man varkon (Commandes) - a CAD-system with parametric modelling

NAME

varkon - a CAD-system with parametric modelling

SYNOPSIS

varkon [--rc <file>] [--env] [--exp] [--config] [-h|--help|-?]

DESCRIPTION

VARKON is a high level development tool for applications in the area of Engineering, Computer Aided Design and Product Modelling.

VARKON can be used as a traditional CAD-system with drafting, modelling and visualisation if you want to but the real power of VARKON is in parametric modelling and CAD applications development. VARKON includes interactive parametric modelling in 2D or 3D but also the unique MBS programming language integrated in the graphical environment.

OPTIONS

--rc <file>
overrides the default user configuration
--env
print the environment special for VARKON
--exp
copy the example to the user directory
--config
some very basic configuration and exit
-h, --help, -?
print short help and exit

FILES AND ENVIRONMENT

/etc/varkon/varkonrc
The system wide configuration file.
$HOME/.varkon/varkonrc
The user's configuration file.

Following are the variables used by VARKON and their Debian locations:

VARKON_LANG = english
VARKON_MDF = /etc/varkon/mdf/$VARKON_LANG
Standard menufiles (*.MDF, *.INC)
VARKON_FNT = /etc/varkon/cnf/fnt
Fonts for graphical text
VARKON_PLT = /etc/varkon/cnf/plt
Plotter configuration
VARKON_ICO = /etc/varkon/cnf/icons
Icon bitmaps for buttons
VARKON_TOL = /etc/varkon/cnf/tol
Tolerances
VARKON_INI = /etc/varkon/cnf/ini/$VARKON_LANG
Standard resources for X-Windows
VARKON_ERM = /usr/share/varkon/erm
Errormessages (*.ERM)
VARKON_LIB = /usr/share/varkon/lib
System module library (*.MBO)
VARKON_DOC = /usr/share/varkon/man
The varkon documentation (*.htm)
VARKON_TMP = /tmp
Temporary files
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Path to shared OpenGL library
VARKON_PID = $HOME/varkon/pid
Project files (*.PID)
VARKON_PRD = $HOME/varkon/app
Default root for VARKON applications
PATH = /usr/lib/varkon:$PATH
Path to VARKON executables (xvarkon, mbsc, plotterdrivers)

AUTHORS

The VARKON system was originally developed by a group at the University of Linkoping in Sweden during 1984-86 under the leadership of Dr. Johan Kjellander now the president of Microform AB. Since then the system has been owned, marketed and further developed by Microform AB.

Subsequently the license was changed to GNU General Public License and VARKON was taken over by the CAD research group of the Ärebro University in Sweden.

Stephan Helma wrote this man page Debian from the appropriate html page.

MORE INFORMATION

The VARKON documentation is available as HTML documents. Please install the appropriate packages and point your Web browser at:

file:///usr/share/doc/varkon/help/man.htm

The homepage of VARKON is:

http://www.tech.oru.se/cad/varkon

There exists a Varkon-discuss mailing list at:

varkon-discuss@lists.berlios.de

You can subscribe to it at:

http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/varkon-discuss

or view the archives at:

http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/varkon-discuss/