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FreeCad - drawing dimension

Motivation

I want to use FreeCad to draw dimension for ordering to cut wood with 2D design sheet.

Environment (Ubuntu 18.04, FreeCad 0.18)

  • Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic
  • FreeCAD 0.18.4

Install “drawing_dimensioning” workbench

Tool > Addon manager > select “drawing_dimensioning”

Warning

If Addons wizard stuck “Retrieving info from wiki”, it might be due to python version compatibility.

check line 149 in /usr/lib/freecad/Mod/AddonManager/addonmanager_macro.py, 

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FreeCAD.Console.PrintWarning(translate("AddonsInstaller", "Unable to clean macro code: ") + code + '\n')

and change it to: 

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FreeCAD.Console.PrintWarning(translate("AddonsInstaller", "Unable to clean macro code: ") + str(code) + '\n')

Ref. Reddit freecad forum

Though above works for solving stuck, but workbench looks not stably launched on my client. So, I decided to install freecad 0.19 that looks to fix above addon manager errors.

Before installing freecad 0.19, I upgraded ubuntu release from 18.04 to 20.04

Last update: April 30, 2021