The driver version has to be right for the xwindows version also. Anton, be sure you have a good xwindows installation. If your ubuntu repositories are set to 10.10 try reinstalling xwindows.

You mentioned fglrx and AMD. I think fglrx is for Intel. Whatever the case, find out the exact drivers your ...

I just found out something about debian. It may help with Ubuntu also.
I was having similar problem of sh3d starting, then wrong GLX version error message when loading a file, or starting for 1/2 second then stopping.

The package called libgl1-mesa-glx has GLX version 1.2 and goeas along with ...

Can all furniture and doors and windows be stretched? Does the model need anything special to allow that?

John G

The ant compile also gave these warnings:

[javac] Compiling 166 source files to /moredata/SweetHome3D-2.6-src/build/classes
[javac] Note: /moredata/SweetHome3D-2.6-src/src/com/eteks/sweethome3d/swing/JPEGImagesToVideo.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint ...

"The easiest Ant target is probably the one named jarExecutable."

Oh... I figured that out and built it with no errors.

ant makes a file install/SweetHome3D-2.6.jar

When I execute that it puts this to the screen:

john@toolbench:/moredata/SweetHome3D-2.6-src/install$ ./SweetHome3D-2.6.jar
Java 3D ...

thanks Hansmex,

I will look at my xorg install. Perhaps it is because I am using
nouveau drivers for nvidia.

The workaround is fine. I get sh3d wroking fine.

I would still like to know how to start sh3d differently
than using javaws so it downloads pieces from eteks.com

It is slowly downloading ...

I followed the FAQ for "crashes when I want to edit preferences"
and on my debian linux machine I get downloads happening, timing out,
and causing a quit, but twice I got all the way to opening preferences.

It is slow and hit or miss. How can I run so javaws downloading is not needed,
but I still ...

https://collada.org has a title line about interactive media, so probably no STEP, IGES, or CAM going on there...

John

Is there more added to the .obj text file that helps you stretch a window, shelf, counter, etc? Sweet Home 3D uses standard OBJ + MTL files (everything in OBJ format isn't probably supported, but what is supported is enough).

Thanks for the link to .OBJ file specification info. I will probably ...

I want to upload the file and work on it online from different computers.

This sounds good for my products so customers can use SH3D in buying decision process.

The offline SH3D file has a few parts that are not readable text -- are those just the images for surface textures?

What amount of ...