BRL-CAD

BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing for rendering & geometric analyses, network distributed framebuffer support, image & signal-processing tools.

Project Samples

Stryker ICV w/ Slat Armor rendered with ADRT/RISE

Mike Muuss working with BRL-CAD on the PDP-11/70

Small bicycle wheel. Model downloadable from "Geometry"

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License

BSD License, GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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another100 Posted 2022-04-28

This thing is fine if you are a real Linux Nerd - but if you just want to use it as a tool, its almost impossible - its a full download/compile effort, taking care to get it in the right folder - and even then it wouldn't start up - very, very unclear - there are much easier tools available than this - leave it for the Linux Nerds.
s-r-grass Posted 2020-08-08

Thank you very much for the program under a free open source license!
duncow Posted 2020-01-22

Superb documentation and coding, providing an in-depth and fascinating insight into CAD. Thank you for making this project and sources available: your hard work and skills are greatly appreciated. Only one problem regarding the binary on Windows32 XP-Serice Pack 3. I get an error when launching MGED; directly after the console window appears, it quits with the message: "mged.exe is not a valid win32 application."
pwbecker Posted 2015-12-26

A very, very klunky interface. E.g. to run brl-cad on Ubuntu, you need to run mged from the command line. The process of changing attributes is also very tedious. This would have been a great package in the 1980's.
nyahcheck Posted 2015-08-21

It's the best OpenSource CAD I've used

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Desktop Operating Systems, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, Education, Manufacturing, Other Audience, Science/Research

User Interface

Command-line, Framebuffer, Non-interactive (Daemon), OpenGL, Tk, Web-based, X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

C, C++, Java, PHP, Tcl, Unix Shell

Database Environment

Other API, Other file-based DBMS

Related Categories

Unix Shell Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Software, Unix Shell Benchmark Software, Unix Shell 3D Modeling Software, Unix Shell 3D Rendering Software, Unix Shell Image Converters, C++ Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Software, C++ Benchmark Software, C++ 3D Modeling Software, C++ 3D Rendering Software, C++ Image Converters, C Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Software, C Benchmark Software, C 3D Modeling Software, C 3D Rendering Software, C Image Converters, PHP Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Software, PHP Benchmark Software, PHP 3D Modeling Software, PHP 3D Rendering Software, PHP Image Converters, Tcl Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Software, Tcl Benchmark Software, Tcl 3D Modeling Software, Tcl 3D Rendering Software, Tcl Image Converters

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2004-03-23

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