[cad-linux] Re: CAD for Schools (UK)
- From: Christopher Sean Morrison <morrison@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:37:02 -0500
The sources to BRL-CAD are presently held in CVS on Sourceforge in the
'brlcad' module. Barring any Sourceforge revision control issues, the
usual process for non-developers to obtain the sources from CVS would be:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/brlcad login
[ press enter, no password required ]
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/brlcad co -P
brlcad
cd brlcad
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-optimized
make
sudo make install
To then run the BRL-CAD benchmark suite (computes a system performance
metric) you run:
/usr/brlcad/bin/benchmark
The next tool most people are usually interested in running is the GUI
solid modeler:
/usr/brlcad/bin/mged
There are roughly 400 other tools related to procedural geometry, image
processing, geometry conversions, and signal processing. You can of
course avoid typing the directory by adding /usr/brlcad/bin to your PATH.
There are more details in the README and INSTALL files. The compilation
process under Windows is rather different (see the doc/README.Windows
file), but for the other systems the only assumptions are that your system
has a compiler, the GNU build system tools (autoconf, automake, libtool),
a posix shell environment, and basic terminal capabilities. You can get
rid of the assumption about having the GBS tools installed by using one of
the source tarballs available on the project website.
Cheers!
Sean
BRL-CAD Open Source
http://brlcad.org
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Marc Britten wrote:
> Does anyone know the address for brl-cad's svn repo? Sourceforge only
> shows CVS which is empty and attempting to use the common url format
> that other projects use errors out.
>
> I would like to checkout the Archer interface if possible
>
> On 12/1/06, Lars O. Grobe <grobe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> from my investigations so far it seems that Varkon has the parametrics,
>> > Salome has the integration of different modules and FreeCAD has the
>> interface (but
>>> not much else) Kreative3D has a nice wiki but no code. Isn't it about time
>>> someone got these open source guys to co-operate?
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Actually there is a problem, as the programs mentioned address different
>> need. I agree 100% that the big point for a working oss cad is
>> cooperation between different projects. But it is not three cad systems
>> that can be combined. Instead it is possible and useful to combine e.g.
>> 2d-engine, 3d-(csg/...)-engine, object database, gui etc. The power of
>> open source is that this is possible. If you try to enhance a 2d app
>> with 3d, add 2d cad functionality to a modeler, etc, you will have some
>> thankful users imediately (that is why I would still like to see such
>> cooperation in a way of easy dataexchange at least), but get a
>> suboptimal design which will be hard to evolve.
>>
>> By the way, that is why I am so excited about brlcad - as it is a
>> package of small tools and libraries that other apps could refer to,
>> without the need to take what is not wanted or needed. So e.g. a
>> 3d-project such as freecad could easily use all its functionality.
>>
>> Lars.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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