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Hello durza,


libtool: link: g++ -g -O2 -rdynamic -o .libs/netgen demoview.o ngappinit.o onetcl.o parallelfunc.o ngpkg.o ../libsrc/visualization/libvisual.a ../libsrc/csg/.libs/libcsgvis.so...

I recommend posting your problem on the FreeCAD forum. That's where you'll get the most relevant help.

Hi,

Not sure if you're aware, but the FreeCAD project provides a Stable Releases PPA with the latest version of FreeCAD, since the freecad package in the Ubuntu 14.04 repository is ancient.

I'm...

For real?!? :?


Autodesk is a software company, not a program. It publishes a boatload of software among them Maya and 3DS Max which have nothing to do with CAD. Unless you were thinking about...

You cannot fault Ubuntu for a large corporation (Dassault Systèmes)'s cluelessness in providing a properly working debian package. Many volunteers learn to package open source software in their spare...

Fester, why would you write that when the last time you posted a request on the FreeCAD forum was more than a year ago? There are currently a few experienced and active forum members who do just that...

It's very late to reply, but in any case,

PRT is a proprietary file format used by Pro Engineer, now named Creo. DWG is a proprietary file format from Autodesk. Proprietary file formats are...

DuckHook, from your comment it is clear you either don't know FreeCAD at all, or it's been years since you've looked at it. Even though it's still in development and missing functionality the big CAD...

Hello AleveSicofante,

Sorry for coming in late to the party. I am the current maintainer of the FreeCAD PPA repository. We witnessed the same problem with our packages when the LTS Enablement...

FYI FreeCAD v0.13 was just released after 13 months of development. It has a boatload of new features over the v0.12 in the current Ubuntu repositories.

I recommend you update your FreeCAD version...

Hello,

I'm rather late to answer, hoping you were able to solve your problems. But just to say, this is very atypical with FreeCAD. Although it's prone to the occasional crash, it should not crash...

Yes, the first song I encoded last night shows a 10:00 duration while it should be around 4:00. The other ones seem fine.

Mess indeed... I'll see about rubyripper, or maybe simply switch back to...

Thanks for your explanations, mc4man. I hadn't realized you were the bug reporter.

You're right, that bug report ended up being a total mess - and I find unfathomable the Ubuntu dev consider the...

Hello,

Thanks for this, but just to be clear: this does in no way gets back the "Settings" button (or Edit, not sure my locale is not English) in the Rhythmbox preferences, right? To change...

If you have Nvidia Optimus hybrid graphics, I think you should look into Bumblebee which allows graphics switching on Linux.

http://bumblebee-project.org/

Do a search on the forums here you...

There was this other vector graphic editor, sK1. It has a Corel Draw GUI and can open .cdr files. But it's not in the Ubuntu repositories. There are .deb packages available on the project's website,...

Hi David,

Mozilla announced not long ago that they would drop support on Firefox 3.6.x next April, so there was no choice for Canonical but to upgrade Firefox to the latest version, although I...

Kompozer's development stopped 2 years ago. I found it very frustrating to work with, its only redeeming quality being its FTP site manager.

I suggest you have a look at BlueGriffon. It's a...

Look into the DraftSight launcher properties, and copy the command field into the terminal. If it's not changed from the version from 6 months ago, it should be

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Hello,

First of all the FreeCAD version in Ubuntu 11.10's repositories is rather old. The v0.11.4446 package is almost one year old, and FreeCAD benefits from fast development: v0.12 was released...

Hi,

A couple things wrong there!


QCad Community Edition is licensed under the GPL, same as LibreCAD.
LibreCAD is not programmed in Gtk. It's using Qt3-Qt4 transitional libraries, while...

Hello,

I'm not writing this for fester since he joined us over at the FreeCAD forums after Derek's suggestion.

For the benefit of others, depending on which Ubuntu version you have, the FreeCAD...

Hi,

FreeCAD, hands down. Although it is not at SolidWorks level yet, and won't be for a long time, unless 50 open source developers all decide right now to contribute full time. ;)

Still, it's...

Hi,

About PDF to DXF conversion, this may help: http://linuxaideddesign.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-work-with-pdf-files-with-ares.html

As for DXF to DWG conversion, look for TeighaViewer from...

Hi,

Better late than never...

From the list in the link posted by Yann, here's my take:

For 2D:
Open source --> LibreCAD (QCad fork modernized to support Qt4, for the moment it's using Qt3...