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://freecad.org

BUGS

       To report a bug, please visit https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issue

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Werner Mayer and Salman Mohammadi <salman@smoha.org>.