.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" 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) .TH FREECAD 1 "July 25, 2007" freecad "Linux User's Manual" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME freecad \- An extensible Open Source CAx program for Unix/X11 .SH SYNOPSIS .B freecad .RI [ options ] " files" .br .B freecadcmd .RI [ options ] " files" .SH DESCRIPTION .B 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. .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and .\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. .SH USAGE \fBfreecad\fR starts with a GUI while \fBfreecadcmd\fR is only a pure command line version that starts a Python interpreter. .SH OPTIONS These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of the options supported by \fBfreecad\fR is included below. .SS "Generic options" .TP \fB\-h, \-\-help\fR Show summary of options. .TP \fB\-v, \-\-version\fR Show version of program. .TP \fB\-c, \-\-console\fR Start in console mode. .TP \fB\-\-response\-file\fR \fIarg\fR Can be specified with '@name', too. .SS "Configuration" .TP \fB\-l, \-\-write\-log\fR Write a log file. .TP \fB\-t, \-\-run\-test\fR \fIarg\fR Test level. .TP \fB\-M, \-\-module\-path\fR \fIarg\fR Additional module path. .TP \fB\-P, \-\-python\-path\fR \fIarg\fR Additional Python path. .SH SEE ALSO To get more information about \fBFreeCAD\fR, please visit \fIhttp://juergen\-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php/Main_Page\fR .SH BUGS To report a bug, please visit \fIhttp://free-cad.sf.net/\fR .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Werner Mayer.