User:Sadeep/DevLog-NewGui

From BRL-CAD

year is 2019

Before Bonding Period

  • Create a Simple Qt Ui for a CAD software (no functionalities)
  • Built from sources and run
  • Learnt some Tcl/Tk
  • Studied a CoreInterfaces
  • Studied and made modifications to RT^3 Qt project


Bonding Period

May 21


Coding Period

May 27 - May 31

  • I am trying to understand how things are happening in BRL-CAD. Things aren't very easily understandable. So I am doing things like breaking and studying the function call stack to understand what happens underneath. I need to do this because I believe I should implement displaying of geometry first since the existing thing in RT^3 project (ray tracing) is not sufficient even for development.
  • Now understand how different DMs display Vlists using OpenGL or Window system methods.
  • I'm studying Vlist creation.


June 1

  • Vlist obtained for a single solid in RT^3 project

June 2

  • Added QOpenGLWidget to the application. Line creation is not straight-forward like in the earlier OpenGL version which existing OpenGL DMs use in BRL-CAD. glBegin and glEnd are have been deprecated and now removed. Studying the new method.