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FreeCAD Power User Mode

This document is a study on how the FreeCAD user.cfg is constructed.
The intention is to create customizable .cfg files that Power Users can utilize and share with each other. Possibly even an automation feature that allows the user to install FreeCAD with pre-installed addons, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Misc. Preferences

This is a list of various preferences/configurations that can be tweaked via user.cfg.

How to update the FreeCAD-Addons repo

git pull

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# git submodule foreach git checkout master
# Skip certain submodules https://stackoverflow.com/a/58292036

# for repos with default branch named: 'master'

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	[[Arch Add]]
	[[Arch Axis]]
	[[Arch AxisSystem]]
	[[Arch Building]]
	[[Arch BuildingPart]]
	[[Arch Check]]
	[[Arch CloneComponent]]
	[[Arch CloseHoles]]
	[[Arch CompAxis]]

	#
	# Script to pythonically determine 3rd party dependencies in FreeCAD
	#
	# Some code borrowed from https://github.com/jaheyns/CfdOF/blob/master/CfdTools.py
	# also suggestion from https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=40522

	import FreeCAD
	import subprocess as sub

	def checkFCVersion(term_print=True):

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	# FreeCAD Headless AddonManager test
	# (c) 2019 FreeCAD community LGPL

	"""
	The module can be executed with:
	./FreeCAD.AppImage -c <path_to_file> AddonManagerHeadless.py

	Note:
	In order to test updates, it possible to use git reset --hard HEAD~1

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	#This Macro creates the main parts of a Geneva Wheel Mechanism

	#It depends on six values that must be altered in the following code
	#The variables are a, b, n, p, t and h.

	#Definition for each variable
	# Input
	#a = Drive Crank Radius
	#b = Geneva Wheel Radius

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	catalog->catalogue
	centimeter->centimetre
	centralize->centralise

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