BRL-CAD's core C++ interface

This page contains the design document for an enhancement or feature. The design should be considered a work in progress and may not represent the final design. As this is a collaborative design, contributions and participation from other developers and users is encouraged. Use the discussion page for providing comments and suggestions.

Application Domain

The C++ interface is a object oriented API to BRL-CAD's core libraries around librt. The target group are developers of applications which use BRL-CAD as module.

Furthermore, this interface should be a good reference to the use of BRL-CAD's standard C interface.

Requirements

The interface should be self-contained

I.e. source code using this interface should not need to include any other BRL-CAD header file (nor TCL, openNURBS, ...).

As a consequence the interface will hide implementation details. Therefore the implementation can be changed without affecting an application using this interface.