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Revision as of 13:20, 25 September 2018

Tool Page

For every serious software development you need tools. Here is a list of tools we use to develop FreeCAD:

Platform independend tools

Qt-Toolkit

The Qt-toolkit is a state of the art, plattform independend user interface design tool. It is contained in the LibPack of FreeCAD, but can also be downloaded at Qt project.

Inkscape

Great vector drawing programm. Adheres to the SVG standard and is used to draw Icons and Pictures. Get it at www.inkscape.org.

Doxygen

A very good and stable tool to generate source documentation from the .h and .cpp files.

The Gimp

Not much to say about the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Besides it can handle .xpm files which is a very convenient way to handle Icons in QT Programms. XPM is basicly C-Code which can be compiled into a programme.

Get the GIMP here: www.gimp.org

Tools on Windows

Visual Studio 8 Express

Although VC8 is for C++ development not really a step forward since VisualStudio 6 (IMO a big step back), its a free development system on Windows. For native Win32 applications you need to download the PlatformSDK from M$.

So the Express edition is hard to find. But you might try this link

CamStudio

Is a Open Source tool to record Screencasts (Webcasts). Its a very good tool to create tutorials by recording them. Its far not so boring as writing documentation.

See camstudio.org for details.

StarUML

A full featured Open Source UML programm. It has a lot of features of the big ones, including reverse engeniering C++ source code....

Download here: staruml.sourceforge.net


Tools on Linux

TODO

Third Party Libraries
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