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5 .TH FREECAD 1 "July 25, 2007" freecad "Linux User's Manual"
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19 freecad \- An extensible Open Source CAx program for Unix/X11
22 .RI [ options ] " files"
25 .RI [ options ] " files"
28 is an Open Source CAx RAD based on OpenCasCade, Qt and Python. It features
29 some key concepts like macro recording, workbenches, ability to run as a
30 server and dynamically loadable application extensions and it is designed
31 to be platform independent.
32 .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
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36 \fBfreecad\fR starts with a GUI while \fBfreecadcmd\fR is only a pure command line version that starts a Python interpreter.
38 These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
39 options starting with two dashes (`-').
40 A summary of the options supported by \fBfreecad\fR is included below.
44 Show summary of options.
46 \fB\-v, \-\-version\fR
47 Show version of program.
49 \fB\-c, \-\-console\fR
50 Start in console mode.
52 \fB\-\-response\-file\fR \fIarg\fR
53 Can be specified with '@name', too.
57 \fB\-l, \-\-write\-log\fR
60 \fB\-t, \-\-run\-test\fR \fIarg\fR
63 \fB\-M, \-\-module\-path\fR \fIarg\fR
64 Additional module path.
66 \fB\-P, \-\-python\-path\fR \fIarg\fR
67 Additional Python path.
69 To get more information about \fBFreeCAD\fR, please visit \fIhttp://juergen\-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php/Main_Page\fR
71 To report a bug, please visit \fIhttp://free-cad.sf.net/\fR
73 This manual page was written by Werner Mayer.