Re: freecad (was: Re: Anyone able to run blender on netbsd-10 amd64?)

[mlh%goathill.org@localhost (MLH)]

Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 05:25:59PM -0500, MLH wrote:
> > 
> > I hadn't noticed that blender was in pkgsrc. I tried to build under
> > pkgsrc -current but it can't build right now due to distfile issues
> > with dependencies.
> > 
> > FreeCAD 1.0 came out recently and I will offer a bounty for it to
> > be in pkgsrc, buildable under amd64 at least. I want to build cases,
> > etc. for 3dp using Python and that is a burden with win11.
> 
> I'm currently replacing/rebuilding my main netbsd-10 dev box, once
> that's done, I hope to come back to this.
> 
> I've also started looking at FreeCAD previously - I've been using
> OnShape and OpenSCAD, but more options are always good. I'm still
> bogged down going thru the python dependencies. Once I get this new
> box working, I'll continue and check in whatever I have into WIP.

I ran port2pkg on the FreeBSD cad/freecad (v1.0.0) but many, many
errors so I will wait to see what you end up with.

V1.0 is a major improvement and is now a pretty nice package. Since
you can create objects using python entirely, as well as just using
python scripts to assist, and it supports openscad to some extent
(I don't know), I think it is a very usable alternative to openscad.

Thanks