g-acad — Convert from BRL-CAD format to Lockheed Martin's ACAD format
g-acad [-vi ] [-xX lvl] [-e error_file] [-D calculation_tolerance] [-a abs_tol] [-r rel_tol] [-P number_of_CPUs] [-n norm_tol] [-o ACAD_file] database.g object(s)
g-acad
converts the specified
object(s)
from a BRL-CAD
database.g
file to the in-house Lockheed Martin's Advanced Computer-Aided Design
(ACAD)
file format (formerly the General Dynamics ACAD file format). This converter has NOT connected with Autodesk Inc.'s AutoCAD file format.
The
-x
option specifies an RT debug flag and the
-X
option specifies an NMG debug flag. The
-a
,
-r
, and
-n
options specify tessellation tolerances.
The
-D
option specifies a calculational distance tolerance (mm). Any two vertices
that are less than this distance apart will be treated as the same vertex.
The
-v
option requests verbose output.
The
-i
option requests the output file units to be inches (the default is mm).
The
-o
option specifies the name of the file to receive the output
(stdout is the default).
The
-e
option specifies a file for receiving the error messages.
The
-P
option specifies the number of CPU's to be used, and also turns on a flag to enable the receiving of core dumps.