What is the system requriments for Freecad?

[persson121]

What is the system requriments for freecad?
Can i run it on raspberry pi?

[NormandC]

For one thing FreeCAD being a 3D app it requires OpenGL, and I don't think it's compiled for RaspberryPi's architecture (ARM) but I may be mistaken.

FYI someone on the RepRap forum wanted to run RepetierHost on RaspberryPi and couldn't because it too requires OpenGL.

Also the CPU is very, very weak on this piece of hardware...

[jriegel]

Depends what you want to do. FreeCAD is a tiered application, and you can run the App system without the gui. This should be able to run even on a low profiled machine.
If you want to run the Gui, a Raspberry-pi is probably way to week. Also you need to compile all the dependencies (Qt, OpenCascade, Coin3D, ......, and a lot more) for ARM to succeed.

Would say, quit a challenge!

[NormandC]

If you want to run the Gui, a Raspberry-pi is probably way to week.

Contrary to what I wrote, apparently the graphics chipset does support OpenGL ES 2.0. I don't know if the problem is related to Linux drivers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberrypi#Hardware

Also you need to compile all the dependencies (Qt, OpenCascade, Coin3D, ......, and a lot more) for ARM to succeed.

packages.debian.org show that FreeCAD is available on Armel, I assume that means everything needed is already compiled and packaged.

[shoogen]

packages.debian.org show that FreeCAD is available on Armel, I assume that means everything needed is already compiled and packaged.

armel can't make use of the floating point unit. I would recommend to stick to armhf. On the other hand the vfp interface does not offer a fully featured IEEE 754 implementation.
You can not adjust the rounding modes for example.

[kwahooo]

armel can't make use of the floating point unit. I would recommend to stick to armhf.

AFAIK armhf requires ARMv7, Pi is ARMv6.

[jriegel]

OpenGL ES is a different standard to OpenGL. Its geard toward mobile devices and we can not use it....

[shoogen]

armel can't make use of the floating point unit. I would recommend to stick to armhf.

AFAIK armhf requires ARMv7, Pi is ARMv6.

Yes, you can't use debian armhf with the pi.
I use raspbian wich was designed to overcome this limitation.

[irishartist]

Good question
I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium and I'm getting a DEP error whenever I try to open a new project.
It's not the only OpenSource program that does this.
What could the problem be as I tried to get DEP to ignore FreeCad but it said that I can't.
Can I safely disable this feature?
What amazes me is that this and the other pregrams run in Windows 7
Thabks

[NormandC]

irishartist,

Someone posted an identical question to yours one hour before you in the Install/Compile forum.

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