freecad - Man Page
An extensible Open Source CAx program for Unix/X11
Synopsis
freecad [options] files
freecadcmd [options] files
Description
FreeCAD is an Open Source CAx RAD based on OpenCasCade, Qt and Python. It features some key concepts like macro recording, workbenches, ability to run as a server and dynamically loadable application extensions and it is designed to be platform independent.
Usage
freecad starts with a GUI while freecadcmd is only a pure command line version that starts a Python interpreter.
Options
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of the options supported by freecad is included below.
Generic options
- -h, --help
Show summary of options.
- -v, --version
Show version of program.
- -c, --console
Start in console mode.
- --response-file arg
Can be specified with '@name', too.
Configuration
- -l, --write-log
Write a log file.
- -t, --run-test arg
Test level.
- -M, --module-path arg
Additional module path.
- -P, --python-path arg
Additional Python path.
See Also
To get more information about FreeCAD, please visit http://juergen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php/Main_Page
Bugs
To report a bug, please visit http://free-cad.sf.net/
Author
This manual page was written by Werner Mayer.
Referenced By
The man pages FreeCAD(1) and FreeCADCmd(1) are aliases of freecad(1).