I ran into this issue today trying to export a drawing as a pdf.

Not sure why my hardware(intel GM965/GL960) is insufficient. I am able to export pdfs in Libreoffice, and Bricscad (a commercial cad application).

What library does freecad use to render the pdf?

Turns out that was the problem. I installed swig, recompiled and now my 2d drafting is working again. Thanks.

Here is the project page for the Assembly: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Assembly_project Thanks for the link jriegel, it looks interesting. However I'm a little confused. Is the assembly module implemented in the freecad code? or is still theoretical at this point...

Thanks wmayer,

I'm looking forward to the assembly module, but in the mean time I will make fusions.

Hi, First let me compliment the developers working on this project. From the time I first tried freecad (about two years ago) till now (latest from svn) things have improved exponentially. I hope one day I can abandon Inventor/Solidworks for freecad. Until then I have a couple issues I need to work ...