BRL-CAD Commands

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This is a list of the Unix commands provided by BRL-CAD. In the spirit of Unix there are over 400 commands that each do a single thing well and can be used together as you see fit.

Modelling

fence — make a model of a fence

mged — multi-device geometry editor. Start here.

burst — PDAM input generator

tire — make a model of a tire

vegetation — make a model of a tree.

Model Interrogation

rtshot — pass a ray through a model to see what it hits.

Translators to BRL-CAD

  • 3dm-g

  • dxf-g

  • iges-g

  • off-g

  • raw-g

  • tankill-g

  • comgeom-g

  • enf-g

  • jack-g

  • patch-g

  • shp-g

  • tgf-g

  • cy-g

  • euclid-g

  • nastran-g

  • ply-g

  • step-g

  • viewpoint-g

  • dem-g

  • fast4-g

  • obj-g

  • proe-g

  • stl-g

Translators from BRL-CAD

g-stl — convert a .g file to a .stl file

g-vrml — convert a .g file to vrml 2.0

Rendering

rtwizard — Tcl/tk-based front end to the raytracer.

rtedge — Creates line-art renders of models.