Kumar Chandranshu (Apr 01 2019 at 18:53): Kumar Chandranshu (Apr 01 2019 at 18:53):Hello everyone. I'm Chandranshu from Indian Institute of Technology majoring in Integrated Geological Technology. I would like to work on OGV project. Can the mentors help me out here on how to get started?
Sean (Apr 01 2019 at 19:39):hello @Kumar Chandranshu and welcome. To get started, you'll want to get it set up, installed, and running, which also requires installing BRL-CAD on the backend, so everything works. From there, you'll want to read up on open issues and think how to scope a project appropriately.
phot0n (Dec 31 2019 at 16:44):Hi everyone,
My name is Ritwik and I want to contribute to BRL-CAD under GSoC.
The issue that has intrigued me is this: https://github.com/opencax/GSoC/issues/15
I see that it's for Free-CAD.
How can I setup contribute towards the issue??
I'm familiar with python and a bit of C++
Oh and, Happy New Year!! :tada:
Sean (Jan 01 2020 at 07:36):hi @phot0n and happy new year to you too! To get started with that issue, you'll want to compile FreeCAD and/or BRL-CAD from source code and I'd suggest working on something/anything minor just so it gets you talking with other developers and familiar with the current state.
Sean (Jan 01 2020 at 07:38):Contributing to any open source CAD will help you get started, work on something small, actually submit useful code changes (however minor). That will set you up strongly when it comes time for GSoC proposals.
phot0n (Jan 01 2020 at 13:50):Thanks for replying @Sean .
Will Do.
Vikram Atreya (Oct 11 2020 at 17:12):Hi people! I'm Vikram. I'm a mechanical engineering student (from IIT Bombay, India) and also quite passionate about programming. I would love to contribute to BRL-CAD.Any suggestions where to start would be highly helpful.
Vikram Atreya (Oct 12 2020 at 05:47):By the way, has the website brlcad.org been shifted to some other url , or is the site down currently?
Shubham Rathore (Oct 12 2020 at 06:56):Hello Vikram,
Here is the newbie starter pack :)
'''
Install BRL-CAD. You can find the necessary installation packages at https://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/
This will install over 200 programs. Most of them are small command line tools. The most interesting for you are our old but still heavily used GUI mged and the more modern GUI archer.
Go through the mged tutorial https://brlcad.org/w/images/c/cf/Introduction_to_MGED.pdf
Gain an overview of the existing documentation at https://brlcad.org/wiki/Main_Page
To start with programming
Download the source code (https://brlcad.org/wiki/SVN)
Compile and install it (https://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling)
You can use https://brlcad.org/wiki/Deuces as a starter for small programming tasks
'''
Vikram Atreya (Oct 12 2020 at 09:51):Thank you for replying!
But the brlcad.org links in your answer are not working :(
Sumagna Das (Oct 12 2020 at 13:38):Vikram Atreya said:
Thank you for replying!
But the brlcad.org links in your answer are not working :frown:
Either this is a problem at your end or the site was down at the time you checked.
Vikram Atreya (Oct 12 2020 at 14:02):Ohh yeah! Its working now . Sorry for the trouble.
Jaidev (Oct 25 2020 at 16:18):Hello , I am Jaidev from India studying B.Sc. in Information Technology and Management at Ravenshaw University. I want to contribute to BRL-CAD , as a beginner from where could i start. :blush:
Sean (Oct 26 2020 at 17:46):Hello @Jaidev! Best way to get started is to compile from a source checkout and implement some small be helpful function/feature/fix
Jaidev (Oct 29 2020 at 06:21):I had build and compiled BRL-CAD, now where to start from .
Aliasger Anees (Dec 07 2020 at 06:42):Hello everyone i am a final year mechanical engineering student from india...i would really like to assist you guys...and hopefully make some worthwhile contribution
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