ViaConstructor - Free and Opensource CAM for Linux and Mac

I just tried on Debian Bookworm running Wayland.

Without an export the 3d view is transparent.

I opened a teminal as a normal user and entered the following two commands and it runs successfully:

When I enter your commands, I get the following message:
bash: ./bin/viaconstructor: No such file or directory

And I searched and I can't find the viaconstructor folder anywhere

I installed directly from git as I was unable to successfully install via pip on any of my machines.:

phillc54 wrote:

I installed directly from git as I was unable to successfully install via pip on any of my machines.:

Code:

git clone https://github.com/multigcs/viaconstructor.git cd viaconstructor pip3 install -r requirements.txt export QT_QPA_PLATFORM="xcb" ./bin/viaconstructor tests/data/simple.dxf

Later versions of python I believe inhibit running pip unless you are in a virtual environment (VENV). Maybe that was your issue? python VENVs are kind of clever if you want to run seperate Python apps (say accounting and web server) as they mean you can run each in its own virtual python environment, But for everyday stuff its a pain in the rear.
random ref: www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-setup-v...ironments-in-python/

I have never had a reason to use pip but I thought that I would try considering that it is mentioned in the viaconstructor readme.

It didn't go well... lucky I don't need it.

I receive this message:

Installing collected packages: pyqt5
  WARNING: The scripts pylupdate5, pyrcc5 and pyuic5 are installed in '/home/cnc/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed pyqt5-5.15.7
cnc@cnc:~/viaconstructor$ export QT_QPA_PLATFORM="xcb"
cnc@cnc:~/viaconstructor$ ./bin/viaconstructor tests/data/simple.dxf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/cnc/viaconstructor/viaconstructor/__main__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .viaconstructor import ViaConstructor
  File "/home/cnc/viaconstructor/viaconstructor/viaconstructor.py", line 20, in <module>
    import ezdxf
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ezdxf'
cnc@cnc:~/viaconstructor$

 

 
how to fix it ?

ezdxf is a python lib. Maybe install it, my suggestion without checking it : $ sudo apt-get install python3-exdxf
 

receives this message:
E: Unable to locate package python3-exdxf
 

and I messed up everything. because now viaconstructor does not open for me at all
 

Hi,

O my god. Welcome to Linux.

snapshot.debian.org/package/ezdxf/0.14.2-3/
Then it would be : # sudo apt-get install python3-ezdxf (you did'nt see my typo?)

packages.debian.org/bullseye/qtcreator
Then it would be : # sudo apt-get install qtcreator
has libqt5core5a (>= 5.15.1)

Hope this helps.

It still didn't work. Now I have this error