openBrain wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:01 pm ...FreeCAD should run fine even with a browser with some tabs opened.

Yes, unfortunately he will only be able to open 1000 to 2000 browser tabs before crashing, so he must be careful.

13963592f May I presume that all operations with a Null TopoShape will cause a crash? Example sh = Part.Shape() sh.toNurbs() Thread 1 "FreeCAD" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007fffb51a6dda in TopoDS_Iterator::Initialize(TopoDS_Shape const&, bool, bool) () from /usr/...

... How this is supposed to make life simpler for anyone is beyond my understanding. That's because you aren't very smart. What do you call an "object"? The scripted object itself is contained in draftobjects; but there is more to it, there is a make function, there is a viewprovider , th...

Zolko wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:30 am you still didn't justify what the purpose of all this work is...

What is the purpose of standards? Did you think about that before?

Standards help everybody get on the same path. That's the purpose of this. Development occurs better and with less errors when people follow standards.

...a fresh re-install of Ubuntu 20.04 This looks like a specific packaging problem of Ubuntu 20.04. ping Ubuntu 18.04 works fine. apt-cache policy freecad-daily freecad-daily: Installed: 0.19~pre2~202010082224~ubuntu18.04.1 Candidate: 0.19~pre2~202010082224~ubuntu18.04.1 Try the AppImage or the Ubu...

openBrain wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:49 am What I'm always surprised of is the relatively low amount of RAM compared to other specs...

His quotation has a "4.0" in the quantity, in front of the RAM. This means he is actually buying 4 x 8 GB, so 32 GB.

freedman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:49 am I have imported STLs but they are so-so, especially the mesh ones.

STL are meshes.

You need to import STEP, and that's it.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (ubuntu:GNOME/ubuntu) Word size of OS: 64-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.19.22662 (Git) Build type: Debug Branch: master Hash: fd9cdb9de9d06ebd8dc1ce26c99e4e4eb005ca43 Python version: 3.6.9 Qt version: 5.9.5 Coin version: 4.0.0a OCC version: 7.3.0 Locale: English...

Is this system spec OK to run FreeCAD decently? Yes, FreeCAD doesn't need as many resources, in general. It can run in the modest Raspberry Pi 4 which is the size of a smartphone. What do you want to model anyway? An entire car with 1000 parts? Your computer will cost USD 2000, so that's more than ...

sgrogan wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:09 pm ...
Also this has been in the Conda based builds for a while, why the sudden traffic?

I remember this error from various months ago. I don't know why suddenly there is again many reports about it.