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Is there any simple 3D viewer application?

You can use: f3d but there is no FBX support for now. Install and view a file with: sudo apt install f3d f3d mymodel.gltf Mesh viewer Meshlab Open3D (very usefull and fast) (http only)
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Qt Creator not working with VirtualBox 3D Acceleration

disable 3d acceleration from virtualbox settings and boot the system In Qt Creator, go to Help → About Plugins… Uncheck Qt Creator –> Welcome exit Qt Creator, shutdown system and enable 3d ...
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Autodesk Maya symbol lookup error on start after installing AMD proprietary driver on Ubuntu 18.04

I was just debugging the same issue. This happens for the following reason. Most of the maya installation guides on ubuntu involve creating a symbolic link of libssl.so inside the maya installation (...
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Hyper-V: Ubuntu 16.04 and remoteFX

Open Terminal Type: sudo vi /etc/default/grub Find the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, and add video=hyperv_fb:[the resolution you want]. The resolution I want is 1280x720. So my ...
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Which free software can you use to create rotating 3D Spacefill models of molecules in .gif format?

Molgif You can also use molgif. It is a command-line tool for producing Gif animations of molecules from xyz files. molgif caffeine.xyz
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How to perform a detailed and quick 3D performance test

gfxbench by Kishonti Ltd. is considered a golden standard in the industry. You can download a free version of their benchmark at: https://gfxbench.com/linux-download/ Then run their scripts: sh ...
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landscape generator in ubuntu

Blender is the way, at the moment. This software evolved a lot during the last years, and there are plugins for a lot of things. It also has a huge potential to do a lot of things procedurally (...
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no directory when using /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

It's because you don't have unity installed. You need to follow a different process to figure out if your VirtualBox 3D acceleration is working. First install mesa-utils with sudo apt install mesa-...
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How can I view VR (virtual reality) 3D Video on a standard 2D screen in Ubuntu?

One way would be to obtain the GoPro VR Player which is currently available free in a deb package here The latest version available for Linux is 2.3.1 - 2017-05-19 which is distributed under v.2.1 or ...
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Is there an equivalent to Google Sketchup?

I think the current best answer is https://app.sketchup.com I know web apps aren't ideal for every use case, but it works well and is SketchUp, nothing else is going to be as close to SketchUp as the ...
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How to view 3D PDF files?

You can install PlayOnLinux (sudo apt install playonlinux) and then use the PlayOnLinux GUI to install and run Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: Within PlayOnLinux, you can then create a file association to ...
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I need a 3D Sketchup-like program

I use FreeCAD, but mostly for part design. http://www.freecadweb.org/ Sweet Home 3D might also be useful to you. http://www.sweethome3d.com/index.jsp
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How do I install MeshMixer on 14.10?

Here is my tested solution that will work on any ubuntu (or debian) distro. This will download meshmixer 2.9 and dependencies, install it on a opt/ dir on your $HOME and create a meshmixer bin to run ...
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3D Acceleration Not working with Virtualbox Tools 5.2.6

It looks like this issue relates to OSX. @RobertRiedl looks like you may have been the closest. I installed Developer Tools and XQuartz, this gave me access to glxinfo. Running glxinfo | grep OpenGL ...
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Enabling hardware acceleration for windows 10 VM in qemu 2.11 on 18.04

Currently there are not drivers for Windows that support Virgl and 3D acceleration and OpenGL. I resolved this by purchasing an inexpensive PCIE GPU to directly pass through to the VM to be able to ...
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OpenGL rendering missing some triangles, why and how to fix

I have the same symptoms (documented them on the Ubuntu forums). The best answer I've found (from here) is that it's an issue with Intel integrated graphics (often HD 2500) and kernels between 5.8.0-...
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How to reduce GPU fan noise in 3D games?

Turns out there is: https://gitlab.com/torkel104/libstrangle Essentially: sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib libx11-dev mesa-common-dev git clone https://gitlab.com/torkel104/libstrangle....
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I want to build games on unity. Installed on a virtual box , is it possible to do so?

Unity, blender, etc. all have native GNU/Linux releases. Trying using them as they may contain optimizations aimed at GNU/Linux. I have not used these in VirtualBox before but other software I use run ...
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How to convert .obj or .stl files to .mesh?

meshio seems capable of doing what you want (haven't tried it myself). You can install it by running: pip install meshio or pip install 'meshio[all]' ([all] pulls in all optional dependencies. By ...
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How to install ogre-meshviewer?

As the output of the sudo snap install ogre-meshviewer command informs you, ogre-meshviewer is successfully installed. The error you get is because you try to run ogre-meshviewer without the required ...
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Is there any simple 3D viewer application?

ctmviewer from the openctm-tools package supports the following formats: OpenCTM (.ctm) Stanford triangle format (.ply) Stereolithography (.stl) 3D Studio (.3ds) COLLADA 1.4/1.5 (.dae) Wavefront ...
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Blender 2.91 constantly crashing in Ubuntu 20.04.1

Found the solution! Just had to start the Software Update Manager, go to Additional Drivers, and change to nvidia-driver-450.
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no directory when using /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

Make sure you have nux-tools installed, or run this command and try again: sudo apt install nux-tools
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Any command-line tools for converting a series of photos at different angles to a smooth rotating video or 3D viewer?

You're doing model capture, in that you probably want a 3D model (e.g. .3ds) (which you want to feed into a suggestible renderer such as a 3D screensaver featuring teapots and named teapot,) and to ...
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No 3D processing OpenGL unknown ATI Radeon 200 Lubuntu 18.04

This GPU only supports up to OpenGL 2.0, and is 14 years old. Blender 2.77 and newer requires at least OpenGL 2.1. You maybe able to download 2.76 or an older version and use it on this GPU though, ...
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Hyper-V: Ubuntu 16.04 and remoteFX

I was looking for a way of changing resolution too, and I was editing /etc/default/grub, until I found Sneak Peek: Taking a Spin with Enhanced Linux VMs from Microsoft, which now links to Run Ubuntu ...
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Qt Creator not working with VirtualBox 3D Acceleration

Reboot not needed: Start qtcreator using: ./qtcreator -noload Welcome -noload QmlDesigner -noload QmlProfiler in QT creator folder (i.e. C:\Qt\Qt5.7.0\Tools\QtCreator\bin). Then you can disable the ...
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Enable 3D HW acceleration on VMWare Workstation 10 on Ubuntu 14.04

For me, I had to add mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"to my virtual machine (.vmx) file
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Any 3D CAD programs for Ubuntu?

EQUINOX-3D has advanced freeform and numeric CAD, photorealistic / physically based rendering, animation, and tons of other features. We use it heavily and exclusively for advanced CAD modeling / 3D ...
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