BRL-CAD Commands 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.