¶ System Requirements
¶ Hardware configuration
- Memory
Minimum 4 GB RAM, recommended is 8 GB or more. - Graphics
Needs to support OpenGL version 2.0 and newer.
¶ Operating systems
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Windows
64-bit Windows 7 and newer. -
OSX
10.11 (El Capitan) and newer versions. OSX 10.12 (Sierra) and newer will be required for versions after 2.4.2. -
Linux
most standard Linux distributions.
¶ Dwonload
You can be in our GitHub to download the latest stable version. By reading the update document, you can get an overview of the new content or bugs fixed in the version.
And you can choose the appropriate installation package according to your computer system to download and install.
¶ Install
¶ Windows
In windows, we give you two ways to install it. One is a.zip file and the other is an.exe file.
- zip file
- Download the zip file;
- Decompress the downloaded zip file to any folder;
- Double-click the "qidi-slicer.exe" file in the folder to start QIDISlicer.
- .exe file
- Download the.exe installation file;
- Run the installation file and follow the installation steps;
- After the installation is successful, the QIDISlicer icon is displayed on the desktop. Double-click the icon to open the slicing software.
¶ Linux
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First, you need to download the latest stable version of AppImage file via our GitHub.
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Then, you must make the AppImage file executable before launching QIDISlicer.
¶ How do I make AppImage executable?
¶ GUI Graphical operations
Let's take Ubuntu as an example.
- First, you need to find the AppImage file and right-click on it;
- Then select "Properpies" in the menu bar;
- Finally, select "Execute" on the "Permissions" page in the pop-up window.
Once you have done this, you can open QIDISlicer by directly double-clicking the AppImage file.
¶ Command line operation
On Linux systems, you can also execute AppImage from the command line.
- First, use the command line to access the Downloads folder;
cd downloads
- Then, the files in the current directory are listed to determine the specific file name and to check whether the file is executable;
ls
- After that, give the file executable rights;
chmod a+x QIDISlicer_1.1.7_Linux.AppImage
- Finally, QIDISlicer can be launched using the following command or by double-clicking the AppImage file.
./QIDISlicer_1.1.7_Linux.AppImage
Note: If you run in a Linux environment and receive an error alert or fail to run, you may be missing required libraries or some dependencies. You can fix the problem by installing the missing library. As follows:
sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module