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If you are not sure or not able to commit to a regular donation, but still want to help the project, you can do a one-time donation, of any amount.

Choose freely the amount you wish to donate one time only.

We call sponsoring the act of donating money recurrently to the FreeCAD project. You can do that as an individual or as a company or institution, through different channels or platforms, depending on your preferences.

Sponsoring FreeCAD allows its developers to count on a steady flow of income, so it allows the FPA to plan things ahead, and the FreeCAD developers to invest themselves more seriously into FreeCAD.

To encourage persons and companies to sponsor the FreeCAD project, we have created different sponsoring tiers. When donating regularly to the project, unless you prefer to stay anonymous, your name, company name and/or logo will be featured on this website, depending on the tier you fit into:

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🥇 Gold sponsor : from 200 USD / 200 EUR per month. Your name or company name and logo displayed on this page, with a link to your website and a custom description text. Companies that have helped FreeCAD early on also appear under Gold sponsors.

Instead of donating each month, you might find it more comfortable to make a one-time donation that, when divided by twelve, would give you right to enter a sponsoring tier. Don't hesitate to do so!

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FreeCAD Build Tool

Overview

The FreeCAD build tool or fcbt is a python script located at


trunc/src/Tools/fcbt.py
``` It can be used to simplify some frequent tasks in building, distributing and extending FreeCAD.

## Usage

With [Python](wikipedia:Python_(programming_language).md) correctly installed, *fcbt* can be invoked by the command  
```python
python fbct.py
``` It displays a menu, where you can select the task you want to use it for:  
```python
FreeCAD Build Tool
 Usage:
    fcbt <command name> [command parameter]
 possible commands are:
  - DistSrc         (DS)   Build a source Distr. of the current source tree
  - DistBin         (DB)   Build a binary Distr. of the current source tree
  - DistSetup       (DI)   Build a Setup Distr. of the current source tree
  - DistSetup       (DUI)  Build a User Setup Distr. of the current source tree
  - DistAll         (DA)   Run all three above modules
  - NextBuildNumber (NBN)  Increase the Build Number of this Version
  - CreateModule    (CM)   Insert a new FreeCAD Module (Workbench) in the module directory

 For help on the modules type:
   fcbt <command name> ?
``` At the input prompt enter the abbreviated command you want to call. For example type \"CM\" for [creating a module](wiki-test2.php?gitpage=Workbench_creation).

### DistSrc

The command \"DS\" **creates a source distribution** of the current source tree.

### DistBin

The command \"DB\" **creates a binary distribution** of the current source tree.

### DistSetup

The command \"DI\" **creates a setup distribution** of the current source tree.

### DistSetup 

The command \"DUI\" **creates a user setup distribution** of the current source tree.

### DistAll

The command \"DA\" executes \"DS\", \"DB\" and \"DI\" in sequence.

### NextBuildNumber

The \"NBN\" command **increments the build number** to create a new release version of FreeCAD.

### CreateModule

The \"CM\" command [creates a new application module (Workbench)](wiki-test2.php?gitpage=Workbench_creation).



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FreeCAD Build Tool

Overview