Thank you,

when I tried that before posting here I got problems like you can see in the attached picture, so I figured I was doing something wrong.

Hello,
I am stuck trying to install Solvespace on Ubuntu 0.16. I did the following:
Downloaded Solvespace from Github, unpacked it, created the directory "build", and from within this directory I ran cmake ..
I ve pasted the output below and hope that someone will be out there to explain the errors or at least give me a clue where to look.
I expected the errors at libdxfrw. I downloaded this lib from Github and unpacked it to the empty extlib/libdxfrw/ directory that was created during the unpacking of the Solvespace tar file. Probably can't combine software this way (lol).

george@minitower:~/Downloads/Solvespace/src/solvespace-2.3/build$ sudo cmake ..
[sudo] password for george:
CMake Error at cmake/GetGitCommitHash.cmake:8 (file):
file failed to open for reading (No such file or directory):

/home/george/Downloads/Solvespace/src/solvespace-2.3/.git/HEAD
Call Stack (most recent call first):
cmake/GetGitCommitHash.cmake:35 (get_git_commit_hash)
CMakeLists.txt:23 (include)


-- The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found OpenGL: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
-- Using in-tree libdxfrw
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:99 (add_subdirectory):
The source directory

/home/george/Downloads/Solvespace/src/solvespace-2.3/extlib/libdxfrw

does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.


-- Found SPACEWARE: /usr/lib/libspnav.so
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.1")
-- Checking for module 'zlib'
-- Found zlib, version 1.2.8
-- Checking for module 'libpng'
-- Found libpng, version 1.2.54
-- Checking for module 'fontconfig'
-- Found fontconfig, version 2.11.94
-- Checking for module 'json-c'
-- Found json-c, version 0.11.99
-- Checking for module 'glew'
-- Found glew, version 1.13.0
-- Checking for module 'freetype2'
-- Found freetype2, version 18.1.12
-- Checking for modules 'gtkmm-2.4;pangomm-1.4;x11'
-- Found gtkmm-2.4, version 2.24.4
-- Found pangomm-1.4, version 2.38.1
-- Found x11, version 1.6.3
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/george/Downloads/Solvespace/src/solvespace-2.3/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

Dear whitequark,

thanks for providing the pipe elbow.

I am new to Solvespace and CAD drawing and I am curious how I would construct this piece. Actually a simpler version would suffice for my needs, like a quarter of a torus.

Is there any small tutorial on how to build something like that?

Dear whitequark,

yes, I suspected that this is the way. I managed to produce a torus, but I am unsure how to cut away 3/4 of it.

Do I draw/extrude cubes? If so, how do I combine the two solids to cut away the unwanted part of the torus?

pipe-elbow.slvs causes 2.2 and 2.3 to crash/close immediately upon opening it on Windows.

They do not crash on Link/Assemble.

2.0 does not crash - it just complains about unrecognized data and opens the file without one of the flanges.

2.1 does not crash and does not complain - it opens the file without one of the flanges.

@ruevs, just tried it with wine and on a Windows 10 VM, no crash. This seems bizarre. Perhaps the file got corrupted?

Are you able to retrieve a backtrace for the crash? The .pdb file for solvespace.exe is available for download on https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/releases, for 2.2 and later.

Andreas, install Visual Studio 2013 or later, and set it as the "just-in-time" debugger, then run SolveSpace, and once it crashes and Visual Studio attaches, feed it the .pdb file from the link above.