Anyone use BRL-CAD?

Galane
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Anyone use BRL-CAD?

Post by Galane »

BRL-CAD, the longest running, continuously developed, cross-platform, open source software project. http://brlcad.org/"

It originated in the early 1980's at the Ballistics Research Laboratory as a tool for developing weaponry for the US military.
BRL-CAD has been under active development with a portability heritage that includes systems such as a DEC VAX-11/780 running 4.3 BSD; DECStations running ULTRIX; Silicon Graphics 3030, 4D "IRIS", O2, Onyx, and Origin systems running various versions of IRIX; Sun Microsystems Sun-3 and Sun-4 Sparcs running SunOS; the Cray 1, Cray X-MP, Cray Y-MP, and Cray 2 running UNICOS; DEC Alpha AXP running OSF/1; Apple Macintosh II running A/UX; iPSC/860 Hypercube running NX/2; the Alliant FX/8, FX/80, and FX/2800; Gould/Encore SEL PowerNode6000/9000 and NP1; NeXT workstations; IBM RS/6000; HPPA 9000/700 running HPUX; Ardent/Stardent; Encore Multi-Max; and much more.
I suppose Linux, Mac OS X and Windows are covered by "and much more". ;)
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Re: Anyone use BRL-CAD?

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And now exactly what can I do with it ?
I downloaded it and installed it and managed to get some pretty basic shapes on the canvas but not more.....
I normaly use Moi3d for cad typ objects.
It looks like the thing is pretty old.... ???
Any insight welcome !
Peter
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Re: Anyone use BRL-CAD?

Post by Galane »

Click on Documentation. That should tell you something about how to use it. There's also a Wiki.

Version 7.12.6 was released 03/28/2009 Looks like they do a release every so often, then a bunch of updates as bug reports come in from users.

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