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=Integrated BRL-CAD Modeling Environment=
 
The Integrated BRL-CAD Modeling Environment (iBME, or spoken 'I-Beam') is the internal name for a project under development that aims to restructure the geometry management services within BRL-CAD and provide a new user interface.  More specifically, the restructuring aims to leverage an object-oriented design and encapsulate much of the existing functionality in BRL-CAD through three specifically layered interfaces.  The iBME project consists of three major pieces:

* [[iBME_GeometryEngine|Geometry Engine]] - C++ library consisting of the existing BRL-CAD libraries and added functionality such as integration of '''all''' BRL-CAD file format converters and SVN storage utilities.
* [[iBME_GeometryService|Geometry Service]] - Background service that leverages a Geometry Engine, a Session Manager, an Access Manager, and a Communications Manager to facilitate multi-user, multi-threaded, networked access to the Geometry Engine.
* [[iBME_GUI|GUI]] - Standalone 'thin client' that provides visualization and captures user input.  This thin Client is connected a Geometry Service via one of many communication mediums with network sockets being the most prevalent.

Project implementation particulars:
* iBME's core will be written in C/C++.
* OO Design will be leveraged to allow runtime-extensibility
* iBME leverages existing functionality in BRL-CAD's libraries and binaries
* The Geometry Engine provides compile-time bindings
* The Geometry Service provides a network protocol run-time interface
* Each of the three major pieces will be stand-alone products
 
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