Questions tagged [blender]
Open-source 3D CAD, animation and rendering tool. Used for animation, architecture, 3D modeling, and gaming. See blender.org for more details.
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Is there a PPA for the latest Blender version?
I am interested in trying out the Blender 2.54 beta, but don't have the time or patience to download and install all of the dependencies for it and compile it myself.
Is there a PPA somewhere that I ...
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How to install Blender from the official website
I installed Blender from official Ubuntu repository but its version is always behind the version available from the official Blender website.
I'm aware that I can launch the program within the ...
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Is Blender good as a CAD tool?
For instance for mechanical engineering; from what I've seen, Blender is quite flexible and powerful so maybe it serves well for this also?
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How to make Nvidia CUDA work? (for GPU rendering in Blender)
I'm trying to get CUDA (although not sure exactly what it is) to work in Ubuntu for GPU rendering in the Blender 3D modelling program. On Windows 7 64-bit, it works flawlessly. In Ubuntu, I can't ...
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How to install the latest version of Blender in Ubuntu, instead of the old version in the official repositories?
I'm new to blender, was trying to render my project, and ran into a bug that appears to be a problem with the blender installed by sudo apt install blender.
Fortunately, the blender website has a more ...
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Downgrade GCC from 5.2.1 to 4.9 Ubuntu 15.10
Because of program compatibility issues I need to downgrade GCC to at least 4.9
How do I do this? Thanks.
EDIT: The program is Blender and am trying to do GPU rendering. The specific error the ...
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Alt+Left Click , how to remove shortcut
I have Ubuntu and GNOME 3 and when I do Alt+Left-click it grabs the current window. How do I stop this from happening, as I need this shortcut in Blender which I update often so changing it inside ...
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Why does the "blender-tpaw" package exist?
Looking for Blender in the software store and I see "blender-tpaw" package
What does this package do and how is it separate from blender?
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Downloading Latest Blender Version from PPA [duplicate]
For a few days I've been looking for a trusted source for the latest version of Blender. I found two commands to download Blender, but the Launchpad page was like this: https://launchpad.net/~irie/+...
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How do I install the latest Blender 3D builds from a PPA?
My problem is that i want to install latest blender and upgrade it automatically via sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade . So, i tried to add a repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:...
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Can't run latest Blender on Ubuntu 18.04
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 (Kubuntu, actually) on a Lenovo ThinkPad L540.
I installed the latest Blender from the PPA repository like so:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt ...
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nvcc fatal : Value 'sm_86' is not defined for option 'gpu-architecture'
When I try to use CUDA with Blender 2.82.a+dfsg-1 I get the following error:
Compiling CUDA kernel ...
"nvcc" -arch=sm_86 --cubin "/usr/share/blender/scripts/addons/cycles/source/kernel/...
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Where does Blender install on Ubuntu?
I'm trying to put some export scripts into Blender but I simply cannot find the installation path!
I'm using the latest versions of both Ubuntu and Blender, which I have installed with apt-get ...
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Install Nvidia driver for CUDA to use "GPU" option in Blender (ubuntu (13.10-) 14.04)
Same question as on the Blender stackexchange site.
As a recap:
I have to install the nvidia driver but how to do it? (repository or manually? And I already had problems with both, as said)
My ...
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How to get Autocad working with Wine?
I am trying 3 years now installing Autocad,*3ds Max* and Revit architecture on Ubuntu with wine!
Every year I am very optimistic 'cause I see the new wine versions already improved.
So, now I am ...
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How to enable the blender console?
I have installed Blender 2.65a from its official site but am unable to activate the console for python. I'm unable to run in terminal since it is not installed from Ubuntu Software Center because it ...
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GLIBCXX_3.4.15 not found
When I try to run Blender builds from Graphicall.org (11.04 Natty 64-bit), I get the following message:
./blender: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version 'GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (...
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Running blender gives me libIlmImf.so.6
I installed blender ($sudo apt-get install blender)
But when I run blender it gives me an error
$blender
blender: error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf.so.6: cannot open shared object file:...
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Disable alt+rightclick in ubuntu 16.04
I'd like to disable the alt+rightclik keybinding as it is shared by Blender. All of the solutions so far have involved using ccsm, but so far, that hasn't worked for me. Does anybody know how to do ...
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cant install cuda toolkit
I followed the instructions per this page. Now, I get this error:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
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libpng15.so.15, cannot open shared object file
I recently downloaded a binary of Blender, and upon running it on got the following error:
jdphenix@jdphenix:~/blender/blender_59865$ ./blender
./blender: error while loading shared libraries: ...
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How do I disable global keyboard shortcuts for a specific application?
I'm using Kubuntu 20.04 (KDE), but it would also be helpful to know how to do this on other official Ubuntu flavors.
On KDE, ALT+L Mouse and ALT+R Mouse are global keyboard shortcuts to move and ...
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Install Blender (.tar.bz2) in Ubuntu 16.04LTS
How can I install Blender 2.78a ?
The file extension is .tar.bz2 .
I have found this but as 10.04 is much older and I am installing a different file I felt that I need to learn specific instruction ...
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Some importants shorcuts of Blender do not work on Ubuntu
In Ubuntu (and Mint) some important shortcuts for Blender do not work.
Alt + right click to select an edge loop (heavily used on all 3D software) doesn't work, a useless menu of Ubuntu pops up to ask ...
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Were is the Debian package for Blender 2.70a?
In the official repository of Ubuntu and Debian is only the 2.6 version of Blender. I searched with Google to find a Debian package to download. But I found nothing.
