Beginner: Install and run BRL-CAD! #10

Beginner: Install and run BRL-CAD! #10BRL-CAD

Status: ClosedTime to complete: 100 hrs Mentors: Hardeep Singh Rai, Daniel_RTags: modeling, CAD, 3d, designBeginner

This task merely involves downloading, installing, and running BRL-CAD and then proving you got it working.

You'll prove it by creating some really simple geometry, rendering it, and submitting a screenshot.

You have a choice of how to obtain BRL-CAD, each with different learning challenges:

BEST: You can download and compile directly from our repository: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Building_from_SVN
EASY: You can download our Virtual Machine image: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Deuces#Getting_Started
MEH: You can use a binary tarball: http://brlcad.org/d/download

Once you have BRL-CAD installed, you'll want to run either mged or archer. You can see our Intro to MGED on http://brlcad.org/wiki/Documentation for extensive tutorials on how to model, but here are some quick steps to get you going:

First, create a simple 512x512 black and white image that has your name in it somewhere. Any paint program will do here.
Save that as a png image named hello.png and
Convert your png image to a bw image by running our png-bw command (png-bw hello.png hello.bw). If you can't figure out how to do that on your system command line, this command on the mged prompt should work if you copy-paste it exactly as written into mged: exec \[ file join \[ bu_brlcad_root bin \] pix-bw \] hello.png \ hello.bw
Create your extruded bitmap geometry: in gcirocks.ebm ebm hello.bw 512 512 64
Render a pretty picture: B gcirocks.ebm ae 35 25 zoom 1.5 l gcirocks.ebm rt
You should see a rendering window pop up if everything else was okay. Take a full screenshot and submit it here.

References:

http://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling -- if you're trying to compile from source
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Documentation -- intro to mged and quick ref command card
http://brlcad.org/wiki/EBM -- more details on the ebm you are creating

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File name/URL	File size	Date submitted
Screen Shot 2015-01-05 at 4.46.52 pm.png	32.6 KB	January 08 2015 14:13 UTC
yanqiaoscreenshot.png	110.4 KB	January 12 2015 12:22 UTC

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Daniel_R on January 8 2015 14:52 UTCTake a full screenshot ...

... and submit it here." "Full" means the whole desktop with the mged or archer windows.

Otherwise, it looks like you could create the extrude successfully.

Daniel_R on January 8 2015 14:53 UTCTask Needs More Work

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