FREECAD(1)

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💖 FREECAD(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Linux User's Manual and it's all about freecad — yes, the big gorgeous open source 3D/CAD situation. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

freecad — the extensible Open Source CAx program. that's it, that's the whole name. iconic. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

freecad [options] files
freecadcmd [options] files

two whole entry points, bestie. two. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so FreeCAD is an Open Source CAx RAD built on top of OpenCasCade, Qt and Python. it literally ate. 🔥

the concepts it's serving are key, no cap:

  • macro recording
  • workbenches
  • the ability to run as a server
  • dynamically loadable application extensions

and it's designed to be platform independent ✨ which is the main character energy we deserve.

🎀 USAGE 🎀

freecad starts with a GUI. 💖

freecadcmd is only a pure command line version that starts a Python interpreter. 💻

like, one of them is the glam one and one of them is the "i do my work in the terminal and i'm not sorry" one. both valid. 🫶

💅 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, and no we are NOT skipping any, i would never do that to you. 😤

⭐ 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 one 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 — go look, it's giving everything. 🦋

💀 BUGS 💀

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

not me telling you to file your bugs properly, but bestie, please file your bugs properly. the devs are doing their best and they deserve the context. 🙈💖

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

this manual page was written by Werner Mayer and Salman Mohammadi <salman@smoha.org>. absolute legends, we love them, we thank them. 👑

and that's the whole thing! this page is from the freecad manual, and it's dated March 22, 2019 — so like, vintage. retro. a classic. 🌸 go forth and CAD, bestie, you're gonna slay 💖✨🎀

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