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6 freecad - An extensible Open Source CAx program for Unix/X11
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9 freecad [options] files
10 freecadcmd [options] files
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13 FreeCAD is an Open Source CAx RAD based on OpenCasCade, Qt and Python.
14 It features some key concepts like macro recording, workbenches, abil‐
15 ity to run as a server and dynamically loadable application extensions
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19 freecad starts with a GUI while freecadcmd is only a pure command line
20 version that starts a Python interpreter.
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23 These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
24 options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of the options sup‐
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27 Generic options
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31 -v, --version
32 Show version of program.
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34 -c, --console
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37 --response-file arg
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41 Configuration
42 -l, --write-log
43 Write a log file.
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45 -t, --run-test arg
46 Test level.
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48 -M, --module-path arg
49 Additional module path.
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52 Additional Python path.
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55 To get more information about FreeCAD, please visit http://juer‐
56 gen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php/Main_Page
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59 To report a bug, please visit http://free-cad.sf.net/
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62 This manual page was written by Werner Mayer.
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66freecad July 25, 2007 FREECAD(1)