the same pop-up error as my original post. If I try to run FreeCADCmd.exe from Command Prompt, I get seemingly the same error, but in text form!

Are there any diagnostic or troubleshooting tips you would recommend at this point?