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For questions about computer-aided design (CAD) software. CAD software is used to assist in the design of physical objects, primarily to make technical drawings.

For questions about computer-aided design (CAD) software.

CAD software is used to assist in the design of physical objects, primarily to make technical drawings.

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On Screen Protractor

A handy program for measuring the pixel dimensions of something on-screen is screen ruler: sudo apt install screenruler ; screenruler I like how you can place it anywhere on your screen and it stays on top of all other applications as you use…
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Starting with CAD on linux

I would like to do some CAD work on Linux (Fedora). I have no experience in CAD, so I have to learn it from scratch. Do you know an CAD Tool for Linux which is easy to use? I prefer an easy tool over a fully functional, jack of all trades program.
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Pacman: opencascade74 and opencascade are in conflict while upgrading

when I run sudo pacman -Syu pacman throws this error: :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community-testing is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date :: Starting full system…
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Launch a program to only specific resources

Question: How can I launch a program such that it only uses X ram and Y CPU cores, etc? I happen to be using Ubuntu in this case, but since I often am on other distros, I need a general GNU/Linux solution. Example use: I have a program, openscad,…
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How to make FreeCAD utilize multiple cores?

I am currently on a modified version of Debian-standard, jessie, using xfce and LightDM with some AMD drivers for the GPU. But my issues are that I am using an 8 core AMD FX 8320, all cores are being detected and are running fine in Linux, but for…
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How to `import FreeCAD` in CLI (python)

How can I import FreeCAD from the python console? I'm trying to write a script that can manipulate a given FreeCAD file, but I can't even get FreeCAD imported into the python console on a system where FreeCAD is installed. user@disp7637:~$ sudo dpkg…
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