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.
Seems to me like an issue with the Visual C++ 2013 installation.
Try updating that and see if it helps:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=40784