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How can I turn off alt-right mouse button function in 12.10?
By default the alt + mouse combination activates the window menu.
The activate the window menu shortcut is currently set to alt+space
The Alt-RMB key combo is used in blender for selecting edge ...
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Blender Distorted UI
I have just downloaded the latest version of Blender from the website on to my Xubuntu machine, when I open it, I get this:
The screenshot below is a zoomed in version of the top left of the screen, ...
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How can I resolve the error "be sure the Blender executable is correct" when trying to open animations in blender installed with snap?
I installed OpenShot and Blender from snap in 18.04 to keep the versions current.
When trying to open an animated title I get the following error message:
Blender, the free open source 3D content ...
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How can i install Blender from the Snap LTS channel? [duplicate]
When i try to install from the Softwarecenter, i got this error message:
snap "blender" requires classic confinement
What does this mean?
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Does CUDA work on 12.10?
Has anyone tryed CUDA on Ubuntu 12.10 with Blender or another programm? In the last beta of Quantal CUDA wasn't working. I would like to update from 12.04 to 12.10 final but only if CUDA still works. ...
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Blender won't save images
This should be a simple question. I am unable to save any images I render in blender.
I set the output to be /home/john/Pictures/binary.png, the image type to PNG, and checked the "File Extensions" ...
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How to add Blender menu item in main menu?
Downloaded blender. How can I add menu item with blender icon in main menu?
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Blender 2.5 render will not export sound
I have tried several formats, but my blender animation render will not have sound. In blender, it plays fine when I press the play button, but there is no sound in the render. Can someone help me with ...
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Blender has weird fuzzy misbehaving icon in launcher
I got Blender 2.58 (stable) from blender.org (downloaded the package, extracted it). Everything works fine, but the only thing that bugs me is that the icon in the launcher (when I open it) is really ...
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How usable is BlenderCAD project right now?
There is not much documentation in the project page. Did anyone try it on Ubuntu?
In any case, what to expect from it? Can it become a FOSS alternative to Catia, Autodesk Inventor or SolidWorks?
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Blender can not detect my GPU
My blender preferences say, "No compatible GPUs found for path tracing, Cycles will render on CPU" for CUDA.
Some relevant info:
Blender version: Blender 2.82 (sub 7)
Processor: Intel(R) ...
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Cannot get OpenCL to work with Radeon 5700XT
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 with an AMD Radeon 5700XT graphics card. I cannot get OpenCL to work with it.
I'm using the AMDGPU driver installed with the parameters
--opencl=legacy,rocm
and I installed libgl1-...
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Assign program its own swap drive
I'm trying to render something with blender, but it's taking 20gb of RAM! I don't have that, so I just plug in a 60gb usb stick, and mount it as swap space.
The problem is that now I can't really use ...
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Blender Hangs Using Intel Integrated Graphics
Blender frequently hangs and has to be killed during normal use of edit mode and object mode with Intel integrated graphics. I am using version 3.6.0 on Ubuntu 22.04, though the issue is present in ...
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Disable all keyboard shortcuts except for Alt+Tab in program
I'm trying to use the 3D software Blender in Ubuntu and the software is very keyboard shortcut heavy. The issue is, a lot of the keyboard shortcuts overlap with Ubuntu's system shortcuts. For example, ...
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Exporting .blend files using OgreXML
My question is a simple one this time: how can I export .blend files using OgreXML in ubuntu 12.04(x64)? I've installed blender-ogrexml, but how do I get it to work, or am I doing it completely wrong?
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How to avoid apps upgrading with snap [duplicate]
I'm trying to "pin" my current Blender version. My hardware is a bit old to run Blender 4.0 so I aimed to use the LTS version of it (which is now at version 3.x).
I know this is possible to ...
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CUDA kernel compilation failed
I have geforce 1070, ubuntu-studio 16.10 and installed CUDA 8 (from here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit). I also install g++ 5 and make symlink
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-5 /usr/local/cuda/bin/...
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mouse remapping doesnt work in Blender - middle click
I try to remap my logitech MK 705 mouse buttons, in Xubuntu 14.04
for this i used :
xinput set-button-map
I wanted remap my Wheel left to be a Middle click. ( I need to use a lot of the middle ...
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GLX missing, Unity 3d/various programs are not working! [closed]
I just recently reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04 and while I was installing my programs I found I couldn't open Blender. The application wouldn't start. When I typed it in to the console I got this message:
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What to do with .desktop files that comes in tar.gz
I recently downloaded Blender from its website and when I unpacked the tar.gz archive I found out that there is a blender.desktop file. I know that it is used for creating menu or desktop shortcuts. I ...
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How To Make A Song With Lyrics
Today I was trying to make a video using song lyrics but I couldn't find a way, I want to add some effects for text(Animation) and Slide(Animation) I know many programs Windows relative but I don't ...
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How do I install and keep updated with the most recent versions of Blender on Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Blender is a perfect piece of software with many brilliant changes in each minor release. But often the most recent versions of Ubuntu does not have the latest versions of Blender.
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how to paste data (files or directories) inside an installed snap package.?
ubuntu 20, Blender installed via snap package. default location (i managed to find) is
/snap/blender/current/2.xx/
I have also installed Prism (VFX pipeline tool) This tool needs PySide2 Package ...
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Blender 2.70 not installed, but can open it, yet can't find it in dash or add it to launcher [duplicate]
I have downloaded Blender 2.7 and moved it to folder /opt and yet I can't find it in dash or place it in launcher. I have searched for solutions on the net, but I don't quite understand those.
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