NAME

       LeoCAD - CAD program using plastic bricks.

SYNOPSIS

       leocad [ infile [ -i [ outfile.ext ] [-w x] [-h y] ] ] [-l path]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  LeoCAD  program.   It  was  written for the Debian GNU/Linux
       distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.  The information  in  this  manual
       page came from docs/LINUX.txt in the source archive.

       LeoCAD   is  a  CAD  program  that  uses  plastic bricks similar to those found in many toys (but not any
       particular brand).  It supports animation as well as exportation to various file formats  including  POV-
       Ray.

OPTIONS

       Below is a summary of all of the options that LeoCAD accepts. Most options have two equivalent names, one
       of which is a single letter preceded by -, and the other of which is a long name preceded by --. Brackets
       ([ and ]) indicate that an option takes an optional argument.

       infile Loads the project file infile

       -i [outfile.ext]
       --image [outfile.ext]
              Saves  a picture to outfile.ext  in the image format specified by ext and exits. If outfile is not
              given then the program will use a name based on infile. The file format is selected by ext and can
              be gif, bmp, png or jpg (if ext is not present then the default preferences format will be used).

       -w width
       --width width
              Sets the width of the picture to width.

       -h height
       --height height
              Sets the height of the picture to height.

       -f time
       --from time
              Start saving pictures at the step or frame time.

       -t time
       --to time
              Save pictures until the step or frame time.

       --animation
              Tells the program to save animations instead of instructions.

       --instructions
              Tells the program to save instructions instead of animations (default).

       --highlight
              Adds a border around the pieces in the step or frame they appear when saving pictures.

       -l path
       --libpath path
              Use alternate pieces library found in path .  The Debian version of LeoCAD uses /usr/share/leocad/
              as the default.

       --convert srcpathdstpath
              Reads LDraw parts from srcpath and generates a new LeoCAD Pieces Library in dstpath.

ENVIRONMENT

       ``LEOCAD_LIB'' may be set to the path of the pieces library.

EXAMPLES

        $ leocad car.lcd -i car.png -w 640 -h 480

       This will start LeoCAD, load the file "car.lcd," create a png  called  "car.png"  with  a  resolution  of
       640x480 and exit when done.

FILES

       ~/.leocad
              User preferences file

BUGS

       If you find any bugs please report them at http://trac.gerf.org/leocad/

AUTHOR

       LeoCAD   is   written   by   Leonardo  Zide  <leo@gerf.org>.   You  can  visit  the  LeoCAD  homepage  at
       http://www.leocad.org/

       This manual page was written by Patrick Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but  may
       be used by others).

                                                  20 July 2000                                         LEOCAD(1)