POV-Ray does not work

[ChapaikinVA]

POV-Ray does not work at all. Error message after I click on "Render" toolbutton:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
<type 'exceptions.Exception'>: Could not load image
Stack Trace: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

POV-Ray is installed. On its installation POV-Ray performed some self-tests and then reports that all is OK. FreeCAD setting for POV-Ray executable is: /usr/local/bin/povray

How to solve the problem?

[NormandC]

Hello ChapaikinVA,

Welcome here. Your signature shows that you are using an obsolete Ubuntu version (13.10) for which support was stopped in July 2014.

I just uploaded the new v0.15.4671 release of FreeCAD to our Stable Releases PPA, but we only support the Ubuntu versions that are active: 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 14.10 and the upcoming 15.04. We will not provide packages for Ubuntu 13.10.

For many reasons, you should upgrade your version of Ubuntu.

[ChapaikinVA]

For many reasons, you should upgrade your version of Ubuntu.

It's good idea, but my videocard is old and there is no driver for Ubuntu >13.10 (so I will be without OpenGL in Ubuntu >13.10).

[quick61]

In that case, I would go ahead and compile OCE and FreeCAD from source. Build and install OCE first, then build FreeCAD. It's really not that hard. In fact the "hard part" is getting all the dependencies in first, and that is more of a time consuming thing than the actual task being hard.

If I am remembering correctly, there was a bug with 0.14 and POV-Ray - If I can hunt down the thread, I'll link to it.

Or you could just update the vid card...

Mark

[quick61]

OK, does this sound like your problem - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7954

Mark

[Der Herr Gruber]

Hi,

I know that this problem is not new. But maybe someone faces the the same problem. In my case the error showed up, when trying to save to a directory path which included special characters. In german language these are ä, ü, ö and ß. When changing to standard character set everything worked perfect.

Regards
Der Herr Gruber

[don_Xavier]

Hello everybody!

In my case, I get the following message when I press the render button (with POVray):

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: Could not load image file

When I press the render button it asks me for the file name and path, and then gives me the message.

I'm following the FC manual.

Any ideas?


My system info:
OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6712 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-16
Hash: da2d364457257a7a8c6fb2137cea12c45becd71a
Python version: 2.7.12
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17