BRL-CAD-Google Summer of Code · Google Summer of Code

Hello, I need to know how can I submit my proposal for Google Summer of Code in BRL-CAD, if I have expertise in AutoCAD 2D only.

Sean (Mar 31 2019 at 18:04):

@Majid Razzak CAD experience isn't as important as is coding experience. What kind of programming experience do you have?

Majid Razzak (Mar 31 2019 at 21:42):

@Sean Sorry for the late reply. I am student of MIT in Virtual University of Pakistan and am in 3rd semester now. I learnt C++ and assembly language in my studies. But learnt HTML5, CSS and learning PHP and SQL nowadays.

Sean (Apr 01 2019 at 03:33):

@Majid Razzak Thanks, that sounds like interesting and relevant experience. I suggest you look over the list of project ideas and see which sound interesting to you, then install and try some tutorials to understand the basics.

Sadeep Darshana (May 01 2019 at 07:03):

auto cc=m_database.Get("sad");
cc->SetName("yoyoyoyo");
cout<<cc->Name()<<endl;  //prints yoyoyoyo
cout<<m_database.Get("sad")->Name()<<endl;  //prints sad

So it appears Get() returns a new object with the properties of the object in the database. How do I get a reference to the object in the m_database than a clone with similar paras (which is useful for reading the parameters, but for editing parameters u need the original one).

2)
I want to do things like create a sphere,edit position of a sphere to a database using coreinterfaces before finalizing on the proposal because that might give me an idea about the depth, workload of the project. Im currently working towards this. I appreciate it if you can give directions towards this. Or is this too big to do in few hours?

3)
Is there a way to send the commands (the ones you'd type into the command window of mged) to somewhere and get them executed on the database?

Sadeep Darshana (May 01 2019 at 08:39):

Sadeep Darshana (May 01 2019 at 08:46):

I replaced BRLCAD::ConstDatabas with BRLCAD::MemoryDatabase in the rt^3 project.
Now the database can be edited (although no editing has been implemented in GUI)

In the rt^3 QtGui , using C++ coreintafaces,
I added a Ellipsoid
set it to be a Sphere with given center and radius
did m_objectsTreeView->Rebuild() to show newly added in the tree view in the left
saved to a .g file

Sadeep Darshana (May 01 2019 at 08:59):

Now my biggest concerns are how hard will it be to integrate realtime rendering and wireframes to display the contents of a BRLCAD::MemoryDatabase on the graphics window.
Also please answer 3) from the message 2 messages before. Do you think I can use the implementation in MGED for this?

Stream: Google Summer of Code

Topic: BRL-CAD-Google Summer of Code

Majid Razzak (Mar 31 2019 at 10:15):