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After I installed the precompiled LuxCoreRender binaries, I found 4 binaries: luxcoreui, luxcoreconsole, luxcoredemo, luxcorescenedemo. But when I went to FreeCad, it asked for Luxrender binary. When I pointed it to luxcoreui, I couldn't save my renders in a .png format. Which binary do I link it to and how do I save my render as an image?

There is no addon to work with Freecad currently. you must import your Model to blender and work with Blendluxcore addon.

ChintusTheGreat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:08 am When I pointed it to luxcoreui, I couldn't save my renders in a .png format.

I gave it a try and it seems that LuxCoreUI crashes for some reason when selecting "Save Outputs" command after it was started from within FreeCAD.
As a workaround, you could export the raytracing project and then separately run LuxCoreUI to render it. In that case "Save Outputs" works fine.

acasta69 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 1:17 pm

ChintusTheGreat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:08 am When I pointed it to luxcoreui, I couldn't save my renders in a .png format.

I gave it a try and it seems that LuxCoreUI crashes for some reason when selecting "Save Outputs" command after it was started from within FreeCAD.
As a workaround, you could export the raytracing project and then separately run LuxCoreUI to render it. In that case "Save Outputs" works fine.

Thanks! Now it works nicely.

Sorry misreading again

Well, the FreeCAD exporter is indeed very old, it was built for Luxrender and the lxs format, and using it with Luxcore is probably far from ideal.
I am not sure if every Luxcore option is available with that format, but it is always possible to export everything in Luxcore format from LuxCoreUI, from menu Rendering --> Export.

acasta69 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 3:51 pm I am not sure if every Luxcore option is available with that format

No, definitely nothing of the new stuff, and only a subset of the features in LuxRender 1.6.