Editing User:Nmz787-brlcad

== Installation ==
=== From SVN ===
<code>
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
</code>

=== Ubuntu ===
<code>
sudo apt-get install brlcad
</code>

== 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)
** <code>mged your_desired_filename_here.g</code>
=== 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:
** <code>in body.s rpp 0 16 0 32 0 48</code>
** <code>in btn.s rec 8 30 36 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 2</code>
** <code>in btn2.s ell1 8 33 36 4 0 0 2</code>
** <code>in spkr.s tor 16 16 16 1 0 0 12 1</code>
** <code>in ant.s rcc 2 2 46 0 0 48 1</code>
** <code>in knob.s rcc 4 4 40 8 0 0 5</code>
* Pasting or typing those lines should look like this:
[[File:Mged_radio_view1.png]]
* 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'''
[[File:Mged_radio_graphic_view1.png]]
* 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)
[[File:mged_radio_graphic_window.gif]]
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 * 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)
 [[File:mged_radio_graphic_window.gif]]
-==Primitive Examples==
-===tgc===
-Truncated general cone
-Handled by
-* in make form create
-Arguments
-* vertex, vectors H A B, magnitudes of vectors C D
-[[File:TGC_mged_brlcad.png]]
-====RCC example via TGC====
-* An rcc primitive is a special form of a tgc, you can reproduce a right-circular-cylinder at vertex 0,0,0 with height 10, and a base and top of radius 1 (both in the XY plane):
-** <code>in aaa.s tgc 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1</code>
-* increasing the radius of the base and top to 5:
-** <code>in aaa.s tgc 0 0 0 0 0 10 5 0 0 0 5 0 5 5</code>
-====breaking down the command====
-* <code>in <name of primitive> tgc (base X, Y, Z) (height vector X,Y,Z) (ellipse base radius part A vector X,Y,Z) (ellipse base radius part B vector X,Y,Z) (top radius scalar C, restricted to same plane active in base part A) (top radius scalar D, restricted to same plane active in base part B)</code>
-====elliptic cones in either X or Y directions====
-* 5 in the X direction, 10 in the Y (same at the top)
-** <code>in aaa.s tgc 0 0 0 0 0 10  5 0 0 0 10 0 5 10</code>
-* 10 in the X direction, 5 in the Y (same at the top)
-** <code>in aaaa.s tgc 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0  5 0 10 5</code>