dwg2maptiles on OSX

[nigeSeeable]

Hi all, I have just purchased QCad pro in order to use the 'dwg2maptiles' tool - however I am unable to figure out how to use this tool on my mac.
I have tried cd-ing to the installation on my mac's terminal and running

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./dwg2maptiles -h

for starters but (probably obviously to those in the know ) this hasn't worked and despite much searching and looking both on this forum and through google I have hit a brick wall.
I have searched the forum but everyone else seems to know what they are doing and so don't need to ask how to use these command line tools

I am using QCad Professional 3.11.3.0 on the latest OSX (el capitan).

Any help in this matter would be brilliant. Thanks in advance

[andrew]

Under Mac OS X, applications are bundled into so called Application Bundles. In the case of QCAD Professional, the application bundle is called "QCAD-Pro.app".
The command line tools of QCAD are located inside the application bundle under "Contents/Resources".

If you have installed QCAD Professional into your application folder, proceed as follows:

- Open the Terminal application
- Change into the /Application folder

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cd /Applications

- Change into the QCAD-Pro application bundle:

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cd QCAD-Pro.app/Contents/Resources

- Launch the command line tool, for example:

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./dwg2maptiles -o ~/Desktop/flange ./examples/flange.dxf

This creates a folder called "flange" on your desktop with the rendered map data of the QCAD example file /Applications/QCAD-Pro/Contents/Resources/examples/flange.dxf

More information about the QCAD command line tools is available on our web site at:
http://www.qcad.org/en/qcad-documentati ... line-tools

[nigeSeeable]

Thank you Andrew - perfect