NAME

freecad - Extensible Open Source CAx program

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

-c, --console: Starts in console mode.
--dump-config: Dumps configuration.
--get-config arg: Prints the value of the requested configuration key.
-h, --help: Prints help message.
--response-file arg: Can be specified with '@name', too.
-v, --version: Prints version string.

Configuration

-l, --write-log: Writes a log file to $HOME/.FreeCAD/FreeCAD.log
--log-file arg: Unlike --write-log this allows logging to an arbitrary file.
-M, --module-path arg: Additional module paths.
-P, --python-path arg: Additional Python paths.
-s, --system-cfg arg: System config file to load/save system settings.
--single-instance: Allow to run a single instance of the application.
-t, --run-test arg: Test case - or 0 for all.
-u, --user-cfg arg: User config file to load/save user settings.

BUGS

To report a bug, please visit https://freecadweb.org/tracker

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Werner Mayer and Salman Mohammadi <salman@smoha.org>.

March 22, 2019

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