This is one big reason I recommend people use either Onshape of Fusion 360 -- Stability and a fully built out feature set. I'm a fan of Open Source software but not when there is a better free solution. I recommend the above because most users are not technically proficient enough to solve issues with dependency and crashes while Onshape "just works" on any computer and Fusion "just works" on a Mac or Windows system.
Eventually, there might emerge an open-source CAD that is actually better than any of the others. Not just free, but actually better. This already happened with PCB design CAD. KiCAD took off some years ago and is a leader now. But this has not happened yet with general 3D CAD. On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 11:06 AM Billy Huddleston <bi...@ivdc.com> wrote: > Funny.. I *JUST* found this issue.. > > sudo apt install netgen > sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/netgen/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ > > Should get it to work.. however, I've had FreeCAD crash 3 times in the > past 15 minutes trying to use the Path workbench. > > I'm going to try the appimage to see if it's any more stable. > > > Thanks, Billy > > > On 6/27/20 1:39 PM, Martin Dobbins wrote: > > I thought I would post this for anyone that might step this way in > future 🙂 > > > > Following discussions on freecad producing g-code, I've been > experimenting. The <path> workbench is where this all happens, but going > to that location produced "libnglib.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory" > > > > A little research revealed that I had made some errors. This is a dual > boot machine and I had to reinstall Ubuntu following a Microsoft update > that managed to hose its own MBR, go figure (!). The only install I had on > USB was 18.04 which I then upgraded to 20.04 , I then reinstalled freecad. > This was somehow the wrong path to take, producing missing dependencies > etc. and (maybe) causing the error with freecad. I found that freecad > also has an app image, so I downloaded that and gave it permission to run > as a program. This produces a freecad that <just works>. > > > > Great, so now I can proceed, let's uninstall freecad and just run it > from the app image. "apt-get remove --auto-remove freecad" produces > "Package 'freecad' is not installed, so not removed". Yet I still have a > freecad install that I can get to by typing freecad in a terminal or > selecting it from the "applications" gui, this is the package that has > unmet dependencies. I can work around this by using the app image, but I > would like to hose all previous traces of the existing install to prevent > (human) errors in the future. > > > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- > Billy Huddleston Inner Vision > > *William Huddleston > Inner Vision Development* > Office: 865.560.2752 > Fax: 865.560.2703 > > http://www.ivdc.com > *Development and Consulting... Simplified.* > > <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inner-Vision-Development/120023721424> < > http://twitter.com/ivdc> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ivdccorp> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
