FREECAD

Section: Linux User's Manual (1)
Updated: July 25, 2007
Page Index
 

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.


 

Index

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