FreeCad disappears when I select "Create New..."

Bingus · Post by **Bingus** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:04 am

I recently received a Raspberry Pi 4 and wanted to try 3d modelling on it. I downloaded FreeCad earlier today and I am able to launch the program, but whenever I select the "Create New" button, the program disappears. It doesn't give any sort of error report, so I have no idea what the problem is. I've been looking on this website for solutions, and I have found many posts with people experiencing the same problem. Most of these posts have solutions, but I am very inexperienced with both FreeCad and Raspberry Pi 4 and don't understand any of them. Can any of ya'll please very slowly walk me through what I need to do to get this to work?

Post by **chrisb** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:41 am

Can you run FreeCAD from a terminal and post the output here?

PainTER4711 · Post by **PainTER4711** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:22 pm

Same Problem over here.
I reported an issue, and the Developer told me you have the pretty same problem.
Cheers,
stephan

Post by **Kunda1** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:49 pm

Bingus wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:04 am I downloaded FreeCad earlier today and I am able to launch the program

Hi, please always post your About info with post asking for assistance. It helps us a lot.

Post by **Kunda1** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 7:52 pm

PainTER4711 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:22 pm

Bingus wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:04 am

Can you provide About info and how did you compile FreeCAD?

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CC @-alex- since you have FreeCAD experience with RaspberryPIdo you mind joining this discussion?

-alex- · Post by **-alex-** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:42 pm

Bingus wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:04 am I recently received a Raspberry Pi 4 and wanted to try 3d modelling on it. I downloaded FreeCad earlier today and I am able to launch the program, but whenever I select the "Create New" button, the program disappears. It doesn't give any sort of error report, so I have no idea what the problem is. I've been looking on this website for solutions, and I have found many posts with people experiencing the same problem. Most of these posts have solutions, but I am very inexperienced with both FreeCad and Raspberry Pi 4 and don't understand any of them. Can any of ya'll please very slowly walk me through what I need to do to get this to work?

Hi Bingus, because you are inexperienced about RPI4 I assume you've installed the 32Bit Raspberry OS right?
With the 32 bit OS the only way to run FreeCAD is to compile it yourself with Python2 and Qt4 options or Py3/Qt4 options. Don't be afraid about compiling, just follow Compile_on_Linux Debian section

Ask here for help.

BTW if I were you I would install Raspberry OS64Bit beta. I use it since 1 year with no problems. FreeCAD compiled with Py3/Qt5 (standard options) works fine

BTW2: here are step by step instructions to compile thé very last FC with Py3/Qt5 on you RPI4 RPIOS64Bit:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 88#p469249

PainTER4711 · Post by **PainTER4711** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:06 pm

Can you provide About info and how did you compile FreeCAD?

Yes of course, as already provided here: https://tracker.freecadweb.org/view.php?id=4587

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OS: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (MATE/mate)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24267 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: b2ca86d8d72b636011a73394bf9bcdedb3b109b7
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

I did not compile Freecad by myself, i got the latest nightly build appimage.

Cheers,
stephan

Post by **Kunda1** » Thu Mar 10, 2022 8:22 pm

Ticket migrated to issue #6171

Post by **Kunda1** » Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:02 pm

PainTER4711 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:06 pm I did not compile Freecad by myself, i got the latest nightly build appimage.

Can you retest please?

Post by **adrianinsaval** » Sat Mar 19, 2022 8:41 pm

PainTER4711 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:06 pm
Can you provide About info and how did you compile FreeCAD?

Yes of course, as already provided here: https://tracker.freecadweb.org/view.php?id=4587
Code: Select all
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (MATE/mate)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24267 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: b2ca86d8d72b636011a73394bf9bcdedb3b109b7
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)
I did not compile Freecad by myself, i got the latest nightly build appimage.

Cheers,
stephan

Wait, what? how do you run the x86_64 appimage on an arm processor? AFAIK we don't provide arm appimages.

EDIT: Ok I see now this is not the same guy as the initial post, then your issue is most likely not the same as you're most certainly not running on a raspberry pi, you should have rather created a new topic or at the very least mentioned that it was on different hardware. Test again using the latest dev version: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bund ... kly-builds

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