You are looking for the documentation files called freecad.qch, and freecad.qhc. Go to the applications folder where FreeCad is installed, and show the package contents of FreeCad. In the Assistant, go to Edit>Preferences>Documentation, and then press 'Add' You must look for the Assistant inside the folder for the application:ĥ. It is not necessary to open QT Creator in order to use the assistant. It will install a program called QT Creator.ģ. Download the installer and choose the default install.

It is currently in:ĭownloads for Open Source Users>Download the QT installerĢ. OS: macOS 10.14Word size of OS: 64-bitWord size of FreeCAD: 64-bitVersion: 6 (Git)Build type: ReleaseBranch: (HEAD detached at 0.18.4)Hash: 980bf9060e28555fecd9e3462f68ca74007b70f8Python version: 3.6.7Qt version: 5.6.2Coin version: 4.0.0aOCC version: 7.3.0Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)Įdit: Added information I should have initially.Ĭaution: You can easily go to the FreeCad wiki, which is simpler, or do all of this:ġ.Go to the qt.io site get the QT installer for Mac OS. Unable to launch Qt Assistant (/Applications/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/bin/assistant) Have I missed something simple and obvious?Ĭlicking on the 'What's This' button and then on another tool yields this error message: Is there a download location for Qt Assistant somewhere? Do I need to set up a Qt account and then fish around in whatever it installs to find Qt Assistant? When start it, I need to have a Qt account, etc, etc. My Google-Fu must be weak today because after lots of searching, I can only find qt-unified-macOS-x86_64-4.0.1-1-online.app, which is the whole Qt package. With that sentence in mind, I set off to find Qt Assistant.

You should install this program first, if you don't have it. The documentation system of FreeCAD uses Qt Assistant.

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