Project updates
Release highlights and updates from BRL-CAD. Read here without a social-media account.
· Website
The website now brings documentation, community support, and the model gallery together under the same navigation. Search commands and lessons in the documentation, explore BRL-CAD renders in the Gallery, or find public discussions and joining details on Support.
Highlights from the project's published release notes, newest first.
Expanded STEP, IGES, and JT conversion, OpenSCAD CSG import/export, more reliable facetization, and modeling and ray-tracing fixes.
More procedural geometry generators, broader import support, rendering improvements, and the move to AsciiDoc with over 220 added manual pages.
A maintenance release addressing triangle-mesh ray-tracing corner cases, command behavior, dependencies, and documentation.
Release notes and platform packages are published separately. See Downloads for available installers, or browse release tags and source snapshots.
See changes as they land in the main development branch. For build instructions and ways to contribute, start with the source guide.
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