Beginner: Install and run BRL-CAD! #18BRL-CAD
Status: ClosedTime to complete: 100 hrs Mentors: Harmanpreet, 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:

  1. First, create a simple 512x512 black and white image that has your name in it somewhere. Any paint program will do here.
  2. Save that as a png image named hello.png and
  3. 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
  4. Create your extruded bitmap geometry: in gcirocks.ebm ebm hello.bw 512 512 64
  5. Render a pretty picture: B gcirocks.ebm ae 35 25 zoom 1.5 l gcirocks.ebm rt
  6. 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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Comments
Prachi Pahujaon December 18 2014 12:54 UTCTask Claimed

I would like to work on this task.

Gauravjeet Singh on December 18 2014 12:55 UTCTask Assigned

This task has been assigned to Prachi Pahuja. You have 100 hours to complete this task, good luck!

Prachi Pahujaon December 21 2014 14:38 UTCReady for review

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

Jacob B on December 21 2014 17:27 UTCLooks good

It looks like you got BRL-CAD up and running, and were able to successfully create your first model.  Congratulations!

Jacob B on December 21 2014 17:27 UTCTask Closed

Congratulations, this task has been completed successfully.