[Solved] name 'FreeCADGui' is not defined in InitGui.py

[phixxx5]

When starting FreeCAD my workbench fails to load and I get the error message:

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During initialization the error name 'FreeCADGui' is not defined occurred in /home/philip/.FreeCAD/Mod/OSM-Buildings/InitGui.py

InitGui.py starts with the following:

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import FreeCAD, FreeCADGui
...

Is something wrong with my python installation? I am on Ubuntu 20.04. I have Anaconda installed but I think FreeCAD uses the standard system python version not the conda environment.

[TheMarkster]

Other addon workbenches in that folder work? Unknown? Install one and find out.

Here is how I start InitGui.py for DynamicData workbench:

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import dynamicdatawb_locator
dynamicdataWBPath = os.path.dirname(dynamicdatawb_locator.__file__)
dynamicdataWB_icons_path = os.path.join(dynamicdataWBPath,'Resources','icons')

global main_dynamicdataWB_Icon

main_dynamicdataWB_Icon = os.path.join(dynamicdataWB_icons_path , 'DynamicDataLogo.svg')

There is an empty file named dynamicdatawb_locator.py in the same folder.

[phixxx5]

I solved the problem by removing the import statements for FreeCAD and FreeCADGui

[KAKM]

That's a problem I have periodically, and it's usually because I used

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import FreeCADGui as Gui

which means that any place you would normally use FreeCADGui to access something, you need to use Gui instead. For example, instead of using

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FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection()

, you would use

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Gui.Selection.getSelection()

It happens because you essentially rename the module as you import it so that accessing its methods can be done with shorter lines of code.