Running FreeCAD from a Network Drive?

[mprowe.freecad]

I would like to run FreeCAD from a network drive so that I can do the main design work on a PC in the office, then go to the workshop an use a Notebook to monitor the CNC output.

I have trawled through the forum and "tried" to follow what has been said about [SOLVED] Portable FreeCAD(user.cfg, system.cfg and Addon Manager). But, no matter what I do, I can not:

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Set the environment variable FREECAD_USER_HOME

Is this an AppImage thing?

Regards, Martin

OS: openSUSE Leap 15.3 (KDE//usr/share/xsessions/default)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.19.2)
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.8
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: English/United Kingdom (en_GB)

[chrisb]

I would like to run FreeCAD from a network drive so that I can do the main design work on a PC in the office, then go to the workshop an use a Notebook to monitor the CNC output.

I have trawled through the forum and "tried" to follow what has been said about [SOLVED] Portable FreeCAD(user.cfg, system.cfg and Addon Manager). But, no matter what I do, I can not:

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Set the environment variable FREECAD_USER_HOME

Is this an AppImage thing?

I don't think so. In Linux you have set it with

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export FREECAD_USER_HOME=/path/to/your/network/drive

Then start FreeCAD from the same shell.

[mprowe.freecad]

Thanks Chris,

That worked a treat!

Regards, M.

[chrisb]

Good to hear - it was a blind flight, because I couldn't currently test.