Command Line Tools under macOS

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
cd /Applications
  • Change into the QCAD-Pro application bundle:
cd QCAD-Pro.app/Contents/Resources
  • Launch the command line tool, for example:
./dwg2maptiles -o ~/Desktop/flange ./examples/flange.dxf
  • Or launch QCAD:
./qcad

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