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FreeCAD 0.12.5284 and OpenCASCADE 6.5.2 – Working together on Slackware

FreeCAD and OpenCASCADE
Building a new version of FreeCAD and OpenCASCADE is always a lot of fun…
These two projects are constantly evolving, but almost never ‘in sync’.
In December a new version of the OpenCASCADE library was released – 6.5.2. It solves several bugs and looked like a good reason to build a newer version of FreeCAD [...]

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FreeCAD, OpenCASCADE and Pivy updated – Slackware packages available

Updating FreeCAD was long over due – the last package I built was for 0.9.2646 and they’re currently in the 0.11 series. But it is not a simple package to build – it requires some time and patience to get it all right…
Dependencies
FreeCAD is based on OpenCASCADE, which has been updated a few [...]

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