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Insufficient Permissions ​

Symptoms ​

Requested registry access is not allowed

regasm error when building an add-in

or The command 'regsvr32' exited with code 5

regsvr32 error when building an add-in

error is displayed during the build process.

Cause ​

Registration may require administrative privileges and IDE (e.g. Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code) is not run As Administrator

Resolution ​

  • Run IDE As Administrator
  • If the above does not help, try deleting the bin folder, in some cases it can resolve the issue
  • Alternatively, disable automatic registration and register add-in manually from the command line

Embedded SOLIDWORKS Interops ​

Symptoms ​

Could not load file or assembly 'SolidWorks.Interop.Published' error is displayed when building or cleaning project.

Build error due to interop libraries being embedded

Cause ​

xCAD (when used in .NET Framework) requires the the SOLIDWORKS interop files to be available in the output directory for the proper loading.

xCAD automatically sets the Embed Interop Types option to False for all necessarily libraries when nuget package is installed. However in some cases (upgrade to package or specific version of Nuget package manager) this may result into the libraries to be set as embedded.

Resolution ​

Manually change the Embed Interop Types option to False for the SOLIDWORKS interops.

Embed Interop Types option set to False