freecadcmd (1)

Leading comments

                                     Hey, EMACS: 
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

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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 juergen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php/Main_Page

BUGS

To report a bug, please visit free-cad.sf.net

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Werner Mayer.