FREECAD(1)

NAME
freecad - 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.