BRL-CAD:Tutorials

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Tutorials and Source Code Examples

Overview

• Overview of major BRL-CAD projects

Geometry Modeling Kernel

Most of BRL-CAD's power is in its extensive geometry modeling kernel, which is comprised of several notably including: libbu (basic utility), libbn (numerics), librt (ray-trace and geometry library).

• Supported standards
• Developing custom ray-trace applications
• Simple ray-trace engine source code example
• Another simple ray-trace engine source code example

Geometry Conversion

• Example Exporter (OpenGL vertex array buffers)
• Example Exporter (DXF)
• Example Importer (STL)

Procedural Geometry

• Simple procedural geometry source code example
• More complex example for creating a "sphere flake"
• Example of creating a window procedurally

Networking

• ttcp-style network file transfer example source code using libpkg
• slightly more complex example, transfers BRL-CAD geometry over network using libpkg and librt

Mathematics

• Simple source code example of using libbn to solve polynomial equations

BRL-CAD Tutorial Series

Extensive documentation has been written for BRL-CAD, in particular for the GUI-based geometry modeler MGED. These tutorials are designed to get modelers up to speed on how to use one of the modeling tools in BRL-CAD.

• Overview (Volume I)
• Introduction to MGED (Volume II)
• Principles of Effective Modeling (Volume III)