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Open-source 3D CAD, animation and rendering tool. Used for animation, architecture, 3D modeling, and gaming. See blender.org for more details.

Blender is an integrated 3d suite for modelling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback (games). Blender has its own particular user interface, which is implemented entirely in OpenGL and designed with speed in mind. Python bindings are available for scripting; import/export features for popular file formats like 3D Studio and Wavefront Obj are implemented as scripts by the community. Stills, animations, models for games or other third party engines and interactive content in the form of a standalone binary and/or a web plug-in are common products of Blender use.

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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 can use to obtain a pre-compiled package for it?
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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 downloaded folder, but i want to replace the install…
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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 enable the GPU processing features in Blender. I'm…
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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 recent version that doesn't have the bug,…
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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 console is kicking out is CUDA version 7.5 detected,…
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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 Blender is not logical.
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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

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/+archive/blender so I just want to know if there is…
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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 resize windows. I experience problems when I try to…
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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 computer detects an other graphic card as the one that…
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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:cheleb/blender-svn sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get…
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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 install.
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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/kernels/cuda/kernel.cu" -o…
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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 install blender (The version string is…
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