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nickjob
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FreeCAD crashes on save

Post by nickjob »

Hi,

I'm using the build 4488 on Ubuntu 11.04 and whenever I try to save a file FreeCAD crashes with the following error.

Exception (Thu May 12 22:46:40 2011): Offscreen rendering failed
Unhandled exception...
Abnormal program termination...

Could anyone help me with this please? It's been happening consistently for the last few builds.

Many thanks,

Nick
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Re: FreeCAD crashes on save

Post by wmayer »

As a workaround go to the preferences under General > Document. There is an option to save a thumbnail into the project file. For any reason the off-screen rendering doesn't work on your system and thus causes the crash. However, we should also check our code to handle the exception properly in this case.
nickjob
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Re: FreeCAD crashes on save

Post by nickjob »

That's great, thanks.

I saw that you've put out newer version to deal with it too.

Impressive work,

Nick
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