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Command Line Tools under macOS

Post by andrew » Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:28 pm

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, you can start the QCAD command line tools or start QCAD from the command line 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
- Or launch QCAD:

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

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