User:Nmz787-brlcad

Installation

From SVN

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk brlcad-svn-trunk

cd brlcad-svn-trunk

cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBRLCAD_BUNDLED_LIBS=Bundled

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install brlcad

Getting Started

• Start mged from the command prompt, and create a new file for storing CAD design data (BRL-CAD calls these files geometry databases and uses the .g file extension by default)
  • mged your_desired_filename_here.g

Radio example

• The following lines of code will produce something that looks like a walkie-talkie style radio.
• It uses BRL-CAD's Solid Primitive Shapes
• At the mged interactive command interpreter window, type the following:
  • in body.s rpp 0 16 0 32 0 48
  • in btn.s rec 8 30 36 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 2
  • in btn2.s ell1 8 33 36 4 0 0 2
  • in spkr.s tor 16 16 16 1 0 0 12 1
  • in ant.s rcc 2 2 46 0 0 48 1
  • in knob.s rcc 4 4 40 8 0 0 5
• Pasting or typing those lines should look like this:

• Press enter if you haven't already
• If you don't see a window with an image open up, click mged's Tools menu, then Graphics Window

• Pressing the keyboard CTRL button along with the left mouse-button will pan around the displayed image
• Pressing the keyboard SHIFT button along with the left mouse-button will move the view away from or toward the center (where the cartesian plane X,Y,Z are 0,0,0)