Headless FreeCAD

Introduction
This wiki page will document various aspect of running FreeCAD in the console without enabling the GUI (Graphical User Interface) or what is called 'headless'.

Scenegraph Representation
As it's not possible to create or access the view provider in headless mode. What's possible is to load in headless mode but there is no way to access the GUI document because it won't be created and consequently there exist no view providers.

However, what's possible is to create a scenegraph representation of an object. This works this way:


 * reference: forum thread

Searching FreeCAD Modules

 * 1) Open the terminal
 * or
 * 1) A python shell will start with a prompt. Type
 * 2) Type
 * 1) A python shell will start with a prompt. Type
 * 2) Type
 * 1) Type

Related

 * Embedding FreeCAD
 * Start up and Configuration#Running FreeCAD without GUI .28headless.29

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