Download PythonCAD

In order to install PythonCAD, you should get the source code of the latest release. There are two way to get this code: you can get a tarball or you can use subversion to checkout the code from the repository. If you plan to collaborate with the project, you should use the subversion option.

A tarball with the latest version can be downloaded from the following links:

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncad/

Please, update the links above if they don't point to the latest release.

Subversion installation instructions can be found at their website, as well as documentation about program usage. If you have used CVS, then using Subversion should seem familiar, and various projects (such as Apache) have been converting their CVS repositories to Subversion. Once you get Subversion installed, retrieve the PythonCAD code with the following command:

$ svn co http://subversion.pythoncad.org:9000/svn/pythoncad/trunk pythoncad

This command will create a pythoncad directory, and the code will be found there. The directory will also contain the copy of these web pages and a directory with some regression testing code. These tests are all based on the unittest module from Python. The test suite is not complete, and many tests should be added. The existing tests can be thought of as a starting point for a full test suite.

After checking out the code from the repository, you will need to periodically update your copy. Change back into the pythoncad directory and run this command:

$ svn update

Any changes in the master repository should then make their way to your local copy. See the Subversion documentation for details about resolving any possible conflicts.

If you have a problem accessing the repository, you can find the email of Art Haas in the PythonCAD website and ask him to solve the problem.