Freecad V1

banger

Downloaded Freecad from the Repo and cant get it to display the drafting 2D screen any help?

This is what I get importing a DXF but no graphic display.

banger

Downloaded the appimage and I can get a basic 2D draft going whats the difference between the Solus repo version and appimage?

niobleoum

Could you share more details? Just launched it and everything seems fine.

I opened some .dxf drawing too and it works as intended. Is it possible that you simply have disabled grid and axes (see the item in context menu in blue circle)?

banger

What graphics driver are you using. Like I say the appimage works but I get no display from the solus repo one. Also the view cube doesn't show. I have a GT1030 and Nvidia 560 drivers. The main window in the solus version is non-responsive.

Citfta

Hi banger. I just tried Freecad on my laptop and the Solus repo one seems to be working fine for the most part.. Tried several of the workbenches and the only one that had a problem was the openscad one. When I tried to open it I got "executable not found for openscad". That doesn't seem right. So something is missing there.

My graphics is Mesa Intel iris.

banger

Thanks for reply I get the same on Openscad but in draft and new I try to draw a line on the solus version I get nothing. On the AppImage version I get a line (see below).

Citfta

I think you are probably right about it being a graphics problem. I can draw just fine in my Solus repo Freecad.

banger

Well at least I have a workaround until it is fixed and that is to use the AppImage.

alfisya

banger it is fixed

We don't know what needs to be fixed if you did not file a bug report 😛

What about launching freecad from terminal? Is there any error there?
Is there any different from the appimage version launching from terminal?

You can paste the terminal output here or via pastebin. Cheers!

banger

How do I launch from the command line just says command not found freecad. I have opened an issue although what the difference between repo and appimage is I can only think of libraries.

Repo:
FreeCAD 1.0.0, Libs: 1.0.0RUnknown
(C) 2001-2024 FreeCAD contributors
FreeCAD is free and open-source software licensed under the terms of LGPL2+ license.

AppImage:
FreeCAD 1.0.0, Libs: 1.0.0R39109 (Git)
(C) 2001-2024 FreeCAD contributors
FreeCAD is free and open-source software licensed under the terms of LGPL2+ license.

(qt.qpa.plugin) Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""

Found a way to add the AppImage to the Plasma menu and also launch repo version from command line.

alfisya

banger How do I launch from the command line just says command not found freecad.

For the repo version, you can just type FreeCAD from the terminal and you should't prefix it with ./. For the appimage version, you have to start it from the directory where the appimage is. For me it is like this :

$ ~/Downloads $ ./FreeCAD_1.0.0-conda-Linux-x86_64-py311.AppImage

Edit: Ah, you figured it out already. I don't know how to read...

banger

Repo from Terminal.

FreeCAD
FreeCAD 1.0.0, Libs: 1.0.0RUnknown
(C) 2001-2024 FreeCAD contributors
FreeCAD is free and open-source software licensed under the terms of LGPL2+ license.

Coin warning in cc_glglue_instance(): Error when setting up the GL context. This can happen if there is no current context, or if the context has been set up incorrectly.
Coin warning in glxglue_isdirect(): Couldn't get current GLX context.

banger

Well I installed on my other desktop from repo and freecad runs fine with same drivers and GT1030 card. So something is corrupt or misconfigured on my main desktop.

Further investigation shows that FreeCAD works fine with nouveau driver in Wayland and any driver in X11 so thats why it works on my other older desktop. Seem to be a nvidia problem.

banger

Problem seems to be the freecad doesn't support wayland yet.