[Free-cad-general] out off screen rendering

[Picca Frédéric-E. <fre...@sy...>]

Hello

First I would like to thank you for this great piece of software.
The open source community has now a really good CAD software base.

I am trying to use freeCAD as an equivalent of povray, to produce 3D
figures for the documentation of one of my library. Thoses figure
are usually generated from a makefile.
Now I am switching from povray to freecad scripts for a few reasons.
The major one is that I can used the 3D models generated from freecad
in my library compare to povray.
So povray is no more an option for me.

So for the documentation, I need to render scenes without the graphical
interface.

The problem is that I can not use the FreeCADGUI module with
freecadcmd.

FreeCADGui.activeDocument().activeView().viewAxometric()
FreeCADGui.activeDocument().activeView().saveImage('crystal.png',800,600,'Current')

the error message is:

FreeCAD 0.10, Libs: 0.10R3225
(c) Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer 2001-2010
  #####                 ####  ###   ####  
  #                    #      # #   #   # 
  #     ##  #### ####  #     #   #  #   # 
  ####  # # #  # #  #  #     #####  #   # 
  #     #   #### ####  #    #     # #   # 
  #     #   #    #     #    #     # #   #  ##  ##  ##
  #     #   #### ####   ### #     # ####   ##  ##  ##

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "crystal.FCMacro", line 6, in <module>
    import FreeCADGui
ImportError: No module named FreeCADGui

How can I generate this crystal.png using freeCADcmd
from my makefiles without povray?

thanks

Frederic

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