| FREECAD(1) | Linux User's Manual | FREECAD(1) |
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.
SEE ALSO¶
To get more information about FreeCAD, please visit https://freecadweb.org
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 | freecad |