In my experience, distribution upgrades are always a risky business. They can mess up a system pretty bad. Myself I always make a fresh install. Yes, you are right. But I have been living with this since long, and able to learn many new things from such mess ;-) I recommend you remove any freecad r...
You have to install PySide2 and shiboken2 which offer the Python bindings for Qt5. To install FreeCAD.18 stable I did distribution upgrade from Ubuntu 16 LTS to 18LTS. FreeCAD stable: OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Word size of OS: 64-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.18.1. Build type: Release Py...
Sudhanshu wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 1:33 pmI am willing to contribute regardless of whether I am selected for GSoC or not. GSoC will just accelerate my contribution speed.
That great. Try to get GSoC, but keep contributing, to get exposure of real software development, which help you grow.
it is the most up to date documentation on how to add a new solver. Just start with the first commit which starts with "FEM: oofem, ... " Check every commit step by step. You should do the same steps. @Sudhanshu The above is the great advice by @bernd Start following it, and whatever diff...
Currently I am trying to include Felt FEM solver in FreeCAD. That discussion is here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33463 I would like to take the inclusion of Felt in FreeCAD as a project if anyone is ready to mentor me on that. Great! Would like to see FElt workin gin Free...
My advice, either switch to a more recent Python version or try the 27 and 27u builds below. Let me know whether this resolves your issue. [1] IfcOpenBot@bf16239#commitcomment-32346507 Python 27u i.e https://s3.amazonaws.com/ifcopenshell-builds/ifcopenshell-python-27u-master-bf16239-linux64.zip wor...
Yes, relying on packages not available in distributions is always a problem. But @kkremitzki is busy trying to package and get ifcopenshell into debian/ubuntu. This would help things a lot... Issue on github's ifcOpenShell project: https://github.com/IfcOpenBot/IfcOpenShell/commit/bf1623975c6451baf...