Splash screen

From FreeCAD Documentation

Description

The splash screen is an image that appears during the startup of FreeCAD. For each new release, it is selected in an open voting from user contributions. You can disable the splash screen in the Preferences Editor by unchecking the option Enable splash screen at startup.

Custom splash screen

To use a custom splash screen, you have to place an image named splash_image.png in one of the following directories depending on the operating system:

  • Linux: $XDG_DATA_HOME/FreeCAD/Gui/images/ (normally this corresponds to ~/.local/share/FreeCAD/Gui/images/)
  • Windows: %APPDATA%\FreeCAD\Gui\images\ (normally C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Gui\images\)
  • MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/FreeCAD/Gui/images/

The directory can be found using the App.getUserAppDataDir() command in the Python console. The Gui and images folders may have to be created first. The same custom splash screen will be used for all versions of FreeCAD on a given computer.