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How to install Free CAD on Ubuntu 18.04

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To install Free CAD on Ubuntu 18.04
Free cad is a free and open source general-purpose parametric 3D CAD modeller.it is widely used in mechanical engineering and product design fields. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of free cad on Ubuntu 18.04.

Installation.
Let's first start with updating the system repositories.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease        
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease               
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Install the Free CAD application.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install freecad
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  graphviz povray
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  freecad
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 176 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/20.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 100 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package freecad.
(Reading database ... 192184 files and directories currently installed.)
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Setting up freecad (0.16.6712+dfsg1-1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the free cad from the Menu as shown here Free CAD application.
ubuntu_menu


Now you can able to use the Free CAD application.
freecad_application
The version of Free CAD.
version
With this, the method to install Free CAD on Ubuntu-18.04 comes to an end.

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douglasmaxton
When I install freecad, as you put it in this video, it installs. Then the problem is that, it is not opening correctly, it says no module named webgui, how do I fix that error.
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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

What is the easiest way to install FreeCAD on my system?

A

If you are on Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu and some other distributions, FreeCAD is already included in the standard software repositories and you can simply install it with the software manager. On Ubuntu, the FreeCAD team also maintains its own PPA repositories

Q

What are the prerequisites for running FreeCAD?

A

In contrast to most 3D CAD software, FreeCAD can run smoothly on the most modest computers - it's been known to run on Pentium IV and Intel Core2 Solo CPUs. If your computer is running a current operating system, chances are FreeCAD will run. The only prerequisite is that your graphics card or chipset must support OpenGL, preferably no older than v2.0. In case of problems

Q

What if I want to compile FreeCAD myself?

A

The source code of FreeCAD is always available in the project source code repository. Compiling FreeCAD yourself allows you to use the most recent features being developed, but requires a bit of computer knowledge, although the procedure is fairly simple

Q

FreeCAD tells me some module or application is missing what i should do ?

A

All the main required components are usually bundled within your FreeCAD installation or provided by your package manager, so normally you have nothing to worry about. If you installed FreeCAD from unofficial sources, however, or compiled FreeCAD yourself, some piece might be missing, which is not critical to FreeCAD itself, but might cause some functionality to be unavailable. Some specific file formats such as Collada or DWG also require extra components, which cannot be bundled into FreeCAD, and must be installed by yourself separately.

Q

why? FreeCAD crashes on startup ?

A

Most startup crashes occur because of one of the two following reasons:

OpenGL drivers are not installed, or not working properly
Some library, needed by FreeCAD, is not present on your system, or wasn't found by FreeCAD

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