Installing Helpfile/de

FreeCAD Hilfedateien
Die lokal verfügbare Dokumentation für FreeCAD wird mit Hilfe von Skripten aus dem FreeCAD-Wiki erzeugt. Sie ist mittlerweile auf eine Größe von mehr als 100 Megabyte angewachsen. Diese großen Dateien sind nicht mehr Teil der Installer der Entwicklungsversionen von FreeCAD. Aber die lokale Dokumentation kann separat installiert werden, was hier näher erklärt wird.

The offline documentation has now also made been available in French and Italian. (Check for other languages.) These files are not part of the official installers of FreeCAD but available as separate packages.

Download Helpfiles
A working offline documentation consist of at least two files: "freecad.qhc" the Qt-helpfile-configuration and "freecad.qch" the compressed Qt-helpfile. They are put together in a ZIP-archive.

The helpfiles can be downloaded here: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.18_pre

As a future option they can be installed from within FreeCAD with the Addon manager.

A working offline documentation consist of at least two files: "freecad.qhc" the Qt-helpfile-configuration and "freecad.qch" the compressed Qt-helpfile. They have always the same name. In order to have different version of the helpfiles, these need to be installed in different directories. In case of a manual download, just store the zip-file locally and extract the archive into the wanted directory.

Register the Documentation
The actual organization of the offline help does allow only one helpfile to be active. It is therefore not possible to have helpfiles in different languages accessible from FreeCAD at the same time.

In order to make another FreeCAD documentation active the following steps have to be applied:


 * Click inside FreeCAD in the Help menu on the Help item. The program Qt-assistant should be open.
 * In Qt-assistant click in the menu Edit on preferences.
 * In the preferences dialog click on the tab Documentation.
 * In the documentation dialog select org.freecad.usermanual and click on "Remove"
 * Close the dialog with ok, but do not close the Qt-assistant. This is important as otherwise another helpfile will not be registered.
 * Open again the preferences dialog via the menu Edit/Preferences.
 * Select the tab documentation and click the button Add...
 * In the filedialog navigate to your new helpfile and select freecad.qch
 * close the filedialog by confirming your selection. The Documentation tab in the preferences should now have again a line with org.freecad.usermanual.
 * Close the Preferences with Ok.
 * You should now have the new documentation available in the Qt-assistant, that are accessible from within FreeCAD.

Additional Notes
In case your operation system has no Qt-Assistant and it is not delivered with FreeCAD, it will be necessary to install one.