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FREECAD

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
USAGE
OPTIONS
Generic options
Configuration
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR

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 one 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.

SEE ALSO

To get more information about FreeCAD , please visit https://freecad.org

BUGS

To report a bug, please visit https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issue

AUTHOR

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