RattleCAD User Manual/First Steps

Architecture
rattleCAD needs some external tools to provide its full functionality.

Tcl/Tk
The base external module ist Tcl/Tk. Tcl/Tk is the interpreter for rattleCAD. rattleCAD is available for the main platforms e.g. Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. You can get information about Tcl/Tk here: and download a "Batteries Included" version as an ActiveTcl Distribution:
 * http://www.tcl.tk/
 * http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads

ghostscript
rattleCAD uses Ghostscript to create postscript- and pdf-files.

You can download Ghostscript here:
 * Ghostscript download

Currently rattleCAD uses the 32-bit Version of Ghostscript.

To use Ghostscript from any other location on your computer or if rattleCAD

cannot find Ghostscript itself, there is an option to configure ghostscript for rattleCAD manually.

.rattleCAD_&lt;yourPCName&gt;.init ...               C:/Program Files (x86)/gs/gs9.14/bin/gswin32c.exe ...

GSview
rattleCAD uses GhostView to view postscript-files. You can download Ghostscript here:
 * GhostView download

Ressources
tbd.