FreeCAD scripts

Usage with a docker container

• Download and run the container with docker run --pull always --rm -p 8888:8888 symbench/freecad-scripts.
• Connect to the jupyter server within the container using your browser at https://127.0.0.1:8888/?token...
• Look at the models/pv_example.ipynb example on how to use the freecad_scripts library.

Usage on your local machine

• Make sure that you have the freecad-python3 (version 0.19) and gmsh packages installed. On ubuntu 21.04 you would run the command sudo apt-get install freecad-python3 gmsh.
• Clone the freecad_scripts repository and install it with pip3 install -e .. This will allow you to update the code (e.g. with git pull) without reinstallation.
• Use freecad-scripts --help to list the supported subcommands.

Creating the docker image (only for maintainers)

• Clone or update the freecad_scripts repository from https://github.com/symbench/freecad-scripts
• Run docker build -t symbench/freecad-scripts . to create the latest version
• Run docker push symbench/freecad-scripts:latest to publish it on docker hub.