I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and have downloaded the partlibrary tarball and extracted it to my desktop. I don't know where to go from here. How do i install it so that i can use the library browser? Does the community version of Qcad have that capability?
There was no "libraries" folder created in the original installation of Qcad so i manually crreated one. This is where I'm stuck. Where to go from here. Any help will be much appreciated.
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Moderator: andrew
Sorry, those are Windows-style addresses.
No good for us Linux users...
Biggocharley:
1- Make sure you have the library view turned on.
View -> Views -> Library Browser (checked)
2- You'll find relevant folders at
/usr/share/qcad
but you're correct, the library folder is missing.
If (from QCad) you go Edit -> Application Preferences -> "Paths" tab, you'll see that it is supposed to be looking for libraries at
/usr/share/qcad/libraries
but I've never seen anything but subfolders show up that I tossed in there, so I assume that the library feature is disabled in the Community Edition.
Pity...
-Eddy
No good for us Linux users...
Biggocharley:
1- Make sure you have the library view turned on.
View -> Views -> Library Browser (checked)
2- You'll find relevant folders at
/usr/share/qcad
but you're correct, the library folder is missing.
If (from QCad) you go Edit -> Application Preferences -> "Paths" tab, you'll see that it is supposed to be looking for libraries at
/usr/share/qcad/libraries
but I've never seen anything but subfolders show up that I tossed in there, so I assume that the library feature is disabled in the Community Edition.
Pity...
-Eddy
hpp3 wrote:Sorry, those are Windows-style addresses.
you'll see that it is supposed to be looking for libraries at
/usr/share/qcad/libraries
...
so I assume that the library feature is disabled in the Community Edition.
-Eddy
hello,
I have the Community Edition and I just copied all library parts in the directory mentioned in the "paths" window /usr/share/qcad/libraries and I confirm that I can see the blocks in the library browser.
So yeah, the community edition supports part library!
With Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 you can install the package 'partlibrary'
Or unpack the library with
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sudo apt-get install partlibrary
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cd /usr/share/qcad
sudo mkdir libraries
cd libraries
sudo tar -xvvf /home/username/Downloads/partlibrary-2.1.2.8-1.tar.gz
sudo mv partlibrary-2.1.2.8-1/* .