FreeCADView Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001581 | FreeCAD | Bug | public | 2014-06-12 08:52 | 2014-06-18 09:25 |
| Reporter | user123 | Assigned To | wmayer | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Product Version | trunk | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.14 | ||||
| Summary | 0001581: default for povray binary | ||||
| Description | It seems as freecad does not remember when I set a povray executable in the preferences menu. Also, should freecad find the povray binary in PATH if the variable is not set? If not so far, it would maybe be nice to add that feature. | ||||
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> It seems as freecad does not remember when I set a povray executable in the preferences menu. I cannot confirm this. > Also, should freecad find the povray binary in PATH if the variable is not set? No and it doesn't make sense to do so because FreeCAD doesn't know the executable name. What is the version you are using? |
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Freecad is build from source for commit hash 830ab19393f702c0290c99733b289fc46280698e. The operating system is NixOS 14.04. I thought 'povray' is the common name for the binary under Linux/Unix? And I would assume 'povray.exe' for Windows? Alternatively, could the binary name be passed to freecad through an environment variable? |
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Tested with: OS: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Platform: 64-bit Version: 0.14.3671 (Git) Branch: master Hash: 57999cb78d5eb0964ba3a81de73a04f539771bce Python version: 2.7.3 Qt version: 4.8.1 Coin version: 3.1.3 SoQt version: 1.5.0 and: OS: Windows 7 Platform: 64-bit Version: 0.14.3647 (Git) Branch: master Hash: c05801d6edff634a4edab338e4f66ceca6da3b72 Python version: 2.7.6 Qt version: 4.8.5 Coin version: 4.0.0a SoQt version: 1.6.0a OCC version: 6.6.0 Both behave correctly in this regard. Btw, we are talking about the field label "POV-Ray executable:" in the Raytracing tab in the preferences? A one thing you can check: * The file $HOME/.FreeCAD/user.cfg must not be write protected. |
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Thank you very much for your help. It turned out that the permission set on user.cfg had to be changed. Only if the user is also a member of the group which is set for user.cfg then the binary preference is written to the file. Being solely the owner of user.cfg is not enough to get the changes saved. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2014-06-12 08:52 | user123 | New Issue | |
| 2014-06-13 15:49 | wmayer | Note Added: 0004748 | |
| 2014-06-13 15:49 | wmayer | Status | new => feedback |
| 2014-06-13 16:08 | user123 | Note Added: 0004749 | |
| 2014-06-13 16:08 | user123 | Status | feedback => new |
| 2014-06-13 16:29 | wmayer | Note Added: 0004750 | |
| 2014-06-14 08:59 | user123 | Note Added: 0004751 | |
| 2014-06-18 09:25 | wmayer | Status | new => closed |
| 2014-06-18 09:25 | wmayer | Assigned To | => wmayer |
| 2014-06-18 09:25 | wmayer | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2014-06-18 09:25 | wmayer | Fixed in Version | => 0.14 |
