Hi Gene, The app image I'm using (since the path workbench failed) is 0.18-16146. It loads the path workbench fine and hasn't crashed yet, but I do have some niggles:
It's slower than molasses to load. The numerical boxes it produces in response to a dimensioning request are squished and difficult to read. Not game changers, but still. I'm using this on Ubuntu 20.04 (it's just what I use at the "comfy" desktop). I found the same things as you with repo versions, so I originally went with: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Install_on_Unix adding the ppa to software sources started hosing my software updates, so that got removed. It was stable apart from the path workbench (that could be just an Ubuntu thing you don't need to know about if you aren't running Ubuntu). I wanted to use the path workbench, so this version had to go. I got the app image here: https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php I didn't grok freecad until I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbNg3mzm84s Hope that helps? Martin ________________________________ From: Gene Heskett On Sunday 28 June 2020 10:26:38 N wrote: > > I thought I would post this for anyone that might step this way in > > future 🙂 > > > > Following discussions on freecad producing g-code, I've been > > experimenting. The <path> workbench is where this all happens, but > > going to that location produced "libnglib.so: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or directory" > > Draw a simple part the last week to test run machine, 2D + extrusion. > Generated g-code, had to add feed rate at beginning but then it works. > However had to dry run, real machine but have not been able to get > correct chuck yet. > > Read further down about crashes but have not had this problem, for me > it works fine. > And where did you get this later and more stable release? Whats in the repo's is neither late, nor stable. I've wound up nuking the last 2 attempts to build it here. Your freecad version number please? > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
