freecad (1) Linux Manual Page
freecad – An extensible Open Source CAx program for Unix/X11
Synopsis
freecad [options] filesfreecadcmd [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.