Bug#764814: freecad downloads and executes code

[Yorik van Havre]

In 0.14 version (the one in debian right now), the preferences option is in
Preferences->Draft->DXF instead of Preferences->Import/export->DXF.
This is already fixed upstream and will appear correctly in next versions.

The message also appears in the FreeCAD UI if you enable/show the output
window. This is the normal behaviour of FreeCAD, all messages to the user
are gathered there.

Placing the files in $HOME/.FreeCAD should work, unless the macros path
has been changed (Preferences->General->Macros)

Yorik

On 7 November 2014 11:10, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> Package: freecad
> Version: 0.14.3702+dfsg-3
> Followup-For: Bug #764814
>
> Hello,
>
> I am unable to use DXF files in freecad.
>
> In the console(no UI!) there is this message:
> DXF libraries not found. Downloading...
> The DXF import/export libraries needed by FreeCAD to handle the DXF
> format
> were not found on this system. Please either enable FreeCAD to download
> these
> libraries (menu Edit > Preferences > Import-Export > DXF > Enable
> downloads) or download
> these libraries manually, as explained on
> https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/Draft-dxf-importer
>
>
> However, preferences dialog has no Import-Export section.
>
> The readme does not specify where exactly the DXF import files are to be
> placed and just placing them in $HOME/.FreeCAD does not work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michal
>
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