How To Install simarrange on Fedora 34

simarrange is STL 2D plate packer with collision simulation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install simarrange on Fedora 34.

What is simarrange

Simarrange is a program that simulates collisions between STL meshes in 2D in order to generate tightly packed sets of parts. It takes a directory of STL files as input and outputs STL files with combined plates of parts. The parts are assumed to be in the correct printable orientation already.

We can use yum or dnf to install simarrange on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install simarrange.

Install simarrange on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install simarrange using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install simarrange

Install simarrange on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install simarrange using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install simarrange

How To Uninstall simarrange on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the simarrange package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove simarrange

simarrange Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/simarrange
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/61221738cb79b1584f458451bc12c0239db9ce
/usr/share/doc/simarrange
/usr/share/doc/simarrange/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/simarrange
/usr/share/licenses/simarrange/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/simarrange.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install simarrange on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.