[cad-linux] Re: new(ish) BRL-CAD interface
- From: Christopher Sean Morrison <morrison@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:39:34 -0500
If by 'this' you mean BRL-CAD in general, then yes.. the history of the
project and extent of the capabilities runs rather deep with a lot of
project contributors over the years. However, I believe what brlcad.com
has is a screenshot of Archer and if that is what you're referring to,
then no there has not really been many people working with Archer -- at
least not yet.
There hasn't been much activity or community involvement with Archer nor
major developement activity since it's inclusion in part because it's not
been pressed/announced to the commmunity as much as it should be, and in
part because it still requires additional development before it'll be
ready for production modeling use. That really is a shame as it is a nice
interface and answers a lot of the complaints some users have over MGED's
GUI, BRL-CAD's older solid modeling interface. It wraps much of the same
core BRL-CAD library functionality as MGED, but with an improved
interface.
Archer was developed as part of a larger SBIR-funded project at SURVICE
Engineering to make a more immediately familiar/intuitive solid modeling
interface over BRL-CAD's MGED solid modeler while still leveraging the
existing geometry kernel in BRL-CAD. SURVICE donated the code with no
expectations to the BRL-CAD project as open source with the hope of it
being a good start for the community to get involved with and improve
upon.
If anyone is interested in picking up and/or contributing to the
development of Archer, they are more than welcome to do so. It's a better
interface with a lot of potential. Similarly, there is additional work
going on with the BRL-CAD core libraries and API facilities for more
robust geoemtry support services that would benefit from involvement if
any developers are interested.
Cheers!
Sean
BRL-CAD Open Source
http://brlcad.org
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Marc Britten wrote:
> Has anyone worked with this much? Looks pretty impressive in the one
> screenshot if found on http://brlcad.com
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