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ww_hainchen

Sketcher

Post by ww_hainchen »

After my luckless Try compiling FreeCad onto SuSe11.2 i tried Ubuntu 10.2. Compiling worked so far, the program starts but in the sketcher all button are grey. Only "Create a New Sketch" does something. After pressing it appears a little window "Running external program" sketchflat with a button "Advanced". This brings a path "/home/ww/freecad/bin/sketchflat.exe . Its a little bit curious (~.exe).

Is there any Distro, on which FreeCad works without problems? I am not a programmer and its not funny for the specialists to answer questions from clueless people like me.

But I am looking for a free Linux-Cad application for many years and i imagine, FreeCad ist it.

Thanks in Advance

ww_hainchen
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Re: Sketcher

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Hi,
unfortunatly is the sketcher we use so far not really ported to Linux. I was able to run it with Wine. FreeCAD can then use the .skf files as starting point for a extrusion or pad feature...

On Windows sketchflat.exe is run automatic by the dialog you seen, on Linux that doesent work that way. You have to start sketchflat by hand...
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Re: Sketcher

Post by ww_hainchen »

Hi,

many thanks for your reply. I will try under Windows.
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