Removed old Solidworks and now draft analysis not working

[RichGergely]

Bit odd this one. I had Solidworks 2019 and 2021 on my computer, I decided that the likelihood of needing 2019 now was very unlikely so removed. Which now I wish I never did

Draft analysis crashes Solidworks 2021sp5.1 ever time you press the button with vcruntime140:000066c0

All other similar analysis tools work though? deviation, zebra, curvature, undercut, parting line, symmetry, thickness & compare

Other oddities -
Thumbnail previews have gone in file management.
In file explorer right click and open with shows a icon of solidworks 2021 but with the words SOLIDWORKS 2019 next to it!

Any thoughts on cleaning this mess up would be helpful.

[zxys001]

Sounds like the registry is messed up. You'll need to do "clean uinstall" and then reinstall.
There are a few different ways. You can scan the web for some.
https://www.mlc-cad.com/solidworks-help ... uninstall/
https://www.goengineer.com/blog/complet ... tall-guide

[Frederick_Law]

Backup your settings.
Run repair on 2021sp5.
Some common files, Windows settings got removed by 2019 uninstall.
Worse case, reinstall 2021.

[RichGergely]

Yeah, probably go with the repair but I fear it is a reinstall. Quite annoying when it is working fine other than that.

I suppose one good thing is I should be able to save settings/templates and use again as they were updated for 2021.

[JSculley]

You may want to try this:
=========================================
Solution Id: S-078432
Product: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Network Installation
Created: 9/30/2020
Technically Reviewed Date: 10/15/2020
Area: Part
Sub-Area: Draft
Question: Why does SOLIDWORKS® crash when I click the 'Draft Analysis' command even though I have a certified graphics card driver?
Answer: You might have an unregistered library on your computer.

Specifically, you might experience this behavior if the ‘swatcolorlabel.ocx’ file is not registered. To register this file, follow these steps:

1. Close all instances of the SOLIDWORKS® application.
2. Open a Windows® command prompt as administrator ('Run as administrator').
3. At the command prompt, enter:

regsvr32 "[SOLIDWORKS Installation Folder]\swatcolorlabel.ocx"

The following message appears:

‘DllRegisterServer in [SOLIDWORKS INSTALLATION FOLDER]\swatcolorlabel.ocx succeeded.’
=========================================

[RichGergely]

Thanks everyone, tried everything in simplicity order and repair was the last stage before reinstalling. Repair worked!!

[mp3-250]

I had a similar issue when deploying SW administrative image to my workstations. I used the SLDREG file as a registry file (like it should be), but the SLDREG that SW itself exported had multiple errors inside (e.g. not escaping \ with a \\), making some registry keys end up empty and causing crashes on a lot of commands.